ceasar mcdowell

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intro’d to Ceasar via disobedience (doc)

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ceasar mcdowell (@clmcdowell) (interaction institute- president: http://interactioninstitute.org/people/ceasar-mcdowell/) (mit: https://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/ceasar-mcdowell):

Ceasar’s current work is on the development of community knowledge systems and civic engagement. He is also expanding his critical moments reflection methodology to identify, share and maintaining grassroots knowledge. His research and teaching interests also include the use of mass media and technology in promoting democracy and community-building, the education of urban students, the development and use of empathy in community work, civil rights history, peacemaking and conflict resolution.

ceasar: at core of activism is one simple thing and that’s voice.. so many people in the world.. their voice is actually just not heard… civil rights movement had a grounded belief in the most important thing for people to do.. was allow people on the ground to be able to shape the direction and to be the front of what was happening.. it was about building the capacity to org for action.. and mobilizing the public to show up in support of an action..

a nother way.. hosting-life-bits via self-talk as data

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find/follow Ceasar:

(past.. just stepped down after 4 yrs) president of interaction institute

http://interactioninstitute.org/people/ceasar-mcdowell/

When asked what his work is about Ceasar always says, “Voice.” He has a deep and abiding passion for figuring out how people who are systematically marginalized by society have the opportunity to voice their lived experiences to the world. Ceasar believes that until people are able to lift up those experiences, they will be unable to participate as full members of society. Over the past few decades, Ceasar has been involved in many activities to bring this belief to life. As founder of MIT’s Co-Lab(previously named Center for Reflective Community Practice), Ceasar works to develop the critical moments reflection method to help communities build knowledge from their practice or, as he likes to say, “to know what they know.” Through his work at the global civic engagement organization, Engage The Power, he developed The Question Campaign as a method for building democratic communities from the ground up. At MIT, Ceasar teaches on civic and community engagement and the use of social media to enhance both. In addition, he is working to create a model of equitable partnership between universities and communities and to support communities to build their own knowledge base. Ceasar brings his deep commitment to the work of building beloved, just and equitable communities that are able to – as his friend Carl Moore says – ”struggle with the traditions that bind them and the interests that separate them so they can build a future that is an improvement on the past.”

As IISC’s president, Ceasar is focused on how best to move the organization toward the social change it has been helping others do in the world. Over the next year, he expects you will begin to see IISC using its tools and methods and deep collaborative and network design and building skills to move equity and social change efforts in a few select sectors

mit urban planning faculty:

https://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/ceasar-mcdowell

Professor of the Practice of Community Development, Ed.D. Harvard Ceasar L. McDowell is Professor of the Practice of Community Development at MIT. He holds an Ed.D. (88) and M.Ed. (84) from Harvard. Ceasar’s current work is on the development of community knowledge systems and civic engagement. He is also expanding his critical moments reflection methodology to identify, share and maintaining grassroots knowledge.

hosting-life-bits via self-talk as data

His research and teaching interests also include the use of mass media and technology in promoting democracy and community-building, the education of urban students, the development and use of empathy in community work, civil rights history, peacemaking and conflict resolution. He is Director of the global civic engagement organization dropping knowledge international Dropping Knowledge International, MIT’s former Center for Reflective Community Practice (renamed Co-Lab) and co-founder of The Civil Rights Forum on Telecommunications Policy and founding Board member of The Algebra Project Algebra