Futures Conference Reactions

The Futures of New York conference was informative and well put together. I also thought everyone was prepared and put at least some effort into their presentation, although some of their presentations had many words on the slides. My favorite presentation was on expanding the arts and chess funding for low-income communities, although I did wonder how the group would ensure equitable funding given the possibility of inaccurate census data among immigrant communities. However, a professor bought up that point before I could. I also secretly did not expect the professors and students to ask thorough, practical questions, yet they did. All the groups, including us, answered them to the best of their abilities, but it would have been nice if the audience actually took into account that none of us were actual policy makers. Yet, their questions proved they were engaged in and paid attention to each presentation, which was appreciated after all the research and practice presentations.