Category: Writing

As a research associate with the Center for Immigration Studies, I worked with immigrant-based community organizations in Queens, NY to investigate experiences and perspectives of NYC’s participatory budgeting process. Focus groups with organization members undergirded the creation and analysis of a survey that was disseminated through community organizations. The work…

In the Spotlight is a blog series on our OpenLab Community Team site, The Open Road. This weekly series 'spotlights' different courses on the OpenLab with the aim of sharing the abundance of interesting work being done on the OpenLab and at City Tech more broadly, some of which may be…

In 2014, I participated in a unique class-based learning experiment that attempted to intentionally contrasted with the emerging MOOC model. Using a POOC model, or Participatory experiment in Open, Collaborative teaching and learning, students in the course examined political and economic inequality through course material and a community-based project, both…

As an undergraduate work study student at Connecticut College I worked with Professor Jennifer Fredricks as a transcriptionist. I was later enlisted to conduct interviews, assist with the analysis and writing. Suggested Citation: Fredricks, J. A., Hackett, K., & Bregman, A. (2010). Participation in Boys and Girls Clubs: Motivation and…

During the spring semester of my junior year of undergrad at Connecticut College I studied in Tunis, Tunisia with the School for International Training. My thesis for the independent studey project was selected to be published as part of the ISP Collection on the school's website. Suggested Citation: Hackett, Kristen,…