JFK Values
by James Felton Keith
James Felton Keith (JFK) is an engineer, labor economist, author, and recipient of a 56th Annual NAACP Labor Award. He is the Founder of InclusionScore and Chair of the Workforce Service Management Institute, the first international certifying body for the Standards like DEI (ISO 30415), HR (ISO 30201) and Artificial Intelligence Management System (ISO 42001). His research focuses on financializing human rights, the economics of data, artificial intelligence, and the future of work, culminating in 13 books, most recently Data Is Labor (2024) and Your Data, Their Wealth: The Price of Human Input to the AI Economy (2026). In 2017, he became the first openly Black LGBTQ candidate to seek federal office in the United States by running for Harlem’s Congressional District. blog.jamesfeltonkeith.com
Episodes
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The Economic Cost of Eliminating DEI
Days after 2026 Midterm Elections, we're at work with the lawyers. What does eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion actually cost an organization? I joined Stacy Hawkins, Professor of Law at Rutgers University, Nonresident Fellow at Brookings Metro, and former Vice Dean of Rutgers Law…
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Author Peter Allen Mann
On this episode of the Inclusionism Podcast, James Felton Keith sits down with Peter Allen Mann, founder and CEO of Oransi, and author of The Perception Revolution: How to Turn Neurodivergent Insights into Competitive Advantage. Mann argues that the people organizations often label “too…
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Speech: The Price of Human Assets
At the National Leverage Lab (the first conference for workplace abuse and accountability) I told a story about meeting OpenAI whistleblower, Suchir Balaji’s parents and how a line of mathematical thinking he pointed toward has influenced the way we are now trying to calculate the value of human...
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Now on Spotify: Your Data, Their Wealth
This book makes a plain argument: your data is not incidental to the AI economy. It is an input. It helps train systems, shape products, reduce risk, increase efficiency, and create enormous enterprise value. Yet the people whose lives, behaviors, language, preferences, and patterns make that…
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The White House is Sacrificing People for Cold War AI “Dominance”.
The White House has now made its position on artificial intelligence much clearer. It sees the harms. It sees the scams, the deepfakes, the threats to children, the pressure on the electric grid, the fights over copyright, and the disruption coming for workers. It is not blind to the damage. But…
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Property Rights Make AI Equitable
Everybody is talking about whether AI will be fair, safe, or inclusive, but most of that conversation misses the real issue: ownership. AI will not become equitable just because companies promise better ethics. It becomes equitable when the people whose lives, behavior, culture, and data make…
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The $1,000,000 DEI Insurance Problem
For International Women's Day I sat down with Kit Chaskin and Lauren Golanty from Third to First for a conversation on the Inclusionism podcast about a novel insurance solution to an work place conflict problem that we have quietly lived with for decades: learn how we disincentivize workplace...
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Brittany Kaiser & JFK on Data as Property
Own Your Data: From Scandal to Structure A fireside conversation between James Felton Keith and Brittany Kaiser When Joel Telpner opened the evening by jokingly asking the audience to hand over their driver’s licenses and Social Security numbers, the room laughed. It was a sharp reminder of how...
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Data Theft: Diversity Photos vs Adobe Inc.
Gerald Carter states on the podcast that his company, Diversity Photos, filed claims against Adobe Inc. after alleging that Adobe used their licensed images to train its generative AI model, Firefly, beyond the scope of their agreement. The dispute centers on three core allegations described in…
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DEI = AI
We are proud to announce IncluionScore.AI which is the result of about 40,000 and 45 years of DEI&B know-how. Inclusion Score is the tech arm of the ISO-30415 Certifying Body and our Chair, James Felton Keith is expanding on the original certification course from University of Georgia to train...
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Starbucks DEI beats Missouri Attorney General
Missouri Attorney General versus Starbucks’ diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.jamesfeltonkeith.com
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New York's DEI Constitution
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.jamesfeltonkeith.com
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100th Black History Month
Black History Isn’t a Month. It’s a Practice. This year marks 100 years of Black History Month. A century since Carter G. Woodson pushed America to confront what it preferred to ignore: Black history is American history. Not an add-on. Not a seasonal elective. A permanent record of labor,...
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Data Bill Of Rights
The Data Bill of Rights was first written by James Felton Keith in 2015 before the founding of The Data Union and explained on stage at the RadicalXChange conference in 2019. Here is a clip of that explanation from the RadX panel. These ideas which were once considered radical are not anymore,...
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Data Unions at Internet Identity Workshop
James Felton Keith presenting on Data Unions & Labor Law with Kaliya Young, Author of The Domains of Identity at the 41st Internet Identity Workshop in Silicon Valley California. He covers the new Data Ownership policies in Europe and new uses of math inspired by Oped AI whistleblower Suchir...
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Louie Sosa on The NYC Housing Crisis
Managing Director of the Langston Hughes House joins me to discuss the critical importance of affordable housing and its impact on communities, particularly in Harlem. The video emphasizes the need for respect and value in building spaces for everyone, and how this issue affects other areas.He…
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Kai Cogsville on Housing Equity
Housing activists and organizers are still deeply unhappy with the affordability level in the One45 development on 145th Street and Malcolm X BLVD. A group gathered at the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building on West 125th Street last Friday, July 11, to protest at Councilman Salaam’s...
