Gabriela Reygadas
MIT GOV/LAB Alumni
email reygadas@mit.edu
Gabriela was a Design Strategist at MIT GOV/LAB, supporting the design and innovation team on the intersections between social science and design for governance innovation and working as a design strategist for the Inter-American Development Bank’s Knowledge, Innovation and Communications Sector. She is a Fulbright scholar who has collaborated for over a decade with human rights and poverty alleviation organizations in Mexico City and New York, including Grameen Bank, Synergos Institute, and Oxfam. Prior, she led the social innovation initiative in a consultancy based in Mexico city with a diversity of clients, including Kellogg Foundation, Metlife Foundation, United Nations Development Program, and Lego Foundation among others. She has a Master’s degree in Design for Social Innovation from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is a global fellow at the Common Cents Lab at Duke University.
Related Work
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Research December 2020
Governance Innovation
A new initiative combining evidence and methods from design and social science to co-develop governance solutions with practitioner partners.
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Update October 2020
MIT GOV/LAB Digest #6: Engaged Scholarship Tools
Newsletter featuring our latest research collaborations on engaged scholarship, information and accountability, behavioral science, civic technology, and more.
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Results October 2020
[Interactive] Engaged Scholarship Tools
Tools and a workbook to facilitate difficult conversations between practitioners and academics that are essential when planning collaborative research with equitable exchange.
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Results October 2020
Updated Guide: How to Have Difficult Conversations
This document is meant to provide guidance on how to have “difficult conversations” that often arise when academic researchers and practitioners decide to collaborate.
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Results October 2020
Risk and Equity Matrix
An exercise for practitioner-academic research teams to systematically consider potential impacts for the range of actors involved in the research process.