I don’t usually blog about work, but this is my favorite thing that I’ve done at Knight.

Image by Emily Lerman/LAist. I’m in the middle surrounded all of these wonderful leaders–missing from the picture is my co-conspirator at GOOD, Max Schorr.

Two weeks ago yesterday, I flew to L.A. for an event that GOOD Magazine partnered with Knight Pulse, the community site I work on for Knight Foundation, to produce, tapping six community leaders with projects working to improve the city through design, urban homesteading, neighborhood interventions, community service awareness, and rights to creative storytelling.

You can read more about the five projects in the GOOD blog post, in Emily Lerman’s LAist post (she also took the picture above, and my friend Andy Sternberg of LAist was also there), and in my friend John Jackson’s post, where he notes Natalie Portman was sitting in the front.

This is an experiment for Pulse (you know how I like crazy ideas), and each of these projects will convene a community event this spring. I took video of their presentations (better video from GOOD will be up soon, and I’ll link to it here, but for now):

And each of the projects in on Knight Pulse in the new GOOD Leaders section.

I wanted to share with you what excites me about media and community: events like the one in Los Angeles to announce these leaders, where a crowd of two hundred stayed for two hours to listen and ask questions and think about how to make this community stronger.

Congrats to Alissa (her post on the event), Eric, Sonja, Edgar, Erik and Kelly—

Related posts:

1. better video of good community leaders
2. announcing knight pulse
3. dear mom, this is what I do

1. David Sasaki:
   March 29th, 2009 at 11:06 am

   Really cool project. I just spent the past hour getting lost in their links.

2. Kristen:
   March 29th, 2009 at 7:42 pm

   thanks, D. More to come on this project, so many things emerging from this community that really does support each other in their work—

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Posted Thursday, March 26th, 2009, 4:57 pm * Filed in Networks, Travel, Video. * Tags: community, foundation, GOOD, knight, kristen, kthread, la, leaders, magazine, pulse, taylor. Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.