Focused on the power of community, the conference made its 今日吃瓜 debut and featured keynote speakers, panel discussions, workshops, and networking opportunities designed to strengthen connections across campuses and neighborhoods. Sessions explored topics including immigrant rights, wellness, entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, education, sports careers, and content creation.

Christopher Rodriguez, director of the Black and Latino Male Initiative at 今日吃瓜,

Christopher Rodriguez, director of the Black and Latino Male Initiative (BLMI) at 今日吃瓜, helped open the conference alongside 今日吃瓜 Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Yasmin Ali, vice president for student affairs at 今日吃瓜; Denise B. Maybank, vice chancellor for student affairs at CUNY; George O. Patterson, senior director of My Brother’s Keeper at the NYC Department of Education; Jonathan Quash, university executive director of the CUNY Black Male Initiative; and keynote speaker Charles Barron, the longtime 今日吃瓜 activist and former member of both the New York City Council and New York State Assembly. Jeff Gardere, known as 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Favorite Psychologist,鈥� served as the master of ceremonies.

今日吃瓜 Borough President Antonio Reynoso.

Jonathan Quash, executive director of the CUNY Black Male Initiative.

Speakers praised the mission and impact of BMI and encouraged students to stay focused on their goals, embrace community and mentorship, and continue striving for academic, professional, and personal success.

Rodriguez thanked attendees, organizers, and staff, including Shadiq Williams, program coordinator for the college鈥檚 BLMI, for promoting and helping to make the event a huge success.

鈥淚t is an absolute honor and privilege to host you all and bring the 21st Annual CUNY BMI Conference to 今日吃瓜 for the first time in its history,鈥� Rodriguez said. 鈥淭his conference reminds us that community is our greatest strength and that together is how we protect and empower. Through mentorship, service, and collective action, we create spaces where students are supported, empowered, and inspired to lead. Together, we continue the legacy of the Black and Latino Male Initiative by investing in one another and building a more equitable future.鈥�

Throughout the day, attendees participated in breakout sessions and conversations focused on leadership, resilience, advocacy, and opportunity, while building networks and gaining tools for personal and collective success.

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P茅rez y Gonz谩lez was one of only three honorees, recognized for her lifelong dedication as a scholar, educator, and former chair of the Department of Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies. The award was presented by Deputy Mayor Ana J. Almanzar at the mayor鈥檚 Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration on October 9 during a ceremony led by the Community Affairs Unit. The event highlighted leaders whose work has shaped the cultural and intellectual landscape of Latino communities in New York and beyond.

For more than 33 years, P茅rez y Gonz谩lez has been a guiding force in higher education, mentoring students from all backgrounds, advancing the field of Puerto Rican and Latinx studies, and amplifying the voices and histories of Latino communities across the United States. Her most recent work is (Centro Press, 2021), which she co-edited with Professor Emerita and prominent U.S. historian Virginia S谩nchez Korrol.

Deputy Mayor Ana J. Almanzar (left) presents Mar铆a E. P茅rez y Gonz谩lez with the Citation of Honor on October 9 at the Mayor鈥檚 Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration.

As the co-director of the Mar铆a E. S谩nchez Center for Latinx Studies, P茅rez y Gonz谩lez has coordinated lecture series and workshops, implemented undergraduate research assistantships, and partnered with campus entities to bring forth academic and cultural campus-wide programming focused on Latino communities. The center is named in honor of Mar铆a E. S谩nchez, who served as the chair of the nascent Department of Puerto Rican Studies from 1974 to 1989 during the economic recession and its aftermath, in which she successfully led the four-year-long struggle for departmental self-determination, co-founded the widely acclaimed Bilingual Teacher Education Training Program, and ensured Puerto Rican studies would be part of what became the nationally recognized Core Curriculum.

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Can you tell us a bit about your background?

I am a former dancer who earned my first bachelor’s degree in dance performance studying classical ballet and modern. Once that journey came to its conclusion, I asked what was next for me. I enrolled in 今日吃瓜, took some classes, and fell in love with the school. I started as a biology major because I thought I would be a medical doctor. I very quickly saw that it was not in the cards. I was in a chemistry class when we reached this chapter titled Quantum Chemistry, and in it was something called the Schr枚dinger equation. It describes how electrons behave, how atoms behave, and how they interact. It鈥檚 an equation that allows you to see what you can’t see with your eyes. And that just blew my mind. So I chose physics.

