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😍To every hacker, community leader, volunteer, and attendee — THANK YOU. You brought your energy, brilliance, time, and heart to this movement. Your hands built it, your voices shaped it, and your presence made it unforgettable. This wasn’t just an event — it was a gathering of purpose, passion, and people power!

❗ This third and final edition of the Hacking the Archive Hackathon was unique thanks to you. Together, we uncovered hidden stories, built tools for justice, and reimagined what archives mean for our communities!

🔥 Three editions in, and we’ve sparked something amazing: we’ve built the foundation for the next 50 years of activism in Boston!

Photo credit: © 2025 Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo

🔥Our *LAST* Hackathon is here! Come hack the racial wealth gap, JOBS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDITION!

📅 May 17 9am-6pm @ MIT Media Lab (NEW LOCATION!)
Win amazing prizes, have fun and help us make the final Hacking the Archive Hackathon epic!

📚The All-day hackathon is a powerful day of community, intergenerational creativity, and justice-driven collaboration.

🗣️ Seats are limited! Register by May 14 to save your spot and be part of this hand-on learning experience. LINK IN BIO!

❤️ Help spread the word! Invite your crew, share the flyer and be part of shaping the next 50 years of justice in Boston and beyond.

📢 Do you want to volunteer at the 2025 HTA Hackathon?
🤔 Are you curious to know how archives and history can provide the foundation for the future of jobs and social justice?
📅 Come to this info session!

🗓️ When? 14th April 2025, 12:30 PM
📍 Where? Building 10 of MIT, room 10-458

🍽️ Lunch will be provided!

The countdown is on we are prepping for the arrival of the 2025 MIT HTA Dream Leaders. High school students from across the city have been nominated by their teachers, principals and mentors for their commitment to social justice. Each leader will be recognized and honored with an award in recognition of their significant leadership. Congrats Dream Leaders we will see you here soon! Will you be there?

#KYW #HTA

🚀 Know Your Wealth Youth Day is HERE! 🚀

Have you nominated someone yet? ⏳ Don’t miss this chance!

Do you have big ideas about the future of work? Want to change theyour city, the nation and the world? 🌎💡

Join an exclusive MIT roundtable on Saturday, April 5th (11 AM - 1.30 PM)!

🔥 Talk about your dream job & the future of work
🔥 Get a free campus tour & pizza lunch 🍕
🔥 Earn up to $75 in Amazon gift cards! 💰

Nominate yourself or a friend NOW! 💬✨ Spots are limited!

Follow the Link in Bio!

🚀 Calling all Boston Public Schools students! 🚀

🌎💡Want to share your ideas on the future of work and how you want to change the world? Or do you know any student who cares about social justice, cities, technology, and/or science? Then this is for you!!

We’re looking for civic-minded students to join an exclusive roundtable conversation at MIT on Saturday, April 5th (11 AM - 1 PM)!

🔹 Talk about your dream job & the future of work
🔹 Get a free campus tour & pizza lunch 🍕
🔹 Earn up to $75 in Amazon gift cards! 💰

You can nominate yourself or a friend that you think would be a good candidate for the conversation! 💬✨

Follow the link in bio and fill the form!

⚠️CALL TO ACTION!⚠️
📖✨ The Education Lookbook is coming, but we need you!Help us create the next Lookbook!

🥰Music has been a driver for change and a way to mobilize us for transformation. It is through songs that we have fought together… Now we want to collect all of those songs and put them together!

🎵What are your music, calls or messages for freedom? Share it with us and let’s build together the lyrics of our liberation!

✊In this post you can find one of our favourite freedom song we have found in our archives!
During the 1964 Stay-Out days, Boston students boycotted school to protest segregation, attending community-led classes instead. Powerful freedom songs emerged from this movement—discover one of them in the post!

💡 Help preserve and amplify our shared stories—thanks for sharing your responses!

📲🔗 You can find the survey in the bio or scan the QR code!

Credits:
Archive material from Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

⚠️CALL TO ACTION!⚠️
📖✨ The Education Lookbook is coming, but we need you!Help us create the next Lookbook!

🥰Music has been a driver for change and a way to mobilize us for transformation. It is through songs that we have fought together… Now we want to collect all of those songs and put them together!

