Jill Bassett appointed Director of the Priscilla King Gray (PKG) Public Service Center
She will leverage decades of expertise in community engagement for government, policy, health, higher ed, and human services organizations Jill Bassett has been appointed the new Associate Dean and Director…
Forbes: IDEAS Grantee Mercedes Bidart (QUIPU)
Mercedes Bidart, Co-Founder and CEO of QUIPU, was featured in Forbes Magazine! QUIPU was an IDEAS grantee, a start-up that focuses on building a digital market place for businesses in…
Sharon Jiang, ’22 (Summer ’19)
Cures Within Reach for Cancer is now Reboot Rx. Check out their incredible work on their updated webpage! “We are not limited by the science; we are limited by our…
Lake Okeechobee News: PKG Fellow Cristian Rios
Cristian Rios is a PKG regular. They have held leadership positions over PKG Spring Break. They have been involved with ACE (Active Community Engagement). They have held PKG employment as…
MIT News: IDEAS Grantee Surge Employment Solutions
Check out this IDEAS team in the MIT News! Surge Employment Solutions aims to place people in well-paid, high-skilled jobs after they have served time in prison. “[Discrimination against the…
Natalia Coachman, DUSP-PKG (Summer ’19)
Part 1: An Introduction Hello! My name is Natalia Coachman, I am a Brazilian architect currently a Master’s student in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. I…
Zoë McAlear (G)(Summer ’19)
Part 4: Final Reflections This summer was a great opportunity to spend a few months somewhere very different from Boston, gain exposure to the world of collaborative natural resource management…
Meet PKG: Alison Hynd, Assistant Dean
Coming from Devon in the southwest countryside of England, Alison Hynd took a long and winding road to join the MIT community. Now Assistant Dean at the PKG Center, Hynd…
PKG Award Winner 2019: Sarah Tress (’19)
Know a public service rockstar? Nominations for the 2020 PKG Award are due by Friday, April 24th! — Sarah Tress is known for many different things at MIT. She is…