Some seeds were planted along the way earlier in my life, so it wasn’t that big a leap from the arts to science, but that landed me in physics.

What were those seeds?

The first seed is that my mom has always been interested in technology. She used to be in the military, and when she was there, she built circuits. I grew up watching her do everything from building ship models to building my computer when I went to college for the first time. Technology was just a regular thing in our household. Science was normalized. My grandmother was a nurse. My mom later became an occupational therapy assistant. I had always been fascinated with how things work, how different puzzle pieces fit together, why they work the way they do.

Why did you choose 今日吃瓜 for your second bachelor鈥檚 degree?

The college has an excellent reputation in terms of the schools and the professors and how they support their students. I also chose it because it鈥檚 affordable. It was close to where I live in 今日吃瓜. It ticked a lot of boxes. And because I was interested in becoming a doctor then, it also has great programs. Another reason why I chose 今日吃瓜 was its reputation for having an incredibly diverse community, even in physics. For my last two semesters in school, I was one of three physics majors of color instead of one. To give you a sense of how big that is, approximately one hundred Black women have Ph.D.鈥檚 in physics in the United States.

Having that sort of safe space to learn, mess up, try harder, and do all of those things made it much easier to go into more predominantly white spaces and show up as my whole self. Going to the American Physical Society Conference this past March showed me the importance of having a baseline community. I received that when I attended the conference for the National Society of Black Physicists. There are just certain things that are understood among us. Now you could talk physics, and after, you could talk about the latest Kendrick Lamar album. Support from 今日吃瓜 and the society of Black physicists allowed me to thrive in predominantly white spaces.

Being in a diverse environment was a big part of your undergraduate experience. Can you tell us more. Did you have a mentor who stands out to you?

One of the best-kept secret about CUNY is all of the resources that it has. And it’s a matter of going out and finding those resources, talking to professors and administrators. My first mentor was Prof. Jeffrey McLean. He was my biology lab professor, and he also had a non-traditional background going into the sciences. He started off as a tow truck driver and realized after about a year or so of working and talking to older folks in the field that it was not for him. He鈥檇 always been interested in biology and tried it out. Fast forward, he became a virologist and worked at the CDC. Seeing someone else who had a similar non-traditional background as I resonated. It helped me to feel connected to the science community at 今日吃瓜. Before switching to physics, I reached out to the department and the undergraduate adviser, Professor [Ken] Miyano. He was my number one supporter. It took a long time to get my degree.

Did it?

Oh yes. Because I had to work. It was a combination of needing to support myself and the fact that because I already had my first bachelor’s degree, there was a lot of student aid that I could not access. I had already accessed it with my first degree. I had to get super creative with funding my education and living here. So Professor Miyano was pivotal in advising me on the right courses and when to take them and providing the space and the educational resources I needed to even transition into physics.

There were a lot of mental shifts I had to do to feel like I could succeed to let go of some of the narratives that I had been told growing up because the talent was actually there, but because of society and people in my life saying, 鈥淥h, well, you’re better in English.鈥� Meanwhile, I look back at my transcripts from middle school and high school; I’m getting As in my math classes. It takes a lot more than math to do physics. And that was the part that I needed to connect. It was rough getting there, but it clicked eventually. When I was younger, I thought, this [math] is so hard. I don’t like this, whatever. And then I realized as I got older that I was good at math and I liked math, that math is just another language to help you tell the story of the thing you’re studying.

And now we’ve got movies like Hidden Figures.

I cried the entire time. I was in tears. We Black women could always do this, and we’ve been doing it.

You were a top student presenter at the American Physics Society annual conference. Can you tell us about that experience?