🎵What are your music, calls or messages for freedom? Share it with us and let’s build together the lyrics of our liberation!

✊In this post you can find one of our favourite freedom song we have found in our archives!
During the 1964 Stay-Out days, Boston students boycotted school to protest segregation, attending community-led classes instead. Powerful freedom songs emerged from this movement—discover one of them in the post!

💡 Help preserve and amplify our shared stories—thanks for sharing your responses!

📲🔗 You can find the survey in the bio or scan the QR code!

Credits:
Archive material from Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

⚠️CALL TO ACTION!⚠️
📖✨ The Education Lookbook is coming, but we need you!Help us create the next Lookbook!

❤️‍We want to honor the life and impact of Sarah-Ann Shaw (1934-2024), beloved journalist, civil rights activist, educator and Hacking the Archive supporter.

🥰In this post we want to highlight her work and inspiring action. Her legacy remains a beacon of inspiration for us all!

❓Yet, how did she inspire your life and fight? All of you who felt her impact in your life, share a word about her and help us craft a collective love letter.

💡 Help preserve and amplify our shared stories—thanks for sharing your responses!

📲🔗 You can find the survey in the bio or scan the QR code!

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Clips from:
Rising Star (YouTube Channel)."Sarah Ann Shaw Rising Class Story"
CBS Boston (YouTube Channel). "WBZ TV remembers former reporter Sarah Ann Shaw, who died at 90 years old"

⚠️CALL TO ACTION!⚠️
📖✨ The Education Lookbook is coming, but we need you!Help us create the next Lookbook!

❤️‍We want to honor the life and impact of Sarah-Ann Shaw (1934-2024), beloved journalist, civil rights activist, educator and Hacking the Archive supporter.

🥰In this post we want to highlight her work and inspiring action. Her legacy remains a beacon of inspiration for us all!

❓Yet, how did she inspire your life and fight? All of you who felt her impact in your life, share a word about her and help us craft a collective love letter.

💡 Help preserve and amplify our shared stories—thanks for sharing your responses!

📲🔗 You can find the survey in the bio or scan the QR code!

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Clips from:
Rising Star (YouTube Channel)."Sarah Ann Shaw Rising Class Story"
CBS Boston (YouTube Channel). "WBZ TV remembers former reporter Sarah Ann Shaw, who died at 90 years old"

⚠️CALL TO ACTION!⚠️
📖✨ The Education Lookbook is coming, but we need you!Help us create the next Lookbook!

❤️‍We want to honor the life and impact of Sarah-Ann Shaw (1934-2024), beloved journalist, civil rights activist, educator and Hacking the Archive supporter.

🥰In this post we want to highlight her work and inspiring action. Her legacy remains a beacon of inspiration for us all!

❓Yet, how did she inspire your life and fight? All of you who felt her impact in your life, share a word about her and help us craft a collective love letter.

💡 Help preserve and amplify our shared stories—thanks for sharing your responses!

📲🔗 You can find the survey in the bio or scan the QR code!

---
Clips from:
Rising Star (YouTube Channel)."Sarah Ann Shaw Rising Class Story"
CBS Boston (YouTube Channel). "WBZ TV remembers former reporter Sarah Ann Shaw, who died at 90 years old"

⚠️CALL TO ACTION!⚠️
📖✨ The Education Lookbook is coming, but we need you!Help us create the next Lookbook!

❤️‍We want to honor the life and impact of Sarah-Ann Shaw (1934-2024), beloved journalist, civil rights activist, educator and Hacking the Archive supporter.

🥰In this post we want to highlight her work and inspiring action. Her legacy remains a beacon of inspiration for us all!

❓Yet, how did she inspire your life and fight? All of you who felt her impact in your life, share a word about her and help us craft a collective love letter.

💡 Help preserve and amplify our shared stories—thanks for sharing your responses!

📲🔗 You can find the survey in the bio or scan the QR code!

---
Clips from:
Rising Star (YouTube Channel)."Sarah Ann Shaw Rising Class Story"
CBS Boston (YouTube Channel). "WBZ TV remembers former reporter Sarah Ann Shaw, who died at 90 years old"

⚠️ CALL TO ACTION! ⚠️
📖✨ HTA’s Education Lookbook is coming soon; we need your contributions!

