Sylvia Garcia-Garcia recently joined Connect the Dots as Project Manager of Public Engagement, based in Philadelphia. She is a bicultural multilingual experienced social impact professional, passionate about centering inclusion and sustainability. Sylvia holds a Master’s in Strategic Thinking from Tec de Monterrey and has since...
Our team is so excited to have been selected to lead the engagement process surrounding the Roundhouse alongside our partners at Amber Art and Design! Our multidisciplinary team includes planners, artists, experts in trauma-informed engagement and public mental health, placemakers, historic preservationists, and a wide...
Our founder Marisa recently spoke with CitizenLab’s team about the latest trends at the intersection of government and technology , with a focus on public engagement. You can read the full interview below to see what she thinks about the role of online engagement in...
Connect the Dots strives to create welcoming and accessible engagement activities that provide historically disinvested neighborhoods with safe spaces for participation in the public process. While we seek to end discrimination every day, March 21 has been observed as the International Day to End Racial...
This March, we sat down with Marisa Denker, CEO & Co-Founder of Connect the Dots to talk about Connect the Dots’ Irish roots this St. Patrick's Day! We get asked about our “Irish Side” pretty regularly, and there’s a great story behind how CTD got...
This March, CtD’s Marisa Denker joined the panel for Women in Transportation’s Philadelphia & WTS Central PA chapters’ event, ENGAGINGLY SO: Bringing Accessibility and Representation into the Public Engagement Process - alongside friends and partners across Pennsylvania committed to accessible and representative public engagement in...
This article was originally posted on Citizen Lab, Dec 14th 2021. View original article here. --- From urgent calls for racial justice in public spaces to the recovery of small businesses in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s obvious that urban main streets face unique...
Happy New Year! As we hit a collective reset, I’ve been thinking about how I will approach 2022 and have formed my “engagement resolutions” for the year ahead: Do everything online offline and everything offline online. The pandemic has forever changed how we approach engagement, shifting online...
Setting up successful engagement requires finding the tools that are right for the task. At Connect the Dots we are always looking for new ways to engage with the public: online, in-person, and moving seamlessly between the two. So how do we determine what tactics...
For Planetizen, Connect the Dots’ Marisa Denker and Alexandra Zazula teamed with transportation engagement leaders at major firms, Sam Schwartz and Nelson Nygaard to envision how transportation engagement can evolve to be robust, impactful and representative of groups who have long been excluded from the...