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The Invisible Institute is a Chicago-based journalism production company. A core staff works with a farflung network of collaborators in our ongoing projects.
Current projects include the Citizens Police Data Project (cpdp.co), Youth/Police Project, and View From the Ground.
The activities of the Invisible Institute cohere around a central principle: we as citizens have co-responsibility with the government for maintaining respect for human rights and, when abuses occur, for demanding they be addressed.
Our name began as a wisecrack. In 2000, writer Jamie Kalven and two collaborators were operating out of a vacant unit in a public housing highrise where the online human rights reporting platform The View From The Ground was born. With tongue in cheek, Kalven wrote that The View was published under the auspices of something called the Invisible Institute. The name stuck. Now, the name represents an unfolding adventure: a process of inquiry, exploration and relationship-building. As many of our projects center on themes of visibility and place, there is another meaning to our name: We seek to keep fellow citizens visible by resisting the forces that disappear certain individuals, populations and places.
Contact us at [email protected]
Current projects include the Citizens Police Data Project (cpdp.co), Youth/Police Project, and View From the Ground.
The activities of the Invisible Institute cohere around a central principle: we as citizens have co-responsibility with the government for maintaining respect for human rights and, when abuses occur, for demanding they be addressed.
Our name began as a wisecrack. In 2000, writer Jamie Kalven and two collaborators were operating out of a vacant unit in a public housing highrise where the online human rights reporting platform The View From The Ground was born. With tongue in cheek, Kalven wrote that The View was published under the auspices of something called the Invisible Institute. The name stuck. Now, the name represents an unfolding adventure: a process of inquiry, exploration and relationship-building. As many of our projects center on themes of visibility and place, there is another meaning to our name: We seek to keep fellow citizens visible by resisting the forces that disappear certain individuals, populations and places.
Contact us at [email protected]
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United States, Illinois, Chicago
Mentions in press and media 6
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| Apr 20, 2021 | AIRBNB, INC. Airbnb : Activism and Allyship Guide | Last year Airbnb published a guide designed by the company's Black@ employee resource group to help interested people become better allies. The guide has been updated to reflect additional references to work from activists and experts in an... |
| Jan 16, 2020 | Judge Says Chicago PD Must Release Nearly 50 Years Of Misconduct Files Before The End Of This Year | The Chicago Police Department is one of the worst in the nation. There’s simply no denying this. |
| Jan 16, 2020 | Judge Says Chicago PD Must Release Nearly 50 Years Of Misconduct Files Before The End Of This Year | The Chicago Police Department is one of the worst in the nation. There's simply no denying this. |
| May 8, 2019 | New Police Misconduct Database Shows Thousands Of Violations, Very Little Accountability | USA Today has scored a coup. It has partnered with police accountability nonprofit Invisible Institute to obtain misconduct records from around the nation. These paint a pretty bleak picture of American policing — not just in the number of ... |
| Jan 6, 2016 | 7 social justice projects tapping the power of police data | This article is a sneak peak at a larger report on how technology is building a 21st-century criminal justice system. The full report will be released later in 2016 by the Research and Evaluation Center at the John Jay College of Criminal J... |
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What has the press written about Invisible Institute?
Parsers VC has collected 6 articles mentioning Invisible Institute, among them “AIRBNB, INC. Airbnb : Activism and Allyship Guide” (Apr 20, 2021) and “Judge Says Chicago PD Must Release Nearly 50 Years Of Misconduct Files Before The End Of This Year” (Jan 16, 2020).
Is Invisible Institute still active?
Yes, Invisible Institute is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 27, 2024.