Regional Hubs &
Working Groups
PIT-UN Regional Hubs provide a framework for synergistic programming in higher education and workforce development in Public Interest Technology. Hubs focus on inter-institutional efforts to accelerate the development and institutionalization of PIT; provide expertise, experience and training to the regional workforce; and developing ecosystems in which each institution can expand the impact of their own efforts.
PIT-UN Working Groups explore key issues in building public interest technology as an academic discipline, offering recommendations, activities, tools, strategies, policy proposals, and research papers for PIT-UN members to adopt or review.
A working group is tasked for a period of 3, 6 or 9 months and can begin in the first month of a quarter (January, April, July or October).
Designees or individuals from PIT-UN institutions can participate, but must commit to participation for the full period
Regional Hubs
Run by fellows from the network, Regional Hubs strengthen programs and workforce development through place-based activities that maximize each region’s gifts.
Midwest
Casey Canfield (Missouri S&T)
PIT-UN Members Case Western Reserve University, Carnegie Mellon University, Cleveland State University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Missouri Institute of Science & Technology, Penn State University, Prairie View A&M University, Temple University, The Ohio State University, University of Chicago, University of Indiana, University of Illinois-Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas at Austin, West Virginia University
New York
Lauri Goldkind (Fordham University
Jessie Baldwin-Philippi (Fordham University)
PIT-UN Members City University of New York, Columbia University, Cornell University, Fordham University, Nazareth College, New York University, Rochester Institute of Technology
PITNE ( New England)
(UMass Amherst)
PIT-UN Members Boston University, Brown University, Franklin Olin College of Engineering, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, UMass Amherst, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Non PIT-UN Members Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology, Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO), Emerson College, Project Evident, Smith College, Tufts University, UMass-Boston, Wellesley College
Working Groups
Global PIT
Developing resources, recommendations and professional networks for strengthening public interest technology research, and careers internationally
Chaired by
Brian Gran (Case Western Reserve University)
PIT-UN Members Arizona State University, California Polytechnic State University, Case Western Reserve University, Center for Education and Research on Innovation (CEPI FGV São Paulo Law School), Columbia University, George Washington University, University of Arizona, University of Edinburgh, University of Rijeka, University of Szeged, The University of Texas at Austin
Non PIT-UN Members PIT Policy Lab, Universidad de Concepción
Cybersecurity
Developing resources, recommendations and professional networks for strengthening cybersecurity research, clinics and careers.
Chaired by
Ann Cleveland (University of California – Berkeley).