Kelly Jin

@postkxj

Investing in people, ideas & spaces for the future of cities. Vice President

@KnightFdn

. Former NYC Chief Analytics Officer &

@ObamaWhiteHouse

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Miami, FL and Knight citieskf.org/communitiesJoined September 2012

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Kelly Jin

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Mar 8

Today we at

@knightfdn

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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Knight Foundation

@knightfdn

· Mar 8

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 (

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Last chance to register for our final info call (today at 5pm ET) about the 2023 Congressional Innovation Fellowship!

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Join our information calls to learn more about the 2023 Congressional Innovation Fellowship!

Kelly Jin

@postkxj

Jul 27

Truth. 2019 feels like an entirely different era.

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Sara Holoubek

@sarita

· Jul 27

My 9-year old has started to refer to the pre-COVID era as “the olden times”

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Kelly Jin

@postkxj

Jul 27

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.”

Are you a student at

? Would you like to give a tour to me & my son? We're visiting on Tues-Wed next week. Happy to hang out and buy coffee or breakfast/lunch :-)

Kelly Jin

@postkxj

Jul 21

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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"Ten miles of barren lands beneath the Metrorail system are being transformed into native-plant gardens."

@nytimestravel

@theunderlinemia

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Today I heard someone say "sending a bunch of emails is different from moving a project forward" and truer words have never been spoken.

Kelly Jin

@postkxj

Jun 29

A very important assessment - my results data from taking the same Buzzfeed quiz over multiple years. 2022: Andy 2018: Chris Traeger 2017: Donna 2016: Ron Swanson buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/which cc

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Which "Parks And Recreation" Character Are You?

This is literally the most important quiz in the history of quizzes.

Kelly Jin

@postkxj

Jun 22

Fish underwater are intense in bw.

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William Penn Foundation

@WilliamPennFdn

Jun 20

“Our parks are powerful. They provide fundamental support to our cities. They are not dispensable. They are core to our past and critical to our future.” -

@OttLovell

addressing public space practitioners at #GreaterGreener

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My Q: Do changes in the economy (like the reality of a bear market) change giving amounts or strategies? Looking forward to the event!

Kelly Jin

@postkxj

Jun 18

What questions do you have on how philanthropy, foundations and grantmaking work? [Potential topics for a podcast or Twitter Spaces this summer.]

For Jung Ki-young, a South Korean software engineer, Microsoft's decision to retire its Internet Explorer web browser marked the end of a quarter-century love-hate relationship with the technology reut.rs/39Fasuy by

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Today, in partnership with

@nomihealth

, I’m proud to announce that we will continue providing the critical COVID testing & vaccine services our community has come to rely on. Miami-Dade is committed to maitaining sites across the county and no-cost services to the uninsured.

Macon, Georgia meets

. Best thing I’ve seen all week.

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Anna Richards

@annarichc

· Jun 15

Is your city government on tiktok? @MaconBibb is

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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

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for the opportunity to build this new institution at

@usedgov

!! 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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James Kvaal

@UnderSecKvaal

· Jun 8

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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Chi Nguyễn

@whatchidid

· Jun 6

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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Have updated isthebowlstillstuck.com accordingly. Congratulations, and thank you for something to do while I'm isolating in bed with Covid (despite masking! and 4 jabs!)

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Kelly Jin

@postkxj

Jun 8

Congratulations from Miami, Chi! The Internet can sleep tonight.

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Chi Nguyễn

@whatchidid

· Jun 8

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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Kelly Jin

@postkxj

Jun 8

I’ve been checking back every day. Waiting for this to be featured on

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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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“Avoid stilted, puffed-up, hyperbolic, over-adjectived bureaucratic claptrap. Write to me as you would talk to me.”—Colin Powell, It Worked for Me (p.145) #TipTuesday #writingtips

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@postkxj

Jun 7

This is good Twitter in action.

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@whatchidid

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Kelly Jin

@postkxj

Jun 4

Modern aviation is remarkable. Flying through this weather to Miami airport right now.

Does anyone know the history/genesis of the “regional office” structure in federal government agencies?

Kelly Jin

@postkxj

Jun 3

Wrapping up my time in Akron reading from a short story dispenser from

at the airport. 📚

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.

Public space leaders visiting #Akron for

@CivicCommonsUS

Learning Journey met with

@AkronOhioMayor

to discuss plans to transform

and the future of

. 📷

Kelly Jin

@postkxj

Jun 1

Next up…the gorgeous Akron Civic Theatre!

This morning

kicking off the #reimaginingciviccommons festivities in Akron.

Thrilled to be here in Akron my first time, and joining for the

@CivicCommonsUS

visit agenda. Pictured: Akron products in the welcome bag and the beautifully restored John S. Knight House. #Knightcities

“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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Wall Street Journal Opinion

@WSJopinion

· May 28

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