Roosevelt House is honored to present a conversation with Hunter College Professor of Public Policy Joseph P. Viteritti about his new book Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education (Oxford). An authoritative history of the school choice movement, as well as a heartfelt memoir from one of the country’s leading education scholars, Radical Dreamers chronicles school choice from […]
On the occasion of the reopening of the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse and Robert Raben’s gift of Billie Holiday papers to the Jazz Archive at Hunter College American Voices Presents: Women in Jazz: A celebration of Jazz Legends A salute to jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Lena Horne, and Billie Holiday. With music […]
Zoe Leonard (born 1961) is an artist working with photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation. Leonard reframes the act of looking itself as a complex and consequential process and questions how photography shapes our perceptions. Taking a conceptual approach and engaging with materiality and formal composition, Leonard works across a range of themes such as gender […]
The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994 by renowned novelist and critic Thomas Mallon. An exquisite collection of journal entries from the 1980s and ’90s, The Very Heart of It tracks a young, gay author’s literary coming-of-age—and brush with death—during the AIDS crisis in New […]
Vivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose work has received two National Book Critics Circle Award nominations and been collected in The Best American Essays 2014. Growing up in the Bronx among communists and socialists, Gornick became a legendary writer for Village Voice, chronicling the emergence of the feminist movement in the 1970s, and a respected literary […]
Little is published in both the academic and lay literature about the ties between Spiritism, women, and colonialism. However, Puerto Rican women as practitioners of Spiritism, helped transform Puerto Rican […]
Please join us as Roosevelt House and the Tenement Museum host a discussion to mark the 60th anniversary of the Immigration and Nationality Act, signed into law by President Lyndon […]
Attending a Volunteer Opportunities Fair is a great way for you to discover meaningful ways to get involved on campus and in the local community. It’s a chance to connect […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Join us at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College for a panel […]
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 16, 2025, 6-8pm Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery On view October 16 - December 13, 2025 Additional programming details forthcoming. ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Gathering artists whose […]
