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A Year Unlike Any Other In March, New York City became the global epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the weeks that followed, the Colin Powell School community suffered disproportionately, with loss of health and income. Many of our students served as frontline and essential workers, risking health to keep the city safe; many others lost jobs. Instruction continued remotely, and the faculty and staff of the Colin Powell School adjusted quickly with enhanced services—emergency grants, mentoring, advising, and mental health counseling—to support our students. For all that was difficult and unique in 2019-20, we still finished the year as we have every one before it—with nearly 1,000
new graduates who left with the knowledge and skills, the relationships and friendships, to make a difference as leaders in service to our world. Achieving this record of success was anything but easy. At such a difficult moment, our community’s resilience signals hope for our city and nation. Almost two-thirds of our students are the first in their families to finish college. More than half are immigrants, representing more than 100 nations and speaking nearly as many native languages. Our students’ determination to succeed enables them to take advantage of all that we offer by way of education, mentorship, professional development and support at the Colin Powell
School. And by finishing their degrees, our students break barriers, challenge expectation and set new trajectories—for themselves, their families, and our society. How does the Colin Powell School do it? In this year’s annual report, we review some of the programs and initiatives that are central to our students’ success. We reflect on what makes the Colin Powell School so special—and essential—in higher education and to our nation. When we put together all of the essential components, the Colin Powell School places our students on a path to success, transforming the world’s most diverse student body into tomorrow’s global leaders.
Still Transforming The World’s Most Diverse Student Body Into Tomorrow’s Global Leaders.
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Table of Content
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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR
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PROGRAMS OF EXCELLENCE
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Message from Gen. Powell
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With resilience and determination, our students—supported by the creativity and compassion of the entire Colin Powell School community—embody the American dream.
DEAR FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS, I am pleased to share this annual report from the Colin Powell School. For the Colin Powell School, as for the entire country, this has been a year of unprecedented challenges. New York City became the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic midway through the spring semester, and our students suffered disproportionately, with loss of jobs, income and health. The crisis has put an extraordinary set of demands on all of us, and I am so proud of the ways in which the faculty, staff and students of the Colin Powell School successfully transitioned to remote learning and teaching. We rose to the challenge as a community. With just a few days’ notice, faculty and staff moved classes online. They created new forms of student advising, mentoring and support. With help from our Board of Visitors, students managed to maintain a focus on their career and professional development through remote internships. And, with the help of members of our Board and many others, including a very generous grant from the Viola Family Foundation, we were able to replenish our student emergency grant program in order to provide students who had lost work and income with immediate cash assistance so that they could stay in school. In May, we graduated almost 1,000 students in an inspiring and one-of-a-kind online ceremony. Throughout the 2019-20 academic year, we maintained the high quality of our work, uninterrupted, as one of CCNY’s largest units, educating almost 4,000 of CCNY’s nearly 16,000 students. At the Colin Powell School, we promote the values of service, engagement, and leadership in ways that prepare graduates to tackle big issues and take on tough jobs. Our graduates make their mark on domestic and international policy, law, business and finance. Their work has never been more important, and I am proud of how much they—and we—have accomplished working together during this challenging year. Our Board of Visitors continues to provide essential guidance and critical support for our students. This year, we were privileged to welcome two new members, Marco Antonio Achón and Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn. Achón, the Head of Santander Corporate & Investment Banking US, CEO of Santander Investment Securities Inc., and General Manager of Banco Santander, S.A. New York Branch, brings with him a passion for student mentoring and career and professional development. Ahmad-Llewellyn, who I have known for more than 40 years, is a highly successful entrepreneur and civic leader with a commitment to growing the ranks of women and those from diverse backgrounds in professional leadership posts in all sectors. The Colin Powell School’s mission of transforming the world’s most diverse student population into tomorrow’s global leaders is more important than ever. With resilience and determination, our students— supported by the creativity and compassion of the entire Colin Powell School community—embody the American dream. And thanks to our supporters, the same excellent public education that gave me such a solid foundation more than 60 years ago is preparing the next generation of leaders to step forward and take on the issues facing our world today. This has been a year of challenges matched by progress. I look ahead with optimism and hope that the accomplishments described in this year’s annual report will inspire you to find new ways to support the continued success of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership.
GENERAL COLIN L. POWELL, USA (Ret.) Chair of the Board of Visitors Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership
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Message from the Dean
During this crisis, we did not simply carry on. We came together as a community to play important leadership roles in CCNY’s response to the pandemic.
DEAR COLIN POWELL SCHOOL COMMUNITY, The past year has been extraordinary for all of us, and I must begin this report by recognizing and sharing my deep appreciation for the unprecedented work and commitment to instruction, learning, and scholarship of every member of our community during the COVID-19 pandemic. This has been a year like no other, and it has been matched by
the exceptional determination and hard work that reflects our shared commitment to the Colin Powell School’s mission. In March, the Colin Powell School migrated 455 classes and 5,198 students to an online format in less than a week. We pushed ahead in new ways, even as many struggled to maintain their health and that of their families and friends. Too often, we found ourselves mourning the loss of those close to us, including two members of our faculty, Professor William Helmreich and longtime lecturer Leonard Trugman. Many
of our students faced unprecedented health, work and financial challenges. Our community responded with direct and continuing assistance, thanks to the generosity of alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of the Colin Powell School who enabled us to increase the availability of student emergency relief grants and provide enhanced student support services. During this crisis, we did not simply carry on. We came together as a community to play important leadership roles in CCNY’s response to the pandemic. Our Psychological Center, which serves both the student population and the surrounding community, made the successful
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transition to teletherapy. Our faculty adapted quickly to produce research demonstrating how the pandemic revealed and exacerbated already existing inequalities that strain our nation’s social, economic and political fabric. We convened important campus conversations about the ways in which both our local community and the nation were responding to and affected by the pandemic. We examined the critical role that public higher education plays in this moment, and we addressed the national and international anti-racist uprisings that arose in response to police brutality and statesanctioned violence. Even as we faced unique challenges, we also celebrated the achievements of our students this year. On Thursday, May 28th the Colin Powell School hosted a virtual celebration for our graduating Class of 2020. The event included remarks by General Powell, CCNY President Vince Boudreau, and Cesar Conde, Chairman of NBCUniversal News Group and one of the newest members of the Colin Powell School Board of
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Visitors. We also had “surprise” guests—former Vice President Joe Biden, former Georgia State Assembly Leader Stacey Abrams, and our New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. Through Zoom and YouTube chat, hundreds of graduates and their family members and friends from around the world shared cheers and congratulations in real time. The celebration was different in so many ways from our usual commencement, but it was in the most important way the same—a community affirming the achievements of almost 1,000 new graduates of the Colin Powell School, more than two-thirds of whom are the first in their families to finish college. The purpose of the Colin Powell School is to create new pathways to success for our graduates, and thereby, change our city and nation for the better. Even at this difficult moment, our school continues to do just that. As you read this year’s annual report, I hope you will reflect upon what makes the Colin Powell School distinctive. We imbue all of our students with the values of service and
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leadership and the sense of responsibility to one another that accompany those values. Our students bring with them an unparalleled determination to succeed, and we provide them with the learning resources to make that success possible. We have a first class faculty and staff and a tremendous range of programs and initiatives. We can only accomplish all this with the investment of time, energy and resources from our supporters, alumni, and donors, and the leadership of General Powell, President Boudreau, and our Board of Visitors. I am grateful to all of them. In this annual report, we offer updates on our students, our programs, and our alumni. We have much to celebrate and hope you enjoy this report. I am proud to be a member of this exceptional community and look forward to working with you as partners in our very important mission.
ANDREW RICH Dean, Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership
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Programs of Excellence In academic year 2019-20, we inaugurated a new Climate Policy Fellows Program,
generously funded by grants from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Heising-Simons Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, and Turner Construction. The Program supports CCNY undergraduate students from the sciences, social sciences, architecture and engineering programs with training, professional development, and internship opportunities that link climaterelated science, engineering, and economics to public policy. Fellows participated in four
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Climate Policy Fellows Program
intensive workshops led by a range of senior national and international climate policy leaders, designed to prepare fellows to understand how science, engineering, and economics research affect public policy, and how policy-making shapes these fields of research. The Fellows program is led by CCNY alumnus Trevor Houser, a partner with Rhodium Group, a leading independent research provider. According to Houser, the fellowship and internship programs he participated in while at the Colin Powell School changed the course of his life and made it possible for him to contribute professionally
to a critical global issue. In particular, he cites his work with the school’s first Diplomat in Residence, Ambassador Mark Minton, who convinced him to study Chinese and apply for a State Department internship at the US Embassy in Beijing. Houser was placed with the embassy’s Environment, Science, Technology and Health section, where he learned about Chinese energy and environmental policy at a critical moment in the country’s development. Houser and Dean Andrew Rich were inspired to create the Climate Policy Fellows program because they recognized that while CCNY has some of the most
By combining policy mentorship with paid summer internships, the Climate Policy Fellows program opens up career pathways and helps ensure that the next generation of policy leaders are more diverse and representative of people they are responsible for serving.
talented students in the world with the diversity of background and experience that are needed to effectively tackle problems like climate change, all too often that talent goes undiscovered because of financial constraints. Many lack the means to participate in unpaid internships or even fully participate in their classes due to conflicting work and family obligations. Because so many are the first in their family to go to college, they don’t have the social networks higher-income families have. They also face institutionalized barriers to career development that particularly impact the immigrant students and students of color that make up the overwhelming majority of CCNY’s student body. By combining policy mentorship with paid summer internships, the Climate Policy Fellows program opens up career pathways and helps ensure that the next generation of policy leaders are
more diverse and representative of the people they are responsible for serving. Despite the disruption of the COVID-19 crisis, the first year of the program was a great success, Twenty-four of the twenty-six fellows in the first cohort are students of color, nearly all are low-income and many are immigrants or first generation. Four intensive workshops were offered over the course of the year, covering climate science, economics, politics, policy making, and international negotiations. The fellows researched and wrote policy briefs on a wide range of climate related topics, from how to improve climate resilience in public housing to strategies for more sustainable urban food waste management. They presented their briefs to each other at the end of the semester and a few of the fellows are working over the summer to refine them enough to be published.
Most of the fellows opted to participate in the climate changefocused summer internships the program arranged (and most of these internships proceeded remotely) at a range of organizations including the Aspen Institute, Carbon 180, ClimateWorks, the National Resources Defense Council, World Resources Institute, and the Rocky Mountain Institute, among others. For those Fellows that recently graduated or are graduating in the fall, the program is providing job placement assistance. This program received more applications than any other Colin Powell School Fellowship, demonstrating the strong interest in this issue among CCNY students. A second cohort of Fellows began in Fall 2020, and we will be creating a mentorship program and alumni network to keep each cohort of Fellows connected.
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The Boudreau Fellows Program honors the Colin Powell School’s inaugural dean, Vince Boudreau.
Boudreau Fellows Program Thanks to the generous support of Mr. William Janetschek, this year saw the launch of the Boudreau Fellows Program, which honors the Colin Powell School’s inaugural dean, Vince Boudreau. Boudreau Fellows are supported with mentoring, advising and opportunities to engage in special projects, as well as assistance in finding professionally relevant internships in between their two years of support. The inaugural Boudreau Fellows were juniors Rainuk Ahmed and Sabrina Mohammed. Both students are majoring in Economics with a
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focus on finance. Ahmed, an immigrant from Qatar, was part of the Colin Powell School’s Partners for Change Fellowship during his sophomore year, for which he completed a fellowship project focused on improving college access. Mohammed, a second-generation TrinidadianAmerican, is part of the Macaulay Honors College at CCNY. In addition to financial support, the fellowship provides mentoring, opportunities to engage in special projects, and assistance with securing professionally relevant internships.
The program draws on the rich diversity of City College’s student body as well as on the academic, institutional, and cultural resources of New York City to give students the skills and experience necessary to engage with the most pressing international and global issues of our day.
Stuart Bernstein Scholars in International Studies Thanks to the generosity of Stuart A. Bernstein, Ambassador to Denmark from 2001 until 2005, the Colin Powell School this past fall launched the Stuart Bernstein Scholarship in International Studies. The International Studies Program at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership prepares students for careers in a wide array of fields, from diplomacy and global governance to NGOs and multinational corporations. The International Studies major offers a flexible curriculum, in which students take classes with faculty
across many departments and programs at CCNY, including anthropology, Black studies, economics, history, Latin American and Latino studies, political science, and sociology. The Program draws on the rich diversity of CCNY’s student body as well as on the academic, institutional, and cultural resources of New York City to give students the skills and experience necessary to engage with the most pressing international and global issues of our day. The inaugural recipients of the Bernstein Scholarship
were Nailah Garard and Keith Mulet, both International Studies students. Garard, a senior double-majoring in International Studies and Anthropology, is active in the Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative at the Colin Powell School. Mulet is a firstgeneration Guatemalan-American in his senior year majoring in International Studies with a dual BA/MA degree in History as well. He received an award for Best Essay on Women’s History and Feminist Theory while at CCNY and was inducted into the Golden Key International Honor Society.
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Programs of Excellence “Those of us who don’t come from elite backgrounds deserve to be invested in too,” Shariful Khan, Colin Powell School Alum and current Yale Law Student
Over the past decade, the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at CCNY has refined a successful approach to recruiting, supporting, and preparing young people from backgrounds historically underrepresented in the legal profession—primarily low-income students of color—to attend and thrive in law school. To date, our program has sent more than 130 students to law school, eight to Yale and Harvard, with three having started at Yale Law School just last fall. Almost half have attended law schools ranked in the top fifty. The program’s recruitment and support mechanisms produce a roughly two-thirds yield to law school—far higher than most legal honors programs. Our alumni are being hired by top law firms as well as by government and public interest firms. The program’s first decade has been generously underwritten by a partnership with Skadden, Arps. With that partnership winding down, we seek new partners. The stubborn demographics of the legal profession affirm why such a program is important. In a recent survey of law firms by the
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American Bar Association, only 3 percent of partner and associate respondents identified as black; only 3.6 percent as Hispanic. The legal profession—and especially private law firms—trail well behind accounting, medicine, and academia in achieving racial and socio-economic diversity. The Program consists of four key elements: 1. Intensive LSAT Instruction: Consistent with the known biases of the LSAT, the standardized test remains the biggest barrier to law school admission for our students. After experimenting with different approaches to LSAT instruction, we have settled on an intensive two semester, credit-bearing sequence in a partnership with Kaplan, which has improved scores. 2. Mentoring, Professional Development, and Internships: A dedicated instructor and adviser focuses on ensuring that students achieve success and that they are placed in appropriate internships and professional development opportunities.
3. Special Seminars and Writing Instruction: Students take special courses that simulate the law school experience and that include intensive one-on-one writing instruction. 4. Scholarships and Stipends: Students receive tuition scholarships and summer stipends, which make it possible for them to focus on their studies and engage in internships and professional development. Over the past decade, we have substantially improved the recruitment systems for the PreLaw Honors students so that the quality and diversity of students entering the program is very high: • Students entering the program have an average GPA of 3.6. • Over the past three years, 85.5% of students in the program have been non-white. • More than 60% of newly selected Honors students over the past three years have been transfer students (having begun college elsewhere). • The program’s recruitment efforts have reached
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prospective students earlier— including in high school—and at a wider range of colleges and universities. • The average time to graduation for our Honors students is 4.2 years (compared to a more typical six-year graduation rate for CCNY students generally). This past year, in response to feedback from students and alums expressing a need for greater exposure to the principles and forms of legal writing prior to law school, we added a Legal Writing seminar. Students learned about reading case decisions, briefing decisions, legal memoranda, affidavits and more. They also strengthened their legal research skills. Students met with several guest speakers this year, including 13 attorneys from various practice areas. Students also met with a panel of law school admissions counselors and attended special seminars regarding the law school application process. Every student in the cohort shadowed a practicing lawyer for at least one full day, then wrote a short paper about the experience and gave a brief presentation to the fall semester class. One exciting development was that eight program alums hosted Cohort 11 students for the day, and we hope to continue relying on our growing network of alumni
lawyers to enrich the experience of our students. The following law schools admitted Skadden Scholars this year: • American University Washington College of Law • Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law (6) • Boston College Law School • Brooklyn Law School (7) • California Western School of Law • Chicago Kent College of Law • City University School of Law (6) • DePaul University Law School • Fordham University School of Law (4) • George Washington University Law School • Hofstra University • Howard University School of Law • New England Law - Boston • New York Law School • Northeastern University School of Law • Pace University Law School • Rutgers Law School • Seton Hall University School of Law (2) • St John’s University School of Law (2) • Temple University • University of Colorado • UIC John Marshall Law School • University of Minnesota Law School • University of San Diego School of Law • Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law • Washington University School of Law (2)
Yale pipeline program: Shariful Khan and Paula GarciaSalazar, alums of the Colin Powell School’s Honors Program in Legal Studies now attending Yale Law School, are two of four Yale Law School students working with Yale Professor James Forman Jr. to create a free pipeline program for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented minority members of the New Haven community. The program provides coaching and mentorship to an inaugural class of 20 fellows, assisting them in overcoming the obstacles that might otherwise prevent their admission to law school. “Those of us who don’t come from elite backgrounds deserve to be invested in too,” says Khan.
