Computers and the Dream of "Race-blind" Decisions
Moon Duchin is a professor of mathematics and Senior Fellow in the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University. She runs the MGGG Redistricting Lab, an interdisciplinary group of researchers working on the basic science of democracy. They helped commissions and state governments collect public feedback and find better redistricting maps around the country in the last cycle, and Duchin served (or is still serving) as an expert in state and federal court cases in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and Texas.
At Tufts, she was the founding director of the interdisciplinary program in Science, Technology, and Society, and she has also been affiliated with Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and with the department of Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora Studies. Duchin's work has been honored with a Radcliffe Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and she is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In Fall 2023, she is co-organizing a semester program in Algorithms, Fairness, and Equity at the SLMath institute in Berkeley, where she is in residence as the Sloan Professor.
Dr. Duchin's visit is co-sponsored by the Kravis Lab for Social Impact at CMC.