PKPR News
Chanel Miller’s speech at Dayton ceremony on LitHub
Nov. 19, 2021
LitHub highlighted author Chanel Miller’s moving and powerful speech at this week’s Dayton Literary Peace Prize ceremony.
DJDS in Bloomberg CityLab
Nov. 09, 2021
Bloomberg CityLab’s Zach Mortice talked to DJDS’s Deanna Van Buren about the challenges of transforming closed jails into spaces that benefit communities devastated by mass incarceration.
Deanna Van Buren tells Bloomberg: “When you have a system that at its root is structurally racist, your beautification of the infrastructure is not actually dealing with the real issues. As designers, we have to be critical of what systems we’re propping up and what we’re supporting, because architects have always just supported and propped up systems of power.”
[In the photo above: DJDS organized public meetings where community members came together to imagine a new future for the Atlanta City Detention Center.]
BPL op-ed in NY Daily News
Sep. 24, 2021
In 2020, hundreds of people across Brooklyn participated in 32 town halls to debate and develop a new amendment as part of Brooklyn Public Library’s 28th Amendment Project.
For Constitution Day 2021 (September 17th), PKPR worked with BPL to give the initiative a national boost. Highlights included placing an op-ed by “framer” Susan N. Herman in the New York Daily News and organizing the presentation of the “Brooklyn Amendment” to the office of Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. Stay tuned for an op-ed by BPL’s László Jakab Orsós on how other libraries can replicate the project in the January 2022 issue of Library Journal.
Bill Cunningham exhibit NBC New York Live
Sep. 20, 2021
Check out this awesome tour of the Experience the Times of Bill Cunningham exhibit with NBC New York Live’s Joelle Gargulio.
Associated Press TV previews Bill Cunningham exhibit
Sep. 15, 2021
Associated Press TV previews the Experience the Times of Bill Cunningham exhibit.
Bill Cunningham Exhibit to Open for NY Fashion Week
Aug. 27, 2021
New Yorkers will be transported into the vibrant world of the legendary street photographer and fashion historian Bill Cunningham at an immersive exhibition opening in The Seaport during New York Fashion Week. Coverage of the exhibition announcement included Women’s Wear Daily, Time Out New York, Forbes, Daily Front Row, Fashion Network, MR, Untapped Cities, 6sqft, and Broadway World.
Panthera in Barron’s, Inside Philanthropy
Jun. 11, 2021
In May 2019, IDEXX CEO Jonathan Ayers appeared on CNBC’s Mad Money, where host Jim Cramer called the veterinary diagnostics company “one of the hottest stocks on the market.” Just one month later, Ayers suffered a nearly fatal cycling accident that left him a quadriplegic,. Ayers is now embarking on his next chapter. In April, he pledged at least $20 million over the next 10 years to Panthera’s Global Alliance for Wild Cats, an ambitious initiative to protect the world’s most threatened wild cats.
PKPR secured coverage in a wide range of outlets including Barron’s, Inside Philanthropy, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Ability Magazine, Today’s Veterinary Business, Good News Network, and World Atlas,
2021 season of ByKids premieres on PBS
May. 14, 2021
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Sixteen-year-old Faith Guilbault loves skydiving and has walked the runway at New York Fashion Week. She also has cerebral palsy. The Baltimore teen was one of four young filmmakers who directed documentaries about their lives for the new season of ByKids airing on public television stations nationwide.
PKPR secured coverage of the new season in a range of outlets including The Baltimore Sun,, The Forward, WYPR-FM (NPR Baltimore), Kaiser Health News, and US News & World Report.
Panthera on NPR’s Science Friday
Apr. 16, 2021
An innovative audio monitoring initiative that records gunshots, barking dogs, and poacher conversations is helping authorities more effectively track and curtail jaguar poachers in Central American jungles. PKPR placed a segmhttps://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/soundscape-justice-jungle/ent on NPR’s Science Friday which features some unintended audio symphonies of birds, monkeys, and other wildlife that erupt into chorus when people are absent.
On Air Fest Returns for 2021
Apr. 12, 2021
The Nod’s Brittany Luse & Eric Eddings (above), Fresh Air’s Terry Gross, mxmtoon, Open Mike Eagle, Adia Victoria, Code Switch’s Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby, Song Exploder’s Hrishikesh Hirway, Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding are among the headliners of On Air Fest 2021. Previews of this year’s festival included Time Out New York, The Root, Thrillist, Inside Radio, Billboard, All Access, and Brooklyn Based.