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Career and Professional Development
In 2019-20, the Colin Powell School deepened its commitment to the career and professional development of our students. Our goal is to provide students with career-readiness skills that position them to succeed in internships and full-time roles after graduation. To that end, we have developed several partnerships with organizations that are interested in working with our students and added resources that cater to the needs of our student body. Thanks to the networks of our Board of Visitors and senior leadership, we have established new relations with organizations such as JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Advancing Black Pathways program, the Harvard Business School, Randstad Staffing Agency, and the NYC Mayor’s Office. These partnerships have enabled our students to gain insight into different career paths, take advantage of several learning opportunities, find temporary work, and participate in a wide variety of internship programs.
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We have also developed resources to supplement the efforts of CCNY’s Career and Professional Development Institute, helping students with their job and internship searches. Through our LinkedIn group, we post learning and work opportunities targeted at Colin Powell School students, many of which have been made available by our partners. We have developed a handbook to provide tips and advice on professional development and personal branding materials. In addition, our students are able to pair with industry mentors who have provided one-on-one assistance with job materials and career advice during the COVID-19 crisis, thanks to our partners at The City Tutors. 14
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Although the pandemic brought new challenges that upended many of our students’ summer plans, it also presented new opportunities. At the beginning of the summer, we administered a survey to gauge the career needs and interests of Colin Powell School students. Based on the responses of more than 400 students (nearly 10% of Colin Powell School student body), we hosted a series of four workshops over the course of the summer that addressed the topics of networking, student success, and mentorship. Two of our workshops included alumni panels focused on two separate industries — finance and economic development, and child and youth development. In total,
more than one hundred students participated in the sessions. In the coming year, we will continue expanding our partnerships, both externally and internally. Within the Colin Powell School, we will work closely with departments to extend our student reach and host events that cater to each major. We are in the initial stages of developing a mentoring program that will enhance the first year experience of Colin Powell students by connecting them with senior peers. The Edward I. Koch Fellowship in Public Service has already been restructured to support more students in the 2020-2021 school year, and we plan on making further changes in order to broaden our reach.
Colonial Fortress of Santo Domingo
The Institute has opened its Archives and Library facility to art exhibitions, becoming the first exhibit space in New York City devoted exclusively to work by and about people of Dominican descent.
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Founded in 1992 and housed at CCNY, the Dominican Studies Institute of the City University of New York (CUNY DSI) is the
nation’s first university-based research institute devoted to the study of people of Dominican descent in the United States and other parts of the world. CUNY DSI’s mission is to produce and disseminate research and scholarship about Dominicans, and about the Dominican Republic. CUNY DSI is the locus for a community of scholars, including doctoral fellows, in the field of Dominican Studies and sponsors multidisciplinary research projects. The Institute houses the Dominican Archives, dedicated to
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preserving the records reflecting the experiences of Dominicans in the United States, and the Dominican Library, the largest depository of bibliographical resources in the United States related to Dominican Studies. These are the first and only institutions in the United States collecting primary and secondary source material about people of Dominican descent. Since 2010, the Institute has opened its Archives and Library facility to art exhibitions, becoming the first exhibit space in New York City devoted exclusively to work by and about people of Dominican descent. The Institute also regularly organizes lectures, conferences, and exhibitions that are open to the public.
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A History of Dominican Music in the U.S.
In 2019-20, DSI launched an important new virtual research tool, the first open-source digital platform that narrates the historical trajectory and contributions of Dominican music in the United States. This new resource makes clear for the first time how integral Dominican musicians and Dominican musical traditions are to the culture and artistry of the United States—and have been for many decades. The new platform is a feat of creativity that opens remarkable possibilities for research and understanding around the cultural, artistic, and historical features of Dominican music in the United States.
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Clinical Psychology, Ph.D.
More than 50% of CUNY students who responded to the survey confirmed exposure to five or more COVID-19 related stressors The 2019-2020 academic year saw the best of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, both far afield and closer to home. In January, eleven doctoral students and two faculty members took part in a social justice mission to one of central Mexico’s most besieged areas in terms of forced migration and repatriation of deportees. The purpose of the trip was to enhance the students’ understanding of immigration trauma, the asylum-seeking process, and the reintegration of deportees in order to better serve the patients that they treat. The students and faculty interacted with young children being raised by their grandparents after their parents migrated to the United States. They met with a cooperative of indigenous women whose partners had left for the US, interviewed former DACA recipients who were reintegrating into Mexico after being deported, and engaged with various NGOs that work with forced migrants, asylum-seekers, and deportees. Students also spent three hours per day in intensive Spanish
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classes designed to help with interviewing. Students and faculty in the program were immersed in issues much closer to home in the face of the pandemic. A survey showed that the prevalence and severity of depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress symptoms among CUNY students during COVID-19 have been significantly higher than that observed in a representative national sample during the same period. More than 50% of CUNY students who responded to the survey confirmed exposure to five or more COVID-19 related stressors (i.e. loss of a job, financial insecurity, or death of a family member due to COVID-19). These data highlighted the immediate and long-term need for resources as well as psychological services for CUNY students. The Psychological Center was at the core of the clinical services provided to those in the City College community who need them. As the training clinic for the Program, the Center typically serves approximately 200
patients annually who receive individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, couple’s/family psychotherapy, psychological testing, and/or neuropsychological testing. Beginning in March, patients served by the Center were successfully transitioned to teletherapy. Advanced student therapists were able to continue with their clinical training and the Program developed a training curriculum for our firstyear students to be able to commence their clinical work under these unexpected and trying circumstances. Additional new clinical services were implemented. with the dual purpose of enhancing clinical services by: (1) continuing to have training experiences that are meaningful and varied with multiple opportunities to engage in in-depth work and (2) providing a greater range of treatments for patients that also specifically address the growing mental health needs related to the pandemic.
Viola Student Emergency Relief Fund In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, many of our students found themselves unable to pay for food, housing, or basic necessities, let alone tuition. They along with parents and siblings have lost jobs or have jobs that put them in harm’s way. Thanks to the generosity and foresight of the Viola Family in creating the Viola Fund, the Colin Powell School already had an annual emergency fund for students that typically distributed $100,000 annually. However, in just the first six weeks of the COVID-19 crisis, we awarded $130,000 in grants. We knew that it was imperative, therefore, for us to raise additional funds in response to the crisis. Our call for support resulted in nearly 200 donations for a total
of more than $750,000 in new commitments. Gifts ranged from $50 to a lead gift from the Viola Family Foundation, a new grant of $400K. The emergency grants that the Colin Powell School provides often make the difference in whether or not students can continue to pursue their education. One of our grant recipients who feared that he would have to drop out this past spring, expressed his thanks on the morning of his graduation: “At a time where I thought this moment wouldn’t be possible, you’ve opened a door that I only pictured in my dreams. This milestone marks only the beginning of what’s to come and I’m very excited despite the circumstances that may lie
ahead in my journey. I couldn’t have done it without your help, and I feel very lucky to be able to one day provide a change in my family as my journey for higher education continues.” There is no indication that the hardships faced by our students will ease in the foreseeable future, especially given the anticipated catastrophic shortfall in state funding that will inevitably result in budget cuts throughout the CUNY system. As a result, we revised a previous restriction that specified that students could only receive emergency funds once in a twoyear period, and twice in their time at CCNY. We are only able to offer this flexibility because of the generous support of our donors, particularly the Viola Foundation.
In just the first six weeks of the COVID-19 crisis, we awarded $130,000 in grants
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Timeline of Events Conversations in Leadership
Sep 05th
THE ROLE OF A REFUGEE Dr. Kate Cronin-Furman, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Human Rights at University College London.