💪🏽Everyone has a teacher or mentor who helped them understand deep injustices in society, and showed them how to fight back!

🌟Honor them by sharing their name and legacy!

🙌🏽 Tell us who inspired you and how they made an impact!

💡 Help us preserve and amplify our shared stories—thank you for sharing your responses! 🙏🏽

📲🔗 Respond via the Linktree in our bio!

⚠️ CALL TO ACTION! ⚠️
📖✨ HTA’s Education Lookbook is coming soon; we need your contributions!

💪🏽Everyone has a teacher or mentor who helped them understand deep injustices in society, and showed them how to fight back!

🌟Honor them by sharing their name and legacy!

🙌🏽 Tell us who inspired you and how they made an impact!

💡 Help us preserve and amplify our shared stories—thank you for sharing your responses! 🙏🏽

📲🔗 Respond via the Linktree in our bio!

⚠️ CALL TO ACTION! ⚠️
📖✨ HTA’s Education Lookbook is coming soon; we need your contributions!

💪🏽Everyone has a teacher or mentor who helped them understand deep injustices in society, and showed them how to fight back!

🌟Honor them by sharing their name and legacy!

🙌🏽 Tell us who inspired you and how they made an impact!

💡 Help us preserve and amplify our shared stories—thank you for sharing your responses! 🙏🏽

📲🔗 Respond via the Linktree in our bio!

⚠️ CALL TO ACTION! ⚠️
📖✨ HTA’s Education Lookbook is coming soon; we need your contributions!

💪🏽Everyone has a teacher or mentor who helped them understand deep injustices in society, and showed them how to fight back!

🌟Honor them by sharing their name and legacy!

🙌🏽 Tell us who inspired you and how they made an impact!

💡 Help us preserve and amplify our shared stories—thank you for sharing your responses! 🙏🏽

📲🔗 Respond via the Linktree in our bio!

⚠️ CALL TO ACTION! ⚠️
📖✨ HTA’s Education Lookbook is coming soon; we need your contributions!

💪🏽Everyone has a teacher or mentor who helped them understand deep injustices in society, and showed them how to fight back!

🌟Honor them by sharing their name and legacy!

🙌🏽 Tell us who inspired you and how they made an impact!

💡 Help us preserve and amplify our shared stories—thank you for sharing your responses! 🙏🏽

📲🔗 Respond via the Linktree in our bio!

⚠️ CALL TO ACTION! ⚠️
📖✨ HTA’s Education Lookbook is coming soon; we need your contributions!

💪🏽Everyone has a teacher or mentor who helped them understand deep injustices in society, and showed them how to fight back!

🌟Honor them by sharing their name and legacy!

🙌🏽 Tell us who inspired you and how they made an impact!

💡 Help us preserve and amplify our shared stories—thank you for sharing your responses! 🙏🏽

📲🔗 Respond via the Linktree in our bio!

⚠️CALL TO ACTION!⚠️
📖✨ The Education Lookbook is coming, but we need you!
Help uscreate the next Lookbook by spotlighting teachers, music and lessons that have fueled you and Boston’s education justice activism!

🎶📚Teachers, mentors & music fuel social movements—help us share them!
Please share the name of a teacher/mentor and a song that has inspired you to fight for justice.

❤️‍We are also honoring the life and impact of Sarah-Ann Shaw (1934-2024), beloved journalist, civil rights activist, educator and Hacking the Archive supporter. We invite anyone who knew Dr. Shaw and felt her impact to share a word about her and help us craft a collective love letter.

💡 Help preserve and amplify our shared stories—thanks for sharing your responses!

📲🔗 You can find the survey in the bio or scan the QR code!

⚠️CALL TO ACTION!⚠️
📖✨ The Education Lookbook is coming, but we need you!
Help uscreate the next Lookbook by spotlighting teachers, music and lessons that have fueled you and Boston’s education justice activism!

🎶📚Teachers, mentors & music fuel social movements—help us share them!
Please share the name of a teacher/mentor and a song that has inspired you to fight for justice.

