Rewrite your Data Story
An intimate, facilitated experience for women and nonbinary leaders ready to use data the way C-suite leaders do
There's a story you've been telling yourself about data.
We've all experienced a moment where data made us doubt ourselves. HAVE YOU EVER…
• Nodded along in a meeting while someone talked about data and you had no idea what they meant?
• Described yourself as "not a data person" even though you are, in fact, a very smart person?
• Cried while trying to analyze data that didn’t make any sense to you? (Asking for a friend.)
You're not bad at data.
You have a bad STORY about data.
It may have been true once. It helped you get through a hard moment.
But now that story is running the show AND standing between you and the kind of leader you’re becoming.
Together, we can rewrite it.
In one afternoon, you will Ieave with proof that data is yours to lead with. And walk calmly and confidently into Monday, leaving the Sunday Scaries behind.
How the afternoon flows
We start with your superpower: the thing you already do well, the thing you can do in your sleep. From there we share the harder thing, your data breakup story, with one partner who will actively listen.
We ShareA fun speed-run through the actual data process: collection, analysis, visualization. You will gather both numbers (quantitative) and words (qualitative). You will see what real data work feels like in a room with people who are rooting for you.
We PlayYou turn what you collected into a visualization, with graph paper, rulers, and color so you have structure to work with. You leave holding something you made yourself.
We MakeWe share back what we made and look at the leaders we know who do this work well. We name the gap between where we are and where we want to go. You walk out and into your Monday morning calm and composed, with a clear sense of what you can contribute.
We Close
You’re in expert hands
Host
Stephanie E. Farquhar, PhD, MHS (she/her)
Stephanie is a trained public health researcher who has spent fifteen-plus years leading research, evaluation, data, and responsible AI work across sectors, including at the NYC Health Department, the White House, and Google. She founded Equitable Data Solutions to support women and nonbinary leaders in making data work for them.
Stephanie will lead you through rewriting your story. She’s rewritten her own. Watch her short talk about it.
NYC Co-facilitator
Shale Maulana, LMSW, MPH (she/her)
Shale is a licensed therapist whose practice integrates EMDR, somatic therapy, neurofeedback, and clinical hypnotherapy with a liberation framework grounded in nervous system science. Before starting her clinical practice, she spent nearly a decade at the NYC Health Department working on health equity and racial disparities.
In this room, Shale is holding the somatic, trauma-informed container that lets the work go deeper than chat.
DC Co-facilitator
Malika Saada Saar JD (she/her)
Malika is a human rights lawyer whose career spans civil and human rights law, tech policy, and the responsible governance of AI. As Global Head of Human Rights at YouTube, she led the integration of human rights principles across Trust & Safety, public policy, legal, and product teams; earlier, as founder of the Human Rights Project for Girls (Rights4Girls), she helped shut down the online ads that were the leading sites for child sex trafficking and ended the practice of shackling incarcerated pregnant women in U.S. prisons. Named one of Newsweek's "150 Women Who Shake the World," she is a Senior Fellow in Human Rights Law and Tech at Brown and holds degrees from Brown, Stanford, and Georgetown Law.
In this room, Malika brings the human rights lens, naming the systems of power that taught so many of us we don't belong with data, and reminding us that the story can be rewritten not only inside ourselves, but in the structures around us.
Bay Area Co-facilitator
Arushi Saxena MDE (she/her)
Arushi Saxena is a trust, safety, and AI governance leader whose work has moved between mission-driven startups, Big Tech, and the federal government. She currently leads technical program management on Trust & Security at Harvey, helping secure AI tools for lawyers. Before that, she served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow and Senior Advisor at the White House Office of Management and Budget, shaping federal AI privacy and security standards and supporting implementation of the AI Executive Order. Earlier, she was Head of Trust & Safety at Dynamo AI (employee #8) and led information integrity and elections work at Twitter.
In this room, Arushi will reflect on what it takes to carry hard-won expertise across industries and the work of re-earning credibility every time the room changes
Sommelier
Eric Fleming (he/they)
Eric is a sommelier, certified life coach, and DEI consultant whose work uses wine to build community, entertain, and empower. He earned his stripes at NYC's most acclaimed restaurants (ABC Kitchen, Charlie Bird, and most recently Pinch Chinese, where the program was named Best Medium-Sized Wine List in the country). He founded Gay Wine Club in 2018 to take the pomp and gatekeeping out of wine spaces and make room for the people they weren't designed for. His style is approachable and irreverent yet informative. Every glass tells a story, and Eric paints the picture.
In this room, Eric is pairing local wines with chocolate that turns work into a celebration and modeling the same move we're making with data: taking something often gate-kept and making it sensory, approachable, and yours.
This room is for some people. It’s not for everyone.
This is for you if
You're a woman or nonbinary person in a leadership position
You don't feel great about data, and you know it's essential to getting where you want to go
You want to start using data like the C-suite pro you're on your way to becoming
This is NOT for you if
You're looking for a purely technical training (like an Excel or Python bootcamp)
You want a passive lecture you can sit through and check your phone
You're not willing to listen with deep respect and care when someone shares something vulnerable
You'd rather judge from the sidelines than participate fully
How It WorksTimes: 1-5PM
Where: Exact address will be sent out 7 days before each event
Capacity: 20 seats per city. Once they’re gone, they’re gone.
Tickets: $400 per person
Included: 4-hour facilitated session. This includes a wine and chocolate pairing chosen by an NYC sommelier, and all data visualization materials.
Bring: A data breakup story you’re ready to share and one of your superpowers (we will send an intake reflection to make it easy)
Wear: Whatever makes you feel like yourself at your most pulled together and comfortable. There will be photographers and videographers in the room, with no recording during the share section.
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Weekend afternoons means you come home from this and walk into Monday morning calm and composed, instead of bracing for it the way you usually do. The Sunday scaries lose their grip when you spend the afternoon in a room of people doing real work together.
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Yes, completely. We are not working in spreadsheets at this event. We are doing a real-time data project together using analog materials.
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You will be invited to share with one person at a time, in pairs. We walk you through how to do this in a way that feels safe, and we give you a model to follow. You are always allowed to say pass, and you will be respected for it.
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There will be a photographer and a videographer in the room, with no recording during the personal share section. We will ask for your consent at the start of the day.
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Tickets are non-refundable but transferable to a friend up to 7 days before the event.
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One afternoon will transform the story you've been telling yourself about data. That's a big unlock, but it's just the start. Stephanie will share what other unlocks are possible in a longer-term program when we're in person.
Start the Rewrite Now.
Your relationship with data doesn't have to stay the way it is. Spend a Sunday afternoon in a room with women and nonbinary leaders doing this work together, trying some new things, cheering each other on, and having a bit of chocolate when needed.