I feel like I aged five years in the last two. I spent the last two years at the Comparative Media Studies department and the Center for Civic Media at MIT, at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, and generally soaking in the congregation of public interest technologists and community media makers in Cambridge and Boston. Especially, working with Sasha Costanza-Chock has been one of the most formative experiences I have had as a technologist for social change.
I think more time needs to pass before I can boil down the biggest intellectual and activist changes in me throughout this process. In the meantime, here are some technology for social justice projects I collaborated on in the last couple of years:
- Research – Tensions in Organizational Approaches to Youth and Online Privacy in the Americas
(my thesis research with 18 organizations) - Media-making: Boston People’s School documentary video
(my video assignment for Vivek Bald’s documentary workshop) - Youth media-making – Careers For Years radio show
(my weekly radio show on 94.9 FM with brilliant 14-year-old Keneisha!) - Research – Utopia in the creative tactical repertoires of Mexico’s Ayotzinapa movement
(networked social movements research) - Media-making: CoLab Radio Podcast for Movement Building
(my podcast on an East Boston community newspaper, coproduced with Boston Herald journalist Jordan Frias and young musician Lesly Monroy) - Youth media-making – Tech and space summer radio workshop
(cofacilitated ZUMIX youth radio workshop on tech and space) - Research – Community media in East Boston
(archival and interviews)