 Hi, my name is Brooke Williams I'm an associate professor of the practice of computational journalism here at Boston University. I'm excited to tell you about the justice media co lab that we launched thanks to pit UN. We're doing interdisciplinary data driven investigative reporting collaboration with data scientists and journalism using computational methods to do projects for major news partners. It's actually a collaboration across the university. I'm a faculty in the College of Communication in journalism and partnering with faculty of computing and data sciences and BU spark, and then the BU hub we couldn't have done this without them. It's a cross college challenge, encouraging interdisciplinary work among faculty and students were made up of 30 students in the spring and the fall with 16s. We were able to build a scaffolding and enabling graduate students and others to get involved as paid project managers. There's two professors one from journalism one from data sciences, and we have a growing number of news media partners and we teach both in the spring and the fall as a course and then offer also a summer paid internship program. Our partners are expanding we have local partners, you have national partners and one example was a look into a potential disparities racial disparities and the rest statewide hearing Massachusetts. Let's go ahead and take a look at a national reckoning over race and policing we decided to take a closer look at who's being arrested in Massachusetts. What was your takeaway. I want a little bit more to feel like a teaming up with students at Boston University, we analyze new arrest data posted online as part of a criminal justice reform. When did this, you know, effort to look into this and train officers start, we then took questions to leaders and law enforcement and experts on bias and policing. I wasn't surprised, but I was very disappointed. We saw in hall with the ACLU reacting to our findings that show black people consistently arrested and disproportionately high rates, compared to their share of the population. As you can see students had a chance to really work with professional news partners on these projects. Another example was for CBS Boston, looking at coven relief loans and whether they were equitable. In distribution. Let's take a look at that. Sure that minority owned small businesses are getting their fair share of the paycheck protection loans good evening to you on David way. And I'm Paula Evan a partnering with students from Boston University's justice media collab our team found many of these businesses were left behind when the PPP loan program first launched WVZ chief investigator Cheryl fiat shows us how one local advocacy group is stepping in to help out. We have learned a lot and look forward to continuing to grow and provide these computational investigative reports to to local media outlets and national media outlets. And some things that we are working on and are excited about building trust with editors is it is a fun challenge. And, and also a students really want a chance to publish. So, determining what stories are doable within the semester and which ones might need to go beyond the semester and then building a scaffolding so that they can extend beyond the semester, even with a perhaps a paid internship, or a paid position as a project manager, and then embracing students from other disciplines and the end what they can bring to the table. We've had students from education from public health from music. And then professors also are acting as editors which means we're the wrong call all the time. And it's been a great fun and we look forward to growing the justice media collab here at you and thank you so much.