Alumni in the News

Urban Policy Alum Drew Curtis quoted in New York Times

Drew Curtis, Urban Policy '10, is the director of the Ironbound Community Corporation, a local nonprofit in Newark, New Jersey. Ironbound Community Corporation’s mission is to engage and empower individuals, families and groups in realizing their aspirations and, together, work to create a just, vibrant and sustainable community. A former steel plant in ...
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Alumni in the News: EPSM Graduates Excel as EDF Climate Corps Fellows

“I’m always amazed by what can be accomplished when you throw a bunch of really creative and intelligent people into one room for just an hour—let alone for nearly a week,” says Lisabeth Tremblay. The newly-minted Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy alumna, along with fellow classmate ...
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GPIA Alumna Mary Robbins on the Economics of Paternity Leave

Alumna Mary E. Robbins recently co-authored an article for Time Magazine discussing the conflict around paternity leave in Brazil for city employees, which may be extended from 5 days to 30 days. The article reads: Many government officials at the local and federal level in Brazil... believe allowing 30 days of paternity leave ...
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Alumnus Edwin Torres named NYC Deputy Commissioner of Cultural Affairs

Edwin Torres, formerly associate director at the Rockefeller Foundation, will join Mayor de Blasio's Administration as Deputy Commissioner of Cultural Affairs. He will be serving under the new Commissioner for Cultural Affairs, Tom Finkelpearl. The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs is the largest local cultural funding agency in the ...
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Alumni in the News: Ferney Giraldo GPIA ’14 receives Franklin H. Williams Award

Originally from Colombia, Ferney Giraldo has spent over 10 years working in youth and family advocacy and community outreach, both in the U.S. and abroad. From 2008–10, Giraldo served as a Youth and Community Development Volunteer in Guatemala. He worked closely with the local Mayan K'iche community, facilitating life skills education and ...
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GPIA Graduate Beatrice Mauger Co-authors Piece Featured on the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities Blog

Alumna Beatrice Mauger recently co-authored a post for the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities blog. The article entitled, “Why Women are Essential for City Resilience,” highlights the importance of women’s role in disaster response and preparedness and advocates for the need to institutionalize support and services for women’s organizations through ...
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Alumni in the News: Jenny Rejeske quoted in the New York Times

Alumna Jenny Rejeske was recently quoted in the New York Times. In response to the Obama administration's announcement that it planned to terminate health insurance for 115,000 people on Oct. 1 because they had failed to prove that they were United States citizens or legal immigrants eligible for coverage under ...
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Alumna Mary E. Robbins Published in Huffington Post

Alumna Mary E. Robbins recently co-authored an article for the Huffington Post on violence against women in post world cup Rio. The article, entitled In Brazil, the World Cup Is Over But the Sexual Violence Continues, points to increasing incedence and continual patterns of rape and sexual violence in Brazil, and suggests better ...
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Milano Doctoral Alumna, Shoshanah Goldberg-Miller, Offered Assistant Professorship

Milano doctoral alumna, Shoshanah Goldberg-Miller, was just offered a tenure-track Assistant Professorship at the Ohio State University for this coming fall. She will be working with the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy. Congratulations, Shoshanah! ...
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Empowerhouse Impacts Urban Redevelopment in Washington, D.C.

In 2011, Empowerhouse, a low-impact, environmentally sustainable home envisioned and built by students from Parsons, Milano, and the Stevens Institute of Technology, took first place in the affordability contest at the Solar Decathlon in Washington D.C. Held every few years since 2002, the Solar Decathlon, "challenges collegiate teams to design, ...
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Student/Alum News: Food in 2 Worlds Podcast

Aaron Leaf, a current GPIA student, met with recent GPIA alumnus Chief Boima to sample West African cuisine in Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvestant neighborhood. Listen to the podcast here. Aaron is the editor of Feet in 2 Worlds, a New School project on immigrant media in NYC, while Boima works as a DJ ...
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The Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs

Last week the Graduate Program of International Affairs at the New School reflected over the last decade of innovative, productive and academically enriching experiences. The Deans and Director of the program, Michael Cohen shared their experiences and thanked all the faculty, staff, students and friends who have made the program ...
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