Staff Archives - 可乐视频 /category/staff/ The Spirit of Brooklyn Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:22:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Annual Samuel J. Konefsky Memorial Lecture Features Lee Gelernt /bc-brief/annual-samuel-j-konefsky-memorial-lecture-features-lee-gelernt/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:02:24 +0000 /?p=122016 Prominent public interest lawyer and a leading figure in contemporary immigration litigation to speak on immigrant rights.

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可乐视频 invites students, staff, faculty, and community members to this year鈥檚 Samuel J. Konefsky Memorial Lecture, featuring Lee Gelernt, one of the nation鈥檚 most prominent public interest lawyers and a leading figure in contemporary immigration litigation.

The event will be held on March 3 at 12:30 p.m. in the Woody Tanger Auditorium, 可乐视频 Library.

Gelernt serves as a senior attorney with the ACLU Immigrants鈥 Rights Project and has argued many of the country鈥檚 most consequential cases, including before the U.S. Supreme Court and multiple federal courts of appeals. His work has also brought him before both the House and Senate as an expert witness, and he teaches at Columbia Law School.

His litigation has shaped national conversations on immigration policy. Among his notable cases is the challenge to the Trump Administration鈥檚 family鈥憇eparation policy, a case that drew international attention and was featured in the documentary. The Fight and a New York Times Magazine cover story. He currently serves as lead counsel in litigation concerning the administration鈥檚 use of the Alien Enemies Act, which has raised significant questions about due process and the treatment of Venezuelan migrants.

Gelernt鈥檚 contributions have earned him numerous awards and recognition as one of the 500 leading lawyers in the United States. His commentary and expertise appear frequently in major media outlets, documentaries, books, and podcasts. This event offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from a central figure in the legal battles shaping U.S. immigration policy.

The Konefsky Lecture is an annual event that honors Samuel J. Konefsky, a 可乐视频 alumnus who was a professor of constitutional law at the college from the 1940s to 1970. At the event, a scholarship generously donated by the Konefsky family is presented to a 可乐视频 pre-law student.

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可乐视频 to Begin Major Renovation of East Quad /bc-brief/brooklyn-college-to-begin-major-renovation-of-east-quad/ Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:42:00 +0000 /?p=120640 可乐视频 is set to launch a transformative renovation of the campus鈥 beloved East Quad, a project designed to enhance its beauty, accessibility, and functionality.

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可乐视频 is set to launch a transformative renovation of the campus鈥 beloved East Quad, a project designed to enhance its beauty, accessibility, and functionality while addressing critical safety concerns. Aging trees and outdated underground infrastructure will be replaced to create a safer, more welcoming environment for students, faculty, and staff.

The improvements will preserve the character of one of the college鈥檚 most cherished spaces while ensuring it meets modern standards for safety and sustainability.

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She鈥檚 Here for the Journey /best-of-bc/shes-here-for-the-journey/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:22:56 +0000 /?p=106364 Working in career engagement and now alumni affairs, Natalia Guarin-Klein has a front-row seat to the full-circle moments.

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Natalia Guarin-Klein grew up in Washington Heights, the child of Colombian immigrants who never went to high school but who did go out of their way to make sure their kids had access to educational opportunities.

鈥淢y mom had a dream for her children, and she inquired how she could help us get there,鈥 says Guarin-Klein.听鈥淲ithout the right resources, mentorship, and support along the way, my story would have been different.鈥

Today, Guarin-Klein brings that frame of reference to her role at 可乐视频. She is currently transitioning into her new, expanded position as executive director of alumni and career engagement after 20 years at the Magner Career Center, the last 10 of which she served as its director.

She brings a lot of relevant experience to the position, including her role as the mom of three children鈥攐ne in college and two others in high school, a perspective that 鈥渉as made the mission of helping 可乐视频 students stronger for me,鈥 she says.

We spoke to her about her own career path and the joy she gets out of playing a not insignificant role in the paths of many 可乐视频 students

So many people on campus know you for helping to guide the career trajectory of our students and alumni. What鈥檚 the story of how you landed here at 可乐视频?

I went to SUNY Binghamton because I convinced my parents to let me go away. I received a degree in psychobiology.听My mom encouraged me to continue my education before I got married and had kids, so I went straight to New York University and received an M.A. in industrial and organizational psychology. While I was at NYU, I interned at The New York Times in their human resources department. I also worked part-time in HR for a major advertising company, McCann Relationship Marketing.

