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Brita Andercheck

Brita Andercheck

Chief Data Officer and Director of the Office of Data Analytics and Business Intelligence for the City of Dallas.

Jul 29, 2026

1:24
... pick on you first.
1:25
Happy to jump in.
1:27
So I'm an academic by training, as you mentioned.
1:29
Uh, and so I spent a lot of time in school preparing to be a professor.
1:33
I started my career on faculty at Southern Methodist University, um, and I loved teaching.
1:40
I loved it.
1:40
And I was a couple years in, and we were teaching a, there was a course on social problems, and my students, quote unquote, "solved" the social problem of homelessness in the city of Dallas in a neat 45-minute seminar, right? And so as I'm leaving class and I'm walking across the beautiful leafy green quad of SMU, I'm thinking to myself, "Gosh, shouldn't I actually try to solve that problem as opposed to solve it in the abstract in the ivory tower? Shouldn't I go get my hands dirty?" And I knew that I didn't know anything about solving homelessness.

25 MINS LATER

27:02
How would you do that with AI? How are you gonna create that culture inside Dallas and then Cleveland?

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