This event will explore how artificial intelligence is transforming talent management, organizational performance, professional growth, and venture capital strategies. Attendees will gain actionable insights on leveraging AI to enhance people strategies, drive performance, and navigate growth opportunities in today鈥檚 rapidly evolving AI landscape.

Keynote Speaker Pete Kim, Wharton M.B.A., founder of Dolabra Digital, and Harvard Publication contributor, will share his expertise on the intersection of AI, business growth, and venture capital. A panel discussion will feature Harshit Malik, president of the Graduate Student Council at 可乐视频, and Siddhant Gautam, president of TechSHRM.

Whether you’re a student, professional, entrepreneur, or leader interested in AI’s impact on people and business, this event offers valuable perspectives, networking opportunities, and forward-thinking strategies to help you thrive in the AI era.

The session will be held in person at NYU Tandon (370 Jay Street, Room 233, Brooklyn) and will also be available via Zoom for remote participants.

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• Prithi Kanakamedala, professor of history, Bronx Community College (CUNY) and CUNY Graduate Center.聽Her first full-length book, Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough, was a finalist for the 2025 Gotham Book Prize, long-listed for the 2025 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize (nonfiction), and won the 2024 Victorian Society of New York Book Award. An active public historian for just under two decades, Kanakamedala continues to work collaboratively with artists, curators, and cultural organizations across New York City, and is a board member of Weeksville Heritage Center, and the Center for Brooklyn History part of Brooklyn Public Library.
• Marianne LaBatto, associate archivist, 可乐视频 Archives and Special Collections. 聽An alumna of 可乐视频 (B.A., M.A.) and Queens College (M.L.S.), LaBatto has worked in the Archives since 1995. Her work includes organizing collections and ensuring the preservation of historical documents, photographs, and records related to 可乐视频 and Brooklyn鈥檚 history. She supervises archival projects and interns and helps researchers and students access historical collections. She has also written blog posts and educational materials about 可乐视频 history.
• Elizabeth R. Macaulay, professor of liberal studies, anthropology, classics, Middle Eastern studies, and digital humanities; executive officer, M.A. in liberal studies, CUNY Graduate Center. Macaulay鈥檚 scholarship examines the intersection between antiquity and modernity, especially how the art and architecture of ancient West Asia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome have been reinterpreted globally. She is the author or editor of eight books, including Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power (2026); Archaeological Ambassadors (2024), and Antiquity in Gotham (2021). She is a committed public scholar and is an acquiring editor and board chair for Smarthistory.org, the Center for Public Art History. Her essays and videos for Smarthistory have been viewed by more than1.4 million people.
• Kelly M. Britt, associate professor of anthropology, 可乐视频 and CUNY Graduate Center. Britt’s research focuses on community-based contemporary and historical archaeology of urban spaces. She completed her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University in 2009 and spent seven years at FEMA as its Regional II Archaeologist before joining 可乐视频.

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• how national and state policy changes are reshaping the workforce and what these shifts mean for higher education;
• insights into the ways institutions can align with evolving employer expectations; and
• how higher education can position students for career success in response to workforce demands.

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Derrick Benton is a Brooklyn-born filmmaker and writer whose work spans documentary and narrative film. He is the founder of F.R.E.E. Studios (Filming Real Emotional Experiences), a production studio dedicated to community-rooted storytelling and cultural critique. His films explore memory, identity, and the ways institutions shape lived experience. Alongside his film work, Derrick publishes essays on power, belonging, and media through The Stooop.

Jerome Krase, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and the Murray Koppelman Professor at 可乐视频, is an activist-scholar who works with public and private agencies regarding urban community issues. His self- and co-authored books include Self and Community in the City (1982), Ethnicity and Machine Politics (1992), Italian Americans in a Multicultural Society (1994), Race and Ethnicity in New York City (2005) Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World听(2006), Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class (2012), Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn (2016), COVID-19 in Brooklyn (2022), and forthcoming Local and Global Impacts of the War in Ukraine.聽He co-edits Urbanities and serves on the editorial boards of Visual Studies and the Journal of Video Ethnography. Krase has twice served a Fulbright Specialist, is an officer of ProBonoDesign Inc, and active in many American, European, and international sociological associations, the Commission on Urban Anthropology, American Italian Historical Association, International Urban Symposium, H-NET Humanities on Line, International Visual Sociology Association, Polish American Historical Association, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, and the European Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where he currently serves as president.

