Join Basil Smikle Jr. in conversation with Marc Morial, President and CEO of National Urban League, for a discussion of the challenges civic leaders and academics face in building political and social movements around the most pressing policy problems of today. Speakers: Marc H. Morial is the President and CEO of the National Urban League. His energetic and skilled leadership has […]
The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a panel discussion with Paisley Currah, the author of Sex is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity, and Zein Murib, the author of Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity. These acclaimed new books deliver vital and urgent accounts of queer and […]
Join CENTRO on November 14th at 6 PM at CUNY’s Baruch College Mishkin Gallery for a community viewing of their new exhibition, We didn’t ask permission, we just did it…, on display through December 8th, 2023. This vibrant and experimental exhibition revisits and honors the legacy of three historic exhibition series in Puerto Rico from 2000 […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Sounds of Mediterranean Jewry: Sephardi-Mizrahi Songlines Presented by: Dr. Samuel Torjman Thomas, Founder and Artistic Director of ASEFA and the New York Andalus Ensemble and […]
The Roosevelt House Human Rights and Public Policy Programs together with The Invisible Americans podcast invite you to the second of three 2023 events: Child Poverty is Personal: Do You Hear Us? A Live Invisible Americans Podcast with a recorded welcome from Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and a keynote address from author & advocate David Ambroz. Millions of […]
This is a book lauch by two Hunter College authors (Deborah Rojas De Leon and Jochen Albrecht) and Laxmi Ramasubramanian from San José. GIS and Housing: Principles and Practices explores the complexities of the present-day housing crisis in the United States and advocates for denser housing alternatives to address affordability, supply shortages, and homelessness. The book explains how […]
Join photographers Maximo Colón & Mónica Félix as they explore their photographs on display as part of the exhibition, Ida y Vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo at the Hunter College East Harlem Gallery. Explore how these artists have documented the migrations past and present and how their photographs help define […]
Hunter College President Ann Kirschner Invites you to the Roosevelt House series: Mapping the Future of Higher Ed Featuring: Ben Wildavsky author of The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials & Connections in conversation with Daphne Kis CEO of WorldQuant University. Reception and book signing will follow. Warm thanks to Anthony E. Meyer, […]
Local and regional planners struggle to keep up with rapid changes in mobility patterns. This exploratory research is framed with the overarching goal of asking if and how geo-social network data (GSND), in this case, Twitter data, can be used to understand and explain commuting and non-commuting travel patterns. The research project set out to […]
Roosevelt House, together with the New York City Chapter of the Living New Deal, is pleased to present a discussion of the women who supported Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkins in their pathbreaking endeavors to rescue the nation and create a better future. The panel will feature preeminent Eleanor Roosevelt biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook andRoosevelt House historian Deborah Gardner, […]
