Professors John Chin, Sigmund Shipp, Jill Simone Gross, current MS Urban Policy and Leadership Student Caitlin Ho, and ABD Marry Rocco (University of Pennsylvania and Hunter, MUP graduate) just returned from a fantastic Urban Affairs Association Conference in San Diego. They all made our Department shine, while bringing a strong lens to issues of social justice!
Prof. John Chin and Caitlin Ho presented their paper: “Gendered Labor Markets within Ethnic Economies: Asian Immigrant Women Working in Sexually Oriented Massage Parlors in New York City,” on behalf of John Chin, Hunter College CUNY; Lois M. Takahashi, UCLA; Douglas J. Wiebe, University of Pennsylvania; Caitlin Ho, Hunter College CUNY
Prof. Sigmund Shipp presented a paper Titled: “The Geography of White Poverty”, on behalf of Sigmund Shipp, Hunter College; Lynn McCormick, Hunter College; Mary Rocco, University of Pennsylvania.
Mary Rocco, MUP Hunter, ABD University of Pennsylvania gave a paper on her doctoral work titled, “Revitalizing Legacy Cities in the 21st Century: The Role of Foundations”
And Prof. Jill Simone Gross brought an international lens to her standing room only Colloquy titled: “Re-thinking Justice in the City in the Wake of Ferguson and Baltimore” with Todd Swanstrom, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Michael Leo Owens, Emory University; Henry Taylor, University of Buffalo; and Cathy Schnieder, American University.
Other notable Hunter sightings at the conference included former Teaching Fellow Kimberly Libman (PhD Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center, now at the New York Academy of Medicine). Dr, Libman presented a paper titled”New York State Hospital “Community Building” Investments: Will They Advance Health Equity?.” Shauneequa Owusu, a graduate of the MS Urban Affairs program (currently at New York Academy of Medicine) moderated a panel titled “Health and Community Development: Rethinking Anchor Investments and Institutions.” Fredrica D. Kramer, DPA, gave a paper titled “The Loss of Social Diversity in Urban Revitalization and the Promise of Social Impact Assessment to Fix It.” Dr, Kramer is an educator, researcher and consultant who came to Hunter to work with Paul Davidoff and was in the first class of MUP graduates in 1968. Dr. Kramer, is currently based in Washington DC. Also in attendance was Professor Kevin Keenan, PhD. ( College of Charleston, and among our adjunct summer school faculty), who gave a paper titled,”The Gender Values-Vulnerability Nexus and Studying Societal Responses to Terrorism.”