MIT Center for Constructive Communication

🗣️ realtalk@Boston came to life through collaboration. 11 community organizations, 50 hours of dialogue, 253 participants, and 47 themes that reveal what it means to live, work, and belong in Boston.

This is part 2/2 of our partner shoutout, highlighting:

👂 Joint Family
👂 ArtSpark Boston
👂 Circus Up
👂 Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts
👂 Primary Source
👂 The Loop Lab

These organizations helped surface the stories and voices that form the foundation of realtalk@Boston. Explore them all at realtalk.boston, a new public listening portal where you can hear directly from Bostonians in their own words.

Join us Nov 10 at Artists for Humanity for Boston’s Stories, Unscripted, a night of art, reflection, and community inspired by these conversations.

🎧 realtalk@Boston is built on the work of 11 incredible community organizations, who opened doors to deep, honest conversations across the city.

Together, they helped record 50 hours of conversation with 253 Boston residents, uncovering 47 themes that paint a textured portrait of life in Boston, and its struggles, joys, and hopes for the future.

This is part 1/2 of our partner shoutout, starting here with:

👂Boston CASA .casa
👂 Chica Project
👂 Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ)
👂 Disability Law Center .con
👂 Greatest MINDS Boston

These partners helped create the spaces where people could speak from the heart. And those voices now live on at realtalk.boston, a new public listening portal where you can hear directly from Bostonians in their own words.

Join us Nov 10 at Artists for Humanity for Boston’s Stories, Unscripted, a night of art, reflection, and community inspired by these very conversations.

🌟 We're Hiring at MIT!

The MIT Center for Constructive Communication is seeking a passionate and organized Instructional Designer and Program Manager to help shape realtalk@MIT, a new dialogue initiative that combines digital tools with human facilitation to build better communication across campus.

This hybrid role blends instructional design with project management—ideal for someone excited by inclusive learning, stakeholder collaboration, and turning big ideas into meaningful experiences.

📍 Based in Cambridge, MA (hybrid schedule)
💼 Learn more at ccc.mit.edu/.jobs and apply at https://hr.mit.edu/careers → Search Job ID #25107

Come be part of a team reimagining communication and designing for connection.



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Can AI help save democracy?

MIT CCC Director Deb Roy sits down with Life With Machines podcast host Baratunde Thurston to make the case for how new dialogue networks, unlike social media, can build rather than break trust.

"It's not about more or less tech," says Roy, "but rather about building better tech to help us hear each other and help us to build community and civic muscle.

Watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKTS0mfXRCk