Tech Learning Collective Workshop Series

Tech Learning Collective is an apprenticeship-based technology school
that provides trainings in the arts of Information Technology, cybersecurity, and radical political practice. By providing educational opportunities in the form of public workshops, private trainings, and community convergences such as the recent Hackers Next Door 2019 conference, Tech Learning Collective empowers otherwise underserved communities by bringing digital security trainers, legal experts, and experienced activists together with local community groups, neighborhood coalitions, and tenants associations. In collaboration with artists, hacklabs, makerspaces, independent
bookstores, and local businesses, Tech Learning Collective 
facilitates direct community participation in the construction and
operation of autonomous digital infrastructure services focused on
providing for the community's and neighborhood's own needs.

At the Hackers Next Door 2019 conference generously sponsored by
Triangle Arts Association and TechAhoy, Inc., a local maker space in
Queens, Tech Learning Collective was honored to host, among others, the
Atlantic Plaza Towers Tenants Association and a member of their legal
team from Legal Services NYC as they shared details of their fight
against the implementation of racist facial recognition software in
their homes. Conference attendees also heard from organizers of the No
New Jails NYC campaign who are defending New Yorkers from the expansion
of the carceral industry, and the Executive Directors of both the
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project and the Tor Project who are
working on improving legal and technical tools to protect privacy and
civil rights locally and globally.