PKPR News
Charlotte McCurdy in BuzzFeed News
May 20, 2020
BuzzFeed News profiles Charlotte McCurdy. Watch the video profile here.
ESI Design in Next City
May 07, 2020
Next City takes a close look at how PNC Bank tapped ESI Design to transform a former dry cleaners in Cleveland into a thriving community hub.
How to Protest During a Pandemic
May 04, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed massive cracks in America’s health, labor, and economic systems, spurring essential employees, gig workers, and tenants mobilizing for long-overdue protections and reforms. But how do these emerging movements organize in a time of social distancing?
PKPR has secured coverage for Ray Brescia’s new book, The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions, including interviews with BuzzFeed News (”Social Distancing Made May Day Protests Look a Lot Different This Year”), Off-Kilter hosted by Rebecca Vallas of The Center for American Progress, and The Rick Smith Show, as well as an op-ed in The New York Daily News (”How Rent Strikes Work”).
Razan Al Mubarak op-ed in The Ecologist
April 30, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is a wake-up call that a seemingly innocuous event in one part of the world can have a profound effect on the other side of the planet in just a matter of days.
In an op-ed written for The Ecologist, Razan Al Mubarak makes a powerful case for the need for conservationists to work more closely with global health and trade authorities in order to prevent future pandemics, economic crises, climate catastrophe, biodiversity loss and other existential threats.
Charlotte McCurdy: Inverse Future 50
April 24, 2020
Inverse features Charlotte McCurdy as one of its Future 50 innovators.
Charlotte McCurdy on NowThis
April 22, 2020
PKPR client Charlotte McCurdy talks to NowThis about how she developed a material from algae, a renewable source that pulls carbon directly from the atmosphere. This is how she created a carbon-negative raincoat.
Ground News aims to bust political news bubbles
April 01, 2020
Aiming to counteract the rise in misinformation, sensationalism, and biased news, Ground News enables users to easily compare how sources from across the political spectrum and from around the world are covering the same news event.
PKPR secured coverage for the launch of Ground News in a range of outlets - from Digital Trends and Editor & Publisher to MediaVillage, Screen Shot, and Reclaim the Net .
Ground News founder Harleen Kaur was also interviewed on Digital Trends Live. Watch the interview here.
On Air Fest profiled in Publishers Weekly
March 24, 2020
Publishers Weekly reporter John Maher took an in-depth look at how this year’s On Air Fest prominently featured a number of literary groups and figures in its lineup including writers Ocean Vuong, Hanif Abdurraqib, Ashley C. Ford, The Paris Review, and The Believer.
Other coverage highlights include a fantastic interview with Abudrraqib in Document Magazine and a Q&A with comedian Negin Farsad in Forbes.
Designing Justice profiled by the New York Times
March 08, 2020
Check out today’s print issue of The New York Times for a full-page profile of architect Deanna Van Buren in the Arts & Leisure section. The article explores how her firm, Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, is showing it is possible to build alternatives to prisons that heal and restore rather than punish and destroy.
On Air Fest in New York Times
March 05, 2020
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The New York Times selected On Air Fest as one of its top six things to do this weekend in New York City.
Columbia Care co-founder profiled on NPR in DC
December 20, 2019
Listen to this great profile of Columbia Care co-founder and CEO Nicholas Vita that aired today on WAMU-FM, the NPR affiliate in Washington DC. The story is pegged to the opening of Columbia Care’s first dispensary in Montgomery County, Maryland, where Vita was raised and went to school.
Other coverage of the opening included WTOP-AM, WUSA-TV, DCist, Bethesda Magazine, and Patch DC.
Mozilla on NPR’s Morning Edition
December 02, 2019
Ashley Boyd, Mozilla’s Vice President of Advocacy, appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition this morning to discuss this year’s Privacy Not Include holiday shopping guide with host Scott Simon. Listen here.
Mozilla in USA Today, CNN, Business Insider
November 29, 2019
To help consumers choose gifts that protect the privacy of their friends and family, Mozilla today unveiled its *Privacy Not Included report at a press event in New York City. The report identifies the smart devices and toys that are secure and trustworthy — as well as those that may be spying on your friends and your family.
Coverage included CNN, USA Today, Business Insider, Wired, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, The Next Web, CNET, BoingBoing, and Tom’s Guide.
