Emily Nasiff (she/her) is a 2022 Summer Fellow with the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, working with many departments in the City to ensure we are building accessible curb ramps in accordance with our consent decree. In 2018 a group of disability advocates and The Civil Rights Education and…

Jessica Young (she/her) is a 2022 Summer Fellow with the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, working with the Office of Food Justice and Grow Boston to assess the food sovereignty grants from 2021 and to plan a community gathering connecting growers and eaters. On our first day as summer…

MC Abbott (she/her) is a 2022 Summer Fellow with the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, working with the Office of Recovery Services to explore a thoughtful public space design approach for the Mass. Ave. and Melnea Cass area. “Is city government the space to help us imagine another world?” …

Kimberly M. Rhoten (they/them/theirs) is a 2022 Summer Fellow with the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, working with the Office of Returning Citizens to explore how Boston might expand the Office’s staffing, programmatic, and institutional capacity to better serve Boston’s incarceration-impacted residents. Though the future isn’t certain (and the…

Editor’s note: This is part 3 of our 2021 Year in Review Series. You can read the intro post here, Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. You can follow along with these and other projects on our (new!) Instagram account (@newurbanmechanics) or Twitter (@newurbanmechs). In striving to do meaningful…

Editor’s note: This is part 2 of our 2021 Year in Review Series. You can read the intro post here, and the Part 1 post here. You can follow along with these and other projects on our (new!) Instagram account (@newurbanmechanics) or Twitter (@newurbanmechs). Take a look around any street…

Editor’s note: This is part 1 of our 2021 Year in Review Series. You can read the intro post here. You can follow along with these and other projects on our (new!) Instagram account (@newurbanmechanics) or Twitter (@newurbanmechs). MONUM has often been called an innovation team. But innovation can mean…

New Urban Mechanics’ 2021 Year in Review — Editor’s note: As always, this is an incomplete list of some of our current work. It goes without saying that none of this would be possible without our communities, partners, and collaborators. Thank you all. We’re well into the new year and are still reflecting on the collective whirlwinds our…

Janice Rodriguez-Andujar (she/her) is a 2021 Youth Civic Design Fellow with the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM). She spent her summer exploring the practice of civic design, learning about city government and supporting key MONUM projects. This year’s 8-week fellowship was made possible through the Youth Engagement and…