realtallk@MIT Student Ambassador Program

Lead a realtalk@MIT conversation project with your peers

Opportunity

Are you a committed MIT student with a focus on advancing dialogue work within your own campus community and beyond? Are you enthusiastic about being part of a leading edge effort to use technology and community dialogue to strengthen campus communities? Do you have a genuine interest in shared opportunities for collaboration, learning, and celebration across our campus and within your own student community? We’re seeking to recruit passionate, value-aligned MIT students to join the founding cohort of realtalk@MIT Student Ambassadors. This early group of student leaders will work to launch an inaugural realtalk@MIT student-organized conversation project together, learning through doing and providing feedback to the realtalk@MIT team along the way.

Contact: Matthew McKenna, Project Coordinator, MIT Center for Constructive Communication for questions/information (mmcken@media.mit.edu)
Pay: $16/hour

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Key Responsibilities

  • Start the conversation: Lead the first student-led realtalk@MITconversation project on campus, inviting an opportunity to also learn about the approach & tools and paving the way for future student-led project teams.
  • Learn our technology and methods: Dive into our tools and how we use them, exploring how we invite participants to connect, surface meaning from across conversations, and scale the power of conversation. The team will provide workshops on facilitation, sensemaking, and output creation you will be invited to be a part of. 
  • Shape our program and outputs: Contribute your insights and feedback to ensure student perspectives are central to realtalk@MIT’s efforts and the technology we’re building supports student needs and interests.

 

Ambassador Conversation Project Role:

  • Co-design a conversation project in collaboration with the realtalk@MIT team on topics you really care about.
  • Experience our conversation games and give us input on how to do effective student outreach. 
  • Participate in facilitator training that will empower you to activate your community in powerful ways. 
  • Recruit and facilitate, with the support of the realtalk@MIT staff, a conversation with your peers. 
  • Engage in the sensemaking process, connect meaning across the cohort’s conversations.
  • Collaborate to create outputs from the conversation to share the voices and stories of the project.

About realtalk@MIT

The realtalk@MIT program provides a new way for us to listen to each other that brings together human conversation with digital technologies to foster authentic and nuanced dialogue across the MIT campus. The program enables the MIT community to come together in guided, small-group conversations to share the stories and experiences in order to build trust and connections.