During the Fall of the 2023 school year, the CUNY Peer Leaders and Humanities Alliance Fellowship cohorts met on Zoom for a session centered on deep listening, led by Dr. Christina Katopodis. Academia often breeds a sense of hustle, competition, and isolation, and an intentional cultivation of presence in a collective setting can have a…

Exploring Our Environments and Lives Through Sound Waves: CPL October Meetup Please find the recap of the CUNY Peer Leaders meetup on Soundscapes through the link below: By Christina Katopodis (she/her/hers)

SPANISH VERSION LINES BELOW A journalism case as experiential learning through the Humanities Alliance Fellowship: “Activists Empower Latina Women in New York’s Cleaning Industry” By Rosalía Reyes Simon February 2023. New York City. – Women in the cleaning industry in New York City are mobilizing for their labor rights and many of them are undocumented…

By Mehrnaz Moghaddam During my first year of PhD program (cultural anthropology), I hardly understood any of the discussions in depth. In my case, it was not because English is not my native language (only to some extent) but largely because I was a newcomer to the field of social sciences and humanities from a…

by Mehrnaz Moghaddam     What is experiential learning? “In its simplest form, experiential learning (EL) means learning from experience or learning by doing. Experiential education first immerses learners in an experience and then encourages reflection about the experience to develop new skills, new attitudes, or new ways of thinking,” Lewis and Williams (1994). As…

by Rosalía Reyes Simon When I am in front of my students in a course of Spanish, literature, oral or written communication, or Latin American civilization, I always keep in mind one of my main objectives as a professor: to make them feel that each one is contributing by bringing their own heritage to the…

by Angela Dunne In her book, Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color, Lorgia García Peña speaks of the need to open space inside of our classrooms and institutions of higher education for rebellion. García Peña writes about her own experiences of violence and exclusion as an Afro-Dominican woman…

by Oriana Mejías Martínez I am a Fellow at the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) program at LaGuardia Community College. I was attracted to this program because as a learner and instructor of languages I have always felt attracted to multilingual and multicultural environments. The experiences I have had in my work as Fellow at…