Hi, I'm Tev'n Powers.
I design and build digital tools, websites, and applications. For over a decade, I’ve studied 
studied and worked 
worked at the intersection of technology, data, and language. I’m available for contract and part-time work opportunities.
My work
Explore some of my ongoing and past projects.
Fugitive Data Portraits
Virginia Humanities
2024-2025Fugitive Data Portraits (FDP) is an archival research project supported by the Virginia Public Humanities Fellowship and the Library of Virginia. Through primary source records and data visualization, FDP illuminates stories and trends in the history of self-emancipation, or escape, by enslaved Black people in Virginia.
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Test-Optional Data Hub
Equity Research Cooperative
2023-2024The Test-Optional Data Hub is an open-access data hub for the Equity Research Cooperative (EqRC), showcasing their mixed-methods research findings supporting college admissions justice. I partnered with EqRC's primary investigator to co-design and build this website.
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Patch Network
Community Response Works
2022-2023The Patch Network aimed to help mobile crisis teams, healthcare and social service providers, and abolitionist organizations coordinate and deliver care to neighbors in need. As a contractor for Community Response Works, I partnered with their lead engineer and Director of Design to complete the beta launch of the Patch Network's mobile application.
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Black Student Debt Hub
MUME Collective, Education Trust
2022Through data, storytelling, and policy discussion, the Black Student Debt Hub makes the case that there is a Black student loan debt crisis. For this project I created a series of interactive data visualizations which are embedded in the website.
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