Alexa Mills

Journalist

Alexa Mills is a journalist and Research Affiliate at the MIT Community Innovators Lab in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Haaretz, The New Republic, and other publications.

Photos: How Polaroids helped kids in project housing tell their stories for 50 years

February 10, 2016Culture

Thanks to Polaroid and a basement arts center, the kids of Newtowne Court in Cambridge, Mass., have been building a photographic monument to their neighborhood since the 1960s.

How one student used documents and DNA to find her enslaved ancestors

January 15, 2016Culture