Harriet! Inclusive Resilience

Jurisdiction stakeholders are well intentioned, striving to ameliorate conditions of the most vulnerable communities and individuals. Their efforts are undermined by problems of practice which yield ineffective interventions capable of remedying existing conditions and emerging disruptors. Harriet! solves for this conundrum. By optimizing AI capabilities, Harriet! 1) conducts a multidimensional assessment of individuals and communities (beneficiaries), 2)performs an analysis: A)big data and B)information housed in our data trust (not publicly available), 3)applies our “Inclusive resilience model”, 4) develops profiles of interventions and supports (e.g. projects) necessary to ensure inclusive resilience of both beneficiaries and 5) provides users (e.g. government, philanthropy,investors etc.), varied permissions, A) ability to identify, fund and/or collaborate on projects from the varied sector vantage point and provides B) a social impact report. Scaling would support achievement of SDGS goals: 1,3,4,8,9,10,11,13,16 and17.

Three major trends will shape the 21st century: urbanization, automation, and climate change. Within the next 10-12 years 47% of jobs and workforce tasks are projected to be automated displacing 30 percent of the U.S. workforce.The cited work makes an underestimation- failing to account for those chronically unemployed or disconnected from the workplace (e.g. formerly incarcerated, homeless, Opportunity Youth). Automation will exacerbate racial and social inequalities. According to Forbers, by 2050, BIPOC will represent half of the nation’s total population and the median household wealth for BIPOC is projected to drop to albeit zero. Half of the population will encounter significant structural barriers to participating in both the economy and democracy. Not only is this profoundly unjust it is dangerous for the stabilization of democracy and economies. It is necessary to  transform the entire ecosystem of jurisdictions-examining human support service models, governance behavior, communities and investment priorities. As a result, Harriet functions to support effective ecosystem transformation so to support jurisdictions in maximizing the window of opportunity and cultivate an environment whereby we are able to ensure inclusive resilience and prosperity.  

Harriet! Starts with conducting a baseline assessment of the beneficiaries (individuals and communities). For example, individuals complete a career and skills assessment which only identifies career tracks exhibiting  resilience to climate change and automation. Additionally, they complete a psychological (e.g. ACEs); household capacity (e.g. economic financial contribution); details about the household and  personal data (e.g. criminal record, disabilities etc.); and overlay spatial insights (E.g. social determinants of health, expected rise in temperature due to climate change); as well as government local expenditures. From this we develop a resilience plan for the individuals but also a profile of types of supports and services needed to support their pathway to self sufficiency. Users (e.g. philanthropy, government, case managers, program providers (E.g. coding bootcamps etc.) are:  able to conduct analysis; provided insights (e.g. inform policy drafting or expenditure deployment); and can identify projects they’d like to support. For example, a philanthropist could search and sponsor the coding bootcamp tuition fee of 100 Black men. The community, specifically Opportunity Zones (2nd beneficiary), undergoes a similar assessment. We apply our “inclusive resilience model” which produces intervention recommendations alongside a social impact report. We systematize stability and resilience.  

Harriet! Functions to support two beneficiaries- individuals and distressed communities, interdependent and inextricably linked as determinants to the most vulnerable populations’ access to a decent quality of life. 

Individuals: Historically marginalized populations which will be most vulnerable to the impending consequences of climate change (e.g. rising cost of cooling and increased susceptibility to heat strokes, increased financial barrier to nutrient density) and automation (e.g. elimination of employment opportunities reflective of their skill sets). This population consists of those with the least amount of access to support, resources and programs which would build their ability to participate in the emerging economy. Harriet’s priority populations are the following:  1) BIPOC low income single parent mothers, 2) BIPOC low income NEET (nor in employment, education or training) Opportunity Youth, and 3) Low income Formerly incarcerated people of color (FIPOC).   The impact of automation and the evolution of the future of work will not be indiscriminate. African Americans, especially low-income African Americans, will experience the disruptive forces of automation from a distinctly disadvantaged position- exacerbating inequalities, compounding the barriers to a decent standard of living and worsening community health. Additionally, they will experience the second highest employment displacement rate, trailing Latinx by 2%. 

