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Ahwatukee Professor Neal Lester scored a major achievement with his annual Hacks for Humanity last month.

Project Humanities’ seventh annual Hacks for Humanity event, diverse groups like this worked together virtually to create innovative tools to advance solutions to big social challenges.

Project Humanities panel discussion examines the difficulties of co-parenting children in a modern world. Raising children isn’t like it was in your parents' and grandparents’ generation. 

The annual gathering of minds aims to cut through the clutter and controversy to discover unforeseen shortcuts to cope with society’s pressing challenges, according to Neal Lester, Ph.D., who founded and leads ASU’s Project Humanities.

Project Humanities’ annual Hacks for Humanity: Hacking for the Social Good draws participants from different professions, ages, communities, and backgrounds for a weekend of creating solutions to big social challenges.

White women have historically played a curious role in race relations in America, occupying dual roles as oppressor and the oppressed. While they benefit from racial privilege, they still suffer from the patriarchy inherent in systems of white supremacy. 

“We knew we wanted to try something different,” says Neal Lester, founding director of Project Humanities. “We were all going through something we’d never been through before, but we knew we didn’t want to talk only about COVID-19.”

Ahwatukee professor Dr. Neal Lester’s Project Humanities at Arizona State University has lined up a fall program on major issues for its new Podcast Club.

Amid the persistant COVID-19 uncertainities and loss, and this U.S crisis in racial justice, Project Humanities launches it's Fall 2020 events lineup. 

Stay at home orders and social distancing guidelines are making for greater isolation to the point that some are concerned that we’re in danger of losing our sense of contact.