Sep 17th
Golriz Ghahraman MP, Iranian-born New Zealand politician and member of Parliament
THE LIMITS AND POSSIBILITIES OF SANCTUARY: MODES OF RESISTANCE AND SOLIDARITY IN THE TRUMP ERA
Sep 23th
Alexandra Délano, Associate Professor and Chair of Global Studies at The New School
Financial Series
Conversations in Leadership FINANCIAL EDUCATION & PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE Suze Orman, #1 New York Times bestselling author, magazine and online columnist, writer/producer, and one of the top motivational speakers in the world today
Sep 24th
MONEY AND WEALTH CREATION COURSE: A SIX-SEMINAR FINANCIAL SERIES
Sep 26th
Finance Experts Hank Nguyen and Robert Mellman
Policy Hackathon
Conversations in Leadership
Climate Change Series A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION OF LEADING EXPERTS THE STATE OF THE CLIMATE: SCIENCE, ECONOMICS AND POLICY
Oct 04th
Jonathan Pershing, Program Director, Environment, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Sue Biniaz, Senior fellow for climate change at the UN Foundation Amir Jina, Assistant professor at the University of Chicago
POLICY HACKATHON Eric Schnurer
Reza Khanbilvardi, Professor and Director, NOAA Crest, Grove School of Engineering
6th Annual Sternberg Family Lecture
Oct 23rd
Moderated by Trevor Houser, Partner at the Rhodium Group and Head of the firm’s energy and climate group
Oct 15th
BUILDING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE: A CAREER IN ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, POLICY, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
DIVERSIFYING THE FINANCIAL SECTOR
Shalini Vajjhala, Founder & CEO re:focus partners, a design firm dedicated to developing integrated resilient infrastructure solutions
Book Event WHAT IS CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY? POLITICS, RELIGION, AND IDEOLOGY Carlo Invernizzi Accetti Professor, Political Science
Conversations Conversations in in Leadership Leadership
Sekou Kaalund, Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase
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2nd Annual Stanley Feingold Lecture SERIES ON AMERICAN POLITICS: THE RULE OF LAW AND CHALLENGES TO OUR DEMOCRACY Jerrold Nadler, Congressman from New York’s 10th District Jeffrey Toobin, Staff Writer for The New Yorker and Senior Legal Analyst at CNN
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Conversations in Leadership
Nov. 05th
APPLY TO LAW SCHOOL
Nov. 18th
REFLECTIONS: AN EVENING OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND CONVERSATION
Miriam Ingber, Dean of Admissions from Yale Law School
Re-Thinking Rights
A conversation with Tau Battice, a lifelong lover and its power to preserve the moment, proclaim nuance, and propel humanity to positive action. He teaches at the City University of New York and lives in Harlem.
Nov. 21st
RFK’S LEGACY IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY
Feb. 19th
Kerry Kennedy, Human Rights Activist C. Richard Allen, Co-Author and Co-Editor of RFK
A discussion of Dr. Matthew Reilly’s monograph Dr. Tami Navarro Dr. Christopher Matthews.
Feb. 24th
THE POLITICS OF BECOMING HUMAN: ANIMAL METAPHORS IN POLITICAL THEORY Rebecca Ploof, Political Theorist and Levy Fellow in Politics and the History of Ideas at CCNY
The Pandemic Response
May 06th
ASSESSING THE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC DIMENSIONS AND THE WAY FORWARD
Mar. 06th
CHALLENGES TO THE COLLEGE AND HARLEM COMMUNITIES Adeyinka M. Akinsulure-Smith, Professor, Psychology Hillary Caldwell, Instructor, Department of Political Science Peter Fraenkel, Associate Professor, Psychology Sasha Rudenstine, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Global Populism and The New Right
Mikhal Dekel, Director of Rifkind Center Andrew Rich, Dean, Colin Powell School Federico Finchelstein, The New School Sadanand Dhume, American Enterprise Institute Natalia Aleksium, Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Touro College Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, Colin Powell School Jan-Werner Müller, Princeton Anne Nelson, Author of Shadow Networks: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right
May 26th
The Pandemic Series THE PANDEMIC IS THE TIME TO RESURRECT THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY
Stanley Altman, Visiting Professor, Public Affairs Marta Bengoa, Associate Professor, Economics Katherine Chen, Associate Professor, Sociology David Jeruzalmi, Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, City College of NY. Rajan Menon, Spitzer Chair in International Relations
The Pandemic Response
Book Event ARCHAEOLOGY BELOW THE CLIFF
Tressie McMillan Cottom, American Writer, Sociologist, and Professor
Re-Thinking Rights: Conversations in Leadership
Conversations in Leadership
Dean Andrew Rich in Conversation with Corey Robin, Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College
May 07th June 09th
The Racial Justice Series UPRISING IN CONTEXT: THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE IN THE UNITED STATES
Asale Angel-Ajani, Director of Women’s and Gender Studies Program Michael J. Garner, President, Founding Chapter, One Hundred Black Men Vanessa K. Valdés, Director of Black Studies Program Moderator: Bobby Derival, Executive Director, Master’s in Public Administration Program Remarks:
Vince Boudreau, President, The City College of New York Lloyd Williams, President, Harlem Chamber of Commerce
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People Making a Difference Access and Inclusion in Education
Through this project, I have observed the power of historical archaeology to illuminate counter narratives and to reveal how communities are shaped by political forces, both historically and in the present.
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Director of the Office of Academic Advising Herbert Seignoret has worked for more than twenty years at CCNY, as a program coordinator for two teacher education programs, as a teacher’s assistant on archeological field schools and introductory anthropology classes, and most recently as Director of the Office of Academic Advising in the Colin Powell School. Throughout his CCNY career, he has been committed to access and inclusion in education. An 20
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alumnus of the Colin Powell School’s Anthropology program, Seignoret is also the Associate Director of the Institute for the Exploration of Seneca Village History and previously served on the advisory board of the Seneca Village Project. Seneca Village was an African American and Irish immigrant community located in the area that became Central Park. The project includes three integrated components: research, education, and commemoration. Seignoret came to the United States from the Caribbean island of Dominica to study architecture
in 1989. After taking elective courses in urban anthropology and historical archaeology, he switched to anthropology. He first got involved with the Seneca Village as an undergraduate student at CCNY working with Professor Diana Wall, at the time, the only historical archaeologist in the CUNY system. Says Seignoret, “Through this project, I have observed the power of historical archaeology to illuminate counter narratives and to reveal how communities are shaped by political forces, both historically and in the present.”
Welcome Our New Faculty and Staff
My background, including my childhood in Manila, informs my desire to work on critical social issues, primarily around the environment and higher education.
DR. DEBORAH CHENG,
Director of Fellowships This past fall, The Colin Powell School welcomed our new Director of Fellowships, Dr. Deborah Cheng. Cheng came to us after five years as Program Officer for the Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program at the Social Science Research Council, a program focused
on increasing diversity among university faculty. “I am excited to join the Colin Powell School. The School’s mission and dedication to public service align with my own ideals,” said Cheng. “My background, including my childhood in Manila, informs my desire to work on critical social issues, primarily around the environment and higher education. I look forward to building upon
the success of the various fellowship programs by expanding opportunities, linking theory and practice, and strengthening our community of current students and alumni.” Dr. Cheng holds degrees from MIT and Stanford, and a PhD from UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group, an interdisciplinary program focused on the intersection of environmental and social justice.
I come to this role inspired by the change-making legacy of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, and humbled by the gravity of the current moment. In April, Bobby Derival joined the Colin Powell School as the new Executive Director of the school’s MPA Program. Derival is a trained public health practitioner, with eight years of experience in dynamic, multi-disciplinary environments. He received a BA in Sociology at Fordham University before earning a Master of Arts in Public Health and a Master of Arts in International Peace and Conflict Resolution at Arcadia University. He has held positions in both the public and private sectors, most recently as Chief Operating Officer for a state licensed home care
services provider. Prior to his work in the healthcare industry, Derival designed and implemented global projects operating at the intersection of health and the built environment for an internationally focused NGO based in New York City. Upon his arrival, Derival wrote, “I come to this role inspired by the change-making legacy of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, and humbled by the gravity of the current moment. This juncture in our history is unique, it is uncertain, and it has changed our lives in many immeasurable
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Executive Director, MPA Program ways. Still, it serves us well to remember that both our voice, and our capacity for change, remain intact. I am eager to join this MPA community in the essential work of being there for one another: as friends, as colleagues, and critically, as engaged citizens.”
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The grant renewal extends NIH support for another five years and brings total funding for this innovative and interdisciplinary research training and mentoring program to more than $3 million.
$1.7 million renewal grant for TRACC program.
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LESIA RUGLASS Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor, Psychology
ROBERT MELARA Professor and Chair, Psychology
TERESA LOPEZ-CASTRO Assistant Professor, Psychology
In the spring, three members of the Psychology faculty Lesia Ruglass (principal investigator) and Robert Melara and Teresa Lopez-Castro (both coinvestigators) received a $1.7 million renewal grant from National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the Translational Research Training in Addictions for Racial/ Ethnic Minorities (TRACC) program. First launched in 2013 at CCNY and Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), the goal of TRACC is to increase the number of scientists from underrepresented racial/ethnic
minority groups conducting translational studies in addiction research. The grant renewal extends NIH support for another five years and brings total funding for this innovative and interdisciplinary research training and mentoring program to more than $3 million. TRACC has capitalized on CCNY’s exceptional pool of diverse students, its renowned multidisciplinary faculty and a novel collaboration with substance use researchers at CUMC. With the new funding, the program has now been expanded to Rutgers University,
and is now known as TRACC-RU. Ruglass noted that under TRACCRU, trainees from underrepresented racial/ethnic minority (URM) groups are exposed to: cutting edge science and methodologies in animal and human models of addiction through psychiatry, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience research programs and related lab experiences; and critical issues in conducting community-based clinical treatment trials, grounded in our expertise of effectiveness and implementation trials of evidence-based addiction treatments in the community.
