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Arun Konkoth, a Senior at Stuyvesant High School, is the developer, content researcher, and designer of the Immigrant Experience. Arun is vice president and co-founder of the web design club in his school and has worked on many other projects. He is also a member of the national honor society in his school and editor-in-chief of Nucleus, Stuyvesant High School's official Physics and Chemistry Publication. Arun plays tennis and basketball and is on the Stuyvesant Tennis Team. He has done much work in the community, volunteering at the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service for two years and raising thousands of dollars for Akshaya Patra, a not-for profit organization in India, which provides free meals for the needy children around Bangalore City. Arun's research interests include cryptography, and to that end, he has written papers on encyrption and decryption, and is currently researching an Intel Project on Braid Group Cryptography. [Read Arun's family narrative]
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Daniel Charitable is a Junior at Canarsie High School. He is a Member of Global Kids at Canarsie High School. Global Kids is a club where adults go for computer help. Daniel is a Web designer. One of the websites that he had designed was Bright Future Day Care which is his mother’s day care. That website was so impressive that it paved the way for him. Almost every week he makes a website either for an individual or an organization. He is a member of the Boyscout's at Horeb S.D.A.Church. As a member, he participates in a lot of fundraising for the church.[Read Daniel's family narrative]
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La Lutta New Media Collective (NMC), a non-profit, community-based organization, is a diverse group of people united to promote a greater level of social awareness through new media. Serving two critical roles, La Lutta is a vital resource for community empowerment. First, La Lutta offers new media technical assistance to non-profit, community and grassroots groups unable to incorporate appropriate technological strategies into their daily operations. Secondly, La Lutta is a production house for these groups as well as students, artists, and individuals who lack the proper forum for expression, creativity, and information sharing.
Through partnerships and collaboration such as this one with the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, La Lutta NMC brings together a wide range of individuals with new media skills to provide expertise for those who are committed to addressing various social issues, but do not have the resources, financial or otherwise, to successfully carry out their activities. We focus on education, visual and performing arts, and multimedia outreach activity. This project was produced under La Lutta NMC's Active-Knowledge-Youth Program...[Learn More]
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The Lower East Side Tenement Museum's mission is: to promote tolerance and historical perspective through the presentation and interpretation of the variety of immigrant and migrant experiences on Manhattan's Lower East Side, a gateway to America.
Located in our country's most renowned immigrant neighborhood, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum interprets historic immigrant experience to illuminate the present. By stimulating dialogue on pressing social issues as a means of promoting humanitarian and democratic values, the Museum has established a new model for the museum and preservation professions.
At the center of the Museum's programs is its flagship tenement building at 97 Orchard Street. Built in 1863...[Learn More]
