Welcome Shakima Jackson-Martinez to the EPIC Board!
We are thrilled and honored to welcome Shakima Jackson-Martinez to the EPIC Board. Shakima is the Senior Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at AnswerL...
Community across Difference and through Trauma
Communities that value diversity and peace struggles to foster conditions in which people can learn and create together across difference....
Building Ethical Tech Through Subjective Research
There are myths and misconceptions around the objectivity of quantitative research and the neutrality of tech and the two are linked. At best they lead organiza...
Don’t Fear Friction: Complexity and Contradiction Are Pathways to Better Solutions
As ethnographers, we recognize the limitations of simplistic explanations and seek to delve deeper into the complex web of human existence. In our line of work,...
Equity & Research Operations: Generation Focus Founder Joanna Beer
Generation Focus is an EPIC Equity Partner, providing direct support to EPIC Equity Council programs that advance equity and create collaborative space...
EPIC Celebrates Departing Board Members, Welcomes New Members
Please join us in thanking Martha Cotton and Carol Zatorre for their service and welcoming Samantha Gottlieb and Shriram Venkatraman to the EPIC Board of Direct...
Introducing the 2023 EPIC Equity Program Chairs
Meet the leaders working to advance equity and diversity through a new EPIC program! In May 2023 we will welcome the first cohort of participants in our new pro...
Frictions and the Politics of Ethnography
by , University of Technology Sydney Our collaborations extend well beyond our teams, stakeholders, and research participants to complex global systems defined ...
When Race Causes Friction in Markets
by , University of Illinois, Chicago Markets are key spaces where racism is practiced and experienced. In this lightning talk, David Crockett suggests a framewo...
How Can the Job Search Suck Less? Ethnography, Community & Reflexivity in Career Transitions
Ethnographers are pathmakers by nature, but navigating the job market and other work transitions can be grueling and isolating. How can design and ethnographic ...
Art & Imagination in Online Qualitative Research: A New Tool for Brand Listening
At the beginning of the pandemic, I was pretty sure I was done. I had been a qualitative researcher and brand consultant for 25 years. I had spent the past deca...
Announcing the EPIC Equity Council & Cohort Program
Ethnographers are powerful change makers in business, organizations, and communities because we understand people within complex social and cultural contexts. I...