NYT bestselling author to headline Woman's City Club event in Cincinnati

A New York Times bestselling author, mathematician and information idiosyncratic is coming to the Queen City adjacent month.

Cathy O'Neil, victor of the Euler Book Prize, is acceptable to talk astatine the National Speakers Forum, hosted by the Woman's City Club of Greater Cincinnati and co-sponsored by The Enquirer connected Friday, April 11. The event's taxable is "Weapons of Math Destruction: Big Data and You." It volition statesman astatine 7 p.m. astatine Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm St., successful Over-the-Rhine.

Tickets are $54 for individuals and tin beryllium purchased connected the venue's website. VIP tickets, which see admittance to the lecture and a reception with O'Neil, commencement astatine $154.

O'Neil's bestselling book, "Weapons of Math of Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy," has been wide praised, winning the Euler Book Prize. The grant recognizes outstanding books astir mathematics and is awarded annually by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).

O'Neil earned a PhD successful mathematics from Harvard and taught astatine Bernard College earlier moving to the backstage sector, wherever she worked for a hedge money and aboriginal became a information scientist. Her expertise led her to constitute sentiment columns successful Bloomberg View, and she adjacent launched the Lede Program for Data Journalism astatine Columbia University.

At the National Speakers Forum, O'Neil volition delve into however mathematical models utilized contiguous are unregulated and uncontestable, adjacent erstwhile they’re wrong. She volition besides sermon however the models "reinforce discrimination—propping up the lucky, punishing the downtrodden, and undermining our ideology successful the process," according to a property release.

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Setting the signifier for the forum

Ahead of O'Neil's forum, the Woman's City Club is hosting a speech with Erin St. Jeor, determination subject manager astatine Fifth Third Bank successful Cincinnati. The lawsuit volition instrumentality spot virtually implicit Zoom connected Wednesday, March 26, astatine 7 p.m. Anyone is invited to registry for the escaped speech online.

What is the Woman's City Club of Greater Cincinnati?

Woman's City Club was founded successful 1915 by women who sought to pass themselves and others astir civic issues and voting rights. The club's ngo is to educate, empower and prosecute radical to beryllium liable citizens who actively enactment successful democracy.

Every outpouring since 1994, the Woman's City Club's National Speaker Forum has invited women of nationalist stature to the Greater Cincinnati community, having them stock insights connected existent events and nationalist policy. Notable past speakers include:

• Lani Guinier, the archetypal Black pistillate to go a tenured prof astatine Harvard Law School.

• Susan Stamberg, an NPR writer and archetypal pistillate big of a nationalist quality broadcast.

• Molly Ivins, a columnist, writer and governmental commentator.

• Gail Collins, a journalist, columnist and the archetypal pistillate to service arsenic the New York Times' editorial leafage editor.

• Diane Rehm, a writer and podcast host.

• Mariel Hemingway, an award-winning actor.

• Isabel Wilkerson, a journalist, writer and archetypal Black pistillate to triumph the Pulitzer Prize successful journalism.

• Martha Raddatz, an ABC News reporter.

• Mary Frances Berry, a civilian rights activist.

• Marcia Coyle, a U.S. Supreme Court expert.

• Jenn White, an NPR award-winning writer and podcast host.

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