Communities: Place matters. “Intergenerational mobility varies substantially across areas within the United States. The United States is better described as a collection of societies, some of which are ‘‘lands of opportunity’’ with high rates of mobility across generations, and others in which few children escape poverty”(Chetty, Raj; Hendren, Nathaniel;Kline, Patrick; Saez, 2014). Segregation is linked to inferior health care, inadequate access to healthy food, substandard housing, environmental conditions, and lower quality schools, all of which can contribute to health problems that ultimately lead to early death (Sewell, 2016; Yang & Matthews, 2015).  The associated spatial features of racial segregation (i.e., low education, low social support, individual level poverty, income inequality and area level poverty) are deadly. For example, the number of deaths attributable to low education is comparable to the number caused by acute myocardial infarction, a subset of heart disease, which was the leading cause of death in the United States in 2000(Sandro Galea et al., 2011). Racial segregation is more deadly for the spatially contained inhabitants than lung cancer (Sandro Galea et al., 2011; Pardo, Francisco; Prakash, 2011). Residence in neighborhoods characterized by poor quality-built environment is associated with greater individual likelihood and lifetime depression in multilevel models adjusting for individual age, race/ethnicity, sex, income and neighborhood level income (Sandra Galea et al., 2005). In adjusted models, persons living in neighborhoods characterized by poorer features of the built environment were 29%–58% more likely to report depression and 36%–64% more likely to report lifetime depression than respondents living in neighborhoods characterized by better features of the built environment (Sandra Galea et al., 2005). Racial segregation also reveals patterns of higher than the national average of infant mortality rates, mental health, chronic disease, low life expectancy rates and all the other troublesome social indicators of health and wellbeing (Casey & Hardy, 2018; Collins & Williams, 1999; Pardo, Francisco; Prakash, 2011; Yang & Matthews, 2015). The mechanics of racism (e.g., blockbusting, white flight, neighborhood alienation etc.) make it difficult for African Americans, middle class alike, to relocate to more resourced areas (Green et al., 1998; Sharkey, 2013).  Race serves as a permanent marker of place in U.S. society- spatial and class. African American migration and proximity to white resourced neighborhoods is encountered with hostility (Green et al., 1998). Ghettos essentially are extermination and internment camps-a death sentence (Collins & Williams, 1999; Martin & Varner, 2017; Yang & Matthews, 2015). The locus whereby the harshest living conditions are created and maintained. The population is intentionally neglected and denied the resources and support necessary to obtain an alternative standard of living from the current ghetto conditions (e.g., underfunded schools). Harriet prioritizes: Opportunity Zones specifically which are R/ECAPs. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) definition of racially/ethnically concentrated areas of poverty (R/ECAPs) consists of two components:  racial/ethnic concentration threshold and a poverty test. The racial/ethnic concentration threshold is straightforward: R/ECAPs must have a non-white population of 50 percent or more. Regarding the poverty threshold, HUD defines neighborhoods of extreme poverty as census tracts with 40 percent or more of individuals living at or below the poverty line or is three or more times the average tract poverty rate for the metropolitan/micropolitan area, whichever threshold is lower.  However, the problems of man made. We believe so too can the solutions. 

As a result, we solve the following problems of practice, via our theories of change, which function to eliminate institutional ineffectiveness and maximize beneficiary support: 

• If we examine the full dimensions of needs and aspirations of marginalized individuals and provide holistic supports and a resilient pathway that is informed by the globally changing economic and employment environment,  then, vulnerable populations will be supported in optimizing the current window of opportunity to build their resilience capacity (e.g. via philanthropic and governance decision making) and avert the compounded barriers to a decent standard of living, thereby, supporting the cultivation of inclusive prosperity and community resilience.  

Result: Informed Resilience Capacity Building

• If we examine the place-based barriers (e.g. health care, access to nutrient density, community health, connectivity, vulnerable to heat islands, absence of STEM programs etc.) impeding vulnerable populations’ access to training and supports to develop the capacity to withstand the impact of the future of work and climate change, then, governance leaders and policy makers will be provided critical insight, thereby, enriching place based initiatives decision making so to ensure distressed communities are able to adequately respond to the needs of residents so to facilitate access to the evolving future of work and build a decent standard of living.  

