"As a Black boy going through the school system in Orlando, Florida, which sounds like Disney World and Universal, but outside of that it is the South, and you're going through an incredibly segregated system that is a legacy of Jim Crow and, before, that Slavery." - Samuel Sinyangwe on his upbringing, witnessing the school-to-prison pipeline in real time
I’ve cited Sinyangwe’s data to make a point. He’s doing massively important work.
Sinyangwe also helped put Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler in his place—with data—during police contract negotiations in 2019.