Natalie Evans-Harris

State Chief Data Officer, State of Maryland · 1 appearance on the record.

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Natalie Evans Harris is Maryland's State Chief Data Officer and the founding Executive Director of the Black Wealth Data Center, specializing in civic data governance and responsible data sharing. Prior to co-founding BrightHive, she spent 16 years at the NSA and served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Obama administration.

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248 words/min while actually speaking · 7.1 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Natalie Evans-Harris: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

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What they said7 Episodes1

Everything Natalie Evans-Harris said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Evans-Harris: Testing candidates on ethics without internal enforcement is hypocritical

“I think it'd be really hypocritical of you to do that if you're not actually enforcing it in your organization.”

Natalie Evans-Harris May 22, 2018 ▶ 22:54 Defining Responsible Data Practices // Natalie Harris, BrightHive (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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Natalie Evans-Harris: Data sharing MOUs take six months and expire yearly

“Policies are really limiting how much data can come together, so we still have to pay for it to be siloed, and we have to do MOUs that take six months, To put in place and are only good for a year and only good to share with the person sitting next to you.”

Natalie Evans-Harris May 22, 2018 ▶ 3:47 Defining Responsible Data Practices // Natalie Harris, BrightHive (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Insight

Evans-Harris: GDPR compliance is the floor for data ethics, not the ceiling

“Often when we think about ethics, we think about the regulations, GDPR, the Privacy Act, all of those things, and we treat that as the ceiling. It is not, it's the floor.”

Natalie Evans-Harris May 22, 2018 ▶ 7:29 Defining Responsible Data Practices // Natalie Harris, BrightHive (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Insight

Evans-Harris: Data practitioners know best what should be done ethically

“The people who know best about what should be done ethically are the people who have to do it.”

Natalie Evans-Harris May 22, 2018 ▶ 8:32 Defining Responsible Data Practices // Natalie Harris, BrightHive (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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Evans-Harris: Data scientists want to act responsibly but lack practical guidance

“Because what many of the data scientists that we spoke with just said was, it's not that I don't want to behave ethically or responsibly, it's I don't want to know what that looks like. And two, I don't know what to do if something bad happens.”

Natalie Evans-Harris May 22, 2018 ▶ 12:31 Defining Responsible Data Practices // Natalie Harris, BrightHive (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Opinion

Evans-Harris: Every data practitioner needs an individual ethical matrix

“There isn't anybody that should be coming out of school or using people's personal data that doesn't have their own individual matrix to follow.”

Natalie Evans-Harris May 22, 2018 ▶ 22:07 Defining Responsible Data Practices // Natalie Harris, BrightHive (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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Evans-Harris: Funders now require data ethics guarantees before granting money

“When we talk to them, that's one of the first questions they ask now. Is how are you making sure that this data is being used responsibly and protected? So I see it more on that side of nonprofits and funders saying, I don't want to give you money if you haven…”

Natalie Evans-Harris May 22, 2018 ▶ 19:16 Defining Responsible Data Practices // Natalie Harris, BrightHive (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Defining Responsible Data Practices // Natalie Harris, BrightHive (FirstMark's Data Driven	May 22, 2018	19m

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