Category: Community technology

  • Board chair at City Bureau

    Today I was elected board chair of City Bureau,  a nonprofit civic journalism lab based on the South Side of Chicago. We bring journalists and communities together in a collaborative spirit to produce media that is impactful, equitable and responsive to the public. City Bureau is a wonder. The four founders have built an amazing…

  • On The Table Event: Surveillance in Chicago, at the Burger King on South Pulaski Road

    Today I hosted an event. Here’s how I described it on the Smart Chicago website: I have been a member of the On The Table Steering Committee since its inception. I am very proud of my connection to this central community engagement model for The Chicago Community Trust, my employer and the place where Smart…

  • Report: Chicago Police Accountability Task Force

    Report: Chicago Police Accountability Task Force

    Today marks the publication of the  Chicago Police Accountability Task Force, “Recommendations for Reform: Restoring Trust between the Chicago Police and the Communities they Serve“. I served on the Early Intervention & Personnel Concerns working group, and helped develop this recommendation: publish, on a monthly basis, aggregate data on the following: new and pending complaints by unit,…

  • CUTGroup Book

    CUTGroup Book

    Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech documents a methodology I invented while I was Executive Director of the Smart Chicago Collaborative. The model has been implemented in about a dozen cities across the United States.

  • Expunge.io

    Today I helped launch a website called Expuge.io. Here’s a snip from the launch blog post at Smart Chicago: The site, which helps start the process of erasing juvenile arrests and/or court records, is pretty much why we exist. For us, it grew naturally out of work we did over our CivicSummer, interacting with youth on…

  • Award: IPRA Community Service

    On Wednesday I got an award from SWSRA, the Southwest Special recreation Association, for community service. I’ve done their website for a couple years now. Extremely nice people doing great things.