Result: Place Based Future of Work + Climate Change Resilience

• If we solve for insufficient time as a result of competing interests; then stakeholders’ capacity will be enhanced as they strive to respond to the continuum and levels of care needs (E.g. immediate dire, impending etc.); thereby enabling the development of organizational structuring, alliance building, program design, resource allocation, decision making and implementation responsive to existing and emerging needs.

Result: Human Support Services + Institution Future of Work + Climate Change Resilience; Governance Behavior to facilitate Inclusive Smart Urban Resilient Governance  

In order to ensure a product which effectively responds to the users and beneficiaries the following is an overview of the proposed work plan which functions to engage users and beneficiaries in a design and feasibility charette: 

Phase 1 (6 Months):  Baseline Asset Mapping, Pilot Collective Action Network (PCAN) + Community Data Trust: Processes & Development Guidance

• Action(s)/Deliverables: 

  • Inventory, aggregate and synthesize existing and emerging FOW and climate change mitigation initiatives (e.g. policies, plans and investments) among human support service providers, education sector, workforce development, government and Fort Worth ecosystem in order to align with emerging potential partners

  • Design Pilot Collective Action Network (PCAN) convene and schedule engagements. The PCAN will consists of individuals and organizations which will support data gathering and community engagement participation -especially among populations that are difficult to engage due to trust and relationship equity 

  • Execution of data sharing agreement with PCAN members- to be followed by special populations focus groups

  • Sharing of preliminary (will evolve from PCAN and community insight): framework, software, and assessment. 

  • Outreach and engagement plan finalized

  • Survey instrument co-design with PCAN and special populations community leaders and experts   

  • Pilot data trust agreement process designed (e.g. channels include outreach, via PCAN, additional channels recommended from focus group, etc.) in consultation with Beehive and Democracy Labs 

  • Meetings and consultations with Beehive and Democracy Lab regarding the execution of a community data trust and acquisition of supports this project is eligible to receive 

Phase 2 (4 months): Community Engagement & Focus Groups 

• Action(s)/Deliverables: 

  • Execution of focus groups with special populations- formerly incarcerated people of color, low income single parent mothers, NEET (neither employed, educated or enrolled in training) Opportunity Youth, homeless population and additional populations identified with PCAN to gather feedback regarding software architecture, assessment and framework 

  • Engage regarding participation and types of disclosure for a community data trust 

  • Execution of focus groups with governance stakeholders to ascertain operability barriers, continuum of insights desired to support subscription as well as solves for information-oriented problems of practice by sector (e.g. philanthropy vs. government vs. primary education)

Phase 3 (5 months):  Data Inventory & Cycle of Improvement (v. 2.0)  

• Action(s)/Deliverables: 

  • Additional inventory of available and existing public information- informs the data needs of the community data trust; outlines available data for the resilience framework (CCER)

  • Integration of focus groups findings to the software, framework, and assessment.

  • Preliminary meta-analysis to inform weighting and significance. This is an initial draft to be presented to consultants (e.g. Dr. William Greene) which will yield valuable insight. Post development of a beta and fund development (E.g. grant and investment) a team of researchers will be hired to operationalize recommendations as well as refine framework and interrogate  forecasts (e.g. rate of automation projected vs. real). 

Phase 4 (3 Months): Execution of Data Trust & Pilot 

• Action(s)/Deliverables: 

• Framework, assessment and software design 2.0. shared with Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center housed within the University of Texas-Arlington (TMAC) to produce a beta model of software

• Completion of pilot community data trust 

• Execution of monitoring and data collection process to refine framework, assessment, and software

• Schedule of check-ins with governance stakeholders for troubleshooting and feedback 

• Schedule of check-ins with individuals (e.g. special populations)

• Fund development plan 

Harriet will respond to the individual needs by: 

1. Performing a full assessment of the person in order to identify a holistic set of personal, household and educational needs and supports to support stabilization as individuals chart the path to self sufficiency. 

2. Identifying a resilient career pathway and critical checkpoints along the path

3. Produce a “needs”/”gap analysis” profile which allows the individual to ascertain and comprehend gaps but also allows program providers to recruit and fill gaps. Additionally, the philanthropic community is empowered to search and identify individual funding needs aligned to their portfolio criteria. Thus, facilitating access to sponsorship which fills the financial gap. 

