Pre-Conference Workshop
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
12:30 - 14:00 EST
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
12:30 - 14:00 EST
VIRTUAL Walking Audit
Interactive workshop hosted by StreetWyze
Streetwyze is a mobile, mapping, and SMS platform that enables residents to collect real-time data about how people are experiencing cities and services and turns them into actionable analytics. The power of Streetwyze is that it makes local knowledge accessible within and outside of systems and services by creating two-way feedback loops and data visualizations between neighborhoods and cities so that they can co-produce programs and policies that help secure shared benefits. Streetwyze is a web app accessible on any kind of device with browser software. Community members contribute text, audio, or video media to share stories and document their lived experiences. Reports thus represent a robust, detailed collection of local knowledge on experiences with, for example, land use, social services, transportation, housing, arts, and education.
During this session you will learn more about what Streetwyze is, why it was created, how other communities have used it, and how you can use it to collect community driven data, and leverage data for change. This session will include a demo of Streetwyze, a training on how to use Streetwyze, a virtual mapping activity, and a Q&A session.
Interactive workshop hosted by StreetWyze
Streetwyze is a mobile, mapping, and SMS platform that enables residents to collect real-time data about how people are experiencing cities and services and turns them into actionable analytics. The power of Streetwyze is that it makes local knowledge accessible within and outside of systems and services by creating two-way feedback loops and data visualizations between neighborhoods and cities so that they can co-produce programs and policies that help secure shared benefits. Streetwyze is a web app accessible on any kind of device with browser software. Community members contribute text, audio, or video media to share stories and document their lived experiences. Reports thus represent a robust, detailed collection of local knowledge on experiences with, for example, land use, social services, transportation, housing, arts, and education.
During this session you will learn more about what Streetwyze is, why it was created, how other communities have used it, and how you can use it to collect community driven data, and leverage data for change. This session will include a demo of Streetwyze, a training on how to use Streetwyze, a virtual mapping activity, and a Q&A session.
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Who Uses Streetwyze?
Cities, towns, CBO’s, and public agencies use Streetwyze to more effectively communicate with everyday people and hard to reach populations to improve public services, democratize decision making, and build power, passion, pride, health and wealth, with the people and places where you live, learn, work, and play. Join us this real-world interactive session! |
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Tessa Cruz
Program Manager, Institute for Sustainable Economic Educational and Environmental Design
Director of Outreach and Engagement for Streetwyze
Tessa is the Program Manager for Equitable Engagement and Community Engaged Design at Institute for Sustainable Economic Educational and Environmental Design (ISEEED). She is also the Director of Outreach and Engagement for Streetwyze and has over seven years of experience in community engagement facilitation, community-based research and geospatial data collection. Tessa brings over 8 years of experience leading administrative and management efforts for non-profits and learning institutions including Oberlin College and San Francisco State University and over 2 years of experience working on multi-year interdisciplinary research grants. Prior to joining ISEEE and Streetwyze she served as the Public Programming and Public Policy Intern at SPUR, where she supported event coordination and development, as well as the creation of their annual public Ballot Analysis Toolkit. She has a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Oberlin College with a concentration in Sustainable Development and Environmental Justice.
Program Manager, Institute for Sustainable Economic Educational and Environmental Design
Director of Outreach and Engagement for Streetwyze
Tessa is the Program Manager for Equitable Engagement and Community Engaged Design at Institute for Sustainable Economic Educational and Environmental Design (ISEEED). She is also the Director of Outreach and Engagement for Streetwyze and has over seven years of experience in community engagement facilitation, community-based research and geospatial data collection. Tessa brings over 8 years of experience leading administrative and management efforts for non-profits and learning institutions including Oberlin College and San Francisco State University and over 2 years of experience working on multi-year interdisciplinary research grants. Prior to joining ISEEE and Streetwyze she served as the Public Programming and Public Policy Intern at SPUR, where she supported event coordination and development, as well as the creation of their annual public Ballot Analysis Toolkit. She has a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Oberlin College with a concentration in Sustainable Development and Environmental Justice.
Mahader Tamene, MSc., PhD
Streetwyze Lead Researcher
Mahader is a social epidemiologist and public health scholar dedicated to facilitating health and justice for underserved populations globally. Her research examines how structural drivers shape inequitable health outcomes across the life course and seeks to identify community-driven interventions to mitigate these inequities. Tamene has worked in community health education, health research, program implementation and evaluation both domestically and abroad. She holds a PhD in epidemiology from U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health, an MSc in global health and population from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a BA in public policy and African/African American studies from the University of Chicago.
Streetwyze Lead Researcher
Mahader is a social epidemiologist and public health scholar dedicated to facilitating health and justice for underserved populations globally. Her research examines how structural drivers shape inequitable health outcomes across the life course and seeks to identify community-driven interventions to mitigate these inequities. Tamene has worked in community health education, health research, program implementation and evaluation both domestically and abroad. She holds a PhD in epidemiology from U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health, an MSc in global health and population from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a BA in public policy and African/African American studies from the University of Chicago.
