Whitaker has served as Smart Chicago's primary research, writer, and event coordinator since December 2012. He has helped to contribute over 300 blog posts and countless hours of streaming video of civic innovation events. Smart Chicago was CivicWhitaker's first client having started with us in February 2013.
He has served as project manager for Civic Works, a program funded by the Knight Foundation and The Chicago Community Trust to spur support civic innovation in Chicago. Whitaker managed the Smart Chicago relationship with all partners, sourced new projects, and wrote lots of content— hundreds of posts.
Outside of his work with Smart Chicago, Whitaker's company also works closely with Code for America helping to manage their Brigade program in the midwest. Christopher is also the co-host of OpenGov Hack Night.
Recent posts from related projects
Connect Chicago Meetup Recap: Youth-Led Tech Program Lessons & Comcast Internet Essentials
Members of Chicago's public computing and digital learning community come together every month to hear a presentation from a Connect Chicago ...
Smart Chicago and the Bud Billiken Parade
Smart Chicago was happy to march in the Bud Billiken Parade along with the Gray Era Brass, Youth-Led Tech instructors and ...
The Civic User Testing Group and Other Listening Strategies
Note: this is a guest post by Rose Afriyie of our partner mRelief. How do you keep your finger on ...
Digital Learning Environments: Christ The King High School in Austin
Note: this is part of a series of posts in our Connect Chicago program where we describe in detail digital ...
These are all recent blog posts for all of the projects that Christopher Whitaker has worked on for the Smart Chicago Collaborative.
