Francisca Rojas is a PhD candidate at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning in the City Design and Development group and a researcher in the MIT Senseable City Lab. Her research is motivated by an interest in how globalization is anchored in urban places and the role of information and communications technologies (ICTs) as a force in urban development. I am currently writing my dissertation, titled New York Talk Exchange: telecommunications and transnationalism in a globalizing city.