About Me
editI am a student at Boston University studying Political Science and Sociology. I am originally from Rochester, NY where I have worked on Samra Brouk's campaign for the NY State Senate. I frequently use Wikipedia for personal inquiries into politics and history, but my creation of an account comes from a different interest. I am deeply interested in cities and am employed by Boston University's Initiative on Cities. As an office assistant, I have been compiling third party and up to date research on the Initiative and our new Faculty Director Loretta Lees as we are a major institution of a large university.
Wikipedia has been a forum in which neutral, unbiased knowledge on important figures and entities can be shared. Many notable professors have Wikipedia pages and they serve as a space outside of a Curriculum Vitae in which information can be presented in a factual manner. The Initiative on Cities currently has a Wikipedia page, however it is outdated. I have compiled research from a variety of sources that describes what the Initiative actually does.
Disclosure
editI am an employee of the Initiative on Cities and therefore work under Loretta Lees, however my research has compiled as many independent sources as I could find. I have explicitly used neutral toned language and have been beyond cognizant of my potential bias. Loretta Lees is new to the Initiative and the university, so I can confidently say I am not heavily biased, as I only know her through my research for the purpose of creating a wikipedia page. I am now an expert on the workings of the Initiative on Cities as I understand what it does and does not accomplish beneath academic language and stated goals.