Connecting Your Course
We’re thrilled to begin a new chapter with you at Hunter College!
Are you working on issues around mass incarceration, climate and environmental justice, displacement from urban renewal, or another of our impact areas?
We would love to share your work on New York City’s past, present, and future with other communities through our national projects. We are eager to learn about how you co-create with students and community members — or how you would like to learn — and to connect your work with our national coalition of college-community partnerships.
The Humanities Action Lab (HAL) is a coalition of universities, issue organizations, and public spaces in 40 cities, now led from Hunter College, 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.
Check out this graphic explainer of how we build projects together, and our Theory of Change to learn about the values and strategies that guide us.
Are you teaching a course on issues in New York City relating to mass incarceration (including and especially Rikers Island), climate and environmental justice, or displacement from urban renewal?
Are you collaborating with an NYC community organization?
Are you interested in connecting your students and community partners with others working on the same issues around the country?
Check out how to connect your course or reach out to humanitiesactionlab@gmail.com.
Starting Fall 2025, HAL will be co-hosting a series of gatherings with the School of Arts and Science and the Silberman School of Social Work to learn from Hunter faculty’s experience and work, hear what folks are interested in, and where you would like support. In the meantime, you can check out our Peer Resource Center for how-to guides, partnership models, and publications.