This edition: September 2019
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Original tape date: August 1, 2017. First aired: September 19, 2019.Urban U’s new fall season is here!!! and we’re introducing our new host Abi Ishola who’ll be joining Ari Goldberg to kick it off with amazing stories that define what CUNY is all about. We’ll be telling you how CUNY’s top notch education anchors itself in communities throughout the Big Apple highlighting social and economic growth on the local and national level. We’ll explore CUNY’s own Ted-X series run by students and we’ll show you how CUNY makes its LGBT community feel right at home. And we’ll take you back to Puerto Rico again this year to show how CUNY students returned to finish up last year’s home rebuilding. Urban U has all the stories that make CUNY the largest urban university in the US a place to be proud of!
Guest List
Linda Martín Alcoff, PhD Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College
Roughuiyatou Ba Student, College of Staten Island
Camryn Bruno New York City’s 2019 Youth Poet Laureate, York College
Mercedes Caldron Homeowner, Puerto Rico
Samantha Calpo Student, CUNY School of Medicine
Alina Camejo Student, Baruch College
Barbara Cassidy Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies Program, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY
Linda Collazo Opera singer, Queens College
Isaah Flaherty Student, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Bryan Guichardo Student, City College of New York
Umme Habiba CUNY Service Corps
Do J. Lee Bike Scholar/Activist, The Graduate Center/CUNY
Nicholas Lume Student, Stoney Brook University
Félix V. Matos Rodriguez, Ph.D. Chancellor, CUNY
Victoria Metayer Student, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Melanie Poggi Graduate, BMCC
David Rivera Associate Professor of Counselor Education, CUNY LGBTQI+ Student Leadership Program, Queens College
Nily Rozic New York State Assembly 25th District
Manuele Ruvolo Student, NYC College of Technology/CUNY
Ash Tebar Student, Bronx Community College
Johanna Tejada Student, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Lavar Thomas Founder, Empower for Greatness
Sandra Torres Student, NYC College of Technology/CUNY
Shonna Trinch Associate Professor, John Jay College/CUNY
Kai Usher Student, City College of New York
Megan Wallace Student, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Jing Wang Filmmaker, Adjunct professor, Queens College
Stephan Yambay Program Coordinator, CUNY LGBTQI+ Student Leadership Program
Caroline Zuba Co-Director, TedxCUNY
- Memory, Art and Reinvention: Learning Across CUNY
- Monday, September 14 - 8:30pm
- Tuesday, September 15 - 8:30pm
- Wednesday, September 16 - 8:30pm
- TBA
- Thursday, September 17 - 8:30pm
- Monday, September 21 - 8:30pm
- Tuesday, September 22 - 8:30pm
- Wednesday, September 23 - 8:30pm
- Thursday, September 24 - 8:30pm
- Monday, September 28 - 8:30pm
- Tuesday, September 29 - 8:30pm
- Wednesday, September 30 - 8:30pm
- Thursday, October 1 - 8:30pm
- Monday, October 5 - 8:30pm
- Tuesday, October 6 - 8:30pm
- Wednesday, October 7 - 8:30pm
- Memory, Art and Reinvention: Learning Across CUNY
- Thursday, August 20 - 8:30pm
- Monday, August 24 - 8:30pm
- Tuesday, August 25 - 8:30pm
- Wednesday, August 26 - 8:30pm
- Thursday, August 27 - 8:30pm
- Monday, August 31 - 8:30pm
- Tuesday, September 1 - 8:30pm
- Wednesday, September 2 - 8:30pm
- Thursday, September 3 - 8:30pm
- Craft to Career
- Monday, August 10 - 8:30pm
- Tuesday, August 11 - 8:30pm
- Wednesday, August 12 - 8:30pm
- Thursday, August 13 - 8:30pm
- Monday, August 17 - 8:30pm
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- Wednesday, August 19 - 8:30pm

