No One Is an Asterisk

Heather Krause
3 min readDec 8, 2020
Image by Hans Krause, We All Count

“We are a small population of people because of genocide. No other reason. If you eliminate us in the data, we don’t exist. We don’t exist for the allocation of resources”.

– Abigail Echo-Hawk, Pawnee, Director of the Urban Indian Health Institute and Chief Research Officer of the Seattle Indian Health Board

There is a world of difference between saying “we’re less certain” and “they don’t count.”…

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Heather Krause

Data scientist & statistician (one of only 150 accredited PStats worldwide). Providing data science services grounded in an equity lens. https://weallcount.com