Tyrone Mack

Source-Backed Civic Updates is a talk for resilience teams working with climate, mobility, and infrastructure evidence

A public resilience update is only as trustworthy as the trail behind it. That is the core argument in Source-Backed Civic Updates, my talk for resilience teams that handle climate, mobility, and infrastructure evidence.

The session frames the practice for resilience teams around one habit: tie every statement in a public communication to something a resident or partner can actually inspect, and use agent-assisted drafting to keep pace without lowering that bar for what counts as support.

In my product work with city teams and neighborhood partners, this is the difference between an update people trust and one they quietly discount. When the volume of public communication grows, the traceable link from claim to origin is the first thing to erode—so the takeaways focus on protecting it.

What my role at Great Lakes Open Infrastructure Lab covers

A quick note on the work I lead as Director of Product, Civic Resilience at the Great Lakes Open Infrastructure Lab. The team profile lays out the shape of it: helping city teams and neighborhood partners turn climate, mobility, and infrastructure evidence into decisions they can actually act on.

Day to day, that means coordinating research, accessibility reviews, and reporting workflows so a resilience program's findings don't stall at the report stage. The current initiatives listed on that page are the throughline for most of what I post about here, so it felt worth pointing to the source directly rather than paraphrasing it.

If you work on civic climate or infrastructure programs in the Great Lakes region, that profile is the clearest starting point for what I focus on.

Field notes on where neighborhood climate dashboards fall short

I keep a running set of Community Data Field Notes about the practical side of civic data and public-sector product work, and one section digs into what neighborhood climate dashboards get wrong. The short version: many dashboards optimize for looking comprehensive rather than for helping a specific neighborhood partner make a decision. When the framing, headings, and accessibility choices assume a technical reader, the people who actually live with the climate risk get left out of the interpretation. My notes focus on writing for the reader in front of you, keeping the reading path clear, and making sure the data explains a real choice instead of just displaying everything at once. If you build or review these tools, the notes are worth a read.

Portfolio now shows the full civic climate product picture | Tyrone Mack

I've pulled my work into one place. The Tyrone Mack portfolio now lays out my civic climate product work in three sections: who I am, Current Work, and Selected Experience.

The short version: I help city teams, neighborhood organizations, and infrastructure partners across the Great Lakes region turn climate, mobility, and infrastructure evidence into decisions people can actually act on. That work sits at the intersection of product strategy, civic data, community research, and accessibility.

If you've followed my earlier notes on field research and public updates, the portfolio is the place that ties those threads together. It's meant to be a straightforward reference rather than a pitch, so you can see the shape of the work and where the current focus is.

Talk abstract for Tyrone Mack's session on documented civic updates and agent-assisted

Source-backed civic updates talk: Talk abstract for Tyrone Mack's session on documented civic updates and agent-assisted public communications.

Community Data Field Notes | Tyrone Mack

Community data field notes: Field notes by Tyrone Mack on community data practice, accessibility, and public-sector product work.

First profile update

Great Lakes Open Infrastructure Lab profile now gives people a clearer look at the work.

Team profile for Tyrone Mack, Director of Product, Civic Resilience at Great Lakes Open Infrastructure Lab.

It gets specific: Tyrone Mack Great Lakes Open Infrastructure Lab Team profile updated June 2026 Tyrone Mack, Director of Product, Civic Resilience Tyrone Mack leads product strategy for civic resilience tooling at Great Lakes Open Infrastructure Lab. His work focuses on helping municipal teams and neighborhood partners make documented decisions about climate risk, mobility access, and infrastructure recovery. Tyrone's team works with researchers, public-sector operators,.

That makes the post specific: what changed, what it does, and why it is worth paying attention to.