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Note taker: Thomas

There are sets that are easy to compile becuause theyre traditionally valuable
    How do we turn metadata into data"
    To be accountable to funders, we need metrics, but the work we do isn;t always easy to report
    How do we measure and quanitfy relationship building?
    Story
        Provided free legal clinics to expunge records
        Others do these kinds of things but they differed
            Partnered with orgs that did cultural 
            Clients sat through a presentation by activists and educated them on their place int he justice system and social issues, instead of lawyers
            Tied to the Ban the Box 
        What they measured was who kept involved as well as people getting expungments. Was this more effective than lawyer only groups?
        They showed numbers of things like communications with community, and other things that might beconsidered peripheral benefits, and actually measured them
    Emotional Geographies
        People do travelougs of where they travel and where they feel safe
        Map where specific places are that groups of people feel safe
        Mapping perceptions of safety in gentrifying areas
    Email Lists
        You want to expand program reach
        tailor messages to segments of your list
    Find inidcator questions in surveys
        Bury what you're trying to find out
    Always be thinking about how to find a metric to your research questions
    Quantifying Trust
        Consenting to followup stuff are indicators in themselves 
            Is it ok to share your story?
            Is it ok to follow up?
        Your intakes and offboarding are opportunites to include those questions and include them in your database
    Perceived Distance studies are interested
    Ethical Collection
        How do you collect data without making it a barrier or hurt trust
        Could this data be used to hurt them?
    Hiding this data might be necessary
        Say making a database or tool for companies to hire formerly incarcerated. Customers could see that firms are hiring workers
        Are you making a database of vulnerable populations?
    Environmental determinents of health
        How measure?
    Working with Researchers
        You need to come back to the community with your findings to get feedback and context