Projects

Building an MIT culture of listening and shared understanding.

realtalk@MIT projects seek to bridge differences or perspectives through conversation, elevate underheard voices, or recommend policy change based on deliberation.

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Personal Values At Work

We are collaborating with the MIT Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center to support conversations about how to create a career where we can live out our values proudly.

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Demystifying Funding

We are collaborating with MIT’s Radius program to host conversations about better understanding funding sources at work in academia and industry.

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Finding Light in Dark Times

In collaboration with the Office of Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life (ORSEL), we have developed a unique conversation experience which guides students through meditative reflection and personal sharing around the prompt: “What is your guiding light?”

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Graduation Advice

With support from the MAS team, we gathered graduating Master’s and PhD students at the Media Lab over lunch and helped them reflect on their time here and how to make meaning of it during a busy period of transition.

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Dis Course

Dis Course is a curated dinner series that transforms a meal between strangers into an experiment in how we gather, listen, and be in conversation with one another.

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WRAP Lecturers

In Spring 2025, realtalk@MIT partnered with WRAP (the MIT Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication Program) to support groups of lecturers in reflecting on their work, their collective identity, and the future of their program.

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Sustainability at MIT

In January 2025, nineteen undergraduate delegates came together for a three-day Student Assembly on Sustainability to learn, deliberate, and vote on a set of recommendations for the MIT Office of Sustainability.

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