4. Connects to resources and programs relevant to career pathway and household stabilization. For example, if the individual identifies climate mitigation landscape engineering as a career field Harriet enables program providers to identify and recruit potential participants via a search bar. 

5. Ensuring case managers have a full glance of clients’ depth and severity of intervention needs; 

Harriet will respond to community (spatial) needs of proofing communities against 1)disproportionate burdening of the effects of climate change and automation as well as 2) solving existing under resourced features which fail to respond to the basic needs of the inhabitants by: 

1. Conducting a multidimensional “gap analysis” germane to the community (e.g. heat island, access to food (food deserts or food swamps), primary school funding expenditure, community resources etc).

2. Application of our “inclusive resilience model” in order to develop a hyperlocal portfolio to support the transformation of spaces and economies. This is also beneficial to jurisdictions’ stakeholders seeking to develop responsive policy and deploy resources effectively. 

3. Providing socially driven real estate developers ,which specializes in “difficult to develop” areas, a list of projects which mitigate community inequities that are “built environment” related. 

4. Allows program providers and other users (e.g. community based organizations specializing in restorative justice, educational training, philanthropy (program related investments) etc.) a portfolio of entry points options to adopt as they strive to ameliorate community ills and challenges. 

Institutional racism is defined as: "The collective failure of organizations to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture, or ethnic origin...detected in processes, attitudes and behavior that amount to discrimination through prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness, and racist stereotyping which disadvantage minority ethnic people."  By optimizing technology, Harriet ensures racist and negligent behavior is void of an excuse because we’ve done the “grunt work”(forecast, analysis and hyperlocal recommendations). Thus, accountability and responsiveness (e.g. investment, deployment of interventions, policy etc.) should easily flow in order to ensure healthy communities and improved pathways (resilient careers).  

The provisional patent has been filed for Harriet. We are utilizing our local contacts in order to host an engagement and design charrette with users and beneficiaries. A timeline overview was provided in a previous section to demonstrate how we will be partnering with local stakeholders in order to ensure our proposed software provides maximum value. Our goal is to ensure all proposed features and functions of Harriet: adequately respond to the user pains & pain severity, user gains and relevance as well as test fit. The feedback will be utilized to update our provisional patent. Upon finalization, we will begin fund development in order to produce the beta. 

Harriet is a blue ocean product because it 1) improves on existing and available technology (e.g. GIS, heat maps, early warning systems etc) by maximizing the layers of analysis displayed spatially,  2) integrates multiple types of platforms (e.g. Linkedin profiles which center the beneficiaries; social impact metrics etc.); as well as 3) solves governance problems of practice and therefore expands community accountability for the absence or inadequate intervention. But most importantly, it is innovative because it accounts for present and forecasted impending consequences which will disproportionately burden existing vulnerable populations and communities. Harriet has an objective. It does not function to solely reveal “what is” but instead generates recommendations based on mitigation. It is very similar to Polity IV which is a systemic peace platform utilized by governments and international actors but it too does not recommend action. Harriet is distinct in that way, providing recommendations and impact metrics. 

We are in the feasibility phase. Thus, we do not serve any people at present. However, upon prototype we will pilot locally and utilize our learnings to guide expansion (e.g. early adopters must be philanthropist or government in order to contribute to credibility and promote user wide adoption). As a result, there will be roles specifically designated for sales, marketing and relationship management in order to promote adoption among users. Through our strong community relationships and relationship equity among the individual beneficiary population we are confident that we will be able to gather individual subscribers (beneficiary). Through our consultation (e.g. organizational design and consulting experience) we predict we will be successful in recruiting community based organizations and stewards of community wellbeing. The nature of the platform removes boundaries and after a successful pilot, shared learnings, publications etc. we aim to pilot in two additional cities in year 2 (post beta).  

We believe some of the root causes which impede the individual beneficiaries are as follows: 1)advising and success pathways are not informed by forecasts, 2) the population has little access to quality resilient training programs (automation or climate change (e.g. STEM)), 3) Governance stakeholders have insufficient information in order to effectively intervene, 4) Historical and current institutional racism  serves as an impediment to effective governance (e.g. responsive and restorative governance practices, community informed decision making, human centered approaches)  and 5) The population struggles to maintain stability thus participation oriented fees for retraining are impediments (E.g. additional childcare, transportation fee, program application fee etc.). As a result, we will measure our impact on individual beneficiaries by evaluating the remediation (changes from baseline assessments) of the root causes among the population in our pilot. 

