Over IAP,  the PKG Center at MIT will be hosting a series of sessions highlighting public interest technology work and the folx engaged in this field. We will offer panel discussions and workshops with community and industry partners to think more deeply about stretching the impact of our technological skills by using them in public good spaces. These sessions are open to all MIT students and the wider community.

Are you interested in learning more about the intersection between policy, non-profit work, and technology?
 
Join us in welcoming Ben Armstrong, Interim Executive Director and Research Scientist with MIT’s Industrial Performance Center to learn more during session 3 of the “Stretch Your Impact” series.  Read his biography below:
 
Ben Armstrong is the Interim Executive Director and a Research Scientist at MIT’s Industrial Performance Center. His research and teaching examine how workers, firms, and regions adapt to technological change. His current projects include a national plan for the U.S. manufacturing workforce in partnership with the Department of Defense, as well as a policy playbook developing lessons for struggling regional economies in the United States.
 
In his work, Ben has collaborated with governments, non-profit organizations, and firms to understand how scholarship and education can be useful to practitioners and policymakers. Ben completed his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University and his PhD at MIT. Before graduate school, he helped lead an open-source hardware non-profit and worked at Google Inc.

For more information, please contact mariasal@mit.edu.