Think Tank forum on Cultural Representation, centered L-R: Sandra Lilia Velasquez, SLV; John Wang, Queens Night Market. Photo by Joe Sinnott

Since 2017, The WNET Group’s Community Engagement division has held frank, private convenings with 300-plus thinkers and doers from across New York City to better understand the issues facing New Yorkers. The participants have represented organizations and institutions that are leaders in healthcare, higher education, economic development, arts and culture, social services, legal services, religion, and environmentalism and conservation. Independent artists, activists, entrepreneurs, journalists, and community organizers have also participated and enriched these conversations.

• 5050 Skatepark
• A Better Jamaica, Inc.
• ARTS East NY
• Adhikaar
• African Refuge
• African-American/Caribbean Education Association, Inc.
• American Indian Artists Inc. (AMERINDA)
• American Indian Community House
• Anastasia Skiumtalx McAllister (Confederated Tribes of Colville Indians), Multimedia
• Angela's Pulse/Dancing While Black
• Arab-American Family Support Center
• Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE)
• ArteEast
• Asian American Arts Alliance
• Asma Feyijinmi, Teaching Artist
• Association of Muslim American Lawyers
• Avodah
• BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
• BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange
• BOOM!Health
• BX200.com
• Bangladeshi Feminist Collective
• Bella Abzug Leadership Institute
• Billion Oyster Project
• Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
• Borderless
• BRIC
• Bronx Arts Ensemble
• BronxArtSpace
• Bronx Charter School for the Arts
• Bronx Children’s Museum
• Bronx Climate Justice North
• Bronx Community College
• Bronx Council on the Arts
• The Bronx Defenders
• Bronx Documentary Center
• Bronx Museum of the Arts
• Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation
• Bronx River Art Center
• Bronx Tourism Council
• Bronx Youth Center | The Door
• BronxCare Health System
• BronxConnect
• The Bronx Defenders
• BronxWorks
• Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC)
• Brooklyn Book Festival
• Brooklyn Children's Museum
• Brooklyn College
• Brooklyn Defender Services
• Brooklyn Heights Synagogue
• Brooklyn Public Library
• CONNECT
• Camelot of Staten Island
• Canvas Institute
• Cathedral of St. John the Divine
• The Center for Anti-Violence Education
• Center for Brooklyn History
• Center for Court Innovation
• Center for Independence of the Disabled, NY
• Centre for Social Innovation
• Chhaya CDC
• Child Center of NY
• Children’s Aid
• Chocolate Theater Factory
• Choices Women's Medical Center
• Cindy Trinh, Photographer/Activist
• College of Staten Island
• Columbia University
• Committee to Save Mount Manresa
• Community Health Action of Staten Island
• Concord Baptist Church of Christ
• Coney Island USA
• Congregation Beth Elohim
• Constructive White Conversations
• Coopdanza, Inc.
• Cooper Union
• Council on American-Islamic Relations - New York
• Crown Heights Central Jewish Community Council
• Crown Heights Youth Collective
• Diversity in Arts and Nations for Cultural Education, Inc. (DANCE)
• Dominico-American Society of Queens
• Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
• DreamYard
• The Dream Unfinished
• DRUM: Desis Rising Up & Moving
• EarSay
• Echoing Green
• El Centro del Inmigrante
• Elyse S. Maister, Musician
• En Foco, Inc.
• First Presbyterian Church In Jamaica
• Flux Factory
• Girls Write Now, Inc.
• Globalizing Gender
• Groundswell
• Hadar
• Haiti Cultural Exchange
• Harlem School of the Arts
• Harlem Stage
• Hevria
• Human Impacts Institute
• India Home
• International Center of Photography
• JACK
• Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
• Jamaica Center BID
• Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
• Jamaica Hospital and Flushing Hospital
• The Jewish Museum
• Jews Against White Nationalism
• JMT Media
• John Jay College of Criminal Justice
• Josmar Trujillo, Writer/Organizer
• Judson Memorial Church
• Kamoinge, Inc.
