Caroline Criado Perez
6 PM | Tinkham Veale University Ballroom A | 11038 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, OH 44106
Highlighting case studies drawn from areas such as car safety, transport planning, artificial intelligence, and healthcare, Caroline Criado Perez will show how gendered data gaps shape the world around us, and make the case for more inclusive data practices to create policies, technologies, and services that work for everyone.
This event is co-sponsored by the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and the Department of Cognitive Science.
Registration requested. Register HERE.
About the speaker:
Caroline Criado Perez is a best-selling and award-winning writer, speaker and feminist campaigner. Her #1 Sunday Times best-seller, INVISIBLE WOMEN: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Chatto & Windus, Abrams, 2019), highlights the systematic biases behind the data and assumptions impacting our everyday lives. It has sold over a million copies, has been translated into over 30 languages, and won the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize, the 2019 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, and the 2019 Books Are My Bag Readers Choice Award.
Caroline herself was the winner of the 2025 inaugural Unwin Award, given to authors whose work is considered to have made a contribution to the world. She was also the recipient of Finland’s Hän Honour in 2020 to recognise her global contributions to inclusivity, was named OBE in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours, and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Lincoln, the University of Westminster, and The Open University.
Her first book, Do it Like a Woman (Portobello, 2015), introduces pioneering women from around the world and explores what it means to be female in a culture where power and basic freedoms are too often equated with being male. She is currently working on a new book about the fertility crisis and writes a regular newsletter that goes out to 65,000 subscribers.
Click HERE for Caroline Criado Perez' website.