Dear Chancellor James B. Milliken,
As faculty, staff, and students of the City University of New York, we demand that you work to end the New York Police Department’s apparent practice of sending spies to monitor Muslims at CUNY institutions. An investigative report by The Gothamist of October 29, 2015 reveals that this practice may be continuing under the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio. CUNY alumni have discovered that an undercover officer known as “Melike Ser” frequently attended activities of the Islamic Society student organization at Brooklyn College over several years — staging a false conversion to Islam, becoming intimate with the group’s membership, and attempting to elicit incriminating statements of support for terrorism. They report seeing her at other events connected to Islam in the city (including at John Jay College) as recently as December 2014.
In 1992, CUNY Chancellor W. Ann Richards signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the NYPD that allowed the police to enter CUNY campuses in non-emergency circumstances only with the permission of CUNY officials. The NYPD’s apparent practice of sending undercover agents to gain the trust of students makes a mockery of this agreement. Such surveillance chills the atmosphere of free speech and open dialogue that educational institutions require, and it violates constitutional protections that require specific search warrants.
You must formally state your opposition to these operations and work actively to stop them. Their continuation will be a great stain on the university.
Sincerely,
Corey Robin
Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn
College and the Graduate Center
Amy Karp
Assistant Professor
Sincerely,
Christopher Miller
Student of Philosophy, Brooklyn College
Moustafa Bayoumi
Professor, Brooklyn College
Jeanne Theoharis
Distinguished Professor of Political
Science, Brooklyn College
Celina Su
Associate Professor of Political Science,
Brooklyn College
Liza Featherstone
Adjunct Professor
Caroline E. Arnold
Associate Professor, Political Science,
Brooklyn College
Marwa Amer
Alumni
Deen Sharp
PhD student, EES, CUNY-Graduate
Center
Anna Law
Herbert Kurz Chair of Constitutional
Rights
Elizabeth Mahony
Undergraduate Student, Brooklyn
College
Michael Sabbeth
CUNY Brooklyn alumnus
Rosalind Petchesky
Distinguished Professor Emerita of
Political Science, Hunter College & the
Graduate Center – CUNY
Brian Kleve
Graduate (B.S.) of Hunter College
Barbara Winslow
Professor Emerita Brooklyn College
Lila Hassan
Student, CUNY Brooklyn College
Sofia Ahsanuddin
Undergraduate, Brooklyn College
Alan Koenig
PhD Student
Ian Olasov
Adjunct Professor, Brooklyn College;
Ph.D. student, CUNY Graduate Center
John Krinsky
Associate Professor of Political Science,
City College, Graduate Center
Bruce E. Bernstein
MA Student, Political Science, CUNY-
Graduate Center
Laura Tanenbaum
Associate Professor of English,
LaGuardia Community College
Douglas Medina
Doctoral Candidate, CUNY Graduate
Center
Samuel Farber
Professor Emeritus of Political Science
at Brooklyn College
Michael Philip Fisher
Adjunct Lecturer in Gender Studies,
Hunter College
David Waldstreicher
Distinguished Professor of History,
CUNY Graduate Center
Hannah McIntyre
Undergraduate, City College
Justin Rogers-Cooper
Associate Professor of English,
LaGuardia Community College
Nasif Khan
Student
Zineb Touzani
Undergraduate, City College
Anthony Alessandrini
Professor of English, Kingsborough
College, and Middle Eastern Studies,
CUNY-Graduate Center
Aaron Greller
Assistant to HEO
Marwa Janini
Adjunct Professor
Alexi Shalom
Alum, Hunter College
Jessica Mahlbacher
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Claire Bishop
Professor, Art History
Aatika Harchan
Undergraduate
Roy Tsao
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Political
Sciencr
James J. A. Blair
Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology,
The Graduate Center, CUNY; former
Graduate Teaching Fellow in
Anthropology, Brooklyn College
Alexandra Schindler
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Salman Hussain
CUNY Graduate Center
Josh Schneiderman
PhD student, CUNY Graduate Center
Karen Abraham
Student
Eric Lott
Professor of English and American
Studies
Riley Tinney
Undergraduate, City College
Dr. Marina Sitrin
Visiting Scholar at the Center for Place,
Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate
Center
Francisco Fortuño Bernier
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Angelika Winner
PhD student, CUNY Graduate Center
and Adjunct at Hunter College
Kazembe Balagun
Hunter College Alumni
Grace Davie
Associate Professor of History, Queens
College
Alan A. Aja
Associate Professor
John Cronan
Class of 09-MA Labor Studies
Sigmund Shen
Associate Professor of English
Kristen Gallagher
Professor of English
Evgeniya Melnikova
Undergraduate Student, Brooklyn
College, CUNY
Naomi Schiller
Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
Brooklyn College
Katherine Azcona
Alumnus, CUNY Baccalaureate
Jeremy Randall
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Rebecca G.