• Karen & the Sorrows
• Kavitha Rajagopalan, Writer/Scholar
• Kentler International Drawing Space
• Kiana Karimi, PhD Candidate, NYU Tisch; Fellow, NYU Urban Democracy Lab
• LGBTQ Center
• Lab/Shul
• La Colmena
• LaGuardia Community College
• LatinoJustice
• League of American Orchestras
• The Legal Aid Society
• Lehman College, City University of New York
• Literary Freedom Project
• Local Project
• Long Island City Partnership
• The Luminal Theater
• Maker Park Radio
• MakerSpace NYC
• Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders
• Mary Feyijinmi, Dance Teaching Artist
• Mengwen Cao, Multimedia Storyteller
• Mercy Center
• Metropolitan Hospital
• Michael Loeb, Activist
• Migration Resource Center
• Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center
• Montefiore Medical Center
• Morley Shanti Kamen, Musician/Educator/Activist
• Move Forward Staten Island
• Ms. Foundation for Women
• The Museum of Modern Art
• Museum of the Moving Image
• Muslim Community Network
• Myrtle Avenue Brookltn Partnership
• NY Day of Remembrance
• NY-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
• NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens
• Napela
• National Sawdust
• National September 11 Memorial & Museum
• Network of Arab-American Professionals
• New Sanctuary Coalition
• New Women New Yorkers
• New York Immigration Coalition
• New York University
• Nonprofit Finance Fund
• Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition
• OneIsland Media
• The Opportunity Agenda
• PEN America
• Park Avenue Armory
• Park Avenue Christian Church
• Part of the Solution (POTS)
• Patrick Dougher, Artist/Art Therapist
• Phipps Neighborhoods
• Picture the Homeless
• The Point
• Point Made Learning
• The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
• Pratt Center for Community Development
• Pratt Institute
• The Pride Center of Staten Island
• Project Hospitality
• Purelements: An Evolution In Dance
• Queens College, CUNY
• Queens Community House
• Queens Council On the Arts
• Queens Economic Development Corporation
• Queens Night Market
• Race Forward
• Rainforest Alliance
• Redhawk Native American Arts Council
• Repair the World New York City
• Resistance Revival Chorus
• RestorationART
• Richard B. Dickenson Staten Island Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
• Richmond University Medical Center
• RISE - Rockaway Waterfront Alliance
• Rockaway Development & Revitalization Corporation
• Romare Bearden Foundation
• Sacha Yanow, Performance Artist
• Safia Jama, Poet
• Sandra Lilia Velasquez, Musician/Activist SLV
• Secret Project Robot
• Shinhee Han, PhD, Psychotherapist
• Sisters of St. John the Baptist
• Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
• South Asian Youth Action (SAYA)
• Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation
• STAR Academy-PS 63
• St. Francis College
• St. George Theatre
• St. John’s University
• Staten Island for Change
• Staten Island Arts
• Staten Island Children's Museum
• Staten Island Family Services/The Jewish Board
• Staten Island Hunger Task Force
• Staten Island Liberian Community Association
• Staten Island Museum
• Staten Island NAACP
• Staten Island NFP Association
• Staten Island OutLOUD
• Staten Island Partnership for Community Wellness
• Staten Island Small Business Development Center
• Staten Island University Hospital
• Staten Island Urban Center
• Sundog Theatre
• Sutphin Boulevard BID
• Sylvia A. Harvey, Investigative Journalist
• Terra Firma: Healthcare and Justice for Immigrant Children
• Theatre Development Fund
• Topaz Arts, Inc.
• T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
• Tsuru for Solidarity
• United We Dream
• United Women Firefighters
• Universal Temple of the Arts
• University Settlement
• Urban Bush Women
• Urban Word NYC
• Vera Institute for Justice
• WE ACT For Environmental Justice
• WHEDco (Women's Housing and Economic Development Corp.)
• Wagner College
• Wave Hill
• We Stay/Nos Quedamos, Inc.
• Weeksville Heritage Center
• West Bronx Housing and Neighborhood Resource Center
• Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls
• Yemeni American Merchants Association
• YK Hong, Anti-Oppression Trainer/Facilitator
• York College, CUNY