Year: 2015

In the Fall of 2015 I was awarded an Experiential Learning Activities Course Enhancement Grant by the the Urban Studies Department at Queens College where I have served as an Adjunct faculty member since the Spring of 2013.  These grants were made available thanks to the generous support of the…

Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a welcome experiment in deliberative democracy, one that could produce progressive politics and social transformation.  With this in mind, PB in New York City explicitly targets low-income and minority groups for mobilization by design.  Indeed, data shows that New York City’s PB process has effectively engaged…

I am pleased to announce that I have recently been notified of my election as Chair-Elect (S.Y. 2015/2016) and Chair (S.Y. 2016/2017) of the Graduate Student Committee of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI).   I feel both honored and well-positioned to accept such a position.…

[caption id="attachment_276" align="alignleft" width="150"] NYC scholar-activist Marilyn Jacobs Gittell (1931–2010) was dedicated to racial, gender, and educational justice.[/caption] MAY 10 2015: I am pleased to announce that my colleague Erit Maor and I have been awarded the Marilyn Gittell Research Assistantship to continue our work on Community Land Trusts (CLT) over…

Before you read my reaction, I feel the need to situate myself within this discussion.  I write as a White woman born of a working-lower middle class family who grew up in a small town in the exact center of CT.  I am now a graduate student in Environmental Psychology…

  On Sunday September 21, 2014 nearly 400,000 people  gathered along the west side of Central Park to march through New York City, the financial and corporate capital of the world, to tell our world leaders it was time - in fact more so, that it had been time -…