I used the NYU career center to get a job with Accenture after graduation. Then I fell into higher education by accident.听I had a boss I was not happy with. My husband, Richard Klein, was working in the ITS department here.听I saw the opening at the Magner Career Center. The position, although a pivot from corporate to higher education, included the aspects I enjoyed about my job: mentoring and guiding people in their careers. It was definitely a bit of luck and timing to land at 可乐视频.

What will you do in your new role as executive director of alumni and career engagement?

I will support the Magner Career Center director from a strategic perspective and now I鈥檝e added the alumni office to my portfolio. This is exciting because as a career center, we engage 100鈥200 alumni each year, so it is a natural fit. Plus,听the Magner Career Center staff and I built long-lasting relationships with students after they graduate. With the new Magner Center director, Andre Fontenelle, my role will be providing guidance to him as well as expanding events and initiatives with alumni that support students such as our stipend or mentoring program.

Do you want to talk about some of your plans in the new role?

I鈥檓 going to first listen to the various stakeholders and start to develop new programming and events. This year, I am piloting an alumni professional development series, which will have five different sessions led by alumni for alumni. I would like to create a group of alumni volunteers with a mix of young and experienced professionals who will lead career development and networking opportunities for alumni within their industry. Perhaps pair an experienced alum with younger alumni. I鈥檇 also like to see how we can engage alumni to support college initiatives around things like enrollment.

Magner just celebrated 20 years and you鈥檝e been here for just as long. What have been some of the challenges and successes through the years?听听

Yes, I started in 2004. I think the challenge is the level of personalized attention students can receive given the staffing. We have to do a lot of consolidating, group events, and outreach at a broad level.

Despite that, we are the little engine that could.听Our team is small, but we make up for it by having dedicated and passionate career coaches, leveraging our student staff, and using our alumni as volunteers to better support students.

What makes 可乐视频 students special? What鈥檚 been your pitch to employers as you鈥檝e led the Magner Center?听

I honestly can鈥檛 imagine a better group of students to support. It is the right mix: students with great potential who benefit from the support of the career center.听If I had to describe our students to employers, I would say they have grit and drive; they are hardworking. Since the student body is diverse in every sense of the word, they have the ability to work with others and understand their perspectives. And finally, they are humble and do not feel entitled, so they are a true pleasure to work with.

You鈥檝e played an essential role in the career (and personal) development of so many former students鈥攑eople who鈥檝e gone on to dramatically change their lives. How does that feel?听

When Marge Magner supported the formation of the center in 2004, her vision was for 可乐视频 students to have access to a professional network, that often students from more privileged backgrounds have. She realizes that students from other universities were not smarter, more capable or harder working than 可乐视频 but they lacked connections to make the path easier. When she formed the Center she wanted for 可乐视频 alumni to serve as that network for students, to mentor them, open doors to opportunities, help them prepare for an interview at their company etc. I am proud to say that 20 years later, we are making good on her vision.

One of the main reasons I love this job is the opportunity to see students who didn鈥檛 fully believe in themselves accomplish a lot, and then give back to the college. The big benefit of being here so long is that I get to be a part of their journey and build relationships. I have connected with thousands of students throughout the years, and I get to see them grow up.

I think it is important for people to find a career they would love doing most days. No job is perfect. Many people go through the motions to earn a paycheck. I am fortunate to be able to say I can鈥檛 imagine finding a job that fulfills me as much as my current role.

It really does not get better.

 

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The Lanza Legacy /best-of-bc/the-lanza-legacy/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:19:23 +0000 /?p=103468 Three brothers. Four degrees. Three offices. The Lanza brothers know 可乐视频 like the back of their hands.

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For the Lanza brothers, 可乐视频 is more than just their alma mater. Andrew 鈥07 (right), Joseph 鈥09 (left), and Michael 鈥09, 鈥20 M.S. (center), started as students when they were teenagers. For over a decade, they鈥檝e been part of the campus community as staff members.

Born and raised in Marine Park, Brooklyn, the brothers were first-generation students. Their father immigrated from Sicily and, given their roots, they were drawn to the campus culture that welcomes all students.

