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Student Projects
Milano & SGPIA Students Present at Clinton Global Initiative
Magdiela Rivas and Oscar Romero created ESID, Educational Services for International Development, as a project that seeks to reduce young unemployment in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and the United States through the promotion of virtual internships, on site mentorship and international exchange programs for senior university students. They were accepted to present their project at The Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) last month in Boston. The CGI U is an initiative launched by President Bill Clinton since 2007 to bring together students, university representatives, topic experts, and celebrities to discuss and develop innovative solutions to pressing global challenges. Rivas and Romero's ...
Milano Professor Sujatha Jesudason and Alumni Rachelle Suissa Featured in NACC Newsletter
Sujatha Jesudason, Ph.D. Joins the faculty at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy atThe New School. She has worked as an activist, organizer and scholar for over 25 years in a range of social justice movements. Dr. Jesudason is a leading voice on new practices in movement building, the ethics of reproductive genetics, gender justice, disability rights and racial inclusion. In her work she focuses on forging unlikely collaborations and looking past forced simplifications at the intersection of issues too often considered separately: economic inequality, domestic violence, racial discrimination, disability rights and gender roles. Dr. Jesudason has worked skillfully ...
Urban Matters Brief Co-Authored by Milano Students
The story originally appeared in Urban Matters Brief published by the Center for New York City Affairs (linked here), co-authored by NPM student Ana Carla Sant'Anna Costa. By Nicole Mader and Ana Carla Sant’Anna Costa Earlier this month, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) released a long-awaited plan designed to increase diversity in the city’s public schools. Noteworthy in the plan are two numeric goals the DOE proposes to use as “yardsticks” to measure their progress. Outside observers have celebrated these goals as a “bona-fide breakthrough” and also criticized them for “aim[ing] too low.” But the plan itself lacks sufficient detail and context to ...
Tahini Rahman, NPM ’17, Shares the Journey of a Tattooed Yemeni Feminist
Milano alumna Tahini Rahman (NPM '17) produced a story about how a young Muslim woman in Brooklyn struggles to reconcile being the person she wants to be and the woman her parents want her to be. The story and podcast titled "My Hijab, My Body – The Journey of a Tattooed Yemeni Feminist" was produced as part of Professor John Rudolph’s class on “Telling Immigrant Stories” in conjunction with Feet in Two Worlds. Check her article and podcast here. Rahman is a recent New School alumna. While at the New School, she pursued her MS in Nonprofit Management, focusing on youth and ...