Kimberly Rhoten: Supporting Citizens Returning from Incarceration: Reflecting on my 2021 Fellowship with the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics
By Kimberly Rhoten, JD (they/them) (PhD Candidate, Sociology) Every year more than 3,000 people return to the City of Boston from prisons and jails, and over 6,000 people are released from the Boston-based South Bay Correctional Facility. Our City’s Office of Returning Citizens provides much needed resources, services, and referrals to get folks back on […]
A Conversation with NLC Menino Fellow Elizabeth Clackson
Elizabeth Clackson (CAS’22) is the 2019-2020 National League of Cities (NLC) Menino Fellow. Through this Fellowship, Elizabeth spent the fall semester paired with a faculty member in an on-campus Directed Study program. She spent the 2020 spring semester in Boston University’s Washington, D.C., study abroad program, where she is taking classes and participating in a paid internship at […]
An Inside Look into the Experience of our 2020–2021 NLC Menino Fellow, Daniel Daponte
By Claudia Chiappa Daniel Daponte, the Initiative on Cities’ (IOC) 2020–2021 National League of Cities (NLC) Menino Fellow, is part-way through his second semester of the fellowship, working with the NLC’s Institute for Youth, Education and Families this spring. A junior pursuing a BA in Environmental Analysis and Policy with a minor in Urban Studies, […]
Justice and Inclusion: Lessons for Boston from New York and Chicago
Daniel Daponte (CAS ’22) is IOC’s 2020-2021 National League of Cities (NLC) Menino Fellow. Daniel graduated with a BA in Environmental Analysis and Policy with a minor in Urban Studies. Daniel spent the fall semester with IOC Director and Professor Graham Wilson through this Fellowship in a Directed Study program. Daniel’s research project focused on restorative justice initiatives, analyzing […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Conversation with NLC Menino Fellow Adam Bieda
2018 – 2019 NLC Menino Fellow Adam Bieda From September 2018: The Initiative on Cities is pleased to announce Adam Bieda (Boston University Class of 2019) as our 2018 – 2019 National League of Cities (NLC) Menino Fellow. Adam is a graduating senior pursuing a double major in English and Economics. Through this Fellowship, Adam […]
Taylor Cain: Equitable Decision Making for Boston’s Streets and My Summer as a MONUM Fellow
When I applied for the summer fellowship with the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, I knew that I would be asked to do more than think. While daunting, this shift in orientation was also exciting, and I braced myself for a summer where I might bridge my world of scholarly contemplation with my desire to directly […]
Dan Lesser: My Summer with the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics
Lessons from Boston’s Streets: My Summer as a MONUM Fellow Cities around the world are rapidly growing. By 2050, experts expect 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, up from 50 percent today. As cities become more densely populated, municipal governments will need to grow and adapt city infrastructure and services to […]
Sana Johnson Completes First NLC Menino Fellowship
With the conclusion of the 2016 spring semester, Boston University student Sana Johnson (class of 2017) completed her term as the inaugural National League of Cities (NLC) Menino Fellow. Through this Fellowship, Johnson spent the 2015 fall semester paired with IOC Director Graham Wilson in an on-campus Directed Study program where she researched juvenile justice […]