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In February 2019, she was officially sworn in as a (pro bono) Expert Witness for a historic trial in El Salvador: the El Mozote massacre, where in 1981 over 1,000 civilians were systematically killed by a U.S.-trained elite Salvadoran army battalion.
Meet Our Faculty
IRINA CARLOTA (LOTTI) SILBER, Professor and Chair, Anthropology, Gender Studies and International Studies
Irina Carlota “Lotti” Silber, Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Gender Studies and International Studies, is a Latina anthropologist committed to engaged research, international public scholarship, writing across genres and working in solidarity with her students. Her work is empirically grounded, positioned, and has focused over the last twenty-five years on post-war El Salvador where she has maintained deep ties
across generations and across the diaspora. In February 2019, she was officially sworn in as a (pro bono) Expert Witness for a historic trial in El Salvador: the El Mozote massacre, where in 1981 over 1,000 civilians were systematically killed by a U.S.trained elite Salvadoran army battalion. She was honored to leverage her anthropological research skills and expertise to support the pursuit of truth, justice, and accountability. These commitments guide her current book, Numbers and Bodies: Stories of El Salvador’s Postwar under contract with Stanford University Press. In part, this book serves as a sequel to her first award-winning book, Everyday Revolutionaries (2011, Rutgers; 2013—Mariposa Book Award), where she developed an analysis of gendered postwar disillusionment as a key characteristic of peace and neoliberal democracy. Her new book uses a range of frameworks, including disability studies,
to focus on what she calls the “1.5 insurgent generation”—the now young adult children of the forgotten former rank-and-file Salvadoran revolutionaries—who are remaking transnational families in expected and unexpected ways. She first met this generation when they were young children in the 1990s, navigating their own experiences of war, displacement, and peacebuilding. Today, she argues that they are the hope of our collective future precisely because of their childhood activism and community solidarity. All of this work grounds her teaching and mentorship. She is committed to pushing herself and her students to disrupt normative assumptions about the way our world is organized and how people build meaningful lives. In classes ranging from the anthropology of war and trauma to disability studies, she embraces the opportunity to teach alongside her colleagues and work with CCNY students, the next generation of critical scholar activists.
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LESLIE PAIK Assistant Professor, Sociology
SASHA RUDENTSTINE Professor, Psychology
PRABAL DE Associate Professor, Economics and Business
The ARC promotes research both within and outside of CUNY on topics related to inequality, immigration, multilingualism, translation, global cities, and critical university studies.
An April survey of 2,700 students across six CUNY campuses found that our students are experiencing more stressors (e.g., loss of job, food insecurity, exposure to the virus) than a national sample of college students, resulting in higher rates of anxiety, depression, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress. This study, spearheaded by Psychology Professor Sasha Rudentstine, is the first to assess the burden of mental illness among a US population that was particularly vulnerable to the health and economic consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak. These findings contribute to the mounting evidence that COVID-19 is particularly harmful to the health of marginalized populations.
The study concluded that eliminating perceived stigmas in health care facilities would improve health services and reduce the frequency of patients forgoing needed health care.
Leslie Paik, Associate Professor in the Colin Powell School’s Sociology Department, received a fellowship for the fall 2019 from the Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) of the CUNY Graduate Center for research on inequality and juvenile justice. The fellowship permitted Professor Paik to work on her book manuscript, Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality (anticipated publication date Fall 2021 from the University of California Press), about family multi-institutional involvement and inequality. The ARC promotes research both within and outside of CUNY on topics related to inequality, immigration, multilingualism, translation, global cities, and critical university studies.
2,700 students across six CUNY campuses found that our students are experiencing more stressors than a national sample of college students, resulting in higher rates of anxiety, depression, and symptoms of posttraumatic stress.
An article co-authored by Prabal De, Associate Professor of Economics and Business, found that discrimination or “perceived stigma” in health care facilities is linked to overall poor health and health services, as well as depression and diabetes. The study analyzed data from a New York City Community Health Survey conducted in 2016 and was published in Medical Care, a top journal published by the American Public Health Administration in December 2019. The co-authors were Professor Alexis Pozen of UC Berkeley and Professor Henna Budhwanit from the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The study concluded that eliminating perceived stigmas in health care facilities would improve health services and reduce the frequency of patients forgoing needed health care.
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Lots of students that come to City College are first in their families to go to college and they come with an implicit sometimes unconscious understanding that they are changing their family history, as simply being here is an active leadership
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Student and Alumni Success
OLALEKAN AFOLABI (2013)
Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State.
Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Olalekan Afolabi emigrated to the United States to seek opportunity and a better life. After earning two BAs (in International Studies and in Political Science) at CUNYCollege of Staten Island, in 2011, he enrolled in the Colin Powell School’s Master’s in International Affairs program. In 2016, Afolabi became a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State. “My advice to students who are looking to get a career in Foreign Affairs is to take a chance at CCNY and the Colin Powell School. It will be the best investment of their lives.” Afolabi cites the diversity and passion of the student body, the encouragement of the staff and faculty and the support structure provided by the student body to each other as some of the many reasons why students thrive at the Colin Powell School. “It is very easy to put in your best when you see other people with similar circumstances to yours thriving and excelling.”
GARETH RHODES (2012) Deputy Superintendent, NYS Department of Finance Services
ANA MURILLO (2019) International Studies and Political Science
Gareth Rhodes, served as a member of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s interagency task force to respond to COVID-19. Rhodes is Deputy Superintendent at the New York State Department of Finance Services. He is one of fourteen members of a task force that worked with Governor Cuomo to coordinate with local governments and health care partners to respond to the crisis. Rhodes was a political science major, a Colin Powell Fellow, and a member of the first cohort of the Skadden, Arps Honors Program in Legal Studies. Last year, Rhodes graduated from Harvard Law School, after having taken time off from law school in 2018 to run for Congress.
Ana Murillo, a 2019 graduate of the Colin Powell School, was accepted to the Coro Fellowship Program in Public Affairs for the Fall of 2019. This prestigious fellowship prepares diverse, talented and committed individuals for effective and ethical public leadership. The United States Senate alone includes three Coro alumni: Dianne Feinstein (CA), Tim Kaine (VA) and Michael Bennet (CO). The full-time, nine-month experiential learning program places fellows in leading nonprofit organizations in the city and provides weekly seminars and networking opportunities. Murillo, who earned degrees in political science and international studies, was a Partners for Change Fellow at the Colin Powell School and a participant in the Colin Powell School’s Semester in DC Program. As a Coro Fellow, she was excited to continue growing as a leader and gaining tools to create a long-lasting impact on low-income residents in the New York City area.
“Coming into work every day and knowing you can spend every working hour doing something that will make life better for people is what excites me about working in government ."
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academic grounding to the many practical skills in government and public service that he had learned through his professional career. This fellowship takes him to yet another arena.
ELVIN GARCIA (2020) Deputy Superintendent, NYS Department of Finance Services
“As someone who has worked in spaces trying to create change from the government side, from the activism side, I have found myself very curious about how philanthropy has played a role in effecting change and supporting organizations that are on the ground, doing the work at an international scale.” Elvin Garcia, a second-year student in the Master’s in Public Administration program, was named one of only three recipients of the prestigious Open Society Foundations Presidential Fellowship nationally. Fellows spend two years working directly with the Executive Office of the President to support diverse projects and initiatives across all of OSF’s programs and divisions. Garcia came to CCNY after spending more than eight years as a government affairs professional, including serving as Bronx Borough director for Mayor Bill de Blasio for nearly three years. Following an unsuccessful 2017 run for New York City Council, Garcia decided to return to school to add an
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Daniel Hila was recently awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. The Fulbright US Student Program is overseen by the US Department of State and awards approximately 2,000 grants annually in all fields of study in more than 140 countries, providing opportunities for students and young professionals to undertake international graduate study and advanced research. A 2020 graduate with a BA in political science, Daniel will use his Fulbright grant to pursue a master’s degree in security and diplomacy at Tel Aviv University in Israel. A recipient of the S Jay Levy Fellowship and the Colin Powell Fellowship in Leadership and Public Service, Daniel hopes to one day work for the US Department of State. Hila’s undergraduate experience included numerous internships, including three stints at the Kosovo Consulate in Manhattan, in both the diplomatic and consular sectors. Hila also participated in the 74th UN general assembly last fall as an intern with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA).
