Reflecting on my 2020 Fellowship with the Boston Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Racial Equity
By Faith Rynda (Undergraduate, Political Science) This past summer, I was granted the opportunity to participate in the Initiative on Cities (IOC) and Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground undergraduate fellowship with the Boston Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Racial Equity (MORRE). With all the uncertainty brought on by the pandemic, I was extremely grateful that […]
Meet the 2020-2021 Menino Fellow: Daniel Daponte
The Initiative on Cities (IOC) is pleased to announce Daniel Daponte (CAS ’22) as our 2020-2021 National League of Cities (NLC) Menino Fellow. Daniel is pursuing a BA in Environmental Analysis and Policy with a minor in Urban Studies. He aspires to have a career in city planning or local government to create more sustainable […]
Improving Local Civic Engagement during COVID-19 and Beyond: Reflecting on my 2020 Fellowship with the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics
By Meghann Lucy (PhD student, Sociology) This has been an unexpected and unprecedented year. The first wave of a global pandemic, which at the time of writing has been responsible for the deaths of nearly 800,000 people, has disrupted life as we knew it. Countries and cities shuttered, economies slowed, scientists scrambled to learn the […]
2020–2021 NLC Menino Fellowship Applications Due August 23
The Initiative on Cities (IOC) is now accepting applications for the 2020–2021 NLC Menino Fellowship! This two semester fellowship provides one BU undergraduate student with the opportunity to explore an interest in public service, city-level programs and policies, and municipal leadership on behalf of children, youth, and families through a semester-long directed study and semester-long […]
Luisa Godinez Puig publishes Perceptions of Public Health Priorities and Accountability among U.S. Mayors in Public Health Reports
Congratulations to Luisa Godinez Puig, a 2019 IOC Doctoral Research Fellow at the IOC, for her peer-reviewed work on “Perceptions of Public Health Priorities and Accountability among U.S. Mayors.” Co-authors on the report include IOC Co-Director Katharine Lusk, David Glick, Katherine Einstein, Maxwell Palmer, IOC Associate Director Stacy Fox, and Monica Wang. Learn more about the […]
Meet the 2020 MORRE Fellow: Faith Rynda
The Initiative on Cities (IOC) and the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground are proud to announce that Faith Rynda has been selected as the summer 2020 MORRE Fellow. Faith will spend the summer working with the City of Boston’s Chief Resilience Officer, Ms. Lori Nelson, in the Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Racial Equity (MORRE). As Chief Resilience Officer, Ms. […]
Meet the 2020 MONUM Fellow: Meghann Lucy
The Initiative on Cities (IOC) is proud to announce that Meghann Lucy has been selected as the summer 2020 MONUM Fellow. Meghann will spend the summer working with the City of Boston, within the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM). MONUM is Boston’s civic innovation team, responsible for promoting participatory urbanism, along with smarter city […]
Natalia Chavez: My Summer with the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics
Mitigating Displacement for Small Businesses and Nonprofits By Natalia Chavez Innovation is not usually associated with government. Government has been thought to be uncreative, inefficient, and overly bureaucratic, and in many instances, I’ve seen this to be true. So when I saw there was a summer fellowship at the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban […]
Summer Fellow Interview: Tori Amy Douglas
Tori is a rising senior at Boston University majoring in Political Science and minoring in Philosophy. She has previously worked for the WaterFront Center in New York, where she worked with children to teach the importance of environmental conservation. She interned at Environment America, where she worked on a campaign focused on committing college campuses […]
Meet Natalia Chavez, 2019 Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics Fellow
By: Doruntina Zeneli Natalia Chavez is the Communications and Outreach Director at Urbanability, a Boston-based non-profit organization that focuses on empowering underserved communities from an urban planning perspective. She recently worked at the Harvard Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, where she worked on democracy programming and the legislative negotiation project. Previously, Natalia served […]