HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) is an interdisciplinary community of humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists, and technologists that are changing the way we teach and learn.

Renée's accepted paper addressed the great need for an interdisciplinary approach to studying disempowered cultures through progressive methods to communicate the true cultural value of contemporary culture by examining 5Pointz, the noted urban art and graffiti center.