We believe some of the root causes which impede the development of healthy communities and prevalence of R/ECAPS are as follows: insufficient time among decision makers, inaccessibility of deep data, built environment vs. human centered development, absence of a holistic approach as well as  short sighted (lacks forecasts) recommendations. Thus, the indicators we will monitor for measurable impact for the pilot jurisdiction are as follows: effective deployment of resources and community accountability of governance leaders; utilization of community data to inform decision making (e.g. policy, investments etc.), completion of projects recommended, as well as improved quality of life and community assets (from baseline) in the identified communities. 

1 Full time: Founder

2 Part time Paid interns: Computer science engineer and UX/UI specialist

2 Volunteer Community Engagement and relationship managers

Education. I possess an interdisciplinary education: BA,  Political Science ( Race & Ethnic Studies); dual Master degrees in Public Administration and African American Studies, am completing a doctorate in Urban Planning as well as an Executive Program in Social Impact Strategy. My dissertation, working title “Becoming a Humane Society”, examines how the U.S. has committed genocide against African Descendants of American slavery post 1968 and proposes a governance restructuring to ensure reconciliation and institutionalizes safeguards to prevent the recommitment of the atrocity crime. Much of the framework borrows from my findings. 

Personal. My greatest strength which qualifies me for this work is my life testimony. I am the proud granddaughter of Will Lee Lemons- born in 1891 in Skene, Mississippi, a WWI veteran who returned home to become an entrepreneur and was subsequently lynched by the Klu Klux Klan because he had exceeded his “place” in life.  I am the daughter of Mary Lemons –an illiterate sharecropper relocated with four children to Milwaukee Wisconsin in search of safety for her children from the horrors of Mississippi. I am the first of 60+ grandchildren to attend college. I am a cancer survivor.  I believe in the power of few to change the world. Thus, the software (Harriet) honors the tenacity and grit of my shero- Harriet Tubman who operated with the belief that the world can and should be different for Black folks. I aspire to carry the baton of hope a few steps forward. 

I wholeheartedly believe that Harriet cannot be successful as a product or corporation without an equitable and inclusive leadership team. My personal background and lived experience guides my servant leadership style. I believe that all people are capable and competent stewards of their success pathways to self sufficiency. However, they are oftentimes overburdened with structural and institutional barriers. My personal mantras- “Make it happen” and “Make it count”are rooted in purpose, meaning and belief of the human soul. The mantras: acknowledge that setbacks are inevitable but are not insurmountable; the goal requires agency and fortitude of the team and times may call for elbow grease; what we are doing and striving for is worth every effort because it is connected to something higher and greater than ourselves.  The highest testament of my leadership is embedded in my personal story of overcoming setbacks, mistakes, challenges and never giving up. I am in remission from cancer. I am here and I’m still using my life and experience to advance the state of the most vulnerable population. Teams are motivated and feel secure about following leaders who’ve faced adversity, continue to be triumphant as well as those who recognize that greatness is in all of us- not just some of us.  The world is filled with talented people. However, I prioritize character as well as the commitment to equity and justice as well as character. With a dash of foolish optimism-it’s healthy and sustaining as one endeavors to change the world.   

Technology:  I am a researcher and academic scholar, as a result I’d like support/mentorship/sponsorship in developing the beta.  While fund development support from Solve is a feature of this fellowship I recognize my lack of familiarity with software development. As a result, being guided by Solve would expose me to the menu of options to operationalize Harriet effectively, support stellar UX/UI experience and essentially get the product to market.  This product is complicated yet so posited to produce measure results. Hence, the need to be under the mentorship and guidance of skill based executives to ensure fidelity of execution. 

Financial: I would like to maintain as much ownership of Harriet as possible in order to maintain the long term mission. Therefore, in the seed phase I am hoping to primarily secure grants which would support autonomy.  Additionally, I believe storytelling is an art and a skill. Therefore, support in pitching to potential funders (e.g. grant and eventually investors) would be most advantageous for the fund development process. To support the essential  aim of Harriet, it will be incorporated as a social benefit corporation in order to ensure that we are held accountable to triple bottom line performance goals (people, planet and profit).

