[1] WISER was founded by Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, an economist and past president of the National Economic Association, on March 8, 2016, which coincidentally was International Women's Day.

[3] The disaggregation of data, the organization claims, reveals nuance that is otherwise obscured and helps to eliminate bias from the research process.

WISER's work to disaggregate data has been useful for ranking United States colleges and universities based on how many Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American students earn degrees.

[6] For example, in 2019 WISER found that Michigan produces far fewer Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native American, and multiracial nursing students than the surrounding states.

[9] Since founding WISER, Sharpe has also published a study that uses the disaggregation of data and finds that North Carolina's eugenic sterilization practices were unique to Black people.