Georgetown Global Cities Initiative presented a dialogue with Gabriella Gómez-Mont exploring new modalities of data-enabled citizen engagement in Mexico City and beyond.
The discussion was moderated by Uwe S. Brandes, Professor of Practice and Faculty Director of the Georgetown Global Cities Initiative, with a response offered by Sheila Foster, The Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law and Policy and Professor of Public Policy.
Gabriella Gómez-Mont is the former Chief Creative Officer for the Municipality of Mexico City and the founder and director of Laboratorio Para la Cuidad (LabCDMX), a research-and-action agency within the municipal government. Projects implemented under her leadership include place-based civic initiatives, crowd-sourced mapping of informal urban systems, and the participatory drafting of the first constitution of Mexico City, a process which retired Mexico City's status as a federal district.
Gomez Mont has worked as a public official, journalist, visual artist, documentary director, and creative advisor to cities, universities, and organizations. She has received numerous international awards for her work in different fields, including being named a TED Senior Fellow, MIT Director Fellow, Yale World Fellow, Institute for the Future Fellow, and World Cities Summit Young Leader. In 2016, Fast Company magazine named Ms. Gómez-Mont one of the 100 most creative people in the world.
Ms. Gómez-Mont is serving as this year’s Georgetown Global Cities Initiative Visiting Fellow.
This was a virtual event.