Technology: Solve’s flagship program, in kind resources (e.g. software), mentorship pairing and network (e.g. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (AI for Good program)) would be catalytic for the product development of Harriet. Such entities are privy to the cutting edge capabilities of AI. I recognize my greatest asset is in the conceptualization of the product. The materialization of Harriet requires technical expertise and competency. I eagerly identify and recognize my areas in need of support and mentorship in order to produce a product I believe will be immensely impactful to the wellbeing of vulnerable communities and people worldwide. There’s no room for an ego. Thus, I am seeking as much guidance. For example, gathering sensitive information, though housed in a community data trust, I’m confronted with security (breach) as well as enabling meaningful analysis while simultaneously ensuring privacy.  The analysis capacity is critical to the essential function of Harriet in order to support responsive decision making.    

Financial: This is a spiritual venture for me. Materializing Harriet is an ode to those devoured by racism and experiencing social death in neighborhoods akin to those of my childhood. I would like to maintain as much ownership for the sake of executing my full vision-significant donation of profits to: 1) fund my nonprofit which will be a direct service provider, 2) build a boarding school for teenage mothers and 3)provide gap funding to the real estate development firm (to be founded) in order to complete recommended community projects.  

1. Esri (Location Analysis): This entity and software would be immensely helpful in examining the full depth of what we have and have not explored in terms of spatial analysis. For example, how do we allow analysis of the information gathered and housed in community data trust which consists of private information while also maintaining anonymity?

2. Global impact investment network (IRIS software): This entity’s software is respected for the standardization of metrics. Many impact metrics are standardized by non vulnerable communities and are  project dominant.  The solution would be advanced by: examining the existing metrics, reduction of duplication; relationship building/recruitment of users; as well as exploring users’ pains (e.g. social impact investors, philanthropist, CAP etc.).

3. Linkedin Talent Insight: Software examines, tracks and reports on the existing and emerging needed workforce skills. Thus, I’d like to collaborate to inform individual beneficiaries of the types of resilient tracks most viable to maintain self sufficiency. 

4. Polity IV: This software exists at the intersection of government, academia and international actors (e.g. United Nations, World Bank etc.) as a monitoring tool to alert stakeholders of governance destabilizing factors (e.g. too many unengaged youth and relationship to hotbed for extremism recruitment) threatening national security. Harriet is the other side of the coin- preventing the destabilizing factors as opposed to monitoring.  

5. Opportunity Insights: Raj Chetty’s work focused on economic capital in relationship to upward mobility. I would like to collaborate (e.g. research and vetting of our model). 

Harriet consists of two beneficiaries: individuals and distressed communities (e.g. R/ECAPs and Opportunity Zones). The software functions to identify and mitigate the conditions which undermine the quality of life, life prospects, develop community assets which are essential if individuals are to obtain access to a decent standard of living as well as fully participate in democracy and the emerging economy. The potential pilot locations for Harriet are the following zip codes: 1) 53206, in 2013 incarcerated the highest number of Black men in the United States and 2) 76104, in 2020 this zip code has the lowest life expectancy rate in Texas (12 years younger than the national average). It is worth noting, several of  currently incarcerated nephews  resided in 53206 during their formative years. As a result, funding received from RWJF would be utilized to support the research evolution of our “inclusive resilience model” which seeks to build health communities by deeply investigate: 1)the dynamics which lead to the containment,  exclusion, divestment and impeded self sufficiency among R/ECAP residents but most importantly 2) the features necessary in order to mitigate barriers. For example, RWJF funding would support our investigation of  the factors (e.g. built environment, structural racism, economic participation, oppressive policy, educational opportunities etc.) which appear to be densely present in 53206 hence its ranking of incarceration. The 76104 reflects a different phenomena undermining “health and wellbeing”.Thus, the funding would be used to investigate the varying dimensions contributing to health and wellbeing.  

