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Breaking Down the Walls: Community-Centered Data Science Education (feat. Kagba Suaray)

Breaking Down the Walls: Community-Centered Data Science Education (feat. Kagba Suaray)

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“Data science, to me, is all about breaking down walls—breaking down walls between disciplines, and breaking down walls between faculty and students.”

In this episode, we speak with Kagba Suaray, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Cal State Long Beach, about building a more community-centered vision for data science education. Kagba shares how his work connects data science to local issues in Long Beach and Compton, from public health and housing justice to educational equity, while creating opportunities for students to learn through real, meaningful data. He discusses the power of interdisciplinary collaboration, breaking down barriers that keep students from seeing themselves as “data people,” and designing programs that make data science more inclusive, applied, and community-driven. Kagba also reflects on what it takes to build partnerships, support underrepresented students, and help communities tell their own stories through data.



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