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About Us
de-bias is a platform that integrates research, predictive analysis, and action-based solutions.
It tracks the structural barriers in an organization’s internal and external environment to measure its impact on marginalized communities.
Mission
Methods do not exist for policies and systems to be analyzed in a way that highlights the impact on marginalized populations who typically suffer from poor representation and lack of resources. We want to standardize best practices for businesses to address more comprehensively centuries of structural discrimination, transparently, and intentionally centering the needs of those negatively impacted by oppressive systems.
Vision
Since people are more than laborers so we assess the many different relationships individuals can have with a business beyond the workplace. We are taking a technical approach to mitigate bias, solve discrimination, and break down oppressive systems by monitoring impact through the experiences of historically excluded communities and people.
People are more than their labor…
de-bias is the only public platform assessing discrimination, bias, and inequities systemically and connecting to business outcomes. People are impacted by businesses beyond the workplace, and this should be reflected in how decisions are made. We are empowering people and communities to communicate what they value without being ignored and to expect more than “this is the way it is.”
Anonymously, we survey all other stakeholders to increase the representation of marginalized identities. Our data centers historically excluded people and communities versus the status quo, so we mitigate bias and overrepresentation within our software.
We have created an intentional process to maintain anonymity and prevent retaliation by not selling raw data and providing root cause reports. The information we make public is synthesized to show systemic barriers to protect individuals job titles and identities.
Amber Thompson
Founder & CEO
As a Black person in America, you spend your entire life processing the world. But it wasn’t until I had to process that same world from multiple perspectives for me and my daughter with a disability. So, I have a lifetime of personal and professional experiences that prepared me to see the value in transparency and accessibility. I used my personal experiences to inform what I wanted to accomplish to help others understand how to build a better future and used my skills and education to develop the how.
I am an equity service designer that works with businesses to de-bias organizational infrastructures and implement systemic changes, bottom-up. I use multi-method research and decipher data through an intersectional lens. My process to accelerate change includes using technology to automate data collection, generate root-cause analyses, and monitor impact towards historically excluded people and communities.
I am a published activist and a public speaker on topics regarding equity and justice in education, sustainability, technology, media, retail, legal, non-profit, community development, and economic development. Hold a bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Sociology from Point Park University and a master’s degree in Organization Development and Change from Penn State University.
555,000
Data Points
30+
On-going projects
Unlimited
Potential
Why de-bias?
Beyond Performative
Move past perforative DEI and use de-bias to identify and track oppressive variables
Virtual Surveying
Our user engagement is predicated on accessibility, and we work virtually and connect with community organizations to provide access to all communities
Actionable Interventions
Our systems will not only provide interventions and actions, it will track the outcomes to ensure that inclusion and belonging are centered moving forward
de-bias Scorecard
Through surveys and third party data collection our systems grade an organization on a multitude of factors so the organization and those affected by it can track and contribute to its oversight.