Graduate Alum
Daisy Villalobos
Undergraduate, Hunter College
Amy Hughes
Association Professor of Theater,
Brooklyn College
Iqra Nadeem
Undergraduate, Brooklyn College
Jonathan Cope
Assistant Professor/Librarian, College of
Staten Island
Kalliope Dalto
Undergraduate
Amanda Ocasio
Brooklyn College alum (MA-History ’13)
Amena Othman
Undergraduate
Timothy Shortell
Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn
College
Hector Agredano
PhD Candidate, CUNY-Graduate Center
Azikiwe Calhoun
CUNY Graduate
Laura Pena
Graduate Student, John Jay college
Amy Martin
PhD student, CUNY Graduate Center
Neil Meyer
Assistant Professor of English,
LaGuardia Community College
Andrew Yurko
Graduate Student, Brooklyn College
Carlos Arguelles
Professor
Javal Minor
Undergraduate, Borough of Manhattan
Community College
Mara Gittleman
Farm Education Manager, KCC
Lynn Horridge, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Brooklyn
College
Eero Laine
PhD Candidate, CUNY-Graduate Center
Christelle Jasmin
Undergraduate, City College
Alvin Christian
Undergraduate, City College
Pam Sporn
Adjunct Professor, Hunter College
Kate McPherson
Senior Academic Advisor, CUNY
Baccalaureate
Kelly Pervin
Undergraduate, Brooklyn College
Peter Santiago
Higher Education Associate
Sarah E. Chinn
Associate Professor and Chair, English
Department, Hunter College
David C. Bloomfield
Professor, Ed. Leadership, Bklyn
College & CUNY Grad Center
R. Shareah Taleghani
Assistant Professor of Middle East
Studies, Queens College
J. W. Mason
Assistant Professor of Economics, John
Jay College
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
PhD Candidate, CUNY-Graduate Center
Christopher Stone
Associate Professor of Arabic, Hunter
College
Karl Steel
Associate Professor of English
Paisley Currah
Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn
College
Jonathan Ocampo
Undergraduate/administrative assistant
Izabela Qafa
Undergraduate
C. Ray Borck
Sociology Professor, BMCC
Conor Tomás Reed
PhD student, CUNY Graduate Center
Nafisa Lubaba
Undergraduate, City College
Simone Kolysh
Adjunct Professor, Women’s Studies,
Brooklyn College; Adjunct Professor,
Sociology, Lehman College; PhD
Student, CUNY – Graduate Center
Sharmin Hossain
CUNY Alumni
David Stein
Postdoctoral Fellow, CUNY-Graduate
Center
Thomas DeAngelis
Student, Brooklyn College
Ashna Ali
PhD student, Adjunct Instructor
Alycia Sellie
Assistant Professor, Library
Spencer Bastedo
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Vanessa Paul
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Kassem Nasser
Undergraduate, Hunter College
Xhuliana Agolli
PhD student
Benita Noveno
Ilan Benattar
M.A. Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Nichole Marie Shippen
Associate Professor
Batool Chaudhry
CUNY Undergraduate
Natalie Havlin
Assistant Professor of English,
LaGuardia Community College
Chloe Asselin
PhD student/GSE, CUNY-Grad Center
Jenna Peet
Undergraduate Alumna, Macaulay
Honors College at Brooklyn College
Prithi Kanakamedala
Assistant Professor of History, Bronx
Community College of the City
University of New York
Tanya Pollard
Professor of English, Brooklyn College
and Cuny Graduate Center
Edwin Oriol Done Tirado
Undergraduate
Christian John Lillis
CUNY-Brooklyn College alumnus
Shahana Hanif
Brooklyn College Alumni
Zoltan Gluck
PhD Student, Anthropology, CUNY-
Graduate Center
Tommy Wu
PhD Candidate
Lecturer, BMCC
Samina Shahidi
HEO at the Murphy Institute for Worker
Education and Labor Studies
Lara Stapleton
Lecturer, English Department, BMCC
Bradley Nelson
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Makeba Lavan
Graduate Student
Anne Rice
African and African American Studies,
