Advancing
The Data Equity Framework
Advancing the Data Equity Framework is for those who are ready to get serious (and seriously competent) at embedding equity right into the heart of their data work. If Foundations helped you see the choices in a data project, this course helps you make them; deliberately, defensibly, and in the messy conditions where real work happens.
You’ll practice applying the Framework to thorny trade-offs, ambiguous datasets, political constraints, and teams who don’t always agree on what equity means.
Over 15 hours of live, small-cohort training with Heather, you’ll learn advanced tools, refinements, shortcuts, and troubleshooting strategies.
You’ll complete guided exercises and an optional mini-project you can use as a portfolio piece. By the end, you’ll know how to implement the Framework in your organization, assess other people’s work with confidence, and chart a realistic path forward in your own role.
The exact curriculum we cover in the Advancing course varies with each cohort, as it is custom-designed to meet your needs. In general, Advancing digs into the deeper, trickier, more nuanced parts of data equity, the ones that derail actual projects. We dive together into the complex, high-impact decisions that derail real projects, with each cohort’s curriculum tailored to your needs.
We cover our advanced tools, strategies for navigating competing priorities and resistance, and practical methods for merging and harmonizing datasets, how to measure impact and model outcomes responsibly, diagnose weak proxy variables, and communicate uncertainty and limitations with confidence.
You’ll learn how to operationalize the Framework inside actual workflows—adding tools, checkpoints, and decision logs without rebuilding your systems.
Throughout, you’ll work through advanced case studies, scenario clinics, critique exercises, and live demonstrations of data equity in action.
Advancing is built for doing. Sessions are highly interactive, with live tool demos, collaborative exercises, and group problem-solving alongside a small, cross-sector cohort. You’ll see how data equity challenges – and solutions – play out in government, nonprofits, philanthropy, academia, healthcare, tech, and more.
You’ll get feedback, guidance, templates, and job aids designed for real-world conditions.
Most learning happens in-session through hands-on practice: analyzing scenarios, redesigning categories, critiquing dashboards, mapping motivations, and tackling real methodological dilemmas. Between sessions, you’ll complete small assignments that help you apply the tools directly to your own work.
By the end, you’ll have tangible artifacts, a vetted project example, practical strategies you can use immediately, and a supportive network of peers. Expect to participate, experiment, ask questions, and leave with genuine muscle memory.
Course Details
Cost:
$1,100 USD
Format:
Live Zoom sessions with optional participation, plus a private online learning space where you’ll find all recordings, worksheets, and tools.
Length:
Live online training (15 hours) + 2-3 hours of offline final project work.
Prerequisite:
The Foundations of Data Equity is a prerequisite for Advancing the Data Equity Framework
FAQs
Anyone who works with, collects, funds, requests, interprets, or communicates data—analysts, researchers, program staff, executives, policymakers, communicators, evaluators, and curious humans.
Nope. We teach in plain language, with clear examples. Data pros will go deep; non-technical folks will still follow comfortably.
Live online sessions on Zoom, paired with digital materials, examples, decision tools, and optional community discussion spaces.
The Data Equity Primer is not recorded. The Foundations and Advancing courses are recorded and recordings are available to registered participants, so you can rewatch or catch up if life happens.
Primer = shared starting point.
Foundations = full framework + core tools.
Advancing = mastery, nuance, portfolio-ready practice.
Yes. Advancing assumes familiarity with the Framework and its core tools.
Workbooks, templates, decision logs, tool guides, examples, case studies, and access to recordings (the Primer is not recorded).
Yes, Foundations and Advancing include a completion certificate. Advancing certifies completion of the full We All Count training series. There is no certificate for the Primer.
Absolutely. We customize content, scenarios, timelines, and support. Just contact us.
Yes. We offer 15% discount for teams of 5 or more.
Great, these courses meet you where you are, without judgment, shame, or jargon.
Excellent, these tools make them more intentional, transparent, and resilient. Many advanced teams use them to reduce risk and increase credibility.