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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition by Hunter College Associate Professor of Sociology Calvin John Smiley. In this eye-opening and urgent analysis, Smiley delivers a powerful and deeply researched critique of the prison reentry system as well as a moving portrait of those most impacted by […]
For the past three decades, the number of lesbian bars in the United States has seen a steady decline—from an estimated 200 at their peak in the 1980s to a low point in 2020 of less than 20 across the country, according to an NBC Newsreport. Since then, according to a more recent NBC News review from August […]
Join Basil Smikle Jr. and Nicholas Bloom in conversation with Hon. Alicka Ampry-Samuel, for a meaningful discussion about federal housing policy and urban development. Ms. Ampry-Samuel is an experienced human rights champion with a deep understanding of the experiences and the needs of the Department’s most vulnerable. She strives to provide quality affordable housing for low-income residents and homebuyers by […]
The Roosevelt House Human Rights and Public Policy Programs together with “The Invisible Americans” Podcast invite you to the first of three 2023 convergings: Child Poverty Is Personal: How Do We End It? In support of nearly 13 million American children living in poverty, we invite you to join us for the first of three critical […]
Hunter College President Ann Kirschner Invites you to the launch of a new Roosevelt House series: Mapping the Future of Higher Ed Presented by Hunter College and Macaulay Honors College Featuring: Achieve Partners Managing Director, Ryan Craig, author of Apprentice Nation: How the “Earn and Learn” Alternative to Higher Education Will Create a Stronger and […]
