adding additional projects and leadership roles

README.md

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 * Not sure which project you want to join? Introduce yourself in [#general](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/general/). Talk to a few project leads, let them know what you are interested in. Project leads can help you determine if a project is a good fit for you.
 * Have an idea for a new project? Join [#project-ideas](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/project-ideas/) to start a discussion on a new project.
 * Looking for a certain type of task, in any project? Check the [task digest](#task-digest).
-* Not sure how to get started? Contact @gecky or @jonathon in the Slack, or check out the [#onboarding](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/onboarding/) channel, and we'll help you out.
+* Not sure how to get started? Contact @gecky or @jonathon in the Slack, or check out the [#onboarding](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/onboarding/) channel, and we'll help you out. Also check out [#micro-projects](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/micro-projects/) for quick projects that'll help you get your feet wet. 
 * Want to pick up some skills before diving in? Check out the [tutorials](https://github.com/Data4Democracy/tutorials) which are all relevant to D4D projects and chat about it in [#learning](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/learning/).
 * Check out our [data.world](https://data.world) page at [data.world/data4democracy](https://data.world/data4democracy), where data can be shared. See our guide to [get started](https://github.com/Data4Democracy/read-this-first/blob/master/data-world.md). Contact @sya or @gabriela in Slack with questions
 
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 ### Matchmaker
 The community has grown to a point where there is a lot of activity and a steady stream of new volunteers, which is awesome! We could use more people who know about the various projects that are happening along with the skills of the incoming volunteers, and can both match people to projects (ideally, to specific tasks), along with routinely surfacing new opportunities to the broader community for folks to get involved at all skill levels. @gecky and the individual project leads have been going above and beyond in this regard, and they need your help.
 
+### Project Leads
+You've probably noticed that there are a few people in every active project keeping the group on track, taking questions, and helping new folks get settled in -- that's by design. Leading a project can be a big time commitment, but it's hugely valuable to making sure we're doing useful work, and volunteers are getting the most out of volunteering. You don't need to be super technical, just organized and enthusiastic! **In particular we're looking for people to lead these projects:**
+* An ongoing series of small projects with the city of Los Angeles' analytics team. You'll be the liason between the D4D community and the group in LA working with the Chief Data Officer.
+* Tech to support immigration attorneys. We're talking with one national immigration law non-profit to make sure we're focused on what will have the most impact, and more partnerships will follow. 
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 ## Current projects  
 We have many projects going in our slack community. Below is a list of some of our more active projects that are actively seeking help.
 
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 **Project Description:** Community working to build tools and infrastructure to enable the study of online communities and their characteristics. As we work through our own projects, our goal is to build a toolkit which takes care of common tasks so researchers do not have to reinvent the wheel with each new project.  
 
-**Project Leads:** [@bstarling](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@bstarling/) [@nick](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@nick/)  
+**Project Leads:** [@bstarling](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@bstarling/) [@nick](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@nick/) 
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 ### [Boston Crash Modeling](https://github.com/Data4Democracy/boston-crash-modeling)
 **Project Description:** This is an official collaboration between the City of Boston's Analytics Team and Data for Democracy. We want to build a crash prediction modeling application. This would combine things like [our crowdsourced safety concerns dataset](http://app01.cityofboston.gov/VZSafety/) and [crash reports](http://app01.cityofboston.gov/VisionZero/) with a wide range of other data from our own open data portal as well as from other sources like the state's transportation and transit agencies, weather conditions feeds, and traffic reports from sites like Google. The end result will be a set of dynamic predictions we can use to identify potential trouble spots and direct timely safety interventions--everything from protected bike lanes and better-marked crosswalks to new street lights and traffic light timings. We'll make this publicly-available to everyone through a hosted map application, and develop the project as an open source template that can be adapted for use by other cities.
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 **Project Leads:** [@therriault](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@therriault/) (City of Boston lead), [@niccolley](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@niccolley/) (Data for Democracy lead)
 