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Mark Levine For NYC Comptroller
Mark Levine has been at the forefront of advocating for more affordable, equitable and healthy communities for nearly 25 years. He’s a former bilingual math and science teacher in the South Bronx, and he founded the Neighborhood Trust Federal Credit Union, which today has made over $100 million…
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Michael Blake NYC Mayoral Candidate
I'm endorsing Michael Blake for NYC Mayor and here is a little bit about theFormer, NY Assemblyman and Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee. https://blakefornyc.com/about/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus…
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Financial Impact of the SCOTUS 'Reverse Discrimination' Ruling
Supreme Court sides with straight woman in 'reverse discrimination' case The court said members of a majority group don't face an extra hurdle when alleging 'reverse discrimination' in the workplace. More at inclusionscore.org This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other...
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New York’s New DEI Constitution
While much of the country was focused on the presidential race during the 2024 election, New Yorkers voted on something I see as equally transformative: Proposal 1. Known as the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), this ballot initiative amended the state constitution to explicitly prohibit…
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Data Is Labor with Dr. Kyra Greene
JFK & The Guys are joined by Dr. Kyra Greene of the Center on Policy Initiatives in San Diego to do a deep dive into the the concept that Data is evidence of Our Labor or "Data Is Labor" and how we tie to the broader labor movement. This is a continuation of the original conversation with Dr...
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JFK Values via Forbes.com on Code Switching & Gender Pay Gap
Code-Switching And Other Strategies Leaders Can Use To Support Gender EquityPreviously published at Forbeshttps://www.keithinstitute.org/single-post/code-switching-and-other-strategies-leaders-can-use-to-support-gender-equityThis is another #Inclusionism #Podcast with reflections on my experience...
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Dr. Kyra Greene of Center for Policy Initiatives
Wage Theft and the next labor movement #DataIsLabor with Dr. Kyra Greene of the Center for Policy Initiatives, San Diego. Read their latest white paper: Unpaid & Unaware - Wage theft and labor rights enforcement in San Diego City and County https://cpisandiego.org/unpaid-and-unaware-2024/ Dr.…
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JFK Values with Jackie Garrick, CEO of Whistleblowers Of America
James Felton Keith is joined by Jackie Garrick and Paul Pearson of the www.whistleblowersofamerica.org Ms. Garrick founded Whistleblowers of America (WoA) as a nonprofit in 2017, which provides voluntary peer support to those suffering the impacts of Workplace Traumatic Stress. She developed the...
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JFK Values with Judges Amber Givens and DaSean Jones
Black Texas Judges are under fire for doing their jobs. Join James Felton Keith and the guys as they do a deep dive on what types of political and legal attacks come with the tsk of administering justice in 2025 America. Judge Amber Givens Website - https://www.judgeambergivens.com/ Instagram -...
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JFK Values on NFL Super Bowl Sunday
I have to tell the story of how we started LGBT Pride Nights in the NFL and across America on this Super Bowl Sunday, after a misinterpretation of Roger Goodell's comments on #DEI "not going anywhere". I now realize that he meant that the NFL will keep its efforts. More at jamesfeltonkeith.com…
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JFK Values with Amazon Labor Union Founder Chris Smalls
Christian Smalls is the founder of the Amazon Labor Union, the first independent, democratic, worker-led labor union in American History for Amazon in Staten Island. He is also the founder of The Congress of Essential Workers (TCOEW), a nationwide collective of essential workers and allies…
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JFK Values with Reginald "Reg" Greene Esq
Discussing Values, Unions, & Equity with Reginald "Reg" Greene. More on Reg at https://www.linkedin.com/in/reggreene/ When Reginald joined Teach for America in 2004 his goal was to gain further insight into the intractable problems in the public education system that marginalize students,...
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JFK Values - Solving for Resentment
Peter is still convincing James to to this podcast and take it back to radio, and towards the end he stumbles on the problem that exploring values can help with: resentment. More at JamesFeltonKeith.com As always James Felton Keith and Peter Willumsen explore our values that prevent other people...
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JFK Values with Reginald "Reg" Greene
Guest: Attorney & Educator Reginald "Reg" Greene JFK & Peter discuss the current state of education, journalism, and communications in this increasingly fractured American political environment. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...
About this show
James Felton Keith (JFK) is an engineer, labor economist, author, and recipient of a 56th Annual NAACP Labor Award. He is the Founder of InclusionScore and Chair of the Workforce Service Management Institute, the first international certifying body for the Standards like DEI (ISO 30415), HR (ISO 30201) and Artificial Intelligence Management System (ISO 42001). His research focuses on financializing human rights, the economics of data, artificial intelligence, and the future of work, culminating in 13 books, most recently Data Is Labor (2024) and Your Data, Their Wealth: The Price of Human Input to the AI Economy (2026). In 2017, he became the first openly Black LGBTQ candidate to seek federal office in the United States by running for Harlem’s Congressional District.
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