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Case study: Mozilla Internal Comms

PKPR conducted a comprehensive internal communications strategy project for the Mozilla Foundation to optimize employee engagement and information accessibility across the organization.

ALS in Education Week

In an op-ed for Education Week, Albany Law School professor Sarah Rogerson examines school shooting prevention through both her role as a school board vice president and her personal experience as the aunt of an Oxford High School shooting survivor.

Panthera in People

This week, Panthera and Senegal’s Department of National Parks announced that the lion population in Senegal’s Niokolo Koba National Park has doubled.

DJDS in MSNBC

MSNBC published a wonderful profile of Deanna Van Buren by reporter Julia Pepitone – “This architect went from creating luxury malls to imagining a world without prisons.”

NewsOne profile of DJDS

Check out this in-depth profile in NewsOne – “Oakland Architect And Activist Deanna Van Buren Uses Design As A Means For Restorative Justice.”

DJDS in Shondaland

Deanna Van Buren, the founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, is profiled today in Shondaland as part of their Black History Now series.

Mozilla’s Future Wake in Fast Company

Law enforcement relies on AI systems that purport to predict crime — but have proven to be biased against Black Americans. Two artist-technologists supported by an award from Mozilla have turned the “predictive policing” model on its head with “Future Wake,” an interactive website that uses AI trained on real law enforcement data to predict […]

DJDS in Bloomberg CityLab

Bloomberg CityLab’s Zach Mortice talked to DJDS’s Deanna Van Buren about the challenges of transforming closed jails into spaces that benefit communities.

DJDS in New York Times

In a New York Times piece examining post-Rikers plans, Deanna Van Buren of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces urged New York to invest in restorative justice spaces instead of pursuing “humane jail design.”

BPL op-ed in NY Daily News

In 2020, hundreds of people across Brooklyn participated in 32 town halls as part of Brooklyn Public Library’s 28th Amendment Project. 

Razan Al Mubarak elected IUCN President

Razan Al Mubarak was elected President of IUCN this week. She is the second woman to lead the organization in its 75-year history and its first president from West Asia. Watch her acceptance speech.