On Air Debuts in Los Angeles
November 15, 2019
On Air Fest presented its first West Coast edition last week at KCRW’s Annenberg Performance Studio. Creators of boundary-pushing podcasts like Song Exploder, The Memory Palace, Moonface, Strangers, and The Shadows were among the headliners. Coverage included The Hollywood Reporter, LA Weekly, LAist, Time Out Los Angeles, SoCal Pulse, Inside Radio, All Access, Podcast Business Journal, and Podcast Review.
Mozilla’s MozFest Tackles Political Disinformation
November 04, 2019
In an age of deepfakes and disinformation, more than 2,500 activists, policymakers, and technologists gathered in London last week at Mozilla’s MozFest to work on creating a better, healthier, and more humane internet.
PKPR secured an appearance on CNN for Mozilla Fellow Camille François to discuss how she is using machine learning and data analysis to detect foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. election. Other coverage highlights included Quartz (”Did YouTube’s Algorithm Help China’s Anti-Hong Kong Propaganda Go Viral?”), PCMag (”Does YouTube’s Algorithm Lead to Radicalization”), and TechRadar (”Can Facebook ever be kept safe without hurting staff?”).
DJDS is Designing an End to Mass Incarceration
October 30, 2019
On the heels of the opening of Restore Oakland, the social justice campus designed by Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS), PKPR has secured a series of profiles looking at how the firm is using design to end mass incarceration.
Recent profiles include The Architect’s Newspaper (”Designing Justice + Designing Spaces builds infrastructure to end mass incarceration”), Curbed (”Can a building help end mass incarceration?”), and Archinect (”Architect Deanna Van Buren on Designing Beautiful Spaces That Amplify Self-Care, Love, Restoration, and Respect”).
Character Day in Parents, EdSurge
September 30, 2019
For the past ten years, Character Day co-founder Tiffany Shlain, her husband, and her two kids (16 and 10) have unplugged from their devices every Saturday. In her new book 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week (Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books), Shlain chronicles how the weekly tech break changed their lives, giving them more time, productivity, connection, and presence. Taking place in classrooms and schools nationwide each year, Character Day focuses on helping students develop character strengths like grit and gratitude. This year’s Character Day on Friday, September 27, will culminate with students nationwide turning off their screens for 24 hours, with the goal of continuing it on a weekly basis.
PKPR secured coverage for this year’s Character Day and Tiffany’s book in a range of outlets including a feature in the print issue of Parents Magazine and stories in outlets from EdSurge (”Can putting away devices build character?”) to Mommy Nearest (”Here’s how your family can go screen-free for one day a week”).
This Mozilla-Funded Film Watches You
September 26, 2019
Over a year after the approval of a U.S. patent, Snapchat users still don’t know if the app is using facial emotion recognition technology to detect and profit off of their moods. To put pressure on Snapchat, Mozilla premiered “Stealing Ur Feelings,” a short documentary that uses the same technology to analyze viewers’ emotions as they watch it. Check out some of the coverage in Adweek, Engadget, and The Inquirer.
Echoing Green on The Today Show
September 06, 2019
A 2019 Echoing Green Fellow, Antoine Patton is a 32-year-old father who taught himself to code while he was incarcerated and then developed an app with his 13-year-old daughter that makes it easier for kids to communicate with their incarcerated parents.
As a result of PKPR’s work, Antoine and his daughter Jay Jay, as well as Echoing Green President Cheryl Dorsey, were featured in an amazing segment on The Today Show. It was part of Lester Holt’s Justice for All series looking at the state of justice in America.
Restore Oakland in CityLab, Architectural Digest
September 05, 2019
In 2017, PKPR client Deanna Van Buren delivered a TED Talk - What a World Without Prisons Could Look Like— that has been viewed more than one million times. This month, her vision moves closer to reality with the opening of Restore Oakland, a 20,000 square foot center in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood that is home to one of the nation’s first spaces dedicated to restorative justice.
Restorative justice brings together the victim and the perpetrator to resolve the harm caused. Restore Oakland will work with the Alameda County District Attorney’s office to divert cases involving people aged 15 to 24 into the restorative justice program. The process takes place outside of traditional courthouses and government buildings, which tend to be windowless, oppressive, and punitive. At Restore Oakland, the Restorative Justice Rooms are painted in a peaceful and calming sky blue, there are multiple large windows, and chairs are arranged in a circle in the tradition of peace circles used by many Native American cultures.
PKPR secured coverage for the opening in The Atlantic’s CityLab, Architectural Digest, YES! Magazine, and Common Dreams.