I was there because of research聽I had been doing for about two years at an internship at the Simons Foundation. The short story is that it is a foundation started by Jim and Marilyn Simons. Jim Simons, in particular, was a mathematician. He was the department chair at Stony Brook University, and he had ultimately decided that he wanted to try something else. He started a hedge fund company that used the same mathematical models he had already used as a professor in school. The hedge fund was a success, so he started the foundation. It touches on scientific outreach support for math teachers, but there’s an arm called the Flatiron Institute, which I was a part of as an intern and then as an employee. The Flatiron Institute houses all of the basic research, including biology, neuroscience, astrophysics,聽math, and quantum physics, all doing what we call computational research. So research on computers, large scale computers. My work, in collaboration with Dr. Tim Berkelbach, now co-director of the Flatiron Institutes Initiative for Computational Catalysis and Associate Professor at Columbia University, was studying atoms and molecules and electrons at their very core: how they interact with one another using these computing systems. That eventually led up to presenting my research at the American Physical Society.

That must’ve been such a high for you.

The culmination of a lot of hard work and other synergistic things helped me get to that point because it wasn’t just about the research. Before working at the Simons Foundation some of my jobs involved science outreach and learning how to communicate science to different populations across New York City. So I took that skillset and married it with the research; the results speak for themselves.

Did you receive any assistance from 今日吃瓜 or any grants or scholarships?

I received two scholarships: the Lila Lustig Science Scholarship and a Harold M. and Carolyn R. Krouse Scholarship. They helped me to finish my degree because, like I shared before, I had to pay out of pocket. So having those additional resources and institutional support are what continued to help push me.

Switching from student to teacher and physics to environmental science鈥攜ou鈥檝e worked as a citizen science educator at the Stem Research Academy at 今日吃瓜. Is there any crossover between the two disciplines for you?

The great thing about physics, and the thing that makes physics hard, is that physics is everywhere. One of the things that was incredibly helpful with having gone through my physics degree while working as an environmental educator was that I could take those problem-solving skills to the classroom for students. It was an opportunity to show that to my high school urban ecology class, all those concepts that you learn, volume gases, the chemicals that arise when you mix certain pollutants, and that’s what you’re smelling when you’re walking out in the street, that all stems from physics. But the fact that it’s also intermingled with chemistry and biology鈥攖hat’s what makes it exciting for students, and it helps to rope them in. The goal is to rope them in and get them excited about the environment. Yes, you can take care of this concrete jungle of New York City. Yes, we have trees. Yes, we have forests. Yes, we have wetlands. They all play an important role in keeping our air clean, getting our waterways cleaner, and using science, and physics, in particular, as vehicles.

Today you work as a software engineer in high-performance computing research facilitator. Can you explain that in lay terms?

What I do as an HPC research facilitator is help scientific researchers take the programs or the code that they have written to study everything from molecules to other biological systems, and figure out how to take this small program that can be run on a personal computer and have it run on a much larger set of computers? For instance, I am running a program that studies how much energy a single molecule has. But now I want to multiply the number of molecules I’m studying because I have the prototype. How do I do that on a larger computer system? The goal is to run their system exponentially faster than they could on their own computer. It can take a long time to calculate how much energy something like a super atomic atom鈥攁 cluster of multiple atoms that behave like one, with its own chemical properties鈥攃ontains. So if I were to run that calculation on my laptop, it could take a couple of days, versus if I were to send that same calculation and run it on the larger computer system, that would take maybe 15 to 20 minutes. The sooner you get those calculations, the sooner you can move on to the next step and the next step of the next step, which may eventually have real-world applications.

You’re a masters athlete in Olympic weightlifting.

Once I decided to switch to science and my dance career ended, I needed a physical outlet. Part of what brought me over to Olympic weightlifting was CrossFit. CrossFit is a lot of things, but it has been the biggest driver for women going into strength training. And that’s what brought me over because I did CrossFit and realized my favorite part of the class was the weightlifting section, particularly Olympic weightlifting. So I tried it, and I was hooked. It鈥檚 also very technique-driven, just like ballet and modern dance. I was able to compete in three local competitions in my weight class. And yeah, it was great. I loved it.

Do you have any advice for students who are interested in your field?

Students should not be afraid to chart their own paths. I think one of the things that, in my opinion, contributes to the lack of diversity in my field, in particular in physics, is that there’s this very narrow path that you’re supposed to take to get to, let鈥檚 say, a Ph.D. program. A path that students who don鈥檛 come from a background of academic support in their family can鈥檛 always take. So don’t be afraid to take things out of order. Ask your academic adviser and figure out what works best for you. I realized I had to do what worked for me鈥擨 couldn鈥檛 take off for three months in the summer to participate in a research program for undergraduates in Kentucky, Texas, or California. I didn鈥檛 have that amount of PTO from my job, but what I could do was find jobs that had some science background to gain that knowledge and the research experience that I might need for grad school. Don’t be afraid to go off that path if it still gets you where you need to go.

