[1][2] Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Data for Black Lives was founded by Yeshimabeit Milner and Lucas Mason-Brown.
[1][6] D4BL began in November 2017 as statistical research project, and expanded into working with a team of people on data analysis.
The formation of D4BL was initiated by Yeshimabeit Milner, who witnessed racial discrimination, watching her peers suffer from police brutality.
[8] After graduating from Brown University, Milner incorporated her passion for data science into social activism.
[9] Additionally there is a community of other organizations working towards the same goals, including Data and Society, Algorithmic Justice League, and the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR).