Building Collaborative Communities

How do we build and sustain communities given the campus structures and resources discussed earlier? More importantly, how do we cultivate a collective identity and tools to communicate the existing voices, sensibilities, and contributions of humanities PhDs? In this session, Cindy Au, former VP of Community at Kickstarter and English PhD, will use her expertise to lead us in community building and help us imagine the future of engaged professionalization. Together we will imagine purposeful and translatable processes for developing, expressing, and maintaining vibrant graduate communities.

Participants:

Cindy Au, VP of Community and Operations, Homemade (formerly VP of Community, Kickstarter) (PhD English, University of Wisconsin at Madison)
Sowparnika Balaswaminathan (moderator), PhD Student, Anthropology, UCSD
Rebecca Lippman (moderator), PhD Student, Comparative Literature, UCLA