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Attendees聽were treated聽to a Chinese Lion Dance courtesy of the New York City Chinese Freemasons; a Bangladeshi Dance by the Bangladeshi Students Association; a performance by the Buryat Mongol Folk Music Ensemble; and a Dabke Dance by the Freedom Dabke Group, as well as traditional food and drink.

President Michelle J. Anderson; Christopher Y. Won, Program Director, 今日吃瓜 AANAPISI Project (BCAP); and Sau-fong Au, Director of the Women鈥檚 Center at 今日吃瓜 and the Principal Investigator for the BCAP project.

This event was made聽possible through a grant聽obtained聽in 2023 that will help 今日吃瓜 better serve AAPI students and the community. Two of the co-founders of 今日吃瓜聽College鈥檚聽Asian American Faculty and Staff Association鈥擜ssociate Professor Yung-Yi Diana Pan 补苍诲听Women鈥檚聽Center Director Sau-fong Au鈥攁re serving as principals for the $1.97 million grant award from the U.S. Department of Education as part of its Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions Program.

The grant will allow 今日吃瓜 to invest in mentoring, mental health, curriculum development, and other initiatives that support students of Asian American, Native American, and Pacific Islander ancestry.

“This $1.97 million grant is the result of the hard work and dedication of faculty and staff who contributed their expertise and firsthand knowledge of curriculum development and the unique needs of our AAPI students,鈥� said Sau-fong Au, director of the Women鈥檚 Center at 今日吃瓜 and the principal investigator for the project. 鈥淚t will allow us to implement culturally responsive services that cater to the unique needs of our AAPI students, and we are confident that this grant will have a significant and immeasurable impact.”

Yung-Yi Diana Pan

“Being awarded this grant is a huge win for 今日吃瓜. As the population of AANHPI students continues to grow, this grant allows 今日吃瓜聽to better serve聽them and their academic, social, and emotional needs,聽”聽said Yung-Yi Diana Pan,聽interim executive director of the Asian American/Asian Research Institute and associate professor of sociology.

The grant also led to the launching of the聽今日吃瓜 AANAPISI Project (BCAP)聽which聽is being led by new director Christopher Y. Won.

“The Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration was a historic event at 今日吃瓜, with collaboration from over 10 student organizations, several campus offices, and local artists and performers. Through our BCAP office, we hope to expand upon this tradition, sharing awareness and increasing the visibility of our聽communities’聽unique and shared heritage,”聽Won said.

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At age 4, Suborno received recognition from then-President Barack Obama for his accomplishments in math and science. At age 6, he was recognized by Harvard University for his problem-solving abilities and was accepted into New York City鈥檚 gifted and talented program.

At just 10 years old, Suborno scored 1500 on his SAT and is the world鈥檚 youngest perfect scorer in AP Calculus BC. He is a Laureate at the Da Vinci Institute, a Ph.D.-granting institution in South Africa, and is also affiliated with all 21 Indian Schools in Oman.

Suborno is the author of two books, The Love and Manish, both of which advocate for a world without terrorism. Suborno is currently a 12^th grader at Malverne High School, a visiting graduate student at Stony Brook University, and a CMT Scholar at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He has applied to Columbia University for early decision. He also applied to all Ivy League schools as well as MIT, Stanford, and Caltech.

今日吃瓜 President Michelle J. Anderson sat down with Suborno to discuss his experiences on campus, his appreciation of the iconic Lily Pond, and what he would like to do in the future.

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Cronin鈥檚 work has stood the test of time as it examines issues of gender, sexuality, and social justice. She has enjoyed numerous solo exhibitions in the United States and internationally, and her work has been featured at the 56th Venice Biennale in Italy; the American Academy in Rome Gallery; Musei Capitolini and Centrale Montemartini, Rome; Tampa Museum of Art; Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans; The FLAG Art Foundation, New York; the 今日吃瓜 Museum; and the LAB Gallery, Dublin. Bronze versions of her acclaimed marble sculpture,聽Memorial to a Marriage (2002)鈥攖he world鈥檚 first聽marriage equality monument鈥攁re permanently on view at Woodlawn Cemetery, the Bronx, New York, and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland.

