Simone Kolysh (‘2019)

Secured a contract with Rutgers University Press for their upcoming book Everyday Violence: The Public Harassment of Women and LGBTQ People, to be published in August, 2021.

They recently wrote a blog post titled “The Streets Belong to All of Us: Dismantling Violence in the Public Sphere” for an Australian organization fighting street harassment: https://www.itsnotacompliment.com/blogs/the-streets-belong-to-all-of-us-dismantling-violence-in-the-public-sphere

And they followed it up with a short interview about their work seen here:

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CB5V0S7j7-p/?igshid=f0hbwxzxy7q3

Jane McAlevey (‘2015) was profiled in The New Yorker with a heady title: “Jane McAlevey’s Vision of the Future of American Labor.” It touts her newest book and refers to her as coach and chronicler of the labor union movement.

On Monday, January 14, 2019, Los Angeles’s thirty-four thousand public-school teachers went on strike. They demanded smaller classes (classrooms had as many as forty-six students), a full-time nurse in every school, modest pay increases, and a cap on the district’s rapidly growing number of charter schools. Four days later, Alex Caputo-Pearl, the president of the United Teachers of Los Angeles (U.T.L.A.), spoke to sixty thousand educators, parents, and community members who were gathered in downtown L.A.’s Grand Park. “U.T.L.A., do you feel your power?” he bellowed. “We have never been at a more critical moment for public education. You all know this, that brewing for a very long time has been a movement to privatize our schools, and it is here now, trying to take over L.A. If we allow this movement to win, then our schools will be privatized, our students will have less equity and less access, and our jobs and our health care will be attacked. Are we going to let that happen?” “No,” the crowd roared in response, stretching one syllable to three.

Read more: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/jane-mcaleveys-vision-for-the-future-of-american-labor

Click https://gc.cuny.edu/News/All-News/Detail?id=55163 to learn more about Jane’s work.