Updates

On August 19th, thanks to a recommendation from our dear NYU fellow Aaliyah Weathers, we took our Art of Purpose Fellows to Monuments of Solidarity by LaToya Ruby Frazier at the MoMA...

We are delighted to welcome Angeles Solis as The Action Lab’s new Director of the Impact and Innovation Initiative! Formerly at Make the Road New York, Angeles helped co-found the Fund Excluded Workers Coalition and led major escalations to pass a $2...

From July 17-19, The Action Lab gathered our Art of Purpose and Strategy School cohorts...

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Minal Hajratwala (they/she) is the founder of the Unicorn Authors Club and co-founder of the Changemaker Authors Cohort, supporting movement leaders and activists to develop narrative-changing books...

Karina (Kari) Hurtado-Ocampo, they/all pronouns Kari is a cultural worker, multimedia artist and (screen)writer, tending to place-based and genre bending stories...

The Artists in Action Fellowship at the Action Lab will cultivate the relationship between art and social justice by connecting artists to organizers and organizers to artists...

The Action Lab is excited to welcome Nasreen Jilani, our new Director of Development...

Our second annual Liberation Summer Kick-off was a blast and a brought more than 300 people together in community to dance to the amazing artists Combo Chimbita, El Hijo de Borikén, Maraca Bruja, and DJ Bembona who brought their soul, energy, and essential voices to the stage...

The Action Lab is excited to be co-sponsoring the expansion of the Bronx Documentary Center’s 7th Annual Latin American Foto Festival to three new boroughs as part of our Liberation Summer programming! This is the festival's first expansion beyond the South Bronx...

 Salsa y Resistencia was a powerful and fun evening of community and a perfect warm-up for our Liberation Summer kick-off at SOBs...

The Art of Purpose fellows gathered in a day-long Practice Circle at the offices of NYCC on June 13th...