Tags: massimpact

I'm an intern at MassIMACT working on a mapping/survey project of Neighborhood Networks technology centers in New England. I will also be the interm Stories For Change website administrator until December when my internship is over. 
In addition to the internship I also have a fellowship at The Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass/Boston which is a disability research and consultant organization. My passion is disability advocacy and technology so the project that I'm working on for my fellowship is working with community technology centers in Massachusetts to see which one's are accessible to people with disabilities. I was also an Americorps VISTA two years ago with the Community Technology Center VISTA project in Boston.

I'm the Project Manager for the StoriesForChange.net site and currently a graduate student at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning, in the Masters in City Planning program. Last year, I served second year VISTA Leader at the CTC VISTA Project and program coordinator and trainer at massIMPACT. My goals include supporting two online collaborative social networks (the CTC VISTAs resource portal on CTCVISTA.org and [THIS SITE], a community digital storytelling facilitators on StoresforChange.net), conducting train-the-trainer digital storytelling workshops for massIMPACT’s Spreading the Stories program, and working to bring new programs and collaborations to technology centers in MassHousing technology and community centers. In 2005-6, I served the Community Technology & Media Program at UMass Boston, as a curriculum and resource coordinator as well as the Assistant Editor of the Community Technology Review and the Project’s newsletter, the Digest. Additionally, I researched media policy as part of the Tactical Media group and conducted several digital storytelling trainings for both adults and youth. Previously, I was the Technology Director at the Charlestown Boys & Girls Club (MA) Computer Clubhouse and a MIT Media Lab IDEAS Institute Fellow. My background is in after-school multimedia programs for youth, instructional design for web-based trainings, and fundraising and development.