鈥淚 saw the diversity of the student body, people from literally all over the world. I thought that was amazing,鈥 says Michael, who earned a B.S. in business management and finance (now the business administration听B.B.A.) and an M.S. in business administration. 鈥淭his melting pot of cultures and ideas is what makes the work meaningful and fulfilling.鈥

From Boylan Hall to the West End Building to the West Quad Center, each brother fills a crucial role at the college.

Andrew, who received a B.A. in history, is the administrative events manager in the Office of Auxiliary Services. From organizing conferences to coordinating movie shoots and student and staff events, Andrew鈥檚 day-to-day is always different.

鈥淢y job really forced me to become more of a people person,鈥 he says.

Joseph, who earned a B.S. in psychology, started as a tutor in the Learning Center as an undergraduate. Today, he supports students one-on-one as manager of the .

鈥淚 work on the frontlines with students from their first day on campus to graduation. I get to hear their stories,鈥 he says. 鈥淚 love helping students with any issues they鈥檙e experiencing.鈥

Michael, the math whiz, is the Director of the Office of Budget and Finance.

鈥淓ven though I鈥檓 in front of a computer screen all day, I enjoy helping staff and faculty with managing their budgets. It鈥檚 a lot of problem-solving because our office is the go-to for general questions,鈥 he says.

Though they work in separate offices, they do occasionally find themselves in the same meetings. Regardless if they run into each other on campus, they catch up with regular lunches at the Junction.

People often confuse them鈥攑articularly Michael and Joseph, who are twins.

鈥淚t鈥檚 funny,鈥 says Joseph. 鈥淭here was one time when I was working in the registrar and Michael was working in the bursar. A student went from my office to his and they thought that I had run to a different office.鈥

Off-campus, the brothers prioritize family. The Lanzas are tight-knit. Some of their other family members are alumni and former staff members themselves who encouraged them to apply for roles at the college after graduation.

The three live within walking distance of one another and commute together to weekly Sunday pasta dinners with family in New Jersey. They also go to heavy metal concerts as a tribute to their father, who passed away when they were young.

鈥淥ur dad always played heavy metal music in the car, so it stuck with us,鈥 says Andrew, a guitarist, bassist, and singer.

Although Joseph and Michael also love music, they鈥檙e known for being the sports fanatics of the family.

鈥淔rom September to January, Joseph and I are going on about football. Andrew鈥檚 more musically inclined, so he leaves the room when we鈥檙e talking about it,鈥 Michael jokes.

After 10 years, the brothers consider the 可乐视频 community family.

鈥溈衫质悠 feels like our second home,鈥 says Michael.

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Performance for the People /best-of-bc/performance-for-the-people/ Tue, 09 Jul 2024 19:38:59 +0000 /?p=102590 The director of the Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts is focused on the community.

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Dena Beard was forever changed the day, in her late teens, when she rode three public buses from the small surf town where she grew up in Carpinteria, California, and wandered into the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

There was an installation by the pioneering artist Nam June Paik, who is widely credited with founding video art.

鈥淚t philosophically changed the way I saw the world,鈥 she says.

She tried the practical path her schoolteacher parents steered her down, getting a bachelor鈥檚 degree in critical theory with the intent of becoming a professor. But the tug of art never went away.

鈥淲hen I finally discovered what curating allows you to do鈥攖o implement the philosophy and the theory behind the presentation of art as well as working with artists and trying to directly improve their living conditions鈥擨 found that to be much more important,鈥 she says.

After earning a master鈥檚 degree in art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she had turns as a curator at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum for nine years and then as director of The Lab, an experimental performance art space in San Francisco, which she saved from closing.

She came to 可乐视频 in February 2023 as the first director of the Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts.

We talked to her about her reasons for taking the position and her goals for the Tow Center鈥檚 future, including creating a sustainable and inclusive cultural space for the community.

What attracted you to 可乐视频?

This job was really intriguing. I knew, or knew of through friends, artists like Jennifer McCoy, Derrick Adams, Marina Rosenfeld, David Grubbs鈥擥rubbs had performed at The Lab鈥攁nd a few other incredible people, and I couldn鈥檛 believe they were all here.

And for a while, I had been concerned that art schools were reserved for the privileged, since they’re very, very, very expensive to attend. I鈥檝e always felt like this was untenable and unethical. I wanted to work for a pedagogical space that provided those services free or at a very low cost and allowed students to really experiment.

可乐视频 is special in that regard. You would be hard-pressed to find another school offering this caliber of faculty talent, incredible facilities, resources, as well as the time and space for students to challenge and renegotiate how we perceive the world.

