Karilyn Crockett

Biography

Karilyn Crockett (born June 1973) is an American historian, educator, and community organizer focusing on urban development, racial equity, and community memory. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Crockett has played a significant role in shaping local urban policy and civic engagement through her academic work and her roles in city government. She is best known for her book People Before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners and a New Movement for City Making, which explores the grassroots resistance to highway construction in Boston during the 1960s and for directing Hacking the Archive, a community engagement initiative to use archival and historical materials to design equity action.

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