Starr Forum: Rebuilding Haiti

February 23, 2010 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
20 Ames Street, Cambridge

MIT experts discuss how to help Haiti create a future different from the generations of misery it has known. This event is free and open to the public. About the speakers: Cherie Miot Abbanat is a lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Department of Architecture, and co-chair of DUSP's Undergraduate Committee. Michel DeGraff, a native of Haiti, is associate professor of linguistics at MIT. Erica James is associate professor of anthropology at MIT. Dale Joachim is a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab, where he currently co-teaches the special project class New Media Projects for Haiti.

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