At CCNY, research and scholarship advance every day on issues of crucial importance to people throughout New York City and across the world. In this series hosted by City College President Vincent Boudreau, meet faculty, hear firsthand about their research and, in conversation with outside experts, discover how that research is forging new solutions to real-world issues like poverty, homelessness, mental health challenges, affordable housing and disparities in health care.
For live radio listeners, From City to the World is presented by CCNY's community radio station--WHCR-90.3 FM, The Voice of Harlem--on the last Wednesday of each month at 3 p.m..
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Producing Leaders for Change: How CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership Guides Young People from Potential to Power
The next generation of leaders are finding their power -- and personifying hope for an inclusive, renewed American democracy - at one of the nation’s most diverse colleges, The City College of New York. Look inside CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and learn how this laboratory is empowering students with real-world learning, public service, and political experience.
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau
Guests: Andrew Rich, Dean of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership; Mohammed Tazbir Alam, CCNY Class of 2012, Colin Powell School graduate, 2nd Vice President of the Young Democrats of America, and a member of the Democratic National Committee Youth Council
Recorded: December 18, 2019
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau
Guests: Dee Dee Mozeleski, Executive Director of the Foundation for City College and Senior Adviser to the President; Deborah C. Harte, Student Life Manager for the Single Stop program at CUNY’s Borough of Manhattan Community College
Recorded: October 30, 2019
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau
Guests: Gilda A. Barabino, Daniel and Frances Berg Professor and Dean of CCNY's Grove School of Engineering; Curtis Archer, President of the Harlem Community Development Corporation
Recorded: September 25, 2019
Environmental Justice: Growing Urban Sustainability, Equity and Health, from Fresh Food to Waste Management
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau
Guests: Marco Castaldi, Director of the CCNY Earth Engineering Center and Professor of Chemical Engineering; Cheryl Huber, Assistant Director of Greenmarket at GrowNYC.
Recorded: July 31, 2019
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau
Guests: Steve Wilson, Associate Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at CCNY’s Division of Humanities and the Arts; Tracy Hyter-Suffern, Executive Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem; Loren Schoenberg, Senior Scholar at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.
Recorded: June 26, 2019
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau
Guests: Jerry Carlson, Professor of Media and Communication Arts and Program Director, Cinema Studies, and Dave Davidson, Professor of Media and Communication Arts, at CCNY’s Division of Humanities and the Arts; Stanley Nelson, director, founder of Firelight Films and Firelight Media, CCNY Class of 1976.
Recorded: May 29, 2019
Why Black Mothers and Babies Are Dying at More than Twice the Rate for Whites, and an Essential Intervention to Implement Now
Host:
Vincent Boudreau
Guests:
Linda Villarosa, CCNY Journalism Program Director, Assistant Professor of Media and Communication Arts, and New York Times Magazine contributing writer;
Chanel L. Porchia-Albert, Founding Executive Director, Ancient Song Doula Services
Recorded April 18, 2018
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau
Guests: Asale Angel-Ajani, Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at City College; Sharon White-Harrigan, Clinical Director of Hopper Home, a transitional shelter for formerly incarcerated women, under the auspices of the Women's Prison Association.
Recorded: March 27, 2019
A Salute to Black History Month: Celebrating Learning, Advocacy and Anniversaries at the CCNY Black Studies Program and the NAACP
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau
Guests: Vanessa K. Valdés, Director of the Black Studies Program and Associate Professor at City College;
Geoffrey Eaton, President of the NAACP Mid-Manhattan Branch
Recorded: February 27, 2019
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau
Guests: Dr. Howard Greller, Director of Research and Medical Toxicology, Emergency Department, at St. Barnabas Hospital Health Systems and a Medical Professor in the Department of Clinical Medicine at the CUNY School of Medicine at City College;
Nancy Sohler, Associate Medical Professor at the CUNY School of Medicine at City College;
John Palmer, PhD, Director of Community Affairs and Diversity at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine and Chair of the Health Committee of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce
Recorded: January 23, 2019
