Shadrock Roberts

@shadrock
USA
he / him / his

Program Management

Product Design

User Research

Privacy

Open Source

humanitarian

absurdist

Program Manager with 10+ years of experience launching and managing technical programs for humanitarian data collection, software development, data governance, and data protection, often in complex environments. I also drink way too much chocolate milk.

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I'm open to

advising companies,

beta testing new products,

speaking at events,

speaking on podcasts,

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Apr 2023 - Present

Director, Data Protection, Privacy, & Ethical AI, mercy corps

Apr 2022 - Apr 2023

Deputy Director, Data Protection, Privacy, & Ethical AI, mercy corps

Apr 2021 - Apr 2022

Data Protection Specialist, mercy corps

Aug 2019 - May 2021

Assistant Professor of GIScience, Clark University

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Recent data protection & privacy project at Mercy Corps!

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I'm now the Deputy Director of Data Protection & Privacy!

I've just launched Data Protection and privacy guides under open license! The guides are intended for Mercy Corps staff and partners but can be used and modified by anybody. They combine existing M...

Released open source courses for teaching data collection, management, and visualization in humanitarian response. Courses support remote teaching graduate level coursework using Python, JavaScript...

Lauched the "COMRADES" version of Ushahidi. Product includes: data pipeline integration with U.N. Humanitarian Data Exchange; data collection with Facebook messenger chatbot; and integrated machine...

Things I’ve built

I’ve created a data protection tool using Microsoft Power Automate to manage data subject requests. You can access it in this Github repository, along with all of the files and instructions for rep...