How are you settling into the position, and what鈥檚 a typical day like?

We hold almost 400 events a year at the Tow Center, most of which are for the Conservatory of Music, the Department of Theater, and other academic departments on campus.

And we only have a six-person staff!

We鈥檙e also trying to host about 30 to 50 graduations for Brooklyn public schools every June, which is intense. Still, it鈥檚 a great recruitment tool. On top of that, we produce 30 to 50 rentals. We get over 1,000 requests annually to rent the Tow Center. So, I can pick and choose people who will bring something to the campus and who treat the staff and community with respect. We can also offer something to our neighbors in Flatbush 鈥 that reciprocity is important.

A typical day involves a few meetings: with directors of other spaces around New York City, sometimes with artists, sometimes with staff and other 可乐视频 folks, and then mainly writing a lot of people back. I send about 150 e-mails a day.

Who are some of the artists you鈥檝e been particularly proud to work with here?

We鈥檙e working with a few great artists on reviving our legacy Schooltime program for Brooklyn children. We鈥檝e had a long-standing relationship with the Ukrainian National Ballet. They鈥檙e homeless and have been wandering the country. We just keep offering them our space whenever they鈥檙e back in town. These are the kinds of things that fit our mission and our priorities.

In September 2023, Wadada Leo Smith, a stunning jazz musician, created a 14-hour composition just for us that was performed over the course of four days in the Buchwald Theater. It was an extraordinary opportunity. Students and faculty performed with the professional musicians on stage. It was a very cool thing.

Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin performed with Jive Poetic last October. Jive is a Flatbush native, and both he and Tongo got their start at the legendary Nuyorican Poets Caf茅. That was a phenomenal experience.

Brooklyn has a rich arts landscape, and we sit in the shadow of other bigger, more well-known performance spaces. We鈥檝e got the recently refurbished Kings Theater right up the road. How do you see the Tow Center fitting in with the broader arts scene?

Kings Theater is competition in the sense that Bob Dylan鈥檚 manager came to us and said, 鈥淗ey, we鈥檙e looking for a space.鈥 We offered our theater, but Kings has better facilities and a marketing machine behind them, so they snatch up a lot of the big-name talent.

可乐视频鈥檚 theater complex has been in the community since 1951, and our relevance is all about maintaining our link to Flatbush and wider New York. That鈥檚 very different than having Ticketmaster鈥檚 marketing machine behind you. We鈥檙e just six people plus a bunch of students trying to make everyone feel welcome when they come in, to make sure people feel like this is their art center. We鈥檙e a small but crazy chorus of voices who are trying to maintain this exciting resource, and to do that, we have to really show what culture can look like: at 可乐视频, but also how small but imaginative collaborations can transform the city itself.

A big part of the difference between the Tow Center and more commercial theaters is that we put a lot of love into our projects. As a result, we attract artists who want to be a part of something more tangibly human than a corporation.

That鈥檚 where our strength is.

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Big Plans /best-of-bc/big-plans/ Fri, 31 May 2024 18:53:24 +0000 /?p=101353 The director of the 可乐视频 AANAPISI Project is passionate about what the new initiative brings to the college community.

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If the acronym AANAPISI (pronounced ah-nuh-pee-see) rolls right off of Christopher Won鈥檚 tongue, it鈥檚 due to an occupational hazard. The new director of the 可乐视频 AANAPISI Project, known around campus as 可乐视频AP, has traveled in social justice and diversity, equity, and inclusion circles for most of his career.

And not just his work, but his broader life experiences have left him well-versed on the kinds of ideals that an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution should live up to. Won is of Korean heritage and moved to Boston with his family when he was 9 years old, and then to Juneau, Alaska before moving to New York City. He refers to each city by its indigenous name: Shawmut for Boston, 艁ing铆t Aan铆 for Juneau, and Lenapehoking for New York City.

He has been, at turns, a tattoo artist, a public school and university teacher, and a diversity, equity, and inclusion officer at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

In his new position, an outgrowth of a nearly $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, he鈥檚 looking to create a center that will serve as a hub for all things鈥攃urricular and otherwise鈥擜ANAPI at the college.

He joined 可乐视频 in February and has hit the ground running, already working on a physical overhaul of 可乐视频AP鈥檚 second-floor Boylan Hall office and hosting a well-attended Tea Ceremony earlier this month as well as a pop-up shop to welcome the campus to 可乐视频AP鈥檚 new space.

We talked to him about his very busy first semester, his plans for the program, and the diverse Asian and Pacific Islander community at the college.

For the new guy on campus, you really have been getting around.

Outreach, relationship building, and resource development is the name of the game in your first year, right? It is a big part of what we are doing to build a strong foundation for this project to take hold.

We are focused on three main items: academic affairs and curriculum; social emotional learning and culturally responsive teaching, or culturally responsive services; and community engagement and leadership development.

We’re hoping to design an Asian-American Studies program鈥攁 minor, major, or concentration. This would include a research methods course and a community engagement project-based course, and it would involve faculty members from various departments. We鈥檇 also love for it to include a research symposium.

What will your culturally responsive services look like?

That really has to do with making sure that the institute itself is accountable to the very students whom we are serving in addition to recognizing the value of their individual strengths and their backgrounds and cultural heritage. It’s also making sure that we are integrating the very fabric of their languages, different types of media, and learning styles into the ways we exist as an institution.

That’s something that people often forget. When you think of mental health services, people just think that it’s specific to the mind when, in fact, our very ancestral practices, languages, food, everything is mental health. I love to use the comparison that while we always tell people to exercise self-care, what we really need is community care. We need mutual aid. That鈥檚 really what’s going to create a safety network for a lot of these folks to thrive.

Christopher Won (center) at the Tea Party pictured with performers.

And the community engagement and leadership development?

That will be leadership training, workshops on imposter syndrome, connecting students with the Magner Career Center, and things like that. One of our priorities is connecting with local community organizations and leaders to see if there are any opportunities for students to intern.

And it sounds like you are doing something different with your office space?

We are very lucky to have some cool real estate in Boylan Hall鈥2149 and 2153. It’s going to be a hybrid student/administrator suite or a center/office. I’m hoping to design it in the model of a home. We鈥檒l have different areas that will serve as a living room, kitchen, dining room, study/library. That way, it’s already sort of giving a familiarity with a campus environment that sometimes can be very isolating, especially for the heavily commuter-based population at 可乐视频.

And you鈥檝e already hosted two pretty well-attended events.

Yes! Our pop-up shop was an Asian and Pacific Islander staff and faculty social. We reached out to the Asian American Faculty and Staff Association, which was built before I even started, to invite folks to this network and share community and also to learn a little bit about what 可乐视频AP is doing. We had deans of schools show up and administrators and a mix of staff and faculty. It was really important for us to recognize that our community members are in a lot of service industries that are often left out of the picture either intentionally or unintentionally. We intentionally invited folks in ITS, facilities, and the custodial staff. It was really cool to see a number of them show up.

And the Tea Ceremony earlier this month was quite a diverse and multi-sensory experience鈥攖he food, the music, the dance!

For the , we collaborated with 11 student organizations and three different campus offices: student clubs like Bridges For Yemen, the Central Asian Alliance, and the Desi Culture Club; other intersecting offices like the Student Activities Involvement and Leadership Center, ISSO, which supports students who are undocumented or migrant students, and the Women’s Center鈥攊t was definitely a very diverse turnout.

It showed what solidarity looks like. 可乐视频 should be proud of that. I am. And I鈥檓 very happy to be here.

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Open Doors /best-of-bc/open-doors/ Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:05:33 +0000 /?p=97130 Alumna-turned-staff-member Sadiya Hoque 鈥23 found a place at 可乐视频 where she fit鈥攊n more ways than one.

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Sadiya Hoque 鈥23 is a proud Brooklynite. Born and raised here, she grew up in the Kensington neighborhood and attended the well-known Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood.

When she first went to college, she chose Long Island University Brooklyn, but she soon tired of the un-campus-like feel of its few downtown buildings, not to mention the expensive price tag. After taking some time off to work full time, she realized she wanted to return to school and transferred to 可乐视频 as a sophomore.

鈥淚t just felt like it fit my story to come to Brooklyn,鈥 she says. 鈥淚 live nearby. The beautiful campus was a big plus. And at the end of the day, this is a place where I can say I鈥檓 proud of my diverse peers and the friends I鈥檝e made here.鈥

As a new student, she became more in tune with social justice issues and got involved in several activities that helped clarify her career goals.

She talks about how the organizations she joined shaped her and how she parlayed her extracurricular connections to snag her current position as the special assistant to President Michelle J. Anderson.

