Lorena Tovar is an assistant director for academic programs for the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), where she runs the Master in City Planning (MCP) program. A longtime employee of MIT, she has gained a great breadth of institutional knowledge and values in the course of making connections with and supporting both faculty and students. Tovar joined DUSP in April 2024, but she has been an employee of the Institute for almost 15 years. She worked in the Office of Minority Education (OME) and the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center before leaving MIT for a couple years after becoming a parent. When she returned to MIT, she came across a project coordinator role at the Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) at the MIT Media Lab ' a part of the Institute she had always been curious about. Tovar likens the environment at CCC to that of a startup, which made her time in a research center very different from her previous jobs working directly with students....
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