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making to create a different time and shared space around gun violence, race, and enforcement practices.

2. Lina Maria Giraldo was an AIR from 2016-2017 and created “Identity Technology Storytelling” through a series of workshop at the Hyde Park BCYF Center, teaching young people and elders how to build their own video cameras. Afterwards they interviewed one another with the cameras they built.

3. Daniel Johnson was an AIR from 2018-2019 and worked with the Curtis Hall Community Center in Jamaica Plain; East Boston Senior Center; Harbor Health in Mattapan; Charlestown Golden Age Center; the Archives and Record Management Dept and Age-Strong Commission. Through workshops across Boston, he created “We Are Boston,” oral histories of elders that traveled via a 1930s-era phone booth.

4. Maria Molteni was an AIR in 20162017, and worked with Perkins Center for Youth & Teens and the Department of Parks and Recreation. ”Hard in the Paint” is a community designed and produced basketball court mural at Harambee Park, after 11 months of working with young people from the neighborhood.

5. Rashin Fahandej was an AIR in 2016-2017 and created “IN-SIGHT Boston” with the neighbors around the Blackstone Community Center at the South End. She launched three new media programs at Blackstone Community Center and collaborations with universities. The culmination was shared in a participatory media installation at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts.

6. Ellice Patterson was an AIR in 2022-2023 and worked with the Dept. of Transportation. Seeking to increase intersectional disability rights work through more accessible transit projects, Ellice published the “Manifesto Against Defensive Design,” held community conversations, protest crawls, and dance films.