CORE Lecture - "Social Justice Mathematics" with Dr. Lily Khadjavi
Although racial profiling is not legal, most Americans believe it is a regular police practice, a perception so common that in some regions, the practice of stopping a driver of color had been nicknamed a DWB, or ''Driving while black (or brown).'' While routine traffic stops have not received the same media attention as episodes of police violence, the majority of public-police interactions occur during these stops. This means that understanding what happens when a driver is pulled over is crucial to analyzing police practice in general. Data collected during traffic stops give us a window in, well beyond observing who is stopped. For example, when a driver is pulled over, a stop may include a frisk or search but only if certain legal criteria are satisfied. Who is searched and under what basis? Which drivers are asked to consent to such a search, effectively waiving their Fourth Amendment rights? Mathematics gives us a way to shine a bright light on policing and the law. Racial and ethnic disparities in stops and searches raise important concerns about fairness; quantitative analysis points the way to legal questions and concrete policy recommendations.
Dr. Lily Khadjavi is a Professor of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Dr. Khadjavi's focus lies in the intersections of mathematics and social justice and in broadening participation in the mathematical sciences. In 2020 she was appointed by California State Attorney General to the Racial and Identity Profiling Act Board which works with the California Department of Justice. She has co-chaired the Infinite Possibilities Conference, a national research and mentoring conference aimed at supporting women of color in the mathematical sciences, and is the Principal Investigator for the Association for Women in Math’s NSF-funded travel and mentoring grant program. Dr. Khadjavi is co-editor of the book Mathematics for Social Justice: Resources for the College Classroom as well as the forthcoming volume Mathematics for Social Justice: Focusing on Quantitative Reasoning and Statistics. She serves on advisory boards for the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley and Spectra, an association to support LGBTQ+ mathematicians.
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Dr. Lily Khadjavi is a Professor of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Dr. Khadjavi's focus lies in the intersections of mathematics and social justice and in broadening participation in the mathematical sciences. In 2020 she was appointed by California State Attorney General to the Racial and Identity Profiling Act Board which works with the California Department of Justice. She has co-chaired the Infinite Possibilities Conference, a national research and mentoring conference aimed at supporting women of color in the mathematical sciences, and is the Principal Investigator for the Association for Women in Math’s NSF-funded travel and mentoring grant program. Dr. Khadjavi is co-editor of the book Mathematics for Social Justice: Resources for the College Classroom as well as the forthcoming volume Mathematics for Social Justice: Focusing on Quantitative Reasoning and Statistics. She serves on advisory boards for the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley and Spectra, an association to support LGBTQ+ mathematicians.
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