iSchool Capstone

Behind the Bar: Harnessing Information for Advocacy in the Hospitality Industry

Project tags:

community engagement & outreach

content & digital asset management

social justice

Working with the New Hospitality Institute and building upon research from the H.E.A.R.D. Collective, this capstone builds an online space for hospitality workers and interested academics to contribute research around this industry not often studied with a data-driven sociological lens. This online space first acts as an archive of public policy created or activated by the pandemic relevant to hospitality workers in the United States, and will hopefully develop into portal to deal with a variety of labor concerns in the service industry.

Project participants:

Blair Ault

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