All posts by slirish@illinois.edu

project coordinator, School of Information Sciences

Networking

Working across campus units and community organizations, project leaders have built networks that include many of the sites on this Google map as well as:

  • Black Geek Week 2013 included on-campus visit by Haitian-Canadian-US designer, Ralph Gilles, Chrysler Group Design Senior VP and President of SRT Brand, “Where Rubber Meets the Road” (January 2013) about the business of high performance technology and popular culture
  • Scratch & Hip Hop Summit, collaboration between the Coding for All team and the Progressive Arts Alliance, Oct. 21-22, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio with MIT Scratch Team
  • AfroTech in November 2017 and 2018
  • Men of Courage Forum, Chicago (January 2017)
  • STEM NOLA Visit to New Orleans (Spring 2018)