Lived experience into data, data into power.
Founded in 2015 by Jameila "Meme" Styles, Measure began by interrogating public safety metrics that failed to reflect lived experience within Black communities. What started as a challenge to disconnected data systems has become a national model for equitable evaluation, ethical technology governance, and leadership-centered systems change.
Jameila "Meme" Styles
President & Founder
The people closest to the problem must help shape the evidence.
Meme (mi-mi) Styles is a data activist, community strategist, and global storyteller whose work lives at the intersection of technology, research justice, and human dignity. She is the Founder and President of Measure, a community-centered evaluation and data practice that partners with nonprofits, institutions, and grassroots leaders to interrogate data and artificial intelligence in ways that center people, proximity, and lived experience, ensuring technology is built with communities, not for them.
A decade of community-led research, as living evidence.
Explore Free Data Support, Measure Ignite, the Innocence Initiative, and the Community-Engaged Research Course - filter by program or year, and expand any milestone to see the data behind it.
Explore the interactive timelineMeet the leaders of Measure.
A team practicing community-centered research across Austin, Houston, and Dallas.
Meme Styles
President & Founder
Vanetta Johnson
Chief of Operations
Dr. Zameshia Williams
Chief of Research
Dr. Gabrielle Wallace
Director of Research
TC Mack
Operations Manager
Terika Newson
Ignite UX Designer
Denise Upshaw
Research Department Coordinator
Kim Beltran
Executive Assistant
Kriselle Dada
Operations
Brittany Merida
Director of Community Engagement
Meet the Measure board.
Alyse Gamble
Diversity Management Team
Julio Irving Cotto
Senior Vice President
Ozen Ahmed
Vice President, Corporate Banking
Angel Durr
VP of Operational Analytics & Tooling
Mindy Gulati
Attorney, Consultant
Lauren Rosa
Project Manager
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