Lehman College
Ricardo Gabriel
PhD Candidate, CUNY-Graduate Center
Andrew Wallace
Research Analyst
Sofie Tholl
Graduate Student Alumn
Matthew Swagler
Adjunct Lecturer, City College
Jennifer Alberghini
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Hoda Mitwally
J.D. Candidate, CUNY School of Law
Eleanor J. Bader
Adjunct Lecturer, Kingsborough
Community College
Nick Gamso
Fellow, CCNY; Adjunct Professor,
Queens Adjunct
Laura Morales
Undergraduate
Bonnie S. Anderson
Emerita Professor of History, Brooklyn
College and the Graduate Center
Anna Zeemont
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Katie Hejtmanek
Professor, Brooklyn College
Timothy Griffths
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Racquel Goodison
Assistant Professor, English, BMCC
Elvira Basevich
PhD student, The Graduate Center,
CUNY
Hossannah Asuncion
Lecturer, BMCC
Rachel J. Chapman
CUNY Graduate Center, PhD Student of
Urban Education and Teaching Fellow at
Queens College
Michael S. Smith
Assistant Professor, Paramedic Program,
Kingsborough Community College
Natalie Mendo
Undergraduate
Steve McFarland
PhD Graduate, 2014
Farid Nassif
Professor of English, Brooklyn College
Amanda Vila
Undergraduate
Sean M. Kennedy
PhD student, Graduate Center, CUNY
Myla Goldberg
Adjunct Professor, Brooklyn College
Alejandra Figueroa
Brooklyn College Undergraduate
Student
Jason Schulman
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Lehman
College
Sundus Seif
Brooklyn College Student
Katie Carola
Undergraduate, Brooklyn College
Kumru Toktamis
Chandra Balkaran
PhD Graduate Center/Professor, Hunter
College
Sara Vogel
Doctoral student, CUNY-Graduate
Center
Michael Kolb
Undergraduate, Brooklyn College
Mizanur Rahman
Brooklyn College Student
Isaac Lapides
Undergraduate, City College
Aaron Jaffe
Former Adjunct Professor of
Philosophy, Brooklyn College
Emily C. Wilson
PhD candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
Carly Smith
Adjunct Lecturer, Baruch College
Chantel Bell
Brooklyn College
Sahar Ilyas
Undergraduate, Baruch College
Samir Chopra
Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn
College and CUNY Graduate Center
Luis Aragon Gonzalez
Undergraduate, City College
Mahmoud Mohamed
Undergraduate
Julie Hollar
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Lauren J. Tenney
PhD, MPhil, MPA, Adjunct Assistant
Professor Psychology College of Staten
Island, CUNY
Khadija Rahman
CUNY Undergraduate
Gerry Martini
Assistant Director of Admissions, The
Graduate Center
Michael Iadarola
MA student, Hunter College
Oyku Tekten
CUNY-Graduate Center
Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Annam Choudhry
BC Alumna, CCNY Grad Student
Julia Cocuzza
Adjunct Lecturer, Brooklyn College and
Guttman Community College
Sami Ehmef
Undergraduate Student at CUNY Baruch
Danica Savonick
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Tom Waters
Doctoral candidate, CUNY Graduate
Center
Jason Tougaw
Associate Professor of English, Queens
College
Adrienne Todd
Associate Lecturer, Brooklyn College
Leslie Jenkins
PhD student
Elida Jbeili
CUNY-Graduate Center
Heidi Rhodes
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Reshad Hai
Undergraduate, Queens College
Devin T. Molina
Assistant Professor, Department of
Social Sciences, Bronx Community
College
Anne Spice
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Amanda Savino
Student of CUNY Brooklyn and
Kingsborough Alumni
Avri Beard
Instructor of Sociology, Kingsborough
Erin Michaels
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Zeynep Oguz
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
and Instructor, Brooklyn College
Jana Abumusallam
Undergraduate, Baruch College
