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Kishawna Peck is the founder and Executive Director of the Womxn in Data Science Conference, an event that provides a platform to women from diverse backgrounds to showcase their career journeys and knowledge. The conference itself is a two-day event where you get a chance to hear from women in academia, industry, government, and start-ups about how they apply data science to their work and the second day is a workshop. And today, Kishawna tells us the remarkable history of this staple Toronto conference. www.womxndsto.com Time stamps: 1:05 - Why did Kishawna create this conference? 2:45 - The relationship between Kishawna and the Stanford Women in Data Science Conference and how she went about organizing the Toronto rendition. 8:22 - How Kishawna reacted when she realized she, her family, volunteers were the only black faces at her first conference. 10:18 - How Kishawna was able to create a diverse pipeline of future speakers/facilitators in data science. 12:27 - Kishawna's original career had nothing to do with Data Science, so I ask her what brought her into the fold. 13:46 - Data ethics. 15:40 - Why she stepped away from the Stanford and how she created her own brand. 22:11 - How she went about planning the last conference, which included a trip to the hospital due to a mini-stroke. 29:09 - Kishawna's vision for the future of the conference. Kishawna Peck Twitter account https://twitter.com/DaytaDahta Toronto Womxn in Data Science Conference https://twitter.com/WomxnDSTO Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Re: Open Gov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/