Sponsored by the departments of Sociology, Political Science, and Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies; the Program in Urban Sustainability; and the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at 可乐视频.

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Through collage, installation, and intervention art, Lopez’s work explores erased histories of African diasporic resistance, Indigenous disappearances, and reimagined futures of Black Latin American life. Lopez’s writing has appeared in The Architectural Review, Teen Vogue, Refinery29, and The Nation.

This event is in collaboration with CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium and CUNY Undocumented and Immigrant Student programs. It follows the monthly LGBTQIA+ Book Club and will feature an artist talk and writing workshop with Lopez.

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Filmed over 21 years, Sabbath Queen follows Lau-Lavie, the heir to 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis, as he navigates his legacy while becoming a drag performer, queer father, and founder of Lab/Shul. This film captures Rabbi Amichai on a journey to rethink Jewish ritual, challenge patriarchy, support interfaith connection, and explore what Jewish survival means in the 21st century.

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The panel will feature alumni speakers Daniel Menendez 鈥�08 and Kelly D. Harry 鈥�15, who will share their professional journeys, insights, and advice with immigrant students. This engaging conversation will highlight lived experiences and practical guidance for navigating today鈥檚 workforce.

The panel will provide a supportive space to discuss potential pathways across industries, learn strategies for navigating the job search process as immigrants, and build confidence while expanding professional networks.

Whether you are beginning to consider your career options or preparing to enter the workforce, this event offers an empowering opportunity to connect, ask questions, and gain insights from alumni and campus partners committed to your success.

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This moving documentary follows the unsolved murder of Venus Xtravaganza, star of the legendary film Paris Is Burning, as Venus’ two families, biological and ballroom, come together to seek answers and celebrate her legacy. The film is a celebration and memorialization of a pioneer and icon of the trans community.

Join us for Lecturer Dijana Jela膷a’s Women in Film class to participate in both the screening and panel following the film. Refreshments will be served.

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Ranjitsingh is an assistant professor in the Africana Studies Department and Caribbean Studies Program. Her research focuses on the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora, and her areas of interest include identity and identity formation, gender and ethnic identities, race, Blackness and mixedness, and the processes of racialization at “home” in the Caribbean and in the diaspora. She has published in the Journal for Intercultural Studies, the Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy, and the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. She is the co-author of Dougla in the 21st Century: Adding to the Mix and the edited collection The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora. Essays on Migration, Identity, and Literary and Cultural Representations.

Ranjitsingh will be joined in conversation by volume contributors:

• Jillian Ollivierre, a Ph.D. candidate in social anthropology at York University in Toronto. Her dissertation, provisionally entitled “Jahajin Bundles: Fashioning ‘Global’ Indianness in the Wake of Trinidadian Indenture,” examines the interwoven material, affective, and geopolitical textures of nationalist and diasporic processes in Trinidad, focusing on the historically gendered commerce and consumption of the imported Indian fashions known locally as “Indian wear.”
• Nikoli Attai, who received his Ph.D. in women and gender studies from the University of Toronto. His most recent book, Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean, was published in 2023. Attai鈥檚 broader research focuses on queer experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean beyond notions of disease and violence, and the need to flee the region.
• Sue Ann Barratt, a lecturer and head at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. She is a scholar of human communication and gendered expression and interaction. Barratt interrogates gender-based violence, especially as it manifests through social discourse.
• Tarika Sankar, digital humanities librarian at Brown University and a critical scholar of Indo-Caribbean diaspora, race and ethnic studies, feminist studies, and digital humanities. She earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Miami. Her dissertation project, 鈥淏eyond the Culture Concept: Indo-Caribbean Identity as Diasporic Consciousness,鈥� received a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
• Cristine Sabrina Khan, a PRODIG Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University. Khan is currently working on her book manuscript tentatively titled, 鈥淩acialized Legacies in Localized Identity Politics: Constructing Second-Generation Indo-Caribbean Identity in New York City and Toronto.鈥�

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