Philanthropy Northwest Network Call: From Data to Action with AAPI Data's Community Data Explorer

About the event

We all know that data is critical for telling a story and informs our understanding of communities. But how do we access quality data, make meaning of it and use it to make equity-informed decisions?

This call will explore how AAPI Data’s DNA — Data, Narrative, Action — Framework can help funders and nonprofit partners increase their strategic impact. Participants will learn more about the Community Data Explorer, an interactive resource providing detailed demographic and geographic data on racial and ethnic communities, including Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities. Participants will learn to navigate key indicators such as educational attainment, English language proficiency, income and poverty and explore disaggregated ethnicity data that reveals the diversity of complex racial and ethnic communities across the country.

Join us to gain practical skills such as how to search and filter data by geography and subgroup, identify and contextualize disparities and download data for use in grant applications, policy briefs and reports. We’ll also have a conversation about how to apply data in philanthropy, considerations for community ownership of data and how we can engage with shared demographic data resources.

Speaker

Karthick Ramakrishnan

Founder and Executive Director, AAPI Data

Karthick Ramakrishnan, PhD, has served in leadership roles that span academia, government, public policy and philanthropy. He is a research director and researcher at UC Berkeley and founder/executive director of AAPI Data, a nationally recognized publisher of demographic data and policy research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. He is also the founder of Bolder Futures, a catalyst for intergenerational collaboration and social entrepreneurship and serves as president of the Princeton Club of Western Washington.

Ramakrishnan previously served as executive director of California 100, a statewide effort that harnessed 20 research centers to envision and transform California’s next century across 15 issue areas. He also served for 4 years as the founding associate dean of UC Riverside’s school of public policy and for 19 years as a professor of political science and public policy. He has also served on the boards of The California Endowment, the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee and The California Association of Nonprofits. Ramakrishnan also served as president of the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, as chair of the California Commission on APIA Affairs for 6 years, founded and led the Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside for 6 years and founded and led for 3 years the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, an official section journal of the American Political Science Association.

Ramakrishnan has published many articles and 7 books, including Citizenship Reimagined (Cambridge, 2020) and Framing Immigrants (Russell Sage, 2016) and has written dozens of opeds and has appeared in nearly 3,000 news stories. Ramakrishnan was named to the Frederick Douglass 200 and is currently working on projects related to equitable futures and innovative governance. He holds a bachelor's in international relations from Brown University and a PhD in politics from Princeton University.

Eligibility

These calls are open for anyone to join. You don’t have to be from a philanthropic organization or a member of Philanthropy Northwest, but please note these conversations are framed around philanthropy, and the role philanthropy might play around a particular issue.

Accessibility

Philanthropy Northwest strives to ensure that virtual programming is inclusive and accessible to everyone. If there is any accommodation that you may need provided, or barrier that may prevent you from fully participating in this event, please don’t hesitate to direct your requests to our programs team.