After you left LIU and started working, it must have been tough to give up a full-time paycheck to go back to school.

I was making good money and passed on some opportunities to advance at my job. It was a struggle, but during the height of the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement was heating up and I became more aware of social justice issues and the kind of anxiety that many people in the country were living with. I did some thinking and realized that I didn鈥檛 know what I was doing with my life. I had some savings, so I quit. I knew I needed to invest in myself. So when I came here, I started looking up extracurricular activities, something I never had time for before. I got involved with NYPIRG [the New York Public Interest Research Group] and got a public policy internship to work with state officials in Albany.

How did that connect with your interests and plans?

I was interested in public health and was thinking med school was the next step. But I came to realize that the healthcare system in America was dictated by unjust laws and Big Pharma. Doctors, although they provide healthcare, don鈥檛 have the leeway to make changes outside their office. The NYPIRG experience lobbying, writing memos, and speaking for the public voice made more impact than anything else, and prompted me to run for chairperson of NYPIRG鈥檚 student board of directors, where I served a two-year term. Each experience at NYPIRG pushed me closer to the idea that I wanted to pursue a career in public policy. I knew I couldn鈥檛 change the world overnight, but I wanted to get more involved. So I did.

How so?

One of the things I did was to reactivate the Global Medical Brigades chapter. It鈥檚 a group that gives students the opportunity to volunteer as medical assistants in under-resourced, mostly rural communities in a handful of countries. The college chapter had never been restarted after the pandemic. We had to start from scratch. All of our procedures and policies had to be written. We had to get the word out to student volunteers and show them what a good opportunity this was. We went to Panama, where we shadowed doctors, packed meds, and worked with pharmacies.

It was eye-opening. Healthcare is so routine for us and so accessible. Unless you go out in the world, you don鈥檛 know what it feels like to go without that. I was grateful for the opportunity, but at the same time it was heartbreaking.

You were also involved with the Undergraduate Student Government.

I was the USG president鈥檚 press director during my senior year. It鈥檚 what led me to this position because as press director, I interacted with the 可乐视频 administration more than a typical student does, so I got to know the office a little bit. A week before Commencement, I got a call from President Anderson, who said she had this position open, and asked if I鈥檇 like to interview. I had a final exam and interview right after. A couple of days later, she called me and told me I had the job.

What do you do in your position?

I am an advisor to the president and a member of the cabinet. I schedule meetings for her and often attend them with her to take notes. I organize a lot of events, something I鈥檓 just realizing I enjoy doing. I deal with students a lot, and I鈥檓 very grateful. When students are working with the president鈥檚 cabinet or trying to organize a community event, I get to help them put it together. It鈥檚 a great benefit that I鈥檓 a former student because I can give my input. It鈥檚 rewarding because I remember how much it meant when someone helped me out as a student.

And what are your long-term plans?

I feel like I鈥檓 just getting started here. It hasn鈥檛 even been a year yet.

But eventually, I want to be a neuroscientist who also lobbies. I would love a job where my research could help change laws. I want to go to graduate school and study how the brain impacts our behavior and where that intersects with the law and public policy. The intersection of all of that is not a common field, so finding the right grad program isn鈥檛 easy.

For now, I鈥檓 going to stay receptive to the doors that open for me. I never thought about being in this position, and I鈥檓 really enjoying it.

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New Grant Will Help 可乐视频 Better Serve AAPI Students /bc-brief/new-grant-will-help-brooklyn-college-better-serve-aapi-students/ Fri, 06 Oct 2023 13:44:56 +0000 /?p=88078 Women's Center Director Sau-fong Au and Associate Professor Yung-Yi Diana Pan will serve as principals for programing to support mentoring, mental health, curriculum development, and other initiatives.

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Two of the co-founders of 可乐视频鈥檚 Asian American Faculty and Staff Association, Associate Professor Yung-Yi Diana Pan and听 Women鈥檚 Center Director Sau-fong Au, will serve as principals for a $1.97 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education as part of its Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions Program.听 The grant will allow 可乐视频 to invest in mentoring, mental health, curriculum development, and other initiatives that support students of Asian American, Native American, and Pacific Islander ancestry.

 

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Getting the Word Out /best-of-bc/getting-the-word-out/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:45:10 +0000 /?p=76808 Associate Director of Editorial and Content Strategy Jamilah Simmons channels her extensive higher ed experience to help market 可乐视频 to prospective students.

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Jamilah Simmons knows a good story. An experienced reporter with an ear for the right quote and an eye for the details, she has put her acumen to work for 可乐视频 since 2007.

After many years as a writer for the Office of Marketing and Communications, Simmons was promoted last year to a new position focused on marketing as it relates to prospective students. 鈥淪ome of the content is more or less the same as what I was doing as a writer,鈥 she says, 鈥測et I鈥檓 packaging it differently.鈥

Key to her work is seeking out and considering the perspectives of the students the college serves. Simmons has engaged several current students as both interns and part-time college assistants to support her efforts. 鈥淥ne of the fun things I get to do is oversee the college TikTok account, which is still a work in progress,鈥 she says. 鈥淚 love working with students on that.鈥

In reflecting on TikTok and other digital projects she works on, like the college鈥檚 , she frequently asks herself, 鈥淚s this information useful to prospective students? Is it presented in a way that鈥檚 consumable to them? I鈥檓 spending a lot more time trying to get into the mind of current and prospective students, which is really interesting and a good challenge.鈥 The college鈥檚 new virtual tour was one of the first major projects Simmons helped to launch in her new role. In just one year, the tour drew more than 15,000 visits and close to 3,000 inquiries to the college.

As part of the college鈥檚 ongoing admissions campaigns, all the staff鈥攊ncluding writers, editors, photographers, designers, and marketers鈥攆ocus on developing content that highlights the college鈥檚 best attributes to encourage prospective students to apply. The most visible series comprises written profiles of the most accomplished students, staff, faculty, and alumni from 可乐视频. Titled 鈥淏est of 可乐视频,鈥 these stories collectively portray a community of people who exemplify excellence. Simmons plays a key role in the series as one of the writers who interviews the subjects and helps to shape these stories.

Simmons joined 可乐视频 after many years as a higher education reporter. The beat prepared her to write the profiles that she produces, as well as for this recent switch to a marketing role, where she continues to use the many skills she honed as a reporter.

Those skills include knowing how to talk to people, knowing how to do your research, and understanding the differences between written and spoken communication. 鈥淓-mail can often feel like the quick and dirty way to get it done,鈥 she says, 鈥渂ut there鈥檚 still something missing without that live contact, including your ability to ask follow-up questions or take in someone鈥檚 measure.鈥

Originally planning to be an international correspondent, Simmons 鈥渇ell into鈥 higher education reporting. As a senior in college, she took an internship in Washington D.C. at Black Issues in Higher Education鈥攏ow called Diverse: Issues in Higher Education鈥攂ecause, unlike many journalism internships, it paid well. Simmons ultimately landed a job at The Chronicle of Higher Education, which, she says, 鈥渒ind of cemented me鈥 as a higher education reporter.

Although Simmons appreciated the impact she could have on the higher education beat, she eventually tired of living in Washington, D.C. In January 2006, she moved to Brooklyn and made a career transition from writing about institutions of higher education to working for one. 鈥淚 thought it would be cool to work at a college and to be around people who were at that juncture of life. I always thought that鈥檚 got to be energizing.鈥

In New York, Simmons took a job editing a newsletter on faculty scholarship at the CUNY Graduate Center. The work took her to various CUNY campuses, and 可乐视频 made an impression. 鈥淚 remember the first time I came here to visit a professor I was writing about,鈥 she says, 鈥渁nd I fell in love with the campus.鈥

During her visit, she picked up one of the campus publications and thought 鈥渢hey look like they have fun putting this together.鈥 Shortly afterward, she responded to a job posting in the department, and 鈥渢he rest is history.鈥

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Tammie Cumming Interviews Paulette Granberry Russell, President of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education /bc-brief/tammie-cumming-interviews-paulette-granberry-russell-president-of-the-national-association-of-diversity-officers-in-higher-education/ Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:01:49 +0000 https://preview.brooklyn.cuny.edu/?p=48868 As part of NGA Web Bites series, Tammie Cumming, Associate Provost and Assistant Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness at 可乐视频 and program cohost, and M. David Miller (University of

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As part of NGA Web Bites series, Tammie Cumming, Associate Provost and Assistant Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness at 可乐视频 and program cohost, and M. David Miller (University of Florida) interviewed Paulette Granberry Russell, President of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE). The interview can be seen at and on YouTube ).

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