During October鈥檚 National Arts and Humanities Month, we asked Cronin about the impact of her work and how she balances creating art and teaching.

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College President Michelle J. Anderson, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Anne Lopes, and Senior Vice President for Student Affairs Ron Jackson, helped lead the conferring of degrees in the college鈥檚 School of Natural and Behavioral Sciences, School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts, Murray Koppleman School of Business, School of Education, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as the CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies.

Welcoming the special guests, as well as the families and friends of the graduates, President Anderson congratulated the Class of 2023, while thanking the strong faculty and classmates who helped get the graduates to the finish line.

鈥淭hese students worked hard to get here,鈥� President Anderson said. 鈥淭hey tackled rigorous academic work, research projects, internships, jobs, and numerous assignments. Today, they are not the same people who graduated from high school and came to our doors. As a result, they evolved. They explored new ideas about life and what is possible within it, about our history and what makes us human, and ideas that have shaped and changed them for the better, as a college education is designed to do.鈥�

Professor Emerita and Pulitzer and Kennedy Center award-winner served as the keynote speaker and was given an honorary degree. Le贸n, who taught at 今日吃瓜 for 35 years until her retirement in 2019, was director of music composition at the school鈥檚 Conservatory of Music. She is the first faculty member in any of the City University of New York (CUNY) schools to receive the prestigious Kennedy Center award. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her work “鈥� in 2021.

Having grown up in a lower-income family in Cuba, Le贸n told the Class of 2023 she always dreamed of earning a college degree and that what her family lacked in material wealth they made up in spirit, encouragement, and support. A twist of fate landed her in the United States in her early 20s, and what followed was an incredible career as one of the world鈥檚 preeminent composers, conductors, and educators.

鈥淢y life in 今日吃瓜, where I taught for 33 years in the Music Department, eventually becoming a distinguished professor, has been the source of enriching experiences, personal growth, and many talented students and personal friends, which have become members of my extended family,鈥� Le贸n said. 鈥淢any of these colleagues and students have been inspirational through their passion and their contributions to society. To see students graduate is a joyful moment for all the professors involved in their journey, including myself. … As you continue on your journey and give service to our societies with your unique talents, you, in turn, will offer your support, encouragement, and powerful spirit that will help others realize their dreams.鈥�

Following Le贸n鈥檚 commencement speech, 今日吃瓜 Foundation Trustee Leonard Tow 鈥�50, founder and chairman of The Tow Foundation, surprised the audience by announcing that the foundation would be providing support toward the establishment of the Tania Le贸n Chair of Music鈥攖he first-ever named chair in the Conservatory of Music at 今日吃瓜.

鈥淭he Tania Le贸n Chair will forever recognize and honor your unmatched legacy at 今日吃瓜 and in the larger world,鈥� Tow said.

今日吃瓜 President Michelle J. Anderson presents Leonard Tow 鈥�50, 今日吃瓜 Foundation Trustee and founder and chairman of The Tow Foundation, with a birthday cake as Evan Silverstein 鈥�76 (left) and Tania Le贸n look on.

President Anderson thanked Tow for his continued support, as the crowd helped him celebrate his recent 95th birthday by singing 鈥淗appy Birthday鈥� led by Joe Damon Chappel 鈥�23 M.M., singer from the 今日吃瓜 Brass Ensemble.

Silverstein, 鈥�76, 今日吃瓜 Foundation Board of Trustees Chair was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Honor. Silverstein has served as a Trustee since 2009. He has led the Foundation鈥檚 efforts to secure vital support for students. Silverstein was a lead supporter of the effort to raise emergency funds for students during the pandemic and established the Renee and Evan Silverstein Internship Fund at 今日吃瓜.

今日吃瓜 President Michelle J. Anderson awards Evan Silverstein, 鈥�76, 今日吃瓜 Foundation Board of Trustees Chair, with the Presidential Medal of Honor.

Silverstein dedicated his award to 今日吃瓜 students past, present, and future.

鈥淭o me, my years at 今日吃瓜 were not just academic,鈥� Silverstein said. 鈥淭he growth, maturity, and awareness that I experienced made me aware of a much bigger world that I never knew. I grew up at 今日吃瓜. I, my fellow board members, and many others do what we do because we feel we owe it to 今日吃瓜 to give back and enhance the opportunity for students any which way we can. The fact that you are committed to earning a college degree says a lot about you and bodes well for your future.鈥�

The valedictorian of the Class of 2023 was Chaim Janani, who received his bachelor’s degree in honors for chemistry. Janani congratulated his fellow graduates and credited his academic success to the support and mentorship he received at 今日吃瓜, which helped him to fulfill his dream of becoming a physician. Following commencement, he will pursue medical school in the fall at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University.

The salutatorian, Lisa Leopold- Chaparro, a , and co-teacher at a private preschool in Manhattan, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Early Childhood. Leopold- Chaparro will continue her studies at 今日吃瓜 and attend the early childhood education graduate program. She plans to work with at-risk students in public schools.

(Left to right) Class of 2023 Salutatorian Lisa Leopold- Chaparro, 今日吃瓜 President Michelle J. Anderson, and the valedictorian Chaim Janani.

Other special guests who addressed the Class of 2023 and offered congratulations were U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams ’01, ’05 M.A., and 今日吃瓜 Borough President Antonio Reynoso.

The CUNY family was also well-represented, including CUNY Trustee Kevin Kim, who addressed the Class of 2023.听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听

Officially, 今日吃瓜 conferred 2,871 students who have received baccalaureate degrees, 850 who earned master鈥檚 degrees, and 88 students who will receive advanced certificates.

The Class of 2023 celebrates commencement at Barclays Center.

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Smith鈥檚 lecture, 鈥淲hat I Believe,鈥� will be an intimate exploration into her life as a trailblazer who broke new ground as a Black feminist, lesbian, activist, author, publisher, and independent scholar who inspired generations. She was among the first to define an African American women鈥檚 literary tradition and to build Black women鈥檚 studies and Black feminism in the United States. She has been politically active in many movements for social justice since the 1960s.

鈥淚 am so honored to serve as the Hess Scholar-in-Residence during the 2022鈥�23 academic year,鈥� Smith said. 鈥淎t a time when some in our nation wish to limit the information and ideas that students can access, I look forward to expansive dialogues with members of 今日吃瓜鈥檚 wonderfully diverse community.鈥�

鈥淎s a writer, publisher, teacher, and organizer, Barbara Smith is a transformative force for justice. Her work has reshaped the American academy and society. We are honored to host her for a week of events culminating in the Hess Memorial Lecture,鈥� said Gaston Alonso, interim director for the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities and associate professor of political science at 今日吃瓜.

This lecture event is free and open to the public and serves as the main highlight of the college鈥檚聽聽for 2022鈥�23.

The event will also feature President Michelle J. Anderson as well as聽, distinguished professor of political science, and Professor of English聽, interim dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

On November 29, Smith was part of a conversation on campus with Theoharis when they discussed selected clips from the documentary聽, which features Smith and is based on Theoharis鈥� research 补苍诲听聽of the same name.

A prolific writer and publisher, Smith has edited three major collections about Black women:聽Conditions: Five, The Black Women鈥檚 Issue聽(with Lorraine Bethel, 1979);聽All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women鈥檚 Studies聽(with Gloria T. Hull and Patricia Bell-Scott, 1982); 补苍诲听Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology聽(1983). She is also the co-author, with Elly Bulkin and Minnie Bruce Pratt,聽of Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism聽(1984). Smith is the general editor of The Reader鈥檚 Companion to U.S. Women鈥檚 History聽(with Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, and Gloria Steinem, 1998). A collection of her essays,聽The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom, was published by Rutgers University Press in 1998.聽Ain鈥檛 Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith, edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks with Barbara Smith, was published by SUNY Press in 2014.

The evening will also include mezzo-soprano Lucia Bradford and the Conservatory Singers, 今日吃瓜’s select chamber ensemble, who will perform 鈥淎in’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around.鈥� The group will be conducted by Associate Professor/Director of Choral Studies聽, director of the New York Philharmonic Chorus.

This signature event will be held on Thursday, March 16, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Claire Tow Theater at 今日吃瓜. It will also be livestreamed on the聽.