Elizabeth Bidwell Goetz
Doctoral Candidate, CUNY Graduate
Center; Instructor, Hunter College
Ryan Tracy
PhD Student, CUNY Graduate Center
Matthew Knip
Graduate Center PhD candidate, Hunter
Adjunct
John McMahon
PhD Student, The Graduate Center,
CUNY
Raymond Scannell
PhD candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
Laura Marcoccia
CUNY-Graduate Center
Bukurije Ramusevic
CUNY Office Assistant, Queens College
Duygu Parmaksizoglu
PhD Student
Laurel Cooley
Associate Professor of Mathematics,
Brooklyn College
Michael Hisry
Undergraduate, Hunter
Joyce Li
Graduate student
Sharifa Othman
CUNY Graduate
Claire Hoogendoorn
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Ashley Ngozi Agbasoga
Alumni
Sarah Kostecki
PhD student Political Science, CUNY
Graduate Center
Kelly Marie Burnett
J.D. Candidate 2016, CUNY School of
Law
Tahir Butt
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Alex S. Vitale
Associate Professor, Sociology,
Brooklyn College
Avery Othoniel-Gilbert
Undergraduate
Tyler Rivenbark
Adjunct Lecturer of English, Queens
College
Gaurav Jashnani
Instructor, City College of New York
Cihan Tekay
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Yelena Kolova
Sara Seweid
College Assistant, CUNY-Graduate
Center
Eric Frankson
Administrative Assistant, CUNY-
Graduate Center
Rana Hassan
Undergraduate, City College
Mobina Hashmi
Assistant Professor of Television &
Radio, Brooklyn College
Ranjeet Kaur
CUNY Brooklyn College Alumni
Maria Cioe-Pena
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Jocelyn Wills
Professor
Christopher Ebert
Chair, History, Brooklyn College
Hilarie Ashton
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Queens
College; Ph.D Student, Graduate Center
Jocelyn Wills
Professor of History, Brooklyn College
Arman Azimi
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Scott Dexter
Professor of Computer and Information
Science, Brooklyn College
Isa Vasquez
MA Student, CUNY Graduate Center
Alexander Dwinell
Hunter College
Abrar Faiaz
CUNY Baccalaureate Alum
Zeno Wood
Piano Technician, Brooklyn College
Sara Hassanein
Undergraduate
Eddie A. Taveras
Undergraduate, Brooklyn College
Talal Asad
Distinguished Professor of
Anthropology, CUNY-Graduate Center
Lindsay Parme
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Zishun Ning
Student
Micheal Rumore
PhD Student, CUNY Graduate Center
Jamshad Hossain
Undergraduate
Sian Silyn Roberts
Associate Professor of English, Queens
College
Howard Pflanzer
Adjunct Associate Professor of English,
BCC
Julie Agoos
Professor of English
Florencia Salinas-Comuzzi
Undergraduate student, Brooklyn
College
Joshua Sperber
PhD Student, CUNY Graduate Center
Patrick Lloyd
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Kingsborough Community College
Rosa Squillacote
PhD, CUNY Graduate Center
Nataly Azouly
Student
Gloria Fisk
Assistant Professor of English, Queens
College
Ria Banerjee
Assistant Professor of English, Guttman
Bart Van Steirteghem
Associate Professor of Mathematics,
Medgar Evers College
Flannery Amdahl
PhD candidate, CUNY-Graduate Center
James Davis
Professor of English, Brooklyn College
Ammiel Alcalay
Professor of Classical, Middle Eastern &
Asian Languages & Cultures, Queens
College, and English, The Graduate
Center
Brittany Kaufman
Undergraduate, Brooklyn College
Matthew Blair
Adjunct Lecturer
Nadia Noori
Brooklyn college
Rebecca Glaser
Alumna, CUNY Baccalaureate
Angel Farachio
Undergraduate, Brooklyn College
Muhammad
Brooklyn College
Liz Hirsch
PhD student, CUNY Graduate Center
Betty Wolder Levin
Professor of Health and Nutrition
Sciences, Brooklyn College; Professor
of Public Health, GC & SPH
Emanuel Moss
