Hacknight #45

Code for America

with Monique Baena-Tan

Recording

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Speakers

Monique supports the community engagement team by working closely with all the Brigades across the network. She leads the research efforts by developing human-centered design processes to identify organizational priorities and community needs. Monique moved to San Francisco from New York, where she was working with various non-profit organizations in developing more inclusive and engaging urban planning processes. Most recently, she supported the research phase of an interactive workshop toolkit at Center for Urban Pedagogy that aimed to educate communities on complicated policy issues. She also helped organize a network of anchoring institutions in Orange, New Jersey, to empower the community and provide channels for collaboration. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Printmaking and a Masters of Science in Design and Urban Ecologies from Parsons School of Design.

The weekly civic tech hacknights bring together designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policymakers, students, communications strategists, and all other Torontonians who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable and equitable, through tech and design. (Coders are welcome, but you don’t have to be a coder to contribute!)

Come and be part of it!

For the whole month of June, hacknights are co-presented by the Emerging Leaders Network (ELN) (http://www.elnonline.ca/).

Agenda:

6:30-7: Welcome and intros 7-7:30: Presentation and Q&A/discussion with Monique Baena-Tan from Code For America (http://codeforamerica.org) 7:30-9: Breakout groups (make something!)

For more info, visit http://civictech.ca . Here’s our Code of Conduct (http://civictech.ca/about-us/).