Hunch Lunch
Event Highlight New innovative Hunch Lunch Series brings community experts and researchers together to exchange insights. KER takes an approach to research that acknowledges the community’s roles in creating knowledge. Community members are often unsure of how to leverage their experiences and insights in conversations about data analytics and science. The Hunch Lunch not only breaks down silos of knowledge across sectors, but also lets nonacademic expertise take center stage. The first step in exchanging knowledge and developing partnerships is sharing hunches, ideas rooted in experience that have not yet been tested. When informed by formal knowledge from the public university, the result can be a strong set of ideas to pursue together. Unfortunately, we rarely have the chance to take the time to share this kind of knowledge between organizations and sectors. In September, we held our inaugural Hunch Lunch to help break down those barriers and facilitate this exchange. Community members presented brief flash talks on the most recent, pressing or interesting issues of community resilience from their vantage point. Speakers shared information about a profound change, disruption or unanticipated phenomenon as well as their hunches about what is going on.
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Presentations included: Building civic health for resilient youth Center for the Future of Arizona
Increasing gaps in a system to alleviate homelessness St. Vincent de Paul Partnership Housing does not end homelessness — community ends homelessness Ozanam Manor
The recent rise of poverty among the elderly homeless Valley of the Sun United Way
New cooling investments coming for the built environment in Phoenix The Nature Conservancy
