No Data About Us Without Us Fellowship
The No Data About Us Without Us Fellowship (NDAUWU) is a collaborative initiative that reimagines digital justice through community-led research, art, and organizing. Bringing together an intergenerational cohort of youth organizers, educators, artists, and civil rights advocates from Houston, the Twin Cities, and Chicago, NDAUWU investigates how racialized school policing and student pushout are being reshaped through new technologies—and how communities can design alternatives grounded in care and equity.
Over several months, fellows examined these dynamics through creative practice and cultural organizing, using mediums such as spoken word, puppetry, and portraiture to move from critique toward collective imagination. Rooted in lived experience and informed by Afrofuturist perspectives, their work transforms the margins of surveillance into spaces for liberation, modeling what it means to reclaim technological power and to envision just, participatory futures for public education.
Curator Chelsea Barabas has prioritized selecting a cohort of fellows who could speak from several diverse points of view on the topic of surveillance in schools. Meet the researchers, artists and activists who have participated in this fellowship:
- Tammie Campbell, civil rights leader
- Christianna Thomas, student and activist
- Chinelo Dike, researcher and mental health advocat
- Shayna Karuman, artist and community organizer
- Jeremy Eugene, teacher, union organizer, and writer
- Jonathan Rodriguez, community organizer working with system-impacted youth
- Vanessa Dominguez, youth advocate and organizer
- Kill Joy, artist and community organizer
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Learn more about the fellowship projects and what the fellows have been working on by keeping up with our blog posts.