❤️‍We are also honoring the life and impact of Sarah-Ann Shaw (1934-2024), beloved journalist, civil rights activist, educator and Hacking the Archive supporter. We invite anyone who knew Dr. Shaw and felt her impact to share a word about her and help us craft a collective love letter.

💡 Help preserve and amplify our shared stories—thanks for sharing your responses!

📲🔗 You can find the survey in the bio or scan the QR code!

☀️ HTA is excited to have had two new partners join us this semester: ArsMusica and Clarissa Uprooted! Both organizations do incredible work in their communities to highlight and uphold BIPOC narratives through multimodal storytelling practices. Students in the MIT Hacking the Archive course this semester have worked with our range of client-partners to create proposals for organizational needs around community history, education/youth engagement, and economic development. Final presentations to the partners will take place tomorrow, December 5th!

🎶 ArsMusica was founded in 1994 by Cherry Ann Mendez and her son Colin Mendez Morris to provide BIPOC and Ethnocultural musicians with opportunities to perform with a chamber orchestra. Successfully staging 4-10 performances every year, ArsMusica has become an invaluable resource for up-and-coming BIPOC musicians across Canada. In addition to equipping performers with a team of directors, composers, designers, choreographers, and dancers, ArsMusica also works to commission and support the creation of new music, with a specific focus on opera pieces.

🎥 Clarissa Uprooted is a multi-modal movement and collaboration between the Center for Teen Empowerment and Clarissa Street Legacy. Rooted in Rochester, New York, the movement highlights the history of the Black community in the city’s Third Ward. Through this work, Clarissa Uprooted takes the form of a documentary, exhibit, and archive, all aiming to preserve the legacy of the Clarissa Street community and its significant role in the city’s history. The exhibit, Clarissa Uprooted: Unearthing Stories of Our Village, compiles the work of archivists, historians, journalists, preservationists and scholars, as well as the community’s elders and youth, to create a visual narrative of the city and neighborhood’s history throughout the past century.

☀️ HTA is excited to have had two new partners join us this semester: ArsMusica and Clarissa Uprooted! Both organizations do incredible work in their communities to highlight and uphold BIPOC narratives through multimodal storytelling practices. Students in the MIT Hacking the Archive course this semester have worked with our range of client-partners to create proposals for organizational needs around community history, education/youth engagement, and economic development. Final presentations to the partners will take place tomorrow, December 5th!

🎶 ArsMusica was founded in 1994 by Cherry Ann Mendez and her son Colin Mendez Morris to provide BIPOC and Ethnocultural musicians with opportunities to perform with a chamber orchestra. Successfully staging 4-10 performances every year, ArsMusica has become an invaluable resource for up-and-coming BIPOC musicians across Canada. In addition to equipping performers with a team of directors, composers, designers, choreographers, and dancers, ArsMusica also works to commission and support the creation of new music, with a specific focus on opera pieces.

🎥 Clarissa Uprooted is a multi-modal movement and collaboration between the Center for Teen Empowerment and Clarissa Street Legacy. Rooted in Rochester, New York, the movement highlights the history of the Black community in the city’s Third Ward. Through this work, Clarissa Uprooted takes the form of a documentary, exhibit, and archive, all aiming to preserve the legacy of the Clarissa Street community and its significant role in the city’s history. The exhibit, Clarissa Uprooted: Unearthing Stories of Our Village, compiles the work of archivists, historians, journalists, preservationists and scholars, as well as the community’s elders and youth, to create a visual narrative of the city and neighborhood’s history throughout the past century.

☀️ HTA is excited to have had two new partners join us this semester: ArsMusica and Clarissa Uprooted! Both organizations do incredible work in their communities to highlight and uphold BIPOC narratives through multimodal storytelling practices. Students in the MIT Hacking the Archive course this semester have worked with our range of client-partners to create proposals for organizational needs around community history, education/youth engagement, and economic development. Final presentations to the partners will take place tomorrow, December 5th!

🎶 ArsMusica was founded in 1994 by Cherry Ann Mendez and her son Colin Mendez Morris to provide BIPOC and Ethnocultural musicians with opportunities to perform with a chamber orchestra. Successfully staging 4-10 performances every year, ArsMusica has become an invaluable resource for up-and-coming BIPOC musicians across Canada. In addition to equipping performers with a team of directors, composers, designers, choreographers, and dancers, ArsMusica also works to commission and support the creation of new music, with a specific focus on opera pieces.