Teaching Fellow, Baruch College
Daniel Margolis
2013 Alumnus, Brooklyn College
Mya Dosch
PhD Candidate, CUNY-Graduate Center
Rachel Silberstein
Brooklyn College graduate, journalist
Carolina Bank Muñoz
Professor of Sociology
Reubén Pérez
Undergraduate
Karen Shelby
Assistant Professor, Tenured
David Arnow
Professor of Computer and Information
Science
Hanna Haydar
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Education, Brooklyn College
Rajib Miah
Student
Drake Logan
Teaching Fellow, Hunter College; PhD
Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Velina Manolova
PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
Andrew Battle
PhD Student
Alison Parks
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Katherine Fry
Professor of Media Studies, Brooklyn
College
Sainatee Suarez
Undergraduate, Brooklyn College
Laura Marcoccia
CUNY-Graduate Center
Rebecca Fullan
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Elise Herman
Student, CUNY
Dina Shabarek
CUNY-Graduate Student
Johnathon Walker
PhD Student in Geography, CUNY-
Graduate Center
Tatiana Sangare
Undergraduate, Brooklyn College
David Nagy
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Julie Skurski
Distinguished Lecturer, CUNY
Anthropology Program
Naomi Allen
Student
Melissa Marturano
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Isaiah Rivera
Undergraduate, Brooklyn College
Jacqueline Panzo
Undergraduate, Brooklyn College
Matt Brim
Associate Professor of Queer Studies,
College of Staten Island
Talisa Feliciano
PhD student
Tohidul Alam
Undergraduate Student, Queens College
Celeste Winston
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Jennifer MacKenzie
Lecturer, Lehman College
Nazreen Bacchus
Professor of Sociology, Queens College
Catherine Kemp
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Katherine Wilson
Adjunct Professor, Hunter College
Farah Mohammad
Student
Kelly Roberts
Adjunct & MA Student, Brooklyn
College English Department
Jose Vazquez
Brooklyn College
Jesse Rappaport
CUNY-Graduate Center
Andrea Morrell
Assistant Professor of Urban Studies,
Guttman Community College
Sadiq Rahman
Undergraduate student, City College
Arto Artinian
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Charlotte Thurston
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center;
Adjunct Lecturer, Baruch College
Christine Marks
Associate Professor of English,
LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Peter Kolozi
Associate Professor
Alexander Baldassano
Adjunct lecturer, Hunter College & PhD
student, CUNY Graduate Center
Romm Lewkowicz
PhD student, The Graduate Center
Kenn Vance
Adjunct Instructor, John Jay College
Sel
Student of Brooklyn College
Rachel Hickman
MA Experimental Psychology Student
Jennifer Tang
Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental
Psychology, Graduate Center; Instructor,
Children and Youth Studies, Brooklyn
College
Asma Naz
Undergraduate, Queens College
Alan Feigenberg
Professor of Architecture; PSC-CUNY
chair; City College
Asher Wycoff
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Carla Hernandez
Undergraduate, Brooklyn college
Jaime Shearn Coan
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Jennifer Kim
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Baruch
College
Amanda Matles
PhD student, CUNY Graduate Center
Bryanna Ajodha
Nadera Sultana
Undergraduate
Louis Fishman
Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College
Rabiah Ghani
CUNY-Graduate Center
Kara Ng
PhD student, CUNY Graduate Center
Safiye Embel
Alumni of Brooklyn College
Mahlaqa Butt
Undergraduate, Brooklyn College
Rupal Oza
Associate Professor, Hunter College
Jasmine Miranda
