BC President Welcomes 2022-23 Hess Scholar-in-Residence Barbara Smith

Brooklyn College President Michelle Anderson and the BC community welcome 2022-23 Hess Scholar-in-Residence Barbara Smith to campus.

Speakers:

Gaston Alonso, Interim Director, Wolfe Institute for the Humanities and Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College

Rosamond S. King, Interim Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of English, Brooklyn College

Michelle J. Anderson, President of Brooklyn College

Carla Santamaria, Wolfe Institute Faculty Associate and Professor of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Brooklyn College

Barbara Ransby, LAS Distinguished Professor and John D. MacArthur Chair in the Departments of Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Director of Social Justice Initiative; University of Illinois at Chicago

Barbara Smith, Hess Scholar-in-Residence (2022-23)

JP Howard, Poet, judge, literary activist, curator of Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon, and Brooklyn College Tow Mentor-in-Residence (2023)