🎥 Clarissa Uprooted is a multi-modal movement and collaboration between the Center for Teen Empowerment and Clarissa Street Legacy. Rooted in Rochester, New York, the movement highlights the history of the Black community in the city’s Third Ward. Through this work, Clarissa Uprooted takes the form of a documentary, exhibit, and archive, all aiming to preserve the legacy of the Clarissa Street community and its significant role in the city’s history. The exhibit, Clarissa Uprooted: Unearthing Stories of Our Village, compiles the work of archivists, historians, journalists, preservationists and scholars, as well as the community’s elders and youth, to create a visual narrative of the city and neighborhood’s history throughout the past century.

🤝 We wouldn’t be where we are without our community partners, and we are excited to highlight some of them here. The work of the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB), Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), and Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministries (UUUM) is invaluable to the greater Boston community and to the HTA network. This semester these client partners are working with our Hacking the Archive course to answer some questions andaddress needs they have around community history, education/youth engagement, and economic development. Students will present final presentations to the partners on December 5th!

✨Originally founded as the Boston Indian Council in 1969, The North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB) is the oldest urban Indigenous organization in Massachusetts. NAICOB’s primary mission is to improve the quality of life of Indigenous peoples by equipping residents with resources including food assistance, legal advocacy, educational and employment assistance, and more.

🌟Founded by residents of the Dudley neighborhood in 1984 to empower community members and increase access to crucial resources, the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) primarily focuses on building community leadership, providing access to affordable housing, addressing climate change, and supporting economic development.

💫Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministries (UUUM) is a nonprofit organization based in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, with a nearly 200-year history of serving local communities. Currently, UUUM provides critical resources and support through programs focused on workforce development, safer shelter initiatives, and out-of-school-time youth development.

🤝 We wouldn’t be where we are without our community partners, and we are excited to highlight some of them here. The work of the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB), Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), and Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministries (UUUM) is invaluable to the greater Boston community and to the HTA network. This semester these client partners are working with our Hacking the Archive course to answer some questions andaddress needs they have around community history, education/youth engagement, and economic development. Students will present final presentations to the partners on December 5th!

✨Originally founded as the Boston Indian Council in 1969, The North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB) is the oldest urban Indigenous organization in Massachusetts. NAICOB’s primary mission is to improve the quality of life of Indigenous peoples by equipping residents with resources including food assistance, legal advocacy, educational and employment assistance, and more.

🌟Founded by residents of the Dudley neighborhood in 1984 to empower community members and increase access to crucial resources, the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) primarily focuses on building community leadership, providing access to affordable housing, addressing climate change, and supporting economic development.

💫Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministries (UUUM) is a nonprofit organization based in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, with a nearly 200-year history of serving local communities. Currently, UUUM provides critical resources and support through programs focused on workforce development, safer shelter initiatives, and out-of-school-time youth development.

🤝 We wouldn’t be where we are without our community partners, and we are excited to highlight some of them here. The work of the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB), Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), and Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministries (UUUM) is invaluable to the greater Boston community and to the HTA network. This semester these client partners are working with our Hacking the Archive course to answer some questions andaddress needs they have around community history, education/youth engagement, and economic development. Students will present final presentations to the partners on December 5th!

✨Originally founded as the Boston Indian Council in 1969, The North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB) is the oldest urban Indigenous organization in Massachusetts. NAICOB’s primary mission is to improve the quality of life of Indigenous peoples by equipping residents with resources including food assistance, legal advocacy, educational and employment assistance, and more.

🌟Founded by residents of the Dudley neighborhood in 1984 to empower community members and increase access to crucial resources, the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) primarily focuses on building community leadership, providing access to affordable housing, addressing climate change, and supporting economic development.

💫Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministries (UUUM) is a nonprofit organization based in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, with a nearly 200-year history of serving local communities. Currently, UUUM provides critical resources and support through programs focused on workforce development, safer shelter initiatives, and out-of-school-time youth development.