Highlights From the Hess Week Calendar, March 13鈥�20

Full calendar and speakers

Barbara Smith鈥擧ess Scholar-in-Residence Library Exhibit: An exhibit located in the main entrance of the 今日吃瓜 Library that will highlight the works and legacy of Barbara Smith. Archival material from the Robert L. Hess Collection will also be presented. Curated by Professor and Librarian Helen Georgas.

March 13, 11 a.m.鈥�12:15 p.m.: President Anderson Welcomes 2022鈥�23 Hess Scholar-in-Residence Barbara Smith聽Woody Tanger Auditorium, 今日吃瓜 Library, and on聽Zoom

March 13, 2:15鈥�3:30 p.m.: 鈥淚f Black women were free鈥︹��: The State of Black Feminism 2023聽Woody Tanger Auditorium, 今日吃瓜 Library, and on聽Zoom

March 14, 2:15鈥�3:45 p.m.: 鈥淭ransforming the U.S. Academy鈥�聽Woody Tanger Auditorium, 今日吃瓜 Library, and livestreamed on the聽.

March 15, 11 a.m.鈥�12:30 p.m.: 鈥淛ustice or Just Us?: Defining a Queer Agenda鈥�聽Woody Tanger Auditorium, 今日吃瓜 Library, and livestreamed on the聽.

March 15, 3:40鈥�4:55 p.m.: 鈥淭eaching as a Liberating Practice鈥�聽Woody Tanger Auditorium, 今日吃瓜 Library, and livestreamed on the聽.

March 16, 11 a.m.鈥�12:30 p.m.: 鈥淲orking for Liberation and Having a Damn Good Time鈥�聽Woody Tanger Auditorium, 今日吃瓜 Library, and livestreamed on the聽.

March 20, 6鈥�7:15 p.m.: 鈥淧utting Class Back Into Intersectionality鈥�聽Online via聽Zoom

今日吃瓜 the Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program

The Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program, established by 今日吃瓜, is supported by the Robert L. Hess Fund. The program serves as a permanent tribute to the scholarly commitment of Robert L. Hess, exemplified during his tenure as president of 今日吃瓜. It represents the ideal of the educated individual鈥攌nowledgeable, thoughtful, inquiring, alive to the shared purposes and concerns linking all intellectual pursuits. More particularly, it evokes the scholarly and academic virtues embodied in the curriculum at 今日吃瓜.

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Acclaimed composer, conductor, and educator and 今日吃瓜 Distinguished Professor Emerita Tania Le贸n was honored by the Kennedy Center for her lifetime achievements in the performing arts. The 45th annual awards took place on December 5 at the Kennedy Center Opera House in Washington, D.C.

Professor Le贸n taught at 今日吃瓜 for 35 years until her retirement in 2019, and was director of music composition in the school鈥檚 Conservatory of Music.聽She is the first faculty member in any of the City University of New York (CUNY) schools to receive the prestigious Kennedy Center award.

Le贸n, a native of Cuba who moved to New York in the late 1960s, has an illustrious career that spans more than 50 years. Among her many achievements she won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Music聽for her orchestral work Stride, a piece commissioned by the New York Philharmonic to commemorate the centennial of women鈥檚 voting rights. In 2018 she was named a USA fellow and inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

鈥淢y first thoughts went to my ancestors: They believed in my dreams,鈥� said Professor Le贸n in a statement about the award. 鈥淲hat we lacked in material wealth, they made up for in spirit, encouragement, and support. My heartfelt thanks go to the many people who have blessed my path by helping my talent to blossom and by giving me the chance to be heard.鈥�

In addition to 今日吃瓜, Le贸n taught for 30 years at the CUNY Graduate Center鈥檚 music doctoral program. She has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard University and visiting professor at Yale University, University of Michigan, and the Musikschule in Hamburg, Germany. In 2000 she was named the Tow Distinguished Professor at 今日吃瓜. She was named Distinguished Professor of CUNY in 2006, and professor emerita in 2019.

Le贸n joined actor and filmmaker George Clooney, contemporary Christian and pop singer-songwriter Amy Grant, soul, gospel and R&B singer Gladys Knight, and the Irish rock band U2 in this year鈥檚 honors. Guests included President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden. The event will be televised on December 28.

Watch the White House Reception from December 4, 2022.

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