Magic Code Institute
Earleen Statham
NoCode institute is a digital reskilling platform that allows "underestimated" transitioning talents to reboot their careers by learning to build software without code.
NoCode Institute was born with the mission of reskilling and relaunching careers of people left behind in the digital economy by democratizing software-building skills through NoCode development (aka Visual programming).
47 y.o. Half-Portuguese / half-Spanish, former corporate executive (with experience in FMCG marketing in Portugal, Spain, USA, and Mexico) and an entrepreneur with five companies launched (1 sold, 1 closed, and three running autonomously). He is also an invited professor in several EU Biz Schools, such as Nova School of Business and Economics.
31 y.o. Product lead with a UX background has been developing products from ideation to launch. He is an experienced NoCode specialist and developer with a solid portfolio of NoCode websites, software, and apps. He is also a certified Design Sprint Facilitator and holds a D.MBA.
For example, one project aims to design interventions to help older adults identify misinformation online. Another grant will assist law enforcement officials, journalists and educators in recognizing racism in their interpretation of social media posts by Black people.
The institute was established in 2012 by a gift from Helen Gurley Brown. David and Helen Gurley Brown believed that magic happens when innovative technology is combined with great content and talented people are given the opportunity to explore and create new ways to inform and entertain.
Getting Wise to Fake News: Large-Scale Digital Media Literacy Interventions for Older Adults
Ryan Moore, doctoral candidate in communication at Stanford; Jueni Duyen Tran, doctoral candidate in communication at Columbia University; Jeff Hancock, professor of communication at Stanford; and Sandra Matz, associate professor at Columbia Business School
Interpret Me: An Immersive Simulation for Community-Centered Understanding of Social Media Content
Desmond Upton Patton, associate professor of sociology at Columbia University; Jeff Hancock, professor of communication at Stanford; and Hannah Nicole Mieczkowski, doctoral candidate in communication at Stanford
In(advert)ent: Investigating and Countering Disparities in Race and Gender Representation in Online Advertising
Dana Metaxa, postdoctoral researcher at the Philanthropy and Civil Society Center at Stanford; Michelle Lam, doctoral candidate in computer science at Stanford; Jeff Hancock, professor of communication at Stanford; and James Landay, professor of computer science at Stanford
Out of 88,000-plus missing persons in Mexico, over 79,000 have disappeared since 2006. Predominantly women-led, self-sustaining colectivos (group) of buscadoras (searchers) have organized themselves, developing search methods and support systems as they came to be the principal agents searching for the disappeared. In collaboration with the colectivo Regresando a Casa Morelos and the Universidad Autnoma Metropolitana Cuajimalpa, the Bridging the Search team formed the student-run Buscadoras Research Unit at Columbia in 2020. The team recognized a need for coordination and collaboration between buscadoras, colectivos and international researchers and journalists to address the abundance of disaggregated data and analysis of disappearance and search efforts. The Buscadoras Documentation Project responds to this with a bilingual, online toolkit to serve as a repository and portal that offers a productive and practical space for socializing information, intercommunication, critical analysis and collective memory construction. By producing digital media projects with colectivos, and organizing and articulating data, this project will facilitate and inform dialogue between those unfamiliar and those all too familiar with the reality of disappearance across borders.
More than 30,000 New Yorkers have died of COVID-19. Yet, Black and Latino New Yorkers, as well as immigrants living in low-income neighborhoods, are rarely reflected in the obituary pages. For the past year, MISSING THEM, a memorial and journalism project with THE CITY and Columbia Journalism School, has tracked down more than 2,000 names of New Yorkers who died and written 400 obituaries, free of charge to families. The team is aiming to close the gap in representation through a new hyperlocal crowdsourcing and storytelling project focused on a handful of New York City neighborhoods hit hardest by COVID-19. Informed by the outreach and organizing strategies used by census workers and community organizers, the team will work with community groups and libraries to create mobile outreach stations and go door-to-door to crowdsource stories about the pandemic and its aftermath.
Beyond Declarations
Judith Helfand, visiting professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and producer/director of Cooked: Survival by Zip Code; Kathy Leichter, engagement strategist and impact producer for Cooked: Survival by Zip Code; and DeAngelo Mack, director of state policy at Public Health Advocates