From the Blog

Meet PKG: Chiara Magini, Social Impact Employment and Community Partner Engagement
Welcome to our staff profile series! In the next coming months, we look forward to introducing you to each member of our wonderful PKG team. Without further ado, Chiara Magini!…
Meet Amelia Taylor-Hochberg (IAP 2019)
Second-year master of city planning student Amelia Taylor-Hochberg spent IAP 2019 working with the Consensus Building Institute (CBI), a nonprofit focused on facilitation, mediation, citizen engagement, and organizational strategy and…
Meet PKG: Danny Becker, Program Coordinator
Welcome to our staff profile series! In the next coming months, we look forward to introducing you to each member of our wonderful PKG team. First up, Danny Becker! Danny…
MIT News: Yazmin Guzman named 2019 Gates Cambridge Scholar
Former PKG Fellow, Yazmin Guzman, was named the 2019 Gates Cambridge Scholar! Read all about her work and future plans on the MIT News. Congratulations Yazmin! “Guzman, from Wichita, Kansas,…
MIT News: PKG Fellow Julia Ginder
PKG Fellow, Julia Ginder, was feature in the MIT News for her work studying peanut allergies in the Christopher Love Lab, as well as her commitment to community and her…
MIT News: IDEAS STEMGem Finds Love in the Lab
Congratulations to Larissa Nietner and Scott Nill! Co-founders of IDEAS team STEMGem–a wearable coding unit designed to engage young girls in STEM–and fellow PhD graduates, Nietner and Nill have a…
IAP’19 Julia Gregory, English for New Bostonians
MIT students are privileged to have the entire month of January to push their learning forward through projects of their own choosing. I decided I wanted to spend IAP contributing…
IAP’19 Joseph Edward- Just-A-Start Youthbuild
This IAP I continued my work study from the fall at Just-A-Start YouthBuild, a non-profit organization in Cambridge committed to helping out of school youth complete their HiSET, the equivalent…
(IAP’19) Noopur Ranganathan, ’21
Blog Post 1 Gusts of different food aromas had dissipated. The soundtrack of clinking forks, chitchat, and crying babies had died down. Our flight attendants were clearing up our trays…
A Conversation With Yael Nidam (DUSP, G)
by Devon Capizzi For many, climate change can feel as unstoppable as it is inaccessible. A field of study so reliant on data, and scientific projections, and research often feels beyond…