DANIEL HILA (2020) Political Science Major,
SABINA DORVILLE (2020) Political Science Major
“I was able to conceptualize the work of public policy and understand the different ways to create and recommend policy to elected officials. I took courses in policy writing and statistics, which strengthened my quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.” In summer 2019, then risingsenior Sabina Dorville participated in the seven-week PPIA Junior Summer Institute, a prestigious program that prepares talented and highly motivated students to complete master’s degrees and become public policy leaders. Dorville, a political science major, attended PPIA at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, where she took courses in economics, statistics, international policy, and GRE preparation and had the opportunity to meet policy leaders, build professional relationships with fellow students, and learn about public policy careers. In Fall 2020, Dorville will begin her Masters in Public Policy at NYU’s Wagner School.
Nine Nobel laureates claim CCNY as their Alma Mater, the most from any public college in the United States.
Spurred on by the works of John Mearsheimer, Kenneth Waltz, and many others, Randall developed a keen interest in why states go to war, form alliances, and behave as they do in the international environment.
VALEDICTORIAN: RANDALL CONWAY
Randall Conway was a Political Science major whose research interests focused on realism in international politics. After growing up in Connecticut, Randall enlisted in the Air Force at age 17. He spent six years (2007-2013) in Bioenvironmental Engineering stationed at Kirtland AFB. During that time, he also deployed to Iraq as a Third Country National (TCN) escort where he was able to speak to workers from throughout the Middle East. This sparked his
interest in international politics because he wanted a deeper understanding of why the US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. After his time in the military, Randall worked in retail and as a civilian in the Department of Defense before beginning college at Central Connecticut State University. In Autumn 2018, he transferred to City College. Spurred on by the works of John Mearsheimer, Kenneth Waltz, and many others, Randall developed a keen interest in why states go to war, form alliances, and behave
as they do in the international environment. In addition to his interest in international politics, Randall enjoys arguing domestic policy with his fellow “political nerd� friends, reading philosophy, cycling, and music. Before deciding to study political science, he entertained the idea of being a composer and music theorist and he still frequently visits Lincoln Center to see performances by the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera. He is headed to the University of Chicago to pursue a PhD in the fall.
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SALUTATORIAN AMANDA KHELLAWON
SALUTATORIAN AMELIA SMYTH
Saudia Baksh, a Macaulay Honors College student, graduated with a BS in Psychology. Saudia’s path to City College was inspired by her longing to experience all that a vibrantly diverse and innovative urban campus has to offer. A native of Long Island, her daily commute helped her embrace a metropolitan perspective and adopt a greater sense of community. She has served as a board member for the City Honors Illustrious Mentor Program, where she aids underclassmen in maximizing personal and professional goals through a course of study. Saudia has volunteered and interned with various organizations that support the needs of youth with developmental disabilities. Her work with this population inspired her to research the phenotype of adult-onset ADHD for her honors thesis within the Colin Powell School. She is driven to advocate for change within the education system by widening the availability of psychological testing in underserved areas. In the fall, Saudia will be entering a School Psychology graduate program at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Amanda Khellawon is a Bronx resident and a Business and Economics major. Amanda was born in Guyana and migrated to the United States with her mother in 2014. “Adapting to a new environment was never an easy task,” Amanda writes, “but it was indeed an experience that taught me so many intangibles.” Amanda credits her mother with supporting her so that she could pursue her education. With her mother focusing on work, Amanda became the primary decision maker in family affairs, a development that she found at times overwhelming, but also one that taught her many invaluable lessons at a young age. Before college, Amanda dreamed of becoming a lawyer, and entered CCNY expecting to study political science. But through her course work in the Colin Powell School, she discovered a passion for the finance field, with a particular interest in investment. Amanda has been selected to be a summer intern at Deerfield Management, a biotechnology private equity firm, after which she hopes to work full-time at a corporate or an investment firm while she hones in on a specialized field to pursue in graduate school.
Amelia Smyth is a Long Island native who was originally drawn to the Colin Powell School because of its location in New York City and its diverse student body. Amelia was an International Studies, Economics, and Jewish Studies triple major. She is a recipient of the United Nations Association Emerging Leaders Fellowship and is currently a Jeannette K. Watson Fellow. Over the course of her Watson Fellowship, Amelia has had the opportunity to learn about socioeconomic inequalities in New York City during an internship at TransitCenter and later, peacebuilding and international development while interning at The Fund for Peace in Washington DC. In addition, her passion for empowering vulnerable groups and strengthening fragile nations led her to study indigenous rights and the Spanish language in Guatemala and learn about international development and the politics of the European Union during a semester abroad in Spain. After graduation, Amelia will be completing her Jeannette K. Watson fellowship with one final internship. She is beyond grateful for the support she has received at CCNY, both in the Colin Powell School and in the Jewish Studies Department and looks forward to putting what she has learned at City College into practice within the international development sphere.
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The City College became a haven for brilliant, motivated students of every background, a place where they didn’t have to hide their last names or their accents, or put on any kind of airs because the students at this school were selected based not on pedigree, but on merit, and merit alone. Michelle Obama to Class 2016
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Helmreich was described by The New York Times as “curious, gregarious and inexhaustibly energetic… fearless in his study of human beings.”
In Memoriam WILLIAM HELMREICH, DISTINGUISHED PROFES SOR OF SOCIOLOGY,
William Helmreich Distinguished Professor of Sociology, passed away on Saturday, March 28 from complications from COVID-19. Professor Helmreich spent his entire career at CCNY, writing more than fifteen books, teaching thousands of students, and affecting how all of us see ourselves in relation to one another and the communities where we live. Professor Helmreich was a native New Yorker and loved this city. He specialized in the study of race and ethnic relations, religion, immigration, consumer behavior, and the sociology of New York City. In recent years, Professor Helmreich had been exploring the neighborhoods of New York City and writing a series of walking guides that help us understand in new ways the diverse and complex communities in this great city. For the second of these books, The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City, Professor Helmreich walked virtually every one of the more than 120,000 blocks in the five boroughs, calling New York “the greatest outdoor museum in the world.” A sociologist, an ethnographer, and a public intellectual, Helmreich was described by The New York Times as “curious, gregarious and inexhaustibly energetic… fearless in his study of human beings.”
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“When you lead a team, any team, anywhere, treat your team like your family”
F. CHARLES RANIERI ’13, PRESIDENT OF BUSINES S AND ECONOMIC S ALUMNI, REMEMBERS LECTURER LEN TRUGMAN
Len Trugman was a family first guy; you knew about that from the moment you walked into his classroom. He loved to show photos of his grandchildren, discuss the accomplishments of his children. To some he was Professor, to others Sir, to me he was Truggy. When I signed up for Principles of Management with Truggy, it was just another class. Over the semester back in 2010, he was kind enough to let me get to know him. He was full of truths about life. I remember one day while eating lunch with him in the CCNY cafeteria, I asked him about team leadership, his answer went back to his first love, his family. He told me “When you lead a team, any team, anywhere, treat your team like your family”. A year later in Operations and Production Management, he taught me everything I needed to know about cost, efficiency, quality, and inventory. He said, “they’re all important, but the only one worth increasing costs for is improving quality”. Over another lunchtime conversation, he stopped for a second and told me “People can increase quality in a major way for free, but it means increasing the quality of who they are as people, leaders, and managers. To do so means relying on family and those you care about, to be honest with you.” What Truggy said that day is something I always carry with me and will never forget.
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Welcome to our new Board Members
CESAR CONDE
Chairman, NBC Universal News Group
MARCO ANTONIO ACHÓN
Head of Santander Corporate & Investment Banking US CEO of Santander Investment Securities Inc.
