Urbanity Dance Builds Community Through Movement

Just a few weeks ago, Urbanity Dance’s administrative staff was settling into its new digs in the South End.

“Did we bring the stapler?’’

“We made coffee today!’’

Urbanity has been dancing in the Hub since it was founded in 2008. It’s come a long way since its debut. While it once only had six dancers, today the company gets to dance with 400 people a week and over 10,000 people annually. And it needed a bigger house for its expanding family.

Wrote this feature, took photos and created a video on this contemporary dance company 0 more here.
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‘Mighty Mom’ Breast Pumping Toolbelt Wins MIT Hackathon

The results of MIT’s Make The Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon are in.

More than 150 breast pump users, engineers, designers, health care and lactation specialists, as well as educators, converged at the MIT Media Lab for two days of hacking, collaborating and deliberating about how to create a better breast pump.

Wrote this feature for Boston.com – more here.