Undergraduate Student
Erika Iverson
CUNY-Graduate Center
Elizabeth Sibilia
CUNY-Graduate Center
Joshua Hoffman
Political Science and Public Affairs
Undergraduate Student, Baruch College
Mohammad Naz
Undergraduate, Queens College
Mohammad S. Naz
Undergraduate
Soniya Munshi
Assistant Professor, BMCC
Katherine Colacchio
Undergraduate Student
Tahsin Inanc Izci
Student, CUNY Brooklyn Graduate
School
China Sajadian
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Fareena Nawaz
Undergraduate
Leo Schmitt
PhD Candidate, Graduate Center
Jonathan H Shannon
Professor, Anthropology
Yasmeen Elmaliki
Undergraduate, Queens College
Libby Garland
Associate Professor of History,
Kingsborough Community College
Rose M. Kim
Associate Professor of Sociology,
BMCC/CUNY
Claudia O’Brien Moscoso
Hunter College Undergraduate
Lisa Thompson
Undergraduate, CUNY BA
Penelope Lewis
Associate Professor, Labor Studies,
Murphy Institute
Kyla Bender-Baord
PhD student, CUNY Graduate Center
Ellie Hamrick
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Katherine Graham
Graduate Student, Brooklyn College
Christina Nadler
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Abraham Gutman
BA/MA student, Hunter College
Laura Marcoccia
CUNY-Graduate Center
Susan Buck-Morss
Distinguished Professor Department of
Political Science CUNY-Graduate
Center
Megan Paslawski
Ph.D candidate, CUNY-Graduate Center
Vaclav Paris
Assistant Professor of English, City
College
Miriam Atkin
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Chuma Okoro
Undergraduate, Brooklyn College
Hester Eisenstein
Professor of Sociology, Queens College
and the Graduate Center
Monique Whitaker
PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
David Forbes
Associate Professor of Education,
Brooklyn College/Affiliate Faculty
Urban Education, CUNY-Graduate
Center
Arun Kundnani
Adjunct Professor of Media Studies,
Queens College
Shriya Dhungel
Parvoneh Shirgir
Adult Education Teacher/Researcher
Anika Tahsin
Undergraduate
Katherine Moore
Undergraduate
Yusif Alomeri
Undergraduate
Jennifer Johnson-Avril
Master’s Candidate, Queens College
Emily Molina
Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College
Noor Ahmad
Student
Sydul Choudhury
Undergraduate
Sarah Hesson
PhD student at CUNY-Graduate Center
Rachel Brown
Ph.D. Candidate, CUNY-Graduate
Center; Writing Fellow, BMCC
Shana Siegel
Alum, CUNY-Graduate Center
Wassem Ali
Undergraduate, Queens College
Mosabbiha Nafisah
Undergraduate
Jonathan Buchsbaum
Professor of Media Studies
Umm Muhammad
Alumni of Brooklyn College
Joshua Belknap
BMCC ESL Lab Coordinator, BMCC
Adjunct English Instructor, PhD student,
CUNY-Graduate Center
Colleen Eren
Assistant Professor
Sujatha Fernandes
Professor of Sociology, Queens College
and the Graduate Center
Sahara Tokhi
Queens College student
Saiful Saleem
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Meredith Benjamin
PhD student, CUNY Graduate Center;
Adjunct Lecturer, Baruch College
Christine Costello
Adjunct Lecturer
Brigid O’Keeffe
Ann Kottner
Adjunct Lecturer, English, York
College/City Tech
Nawaz Rupani
Alumni
Faiza Ahmed
Graduate student, Brooklyn College
Tyler Olsen
Master’s student, CUNY-Graduate
Center
Miriam M. Gabriel
Graduate Student
Saleem Rahim
Undergraduate, Queens College
Janine DeFeo
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
and Graduate Teaching Fellow/Lecturer-
Baruch College
Maya Rivera
Student
Swatanter Polce
College Assistant
Leana Atieh
Staff
Ilgin Yorukoglu
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice,
BMCC, CUNY
Elena Cohen
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Mohammad Aziz
Undergraduate, Brooklyn College
James Rodriguez
