About
Who We Are
1000+ community leaders, students, and educators in 40+ cities – and growing – connecting our local histories into collective public memory projects. And using our shared historical experience to guide collective action for a more just future.
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Watch Our Partners in Action
Learn how HAL’s participatory memory process works behind the scenes and meet some of the partners who make up our coalition.
The Humanities Action Lab (HAL) is a coalition of universities, issue organizations, and public spaces in 40 cities, and growing, led from Rutgers University-Newark, that collaborate to produce community-curated public humanities projects on urgent social issues.
Students and stakeholders in each city develop local chapters of international traveling exhibits, web projects, public programs, and other platforms for civic engagement, all made possible by our visionary supporters.
Projects travel nationally and internationally to museums, public libraries, cultural centers, and other spaces in each of the communities that helped create them.
