SPRING 2022

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Date Title Speaker
March 10, 2022 Conceptualizing Co-optation of Political Parties Sofia Fenner, Assistant Professor, Colorado College

Discussant:
Javier Padilla, PhD Candidate in Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY
March 24 Panel Discussion: 501(c)(3) Public Charities and 501(c)(4) Organizations

Panelists:
Margaret Post, Research Assistant Professor, Clark University

Jawanza Williams, Director of Organizing, VOCAL-NY

Gara LaMarche, Senior Fellow, Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at City College of New York, CUNY

Moderator: 
John Krinsky, Professor, City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

April 7 Activist Strategies to Navigate Insider-Outsider Status: Tradeoffs of Working with a Political System from Activist-Scholars

Panelists:

Hisham Bustani, Author and poet

Stephanie Guilloud, Co-director of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide

Fred Bauma, Founder of LUCHA

Moderator:

Jillian Schwedler, Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

April 28 Remaking Institutions with a Liberatory Agenda

Conor Tomás Reed, Africana Studies and American Studies, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Cedrick Michael-Simmons, PhD candidate in Sociology at Boston College

Moderator: 
John Krinsky, Professor, City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY