A PIT-NE Initiative Group explores how PIT-NE can create programming and resources to address an identified gap in PIT efforts in New England. Each Initiative Group has Co-Leads who steer the goals, facilitate meetings, and coordinate execution of the output. Members are welcome to propose topics for new Initiative Groups and work with the Executive Director to develop the group. An Initiative Group does not have a set lifetime but yearly reviews will determine if efforts are still relevant.
Current Initiative Group
Guiding Academic and Industry Network (GAIN)
GAIN expands the regional community of PIT practitioners in academia, nonprofits, and the public and private sectors and promotes their success through mentorship, network development, and opportunities for collective ideation and action.
Co-Leads: Christine Bassem, Diana Freed
AI in Curriculum
This group hopes to create resources and events to share understanding of how higher education institutions are addressing our new AI driven world.
Co-Leads: KC Choo, Yunus Telliel
PIT-NE Summer Institute
The PIT-NE Summer Institute provides students work on experiential learning project from community partners and engage with programming focused on supplemental skill development, this group hopes to accomplish the following:
- Develop students’ technical skills through experiential learning projects provided by local partners and support from experts in residence
- Build PIT & professional skills that are necessary for students to thrive in their career by centering solutions on the community
- Expose students to different PIT career paths to help them see themselves as a public interest technologist
This group ran the pilot of the Impact Technology Fellowship in 2024.
Co-Leads: Christine Bassem, Ziba Cranmer, Fahad Dogar, Eric Gordon, Ben Linder