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Baltimore is the last free city on the East Coast, un-devoured by gentrification, still teeming with ethnic neighborhoods, eccentricities, and mysteries to discover.

Jason Harris

Community Research and action committee

Jason Harris (he/him) is a Baltimore-based futurist, educator, and cultural technologist. He is the founder and facilitator of the BlkRobot Project, a long-term educational art effort designed to place multi-functional art of scale in predominantly Black neighborhoods.

Jason has more than 25 years’ experience in Information Technology in various roles. He has participated in Afro-Brazilian cultural arts, such as Capoeira and Samba, for more than 20 years. Jason is a writer whose work has appeared in Black Enterprise, BmoreArt.com, and various online publications. He self-published the speculative fiction anthology, “Redlines: Baltimore 2028,” and is a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow. He also runs the SoulBot Saturday Design Squad, a STEM course for Baltimore youth.

Jason has facilitated classes and workshops at the University of Baltimore, the University of the Bahamas, and Goucher College. He currently teaches technology classes at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.