Apply to be a 2027 Vital Village Community Data Ambassador

Vital Village is seeking three Community Data Ambassador volunteers to co-lead the Community Data Workgroup in 2027. Responsibilities include:

Assist our next steps in the Housing Justice Movement
Support community outreach and partnership
Group reflection on how to use technology and data to advance social justice issues.
Creating agendas and facilitating monthly Workgroup meetings
Six-month service commitment

The Workgroup is a peer-led space where Boston residents and community organizations can discuss challenges, share data, and design solutions together. Community-led topics have included food justice, transportation equity, and housing. Previous projects have included co-designing the Abundance Boston app, Community Housing Data Tool, Experiences on the MBTA Transportation Equity map, and the Join the PLEDGE to ensure everyone in Massachusetts has a safe, stable place to call home—now and for generations to come! - Action Network

Volunteers ambassadors will receive a $500 honorarium for their service.

To apply, please complete the form below before our updated deadline, November 30th, 2026 by 11 PM ET. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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Community Data Ambassador Application

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What interests you about serving as a community data ambassador with Vital Village?

Some roles of community data ambassadors include creating agendas and facilitating virtual monthly workgroup meetings, supporting community outreach and partnership, and holding discussions and reflections on ways that data and technology can support systems change including food justice, transportation equity, and housing.

Alongside resident champions and organizational partners in the data workgroup, ambassadors will co-create data tools such as interactive maps, mobile applications, and information sharing technology that advance social change.

Please describe your previous experience or interest in these responsibilities.

Ambassadors are expected to spend ~5 hours supporting the workgroup per month from January through July/August, including attending a monthly internal planning meeting, communicating with other workgroup members around data projects, and facilitating an hour-long monthly workgroup session.

Do you have capacity to support these roles? Please describe

Several of our community partners invite the data workgroup to attend in-person events and symposiums. Would you be able to attend and represent the data workgroup at these in-person partner events roughly once every 6 weeks in the spring and summer (optional)?

Please describe your comfort level and availability with participating in in-person events.

What supports and accommodations would help you to thrive in this role?

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Apply to be a 2027 Vital Village Community Data Ambassador

Community Data Ambassador Application

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