SHAHARA AHMAD-LLEWELLYN
Commissioner and Philanthropist
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Cesar Conde: In October, the Colin Powell School welcomed Cesar Conde to its Board of Visitors. At the time, Conde was Chairman of NBCUniversal International Group and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, where he oversaw leading media properties that serve the Hispanic community on a global level. In May 2020, Conde was named Chairman of the NBCUniversal News Group. In this role, Conde has oversight of NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC, including editorial and business operations for the award-winning television and digital properties. In 2002-03, Conde served as a White House Fellow and worked directly with General Colin L. Powell when he was Secretary of State. “I’ve known Cesar Conde for over 15 years, and he will be a wonderful addition to our board,” General Colin Powell, Chair of the Board of Visitors, said at the time of his appointment. Conde holds a B.A. with honors from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Marco Antonio Achón: In November, Marco Antonio Achón, Head of Santander Corporate & Investment Banking US, CEO of Santander Investment Securities Inc., and General Manager of Banco Santander, S.A. New York Branch, joined the Colin Powell School Board of Visitors. Achon brings a particular passion for student mentorship to this role, and he immediately began to use his extensive network to further students’ professional development. He joined Santander US in October 2017 after serving as Global Head of Financial Solutions & Advisory (FSA) in Madrid for Santander SA. Marco has held various roles with Santander Group since 2005, including Global Head of Loan Markets, European Head of Credit Markets, and European Head of Corporate & Investment Banking. Marco has a BA in business administration and a BA in law from Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain. He also received an MBA from Columbia University in New York. Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn: In April, the Colin Powell School welcomed Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn to its Board of Visitors. A serial entrepreneur, AhmadLlewellyn is a former owner and Vice Chairman of the Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Co along with five other companies between 1972 and 2012. She is a founding member and currently serves as a Vice Chairman of Jazz at Lincoln Center as well as a founding member and current Co-Vice Chairman of The New 42nd Street/New Victory Theater for Children. Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed her a Commissioner to the New York City Commission on Women’s Issues, where she served three four-year terms. Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed her to his new Commission on Gender Equity. “I have known Shahara AhmadLlewellyn for more than 40 years, and she is a wonderful addition to our board,” said General Colin L. Powell. “Shahara is a successful entrepreneur and a leader with some of New York City’s most distinguished civic institutions. I admire her commitment to growing the ranks of women a and those from diverse backgrounds in leadership posts across the professions.”
Board of Visitors
Marco Antonio Achรณn
Fulvio M. Dobrich
Colin L. Powell (Chair)
Head of Santander Corporate & Investment Banking US CEO of Santander Investment Securities Inc.
President and CEO, Galileo Asset Management, LLC
Former Secretary of State
Kenneth M. Duberstein
Actress and Philanthropist
Chairman and CEO, The Duberstein Group, INC
Andrew Rich
Madeleine K. Albright
Former Secretary of State Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn
Commissioner and Philanthropist James A. Baker, III
Former Secretary of State Thomas L. Blair
Chairman, Blair Companies Vince Boudreau
President, The City College of New York Robert B. Catell
Chairman, AERTC, Stony Brook University Cesar Conde
Chairman, NBCUniversal News Group Martin Cohen
Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Cohen & Steers, Inc.
Samuel Ebbesen
General (USA), Ret. Vartan Gregorian
President, Carnegie Corporation of New York Richard J. Henley
President and CEO, Healthcare Strategic Solutions, LLC
Linda Powell
Dean, Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership Stephen Robinson
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, LLP David M. Rubenstein
Co-Founder, The Carlyle Group Jin Roy Ryu
Senior Managing Director, Lazard Freres, and Co., LLC
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Poongsan Corporation and Poongsan
Linda Kaplan Thaler
Stephen Schwarzman
Chair, Kaplan Thaler Management
Chairman and CEO, The Blackstone Group
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Henry A. Kissinger
Former Secretary of State
Sy Sternberg
Richard M. Krasno
Retired Chairman and CEO New York Life Insurance Company
President, William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust Jeffrey T. Leeds
President and Co-Founder of Leeds Equity
Beatrice Welters
Philanthropist Fareed Zakaria
Editor at Large, Time, Inc.
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LIFETIME DONATIONS OF $500,000 AND HIGHER
Fulvio V. Dobrich 2,250,000
Dalio Foundation, Inc. 1,100,000
The Annenberg Foundation 1,000,000
Marc and Lynne Benioff 2,200,000.00
Thomas L. Blair 1,090,600
Anne and Bernard Spitzer 1,965,135
The Ford Foundation 1,063,044
Government of the Dominican Republic 1,000,000
Colin L. Powell 6,550,986
The Rudin Foundations, Inc. 1,800,000
Anonymous 5,800,000
William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust 1,735,000
Estate of Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg 1,050,000
New York Life Insurance Company 10,600,000 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 9,585,200
The Starr Foundation 5,000,272 Josh S. Weston 3,407,993
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Novo Foundation 1,531,000 Stephen A. Schwarzman 1,500,000
David M. Rubenstein 3,000,000
Estate of Marvin M. Kristein 1,428,986
The Charles and Ann Johnson Foundation 3,010,157
Anonymous 1,388,446
THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK
Jin Roy Ryu 1,250,000
United Arab Emirates 1,000,000 Embassy of Kuwait 1,000,000 Hushang Ansary 1,000,000
Korea Foundation 1,000,000 The Ronald & Jo Carole Lauder Foundation 1,000,000 Viola Foundation 900,000 Seymour G. and Laurie Sternberg 775,000
Carnegie Corporation of Robert B. Catell 1,000,000 New York 655,500 Martin J. Granoff 1,000,000
MCJ Amelior Foundation 500,000
Eugene M. Isenberg 1,000,000
The Robert M. Bloch Trust 500,000
Fundraising and Development Preserving the quality of our school also depends on robust philanthropic support. The Colin Powell School has benefited from having wise and generous donors, and reserves that cushion the blow when times have grown tight. New programming and our capacity to deliver on the great promise of our founding depend on philanthropic investment to augment the wise stewardship of public support in our work.
LIFETIME DONATIONS
American Association of University Women Nicholas F. Brady The Charles B. Wang International Foundation Trammell Crow Jane Dolkart The FAR Fund Fund for Social Change Liane Ginsberg The Giving Back Fund
$100,000-$499,999
The Howard Gilman Foundation
Herbert R. Rubin
InfoUSA
Eric Schmidt
Marjory Jacoby & Jack Krumholz
Bernard L. Schwartz
William J. Janetschek
Harold M. Spielman
The Jerome Levy Foundation
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Jewish Communal Fund
Stoneman Family Foundation
John D. and Catherine T.
Thomas W. Smith Foundation
MacArthur Foundation
UnitedHealth Group, Inc.
Korea Society
Daphne and Stuart Wells
Howard H. Leach
Ambassador Beatrice and Anthony Welters
Norman Glick
Donald B. Marron
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
The New York Community Trust
John C. Whitehead
The Government of the
The Rick and Susan Goings
William J. Clinton Foundation
State of Qatar
Foundation
Paul Wyler
Bahaa Hariri
David Rockefeller
Stephen A. Wynn
Jack S. Hoffinger
John F. Rogers
Katsuhiko Yoshida
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LIFETIME DONATIONS $500-$99,000
Erika Goldberg
Bert E. Brodsky
Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn
Lorraine A. Brown
Lewis J. Altfest
Paul F. Burger
Rachelle B. Dattner
Peter J. Goodman
Anita Altman
Dana M. Burr
David & Minnie Berk
Francoise G. Graf
Stan M. Altman
Cafe One
American Express
Barbara H. Cane
David Ertel Award Fund
Vartan Gregorian
Carnegie Council
The David Kosh & Ruth
Sandra Guylay
Foundation Randy Andrews
The Carroll and Milton
Stephen J. Anen
Petrie Foundation
Charitable Fund
Foundation Inc.
Kosh Foundation
Estate of Jacob Goldstein
Pamela Graham
Abraham I. Habenstreit
Gabriella de Beer
The Hand Family Trust
Ahilan T. Arulanantham
Monica Carsky
Jason J. Despain
Ayelet Haran
Association of College
Castle Harlan Inc
Phylipp Dilloway
Billy L. Harbert
and University
Catchpoint
Dominicanos USA
Harris Connect, Inc.
Educators
Deborah Cheng
Paul J. Donahue
Luisa Hassan
Laurie Atkins
Shawn A. Chin-Chance
Austin J. Dowling
Marla Hassner
Carl Bailey
Karen Chowske
Millard S. Drexler
History Channel/A+E
Barberry Rose
Margaret H. Cifrino
Deborah L. Drucker
The City College Fund
Kenneth M. Duberstein
Linda R. Hoffman
Michael T. Cohen
John G. Duffy
Margaret Holen
Cynda Collins Arsenault
Samuel E. Ebbesen
Bradley Horn
Colonial Druggists of
Emerald Cities
Trevor G. Houser
Management Baumol Family Foundation Evon W. Beckford Anthony V. Belli Jill E. Bellinson Rita F. Benzer Estate of Mary N. Berberich
Westport, Inc. Columbia University American Assembly Funds Commercial Mortgage
Collaborative, Inc. Tony Eng Estate of Stanley Engelstein Tammy M. Erickson
Networks
Linda Huganir Humanities Division City College Institute for Training and Development
Benjamin S. Bergman
Securities Association
Robert A. Esnard
The Jack Miller Center
Paul B. Bergman
(CMSA)
Marjorie Feder
Michelle L. John
Joel C. Feffer
Estate of Frances A.
