New Grant Will Help Brooklyn College Better Serve AAPI Students 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. Read More
Places to Be As senior assistant to the director of the LGBTQ+ Resource Center, Sami Binder ’18 is dedicated to creating safe spaces. Read More
Author and Activist Barbara Smith to Lecture at Brooklyn College on March 16 One of her first public appearances since 2020 will serve as an extraordinary complement to Brooklyn College’s Women’s History Month celebration. Read More
Author and Activist Barbara Smith Serving as Brooklyn College’s Hess Scholar-in-Residence for 2022-23 The independent scholar has opened up a national cultural and political dialogue about the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. On November 29, Smith will be part of a conversation on campus with Jeanne Theoharis to discuss selected clips from the newly released documentary, “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” which features Smith and is also based on Theoharis’ research and book of the same name. Read More
Best of BC Staff Spotlight: Sau-Fong Au The director of the Brooklyn College Women’s Center speaks about the impact of her childhood on her career path, the transformative power of education, and the role of the Asian American Faculty and Staff Association. Read More
Leymah Roberta Gbowee Lectures on Peace, War, and Life as a Celebrated Leader The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate visits campus for enlightening and timely lecture. Read More
Brooklyn College Welcomes 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Roberta Gbowee The Liberian peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights advocate will discuss gender, law, transitional justice, reconstruction, and other topics. Read More
College Group Launches Asian American Faculty and Staff Association Spurred by events across the country and support from the BC administration, a group that had been in discussions for some time makes it official. Read More
Women’s Center Program Coordinator Nava Renek Receives Grant to Translate Portuguese Writer’s Novel Nava Renek, the program coordinator in the Women’s Center, received a translation grant from Direção-Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e das Bibliotecas. She will translate and publish an English edition Read More
Professor Matthew Burgess Is PUMPed About His Latest Collaborative Public Art Project Burgess’s vision, the Poetry Urban Mural Project (PUMP), is bringing communities of students, scholars, and artists together to create public works that transform the aesthetic of the city one wall at a time. Read More
