Dr. Brandeis Marshall

CEO, Black Women in Data Science

Brandeis Marshall is an entrepreneur, author and data equity strategist. Formerly a college professor, she brings her instructional design and delivery expertise to help leaders, across sectors and industries, clarify their data strategy in order to align people, processes, practices and policies. She also founded Black Women in Data in 2020 to help Black women invest in their career and leadership development as data entrepreneurs, leaders, managers and practitioners.

Dr. Marshall speaks, writes and consults on how to move slower and build better people-first tech. She has been a Stanford PACS Practitioner Fellow and Partner Research Fellow at Siegel Family Endowment. She has served as faculty at both Purdue University and Spelman College. Her scholarly work in data literacy and fluency, data/AI ethics and computing has been supported by the National Science Foundation and philanthropy organizations. Dr. Marshall is the author of Data Conscience: Algorithmic Siege on our Humanity (Wiley, 2022), co-editor of Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning (McGraw-Hill, 2024) and contributing author in The Black Agenda (Macmillan, 2022).