For the last FDR-themed event of the Roosevelt House season, we are pleased to present a discussion of Paul Sparrow’snew book Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR’s War of Words With Charles Lindbergh―and the Battle to Save Democracy. In this deeply researched and engaging history, Sparrow brings President Roosevelt, his allies, and his adversaries to life as […]
Ann Kirschner, Hunter College President, invites you to attend a special program and reception honoring the recipients of the 11th Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize. Individual Honorees Helen Arteaga-Landaverde, MPH, PHD NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst Theodore “Ted” Long, MD, MHS NYC Health + Hospitals Organizational Honoree Mixteca Sunset Park, Brooklyn The Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize honors individuals and not-for-profit organizations […]
Initially proposed in 1971, the Gay Rights Bill in New York City was the first of its kind in the nation, meant to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in housing, employment, and public accommodations. After 15 years of grassroots activism and strident opposition, the bill, known as local law Intro. 2, passed in […]
5 pm: Reception 5:30 pm: Screening: Rustin (1hr 47min) 7:15 pm: Post-screening discussion The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a screening of the Netflix film Rustin, which tells the poignant and absorbing story of the largely overlooked civil rights leader Bayard Rustin—who helped Martin Luther King Jr. and others to organize the […]
Please join us for a film screening of The Feminister which follows the career of former Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström, the first to institute “feminist foreign policy” which has since been adopted by a number of countries around the world. The film traces the secret talks she mediated between North Korea and the United States […]
A groundbreaking scholar, activist, and longtime professor of political science at Hunter College, the late Kenneth Sherrill (1942-2023) was the first out gay elected official in New York State. A former Democratic District Leader, and pioneer of the analysis of the LGBTQ vote, Sherrill laid “the foundation for the study of LGBTQ Politics in America,” […]
Book Signing and Pizza to Follow By 2028, Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha will be the largest group of eligible voters in the country. But youth voter turnout in recent presidential elections has remained ominously low. Voters under 25 were half as likely to vote in 2020 as voters over the age of 65; and, in 2020, when voter […]
Please join us as Roosevelt House—together with Hunter College’s Office of the President and MFA in Creative Writing Program—celebrate the artistry of the great Sandra Cisneros on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the The House on Mango Street. To mark the occasion, American Voices: The Sandra Cisneros Symposium at Hunter College will bring together leading authors, journalists, scholars, singers, […]
The Roosevelt House Public Policy Program, together with the Hunter College Department of Political Science, is pleased to present a panel discussion on the key policy issues shaping the historic 2024 Presidential Election—featuring expert analysis from Hunter faculty members. As Election Day nears, this event will provide an opportunity to learn from some of our […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series We Need to Build: Pluralism and Its Possibilities Join us at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College for a talk with internationally renowned scholar and civil leader on interfaith cooperation and pluralism, Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith America. The 21st-century American city on a hill has a […]