Harriet consists of two beneficiaries: individuals and distressed communities (e.g. R/ECAPs and Opportunity Zones). The software functions to identify and mitigate the conditions which undermine the quality of life, life prospects, develop community assets which are essential if individuals are to obtain access to a decent standard of living as well as fully participate in democracy and the emerging economy. Additionally, the software utilizes AI (current and forecasted information) in order to develop such recommendations. It is worth noting, our “inclusive resilience model” is fundamentally concerned about the impending consequences of two global disruptors which will exacerbate social inequalities- automation and climate change. At present, R/ECAP inhabitants ar more susceptible to heat islands, food deserts, food swamps, lack connectivity to the city’s major economy, reflect higher rates of Adverse Childhood  Experiences which have lifelong consequences and possess little to no access to programs and training (e.g. impoverished neighborhoods lack or have poor STEM training and curriculum) which will equip future generations with ability to participate in the emerging economy. The platform equips users (e.g. government, philanthropists, social impact investors, program providers etc.) with the insight, analysis capacity, monitoring and ease of collaboration in order to create as well as maintain smart, safe and sustainable communities.

Harriet consists of two beneficiaries: individuals and distressed communities (e.g. R/ECAPs and Opportunity Zones). Harriet consists of two beneficiaries: individuals and distressed communities (e.g. R/ECAPs and Opportunity Zones). The software functions to identify and mitigate the conditions which undermine the quality of life, life prospects, develop community assets which are essential if individuals are to obtain access to a decent standard of living as well as fully participate in democracy and the emerging economy. Harriet does this by (individuals): 1) assessing the skills and penchants of individuals, 2)identifying resilient career trajectories, 3) providing a career plan, 4)development of a profile of “needs” which can be fulfilled by users (e.g. philanthropist may sponsor the tuition to coding training, case managers are able to support the new demands due associated with the success pathway (e.g. household income declines and now eligible for government subsidies) and 5) connects individual users to program providers seeking to enroll marginalized populations which are difficult to recruit due to the digital divide.  Additionally, our community beneficiary is supported by: 1) providing jurisdiction stakeholders (e.g. real estate developers, government, philanthropy) with deep data access and insights which can be utilized to build and maintain healthy communities and economies that are human centered and 2) provides social impact metrics. 

Harriet consists of two beneficiaries: individuals and distressed communities (e.g. R/ECAPs and Opportunity Zones). The software functions to identify and mitigate the conditions which undermine the quality of life, life prospects, develop community assets which are essential if individuals are to obtain access to a decent standard of living as well as fully participate in democracy and the emerging economy. While women and girls are included in priority populations 2 & 3, BIPOC low income single parent mothers are specified as a  population demographic because we honor and recognize the population is: more susceptible to poverty and homelessness;  are a catalytic strategy to eliminating and disrupting the transmission of generational poverty;  have endured exclusion from STEM will result in disparate displacement from the emerging economy-automating career and job tasks relegated to women. Thus, we mitigate this by: 1) assessing the skills and penchants of individuals, 2)identifying resilient career trajectories, 3) providing a career plan, 4)development of a profile of “needs” which can be fulfilled by users (e.g. philanthropist may sponsor the tuition to coding training, case managers are able to support the new demands due associated with the success pathway (e.g. household income declines and now eligible for government subsidies) and 5) connects individual users to program providers seeking to enroll marginalized populations which are difficult to recruit due to the digital divide. 

Harriet consists of two beneficiaries: individuals and distressed communities (e.g. R/ECAPs and Opportunity Zones). The software functions to identify and mitigate the conditions which undermine the quality of life, life prospects, develop community assets which are essential if individuals are to obtain access to a decent standard of living as well as fully participate in democracy and the emerging economy. Additionally, the software utilizes AI (current and forecasted information) in order to develop such recommendations. It is worth noting, our “inclusive resilience model” is fundamentally concerned about the impending consequences of two global disruptors which will exacerbate social inequalities- automation and climate change. At present, R/ECAP inhabitants ar more susceptible to heat islands, food deserts, food swamps, lack connectivity to the city’s major economy, reflect higher rates of Adverse Childhood  Experiences which have lifelong consequences and possess little to no access to programs and training (e.g. impoverished neighborhoods lack or have poor STEM training and curriculum) which will equip future generations with ability to participate in the emerging economy. According to Forbes, in 2050 BIPOC will constitute more than 50 percent of the population but will possess a net worth of albeit zero.  We have reached unsustainable levels of inequality which will threaten our democracy. We believe the only path forward is to ensure equitable access to participation in democracy and the economy- that is the essential function of Harriet.