Paola Villarreal
Paola
Villarreal is a programmer born in
Mexico City on October 5, 1984.
From the age of twelve she had her first contact with technology when her father bought her a computer to do her homework and then she entered the world of chat rooms and programming communication and at the age of 15 she already started creating web pages
What did Paola do?
helped reverse more than 20,000 racially
prejudiced drug convictions, developing Data for Justice, an interactive map
tool that compares policing in white and minority neighborhoods. In October
2019 she was selected as one of the 100 most influential women in the world
during 2019 by the BBC
facts about Paola Villarreal
In 2015 she was awarded a grant from the Ford and Mozilla Foundation to
be part of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, an organization
dedicated to the protection of civil rights. From June 2017 to December 2018
she was Director of Product Engineering at Creative Commons. 4 Since December
2018 she is the Coordinator of Data Sciences at Conacyt
Recognition
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
included it in the list of Innovators under 35 Latin America. This tool allows
a narrative and visual analysis of a data set, called ANT Augmented Narrative
Toolkit
In 2019,
Villarreal was included by the BBC in its list of 100 Most Influential Women of
the Year, an edition in which the Mexican actress Yalitza Aparicio was also
recognized
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