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Kelly Jin
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Investing in people, ideas & spaces for the future of cities. Vice President . Former NYC Chief Analytics Officer & . Views mine.
Miami, FL and Knight citieskf.org/communitiesJoined September 2012

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Today we at are announcing more than $4 million in commitments to increase civic engagement in communities through tech & data. Read more about it 👇🏻and BRING US YOUR IDEAS!
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NEW: Technology and data play vital roles in building stronger, more engaged communities. With Knight support, eight orgs will leverage tech/data to improve civic engagement + public services in US cities. @lcoral shares more: kf.org/smartcities2022 #kfsmartcities (🧵1/10)
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Quote of the week: "If you seek superior investment results, you have to invest in things that others haven’t flocked to and caused to be fully valued. In other words, you have to do something different.”
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I've spent much of the week earnestly asking "what the what" is for different projects. What this means is: what exactly are the activities that will happen during the project? I understand the end goal, but what is proposed to get us there?
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What questions do you have on how philanthropy, foundations and grantmaking work? [Potential topics for a podcast or Twitter Spaces this summer.]
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Excited to announce Ashley Groffenberger as our new Chief Financial Officer & Alex Lawrence as Boston’s first-ever Chief People Officer! Their leadership, experience & passion for public service will help our teams deliver for Boston residents.
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Thanks to and for the opportunity to build this new institution at !! We’re building a great team to partner with the amazing ED staff already using data and analytics to learn how to better support student and borrower outcomes!
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I’m pleased to share some big news: Secretary Cardona has appointed Jordan Matsudaira to serve as the Department of Education’s first-ever Chief Economist. Jordan, with years of higher education research experience, is the perfect person to carry out the role of Chief Economist.
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As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
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I say hot glue some handles onto each bowl. Then you have a way to create opposing jiggly forces. Then denatured alcohol applied to the dried glue makes it lose all its sticking power and it will come clean off. Hot/cold temperature approaches won’t work here.
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Twitter, I need your help. I stacked a ceramic bowl into another one while doing dishes and now they are stuck. How do you remove the smaller bowl without breaking both of them? Why am I so invested? I’ve tried to fix this for 2 days, and I cannot give up now.
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A smaller ceramic bowl stuck inside a taller soup bowl.
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Congratulations from Miami, Chi! The Internet can sleep tonight.
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OMG WE DID IT! Last 20 hours: - upside down, on a towel, undisturbed - gave to toddler (clear mandate that bowls must stay together) - suction cup - small bowl asks to not give up on it now - banged on carpet UNSTUCK!!!!
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My toddler holding the small, chipped bowl on one hand and eating fruits with her other hand. Big bowl is upside down on the carpet!
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I’ve been checking back every day. Waiting for this to be featured on or .
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Update: - electric toothbrush - mini plunger (no go, circumference is bigger than smaller bowl) - compassionately, but firmly threw bowls onto pillow - no easy way to say this: smaller bowl has a chip now Still stuck.
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An overhead shot of the two bowls on top of a towel. The small bowl has a small chip on the edge.
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Twitter, I need your help. I stacked a ceramic bowl into another one while doing dishes and now they are stuck. How do you remove the smaller bowl without breaking both of them? Why am I so invested? I’ve tried to fix this for 2 days, and I cannot give up now.
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A smaller ceramic bowl stuck inside a taller soup bowl.
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Modern aviation is remarkable. Flying through this weather to Miami airport right now.
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I decided to take an e-scooter back to the hotel in Akron, got lost, discovered some drag racers and are now taking the scenic route back. Adventures in #Knightcities.
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“The city depends upon being a thriving place, where people buy and sell to each other, and interact with each other.”
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Can America’s cities make a post-pandemic comeback? America’s leading economist of urban life, Edward Glaeser, says a return to the workplace is crucial, especially for the young, writes @tunkuv on.wsj.com/38VMpqT
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