Description

Data Advocacy for All is an open-access educational toolkit that leverages minimal computing and open-source resources to enhance student abilities to inquire with data, communicate with data, and deploy data for social advocacy. The project has been designed for teachers and students across the disciplines with no prior data science or computing experience. This digital repository offers reading resources, ready-made data sets, tutorials, links to open-source tools, and flexible curricular resources such as activities, assignments, and modules.

Data Advocacy for All is a CU Next Award Grant project that has been realized by a team of digital rhetoric and digital humanities faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Colorado Denver in concert with the CU Boulder’s Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship (CRDDS).

Grants and Funding

• CU Next Award, $300,000, 2022-2025.

Conference Presentations

• Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara et. al., “The Data Advocacy for All Toolkit: Critical Data Education for Social Change,” Digital Library Federation’s Forum, November 2025.
• Nathan Pieplow, “From Dataviz to Data Advocacy: Visual Quantitative Rhetoric in the Classroom,” 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science and Education, Lewiston, Maine, July 2025.
• Laurie Gries,”Rhetorical Data Studies: A Methodological Approach for Data Activism and Advocacy,” on panel: “Data Advocacy for All: Working and Teaching with Data for Social Change,” Digital Humanities Conference 2025, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2025.
• Cameron Blevins, “Data Advocacy for All: Building an Open-Access Educational Toolkit,” on panel: “Data Advocacy for All: Working and Teaching with Data for Social Change,” Digital Humanities Conference 2025, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2025.
• Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara et. al., “The Data Advocacy for All Toolkit: Critical Data Education for Social Change,” Association for Computers in the Humanities 2025, June 2025.
• Nathan Pieplow, “Data Advocacy for All,” Conference on Community Writing 2023, Denver, Colorado, October 2023.
• Cameron Blevins, “Building a Data Advocacy Curriculum,” Digital Pedagogy Institute 2023, August 2023.

Symposiums

• Working with Data for Social Change, University of Colorado Boulder (March 14, 2025)
• Teaching the Cultural Analysis of Datasets, University of Colorado Boulder (September 21, 2023)

Project Press

• “Cameron Blevins - Humanities and Data Science and Access for All” Office of Research and Creative Activities, University of Colorado College of Liberal Arts and Science, 22 Aug. 2023, https://clas.ucdenver.edu/orca/2023/08/22/cameron-blevins-humanities-and-data-science-and-access-all
  
• “Cameron Blevins and John Tinnell’s CU Next Award Project Hopes to Bring Data Advocacy for All” Dean’s Notes, University of Colorado College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 3 Nov. 2022, https://clas.ucdenver.edu/deans-notes/2022/11/03/cameron-blevins-and-john-tinnells-cu-next-award-project-hopes-bring-data-advocacy-all
  
• “Project Aims to Help Students Harness Data for the Greater Good.” Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine, 10 Oct. 2022, https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2022/10/10/project-aims-help-students-harness-data-greater-good.s

Inspired by the Project Curriculum Vitae (CV) format provided by the Colored Conventions Project.