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Reimagining Collaboration in Mental Health, Societal Bias and Black Communities With Microsoft

On October 26, 2020, Walter Wallace, a Black man living with a mental health condition, was murdered by the Philadelphia police. This…

4 min readMay 5, 2021

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Desmond U.Patton,PHD

Looking for joy? Check-in with your social media community.

I’ve been incredibly stressed out with planning the beginning of a new academic year, in the midst of the unrelenting Delta variant…

2 min readSep 3, 2021

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Looking for joy? Check-in with your social media community.

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Why Chicago’s Mayor should reconsider social media monitoring

I’m an associate professor social work and sociology at Columbia University and for the past 8 year’s I’ve studied the social media…

2 min readAug 17, 2020

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Desmond U.Patton,PHD

Wedding Announcement

Jeffrey and I were slow with submitting this to the NY Times Wedding announcements page last year, but with a pandemic and all why not…

2 min readJun 9, 2020

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Wedding Announcement

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Desmond U.Patton,PHD

How to turn social media into ACTION

Be anti-racist

1 min readMay 31, 2020

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How to turn social media into ACTION

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Desmond U.Patton,PHD

My Columbia School of Social Work Keynote Orientation Speech

Becoming… a social worker

6 min readAug 30, 2019

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Desmond U.Patton,PHD

Lavender Graduation Speech- Columbia School of Social Work

“ I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share, not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the…

10 min readMay 17, 2019

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Desmond U.Patton,PHD

Why AI needs social workers and non-tech folks.

In light of recent discussions regarding the lack of diversity and inclusion at Stanford’s new Institute Human-Centered Artificial…

4 min readMar 24, 2019

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Desmond U.Patton,PHD

The social media ‘background check’ on gun purchases: Considerations for social media surveillance…

Written by: Thalea Torres, Irena Trifunovic and SAFElab team

2 min readNov 6, 2018

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Desmond U.Patton,PHD

Know Your Social Media Rights

Social Media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Snaptchat, LinkedIn, and Instagram have now become social beds for self-expression and…

5 min readJun 8, 2018

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Desmond U.Patton,PHD

Desmond U.Patton,PHD

Public Interest Technologist, Associate Professor at Columbia School of Social Work and Director of the SAFElab at Columbia University.

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