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+### City of San Diego
+**Project Description:** This is an ongoing collaboration with the analytics team at the city of San Diego. We're be checking in with them on a regular basis to see what analysis or machine learning projects they need help with, and coordinating with the D4D community on a project-by-project basis to get things done. This is a great way to make a direct impact at the city level. 
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+**Slack:** [#city-sandiego](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/city-sandiego/) 
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+**Project Leads:** [@eric_bickel](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@eric_bickel/)
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 ### [Drug Spending](https://github.com/Data4Democracy/drug-spending)  
 **Slack:** [#drug-spending](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/drug-spending/)  
 **Project Description:** Help the public understand what their tax dollars are going toward. Eg, what % of the eligible population (and/or all Americans) are benefiting from Medicare prescription drug coverage? How many Medicare enrollees are being treated for common/relatable conditions like diabetes, Alzheimer's, or depression? What proportion of Medicare prescription spending is on each of those conditions? 
 
-**Project Leads:** [@jenniferthompson](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@jenniferthompson/) [@mattgawarecki](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/mattgawarecki/)
+**Project Leads:** [@jenniferthompson](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@jenniferthompson/) [@mattgawarecki](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@mattgawarecki/)
 
 **Data:** [data.world/data4democracy/drug-spending](https://data.world/data4democracy/drug-spending)
 
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 ### [Election Transparency](https://github.com/Data4Democracy/election-transparency)  
 **Slack:** [#election-transparency](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/election-transparency/)
 
-**Project Description:** Aggregating and normalizing county-level election results to be shared with the broader community. 
+**Project Description:** Aggregating and normalizing county-level election results to be shared with the broader community. This team now has a fantastic dataset that's difficult to obtain. In addition to the ongoing data engineering effort, they could use help from statisticians, political scientists, and anyone ready to analyze this data. 
 
 **Project Leads:** [@chris_dick](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/chris_dick/), [@scottcame](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/scottcame/), [@rachelanddata](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/rachelanddata/)
 
 **Data:** [data.world/data4democracy/election-transparency](https://data.world/data4democracy/election-transparency)
 
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 ### [Internal Displacement](https://github.com/Data4Democracy/internal-displacement)
 
 **Project Description:**  
 Classifying, tagging, analyzing and visualizing news events about internal displacement.
 
 **Project Lead:**
-[@grichardson](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/grichardson/)
+[@grichardson](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@grichardson/)
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 ### ProPublica  
 **Slack:** [#propublica](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/propublica/)
 
-**Project Description:** Working on projects to support the non-profit investigative journalism publication, [ProPublica](http://propublica.org). The team's first project is [analyzing campaign spending data](https://github.com/Data4Democracy/campaign_expenditures). 
+**Project Description:** Working on projects to support the non-profit investigative journalism publication, [ProPublica](http://propublica.org). The team's first project is [analyzing campaign spending data](https://github.com/Data4Democracy/campaign_expenditures) and have just started a web scraping/data engineering project around [foreign travel expenditures](https://github.com/Data4Democracy/official-foreign-travel). 
 
 **Project Leads:** [@ryanes](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@ryanes/) [@eric_bickel](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@eric_bickel/)
 
 **Data:** [data.world/data4democracy/propublica](https://data.world/data4democracy/propublica)
 
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 ### [USA Dashboard](https://github.com/Data4Democracy/usa-dashboard/issues)  
 **Slack:** [#usa-dashboard](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/usa-dashboard/) 
 
 **Project Description:** A dashboard of key metrics for the USA. The team's first KPIs are around city-level crime data. 
 
-**Project Leads:** [@sjt](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@sjt/)
+**Project Leads:** [@sjt](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/sjt/)
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+### Immigration Legal Tech
+**Project Description:** This is a new project that sprung up in response to the immigrant ban. We're talking with one national immigration law non-profit to make sure the project stays focused on what's most needed, but this project is very early. Join the Slack channel if you'd like to stay up to date on how this evolves.
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+**Slack:** [#immigration-connection](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/immigration-connection/) 
 
+**Project Leads:** [@tylerjrichards](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/tylerjrichards/) [@jonathon](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@jonathon/)
 
 ## Task digest
 If you're looking for a certain type of task (e.g. beginner-friendly) to lead you to a project, try checking the links below: