Sera Linardi, University of Pittsburgh

Abstract

Sera Linardi is the Founding Director of the Center for Analytical Approaches for Social Innovation (CAASI) at the University of Pittsburgh. The center connects students across disciplines to local social justice movements by incubating student-driven data science projects from community requests. This talk will cover the two different ways the UN Sustainable Development Goals are used by CAASI's nonprofit partners. The first approach utilizes the interconnection between all 17 goals to cross reference multiple community indicators. The second focuses tightly on a single SDG to elevate a hyperlocal issue to the international stage.