The Humanities Action Lab Moves to Hunter College

HAL Methodology

New York, New York

The Humanities Action Lab — a high-impact social-justice coalition of universities, issue organizations, and exhibition spaces based in more than 40 cities — is moving to Hunter College.

The 10-year-old coalition, which was most recently hosted at Rutgers-Newark, compellingly elevates the visibility of global challenges and solutions by collecting stories about how those issues are experienced locally in different communities….

Hunter President Nancy Cantor said that it represents a new paradigm for changemaking

“We are thrilled that Hunter will be the new home of HAL, which has been enormously successful at mobilizing grassroots action to address pressing public policy issues,” she said. “By catalyzing collaboration between universities and communities in many different locations where everyone brings their expertise and lived experiences to the table, it powerfully demonstrates that the local is not parochial, that we are all connected, and that collective action is the way forward to address even the most complex challenges facing our world. Hunter College faculty, staff, and students already are engaging communities near and far in this way and on some of these very same issues, so I can’t wait to see how we can amplify the impact of both HAL and Hunter, building something that is more than the sum of its parts.”