Donna Chan 7/22/25 Donna Chan 7/22/25

Transportation Planning and Urban Resilience: How Boston’s Past Planning Mistakes Can Influence Future Successes In Roxbury

This is Rivera Consulting’s cornerstone project, which examines the historical and current relationship between community organizing and urban planning in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. The project is designed to help inform the work of the current transportation planning practice, particularly the City of Boston’s Roxbury Resilient Corridors project.

Donna Chan 4/11/24 Donna Chan 4/11/24

Unpacking & Restitching Our Siloed Edges: The Deep Democracy Landscape

Rivera Consulting revamps their political and civic research to meet the reality of our political and public commons

Donna Chan 4/11/24 Donna Chan 4/11/24

The Lazu Group and Rivera Consulting Formalize Collaboration

The Lazu Group and Rivera Consulting – both women- and minority-owned consulting firms – are formalizing their collaboration to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) through reparative planning in the public and private sectors.

Donna Chan 11/22/22 Donna Chan 11/22/22

Presencing: Disrupting Table Talk Culture to Build Community and Find Home

The Democracy Salons: a three part series where we invited thought leaders, change-makers, and everyday folks committed to co-foster and co-build a community that is built with each other to create the conditions for a multiracial democracy.

Donna Chan 11/8/22 Donna Chan 11/8/22

How a crowdsourced spreadsheet helped predict Boston's mayoral election in minutes

Donna Chan 11/6/22 Donna Chan 11/6/22

Keller @ Large: Inflation a critical topic on Election Day as control of House and Senate up for grabs

Donna Chan 11/1/22 Donna Chan 11/1/22

Becoming a Good Ancestor: The Story of Political Misfits and the Power of Unleashing Community at Rivera Consulting

Donna Chan 10/17/22 Donna Chan 10/17/22

Commentary | City Council redistricting plan should lean on wisdom of Tom Menino

Donna Chan 10/17/22 Donna Chan 10/17/22

Leveraging the Wisdom of Menino to Design Equitable Districts for Boston City Council: The Rivera Consulting Approach

Donna Chan 6/29/22 Donna Chan 6/29/22

How We’re Rethinking Equity and Engagement in Worcester

Donna Chan 5/26/22 Donna Chan 5/26/22

Practical Implications for Embedding Equity in Municipal Planning

At Rivera Consulting, we partner with clients to transform communities, systems, and institutions through relational and multi-disciplinary trust building and data-driven problem solving and urban planning.

Donna Chan 5/12/22 Donna Chan 5/12/22

Deep Democracy: Values, Data, and Trust Building

Donna Chan 4/19/22 Donna Chan 4/19/22

100 Most Influential Bostonians of 2022

Donna Chan 3/1/22 Donna Chan 3/1/22

Organized Labor Regroups in the Battle Against Gig-economy Giants

Donna Chan 2/28/22 Donna Chan 2/28/22

Ayanna Pressley Addresses Challenges to Democracy, Russian Violence, SCOTUS at Speaker Series Event

Donna Chan 12/8/21 Donna Chan 12/8/21

Miranda, Elugardo Running for 2nd Suffolk Senate District

Donna Chan 11/17/21 Donna Chan 11/17/21

Some Things Changed, But Others Stayed The Same: A Look At Boston's Election Results

Donna Chan 11/14/21 Donna Chan 11/14/21

Millennial. Mom. Mayor. Another Way Michelle Wu Reflects a Changing Boston

Donna Chan 10/26/21 Donna Chan 10/26/21

Election Night at Rivera Consulting

Donna Chan 10/19/21 Donna Chan 10/19/21

MA Redistricting: The Good, the Bad and Forging a Bold Road Forward

One thing is clear from the redistricting maps released locally last week: moderates have a vice grip on the Massachusetts legislature. If you have read the Rivera Consulting blog before, this is not news to you. In 2020, the political relationship between Governor Baker and House Leadership was hiding in plain sight. The new Massachusetts legislative district maps are peak Massachusetts - gerrymandered to protect those in power.

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