HerbUX While Herbarium (plant specimen archive) collections have increasingly been digitized and made available online, digitized herbarium collections remain somewhat inaccessible to large portions of the population—in large part because the interfaces to these collections assume the user has specialized knowledge of plants, knows what they are looking for, and is deeply engaged. Building on … HerbUX

Providence Mutual Aid This digital project on mutual aid in Rhode Island aims to capture and digitally archive the spontaneous moment of collective action, while drawing future lessons for how social welfare policy can mitigate racial and ethnic inequality. As a community-based research partnership with the Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance (AMOR), a coalition of … Providence Mutual Aid

My Body My Choice The project gathers tweets with the hashtag #mybodymychoice from various years in order to understand how the hashtag has evolved from its beginnings into the present day of the pandemic. While we hypothesize that the hashtag was originally created to advocate for women’s rights, the hashtag now often perpetuates coronavirus vaccine … My Body My Choice

Black Maternal Health The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting the African-American community. A recent analysis indicates that counties with majority African-American populations account for more than 50% of COVID-19 cases and 60% of deaths. The toll on African-American women could be even greater, as they are overrepresented in low-income essential jobs, such as nursing aides, … Black Maternal Health