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Now available! Stats+ Stories Episode 51: "Slavery in the Modern World" with guest Davina Durgana

  • 1.  Now available! Stats+ Stories Episode 51: "Slavery in the Modern World" with guest Davina Durgana

    Posted 02-28-2018 10:22
    S+S Episode 51, "Slavery in the Modern World," is now available. Davina P. Durgana (@DavinaDurgana), human rights statistician who has developed models to assess risk and vulnerability to modern slavery, discusses work that she and colleagues are doing to understand the prevalence and predictors of slavery. She is Assistant Professor and Senior Practitioner Faculty at SIT Graduate Institute, and a Report Co-Author and Senior Statistician on the Walk Free Foundation's Global Slavery Index . She is the 2016 Recipient of the American Statistical Association's Harry V. Roberts Statistical Advocate of the Year Award and a Forbes Top 30 Under 30 in Science for 2017 for her work on statistical modeling, human security theory, and human trafficking. She was a contributing author to the 2017 Chance issue (Chance Volume 30) on modern slavery.



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    John Bailer (for the Stats+Stories team)
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