Bernard Herold & Co., Inc.
Community Learning Partnership
Dan L. Fenstermacher
Johnson
Alan Bernikow
Matt Conlin
Natalie K. Fisher
Frances Johnson
Stuart A. Bernstein
Conoco Phillips Company
Anne A. Forrester
Margaret L. Jones
Nadia J. Bernstein
Joyce R. Coppin
Arthur Fox
Joan Jones
Marie C. Binz-Scharf
Ashley C. Cotton
Steven J. Fraidstern
Martha Jones
Regina Biscoglio
Lester Crown
Robert A. Friedman
Vernon E. Jordan
Jeannie Blaustein
Alex Crumbley
Eric J. Friedman
Joseph Drown
Rebecca Block
Eduvigis Cruz-Arrieta
G.S. Humane Corp
Boston Research Center
The Dana Foundation
Morris Gadol
JP Morgan Chase
Vincent G. Boudreau
The Daniel & Eleanor Kane
Ann-Marie Gardner
Asher Kahn
Anjali George
Joyce E. Kaiser
Lauren Goglick
Stanley Kane
Louis A. Bradbury Bristol Myers Squibb
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Darryl and Leslye Fraser
Marco Antonio Achรณn
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Family Foundation, Inc. John J. Danilovich
Foundation
Robert Kaner
Marianna K. McCall
Lisa Pownall-Gray
Gregory Smiley
Kaneshanathan Family
Sybil V. McCarthy
John Price
Nicholas R. Smith
Dan and Debby McGinn
Richard T. Prins
Theodore Sonde
Tiffany McGriff
Joan P. Pritchard
Gillian M. Sorensen
Michael H. Mellen
Kerry S. Propper
Joseph Spallina
Stuart Z. Katz
Rajan Menon
Ann Ramsay-Jenkins
The Statue Foundation,
John G. Kester
Lekha Menon
Charles B. Rangel
Kevin R. Foster
Marty O. Mohr
Reed Smith
Doron Steger
John Khoury
Thomas E. Molner
Judith V. Reppy
Frederick P. Stern
In-soon Kim
Catherine Monk
Harry Rhoads
Charles C. Stewart
Joann M. Kleiman
Harold J. Moskowitz
The Rhodebeck
Gerald Terstiege
Cara Klein
Lynda S. Mounts
Klein Family Foundation
Foundation Kaplan Thaler Productions
Charitable Fund
Inc
Barbara Thacher Plimpton
Dee Dee A. Mozeleski
Daniel and Nancy Rich
David H. Koch
Jeff Muller
Andrew Rich and Joel
Michael Koester
Gregory Munves
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Nederlander Productions
Milton Riseman
The New York
RLJ Equity Partners
Tides Foundation
The Robin and Gary
Herman Tocker
and Co.
Allen
Koret Foundation
Psychoanalytic Society
Alfred D. Kornfeld
& Institute, Inc.
Jacobs Family Fund
Linda F. Kaplan Thaler Theodore Cross Family Charitable Foundation
Tom and Edwina Johnson
Jean E. Krasno Maloney
Esther T. Newman
Kasim Kurd
Eric Nonacs
Hawai Kwok
Roberta Nusim
ROK Mission to the UN
Lazard Freres & Co., LLC
Peter O’Malley
Elihu N. Root
Jacob Tuber
The Leo J. and Celia
OKI Data Americas, Inc.
David Rosenberg
Ricardo Queiroga
Carlin Fund
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.
Foundation The Trust of Andrew Freund
Vasques
Olatilewa Folami
Whitney Ross
Virginia Letourneau
Fredric D. Olefson
Judy P. Roth
Deborah L. Vietze
Robert J. Leverte
On Campus Marketing
Richard A. Rubin
Paul L. Wachtel
Mario Sacouto
Jennifer R. Wallach
Allan Levine Hilary Levine
LLC Pamela R. Ostrager
Robert Saginaw
Barbara Walters
Lauren V. Levine
France Owarish
Paul E. Scheid
Eric D. Weitz
Jerome L. Levinrad
Leslie Paik
Scholarship Foundation
Wesleyan University
Laurie J. Levinson
Panama Street Project
Jeffrey S. Levinton
Maurice Paprin
Thomas J. Schwarz
Skye Wilson
Sandra and Jack Levitt
Paramsothy Parthipan
Herbert C. Seignoret
Suk M. Wong
Younghee Limb
Sunjlee D. Pegram
Robert C. Sheehan
Alexandra Woods
Bernard Loeffke
Arlene K. Perkins
C. Shubert
David Wright
Christopher J. Major
Alvin Perlman
Darren Silver
Earle Yaffa
Walter Mankoff
Kevin A. Plank
Howard J. Silver
Edward J. Yodowitz
Milton L. Masur MD
Jan R. Polatschek
Brett Silverstein
YPO New York City
Mayshad Foundation
Linda M. Powell
Charles C. Simpkins
of the NSA
John S. Willian
Chapter, Inc.
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James R. Adams Lewis J. Altfest American Association of University Women American Express Foundation Randy Andrews Cynda Collins Arsenault Laurie Atkins Carl Bailey Holly Balmer Valdon T. Battice David L. Bauer Baumol Family Foundation Benjamin S. Bergman Alan Bernikow Nicola Blake Rebecca Block Boston Research Center Vince Boudreau Boulding Family Trust E. Maudette Brownlee Castle Harlan, Inc. Leo J. & Celia Carlin Fund Carnegie Corporation of New York Shawn A. Chin-Chance The Clinton Foundation Commercial Mortgage Securities Association ConocoPhillips Company Lester Crown Sarah D’Alessandro John J. Danilovich Joseph H. DeRivera Jane Dolkart Joseph Drown Foundation Kenneth M. Duberstein John G. Duffy Lt. Gen. Samuel E. Ebbesen, USA (Ret.) Estate of Stanley Engelstein Tammy M. Erickson The David Ertel Award Fund The Far Fund Joel C. Feffer Dan L. Fenstermacher Olatilewa Folami Ford Foundation Arthur Fox Eric J. Friedman Muriel Frischer Fund for Social Change Joyce Gelb The Howard Gilman Foundation Larry, Hilary. and Liane Ginsberg Norman Glick Rick and Susan Goings Foundation Daniel Grady Pamela Graham Richard N. Haass The Hand Family Trust Billy L. Harbert Hariri Foundation Harris Connect Jack S. Hoffinger Linda Hoffman Stanley Hoffman Margaret Holen Trevor Houser Joao Hwang InfoUSA Isenberg Family Charitable Trust William J. Janetschek The Charles and Ann Johnson Foundation Frances Johnson Tom and Edwina Johnson Foundation Margaret L. Jones Vernon E. Jordan Joyce E. Kaiser Kane Family Foundation Stanley Kane John G. Kester Asher Khan In-Soon Kim
David H. Koch Michael Koester Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co. Alfred Kornfeld David & Ruth Kosh Foundation John Koury Lazard Howard H. Leach Allan Levine Hilary Levine Lauren V. Levine Jerome L. Levinrad Jack B. and Susan Levitt Leonard C. Lewis Reginald W. Lewis Robert J. Lifton John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation David Maddux Donald B. Marron Laura M. McGrath Dee Dee Mozeleski The New York Community Trust New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute Esther T. Newman Eric Nonacs Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Roberta Nusim OKI Data Americas, Inc. Peter O’Malley Pamela R. Ostrager Kevin A. Plank Susan Plum Christopher Ponnuraj Linda M. Powell Amb. John and Marcia Price Richard T. Prins The Government of the State of Qatar Ann M. Ramsay-Jenkins Charles B. Rangel Judith V. Reppy Harry Rhoads Rhodebeck Charitable Trust Milton Riseman Melissa B. Ritter The Rockefeller Brothers Fund John F. Rogers David Rosenberg Paul C. Scheid Eric Schmidt Bernard L. Schwartz Thomas J. Schwarz Robert C. Sheehan Charles C. Simpkins Sleepy Hollow Country Club Thomar W. Smith Foundation Joseph Spallina Harold M. Spielman E. Y. Stareshefsky Stoneman Family Foundation Shailesh Thacker Linda Kaplan Thaler Pamela Timberlake Diane Vigliarolo Martha O. Vinick Barbara Walters The Charles B. Wang International Foundation Amb. Beatrice and Anthony Welters Wesleyan University John C. Whitehead John Williams David Wright Stephen A. Wynn Earle Yaffa Edward J. Yodowitz Katshuhiko Yoshida Arthur Zitrin
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