Alumni, Brooklyn College
Associate Professor
Elizabeth Newcomer
Teaching Fellow, CUNY-Graduate
Center
Chris McGuinness
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
José A. Laguarta Ramírez
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center,
and Adjunct, Brooklyn College
Charles Post
Professor of Sociology, BMCC and the
Graduate Center
Lubna Yasmin
CUNY Graduate
Mohamed Eldaly
Undergraduate student, City College of
New York
Janet Elise Johnson
Associate Professor, Brooklyn College
Saleemah Nausrudeen
Student
Jake Levin
Undergraduate, Student Assembly
Speaker, Brooklyn College
Reem Jaafar
Associate Professor, Mathematics,
Engineering and Computer Science,
LaGuardia Community College
Sadiyah
Graduate Student
Alyson Cole
Associate Professor of Political Science,
Queens College & the Graduate Center,
CUNY
Lisa Chitayat
M.A In Liberal Studies
Roman Kossak
Professor of Mathematics, Bronx
Community College and the Graduate
Center
Rupal Oza
Hunter College
Sonia E. Murrow
Associate Professor of Education
Muhammad Alam
Undergraduate, Queens College
Justin Simmons
Adjunct Lecturer, Bronx Community
College; BA, Lehman College; MPA,
Baruch College
Binita Zaman
Undergraduate, John Jay College
Immanuel Ness
Professor, Brooklyn College
Syed Azmain
Undergraduate
Fiona Lee
Alumna, CUNY-Graduate Center
Jennifer Gaboury
Lecturer, Advisor
Zahava Hirsch
Undergraduate
Christopher Green
PhD student, CUNY Graduate Center
Jacqueline DiSalvo
Associate Professor of English, Baruch
College
Nishat Anjum
Undergraduate
Caitlin Cahill
Affiliate Faculty, Environmental
Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center
Daniel R. Collins
Lecturer of Mathematics, Kingsborough
Community College
Craig Hughes
PhD student, Graduate Center
Michelle Fine
Distinguished Professor, CUNY
Graduate Center
Shara Sand
Associate Professor of Psychology,
LaGuardia Community College
Isabelle Jagninski
Brooklyn College Alumni
Katharine Maller
Alumna, CUNY Hunter College
Dan Cione
Student
Noran Elzarka
Law Student at CUNY Law
Joseph Entin
Associate Professor of English,
Brooklyn College
Michael Clark
Undergraduate, BMCC
Mohammad Khan
Undergraduate, Baruch College
Sarvar Akobirova
Undergraduate student, Brooklyn
College
Zulekha Ali
Undergraduate
James Ovando
Brooklyn College Undergraduate
Keith Bevacqua
Graduate Student, Queens College
Ben Lerner
Professor
Sharon Utakis
Professor, Bronx Community College
Frances Geteles
Professor Emerita, CCNY, SEEK
Program
Arnold Franklin
Associate Professor of History
Anh Tran
PhD student
Sheehan Moore
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Mary Phillips
Assistant Professor, Lehman College,
CUNY
Widad Hassan
CUNY Graduate Center Student
Irene Sosa
Professor, Department of TV and Radio,
Department Puerto Rican and Latino
Studies
John Anderson
Assistant Professor and Director of
Broadcast Journalism, Brooklyn College
Dominique Jack
Undergraduate, Brooklyn College
Osha Smith-Gittelman
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Jessica Murray
PhD Student, CUNY Graduate Center
Darryl Barney
Brooklyn College Alumni
Ruthann Robson
Professor of Law & University
Distinguished Professor
Joseph A. Rosenberg
Associate Dean of Clinic Programs,
CUNY Law School
K. Babe Howell
Associate Professor, CUNY School of
Law
Hadassah Yisrael
Undergraduate City College
Daniel Slepitsky
Alumni, Brooklyn College
Tami Gold
Professor of Film and Media Studies,
Hunter College
Sarvar Akobirova
Undergraduate student, Brooklyn
College
Nicholas Levis
Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate
Center, CUNY
Muhammad Junaid
Brooklyn College Student
Alex Wolf
Associate Professor, Biological
Sciences, Bronx Community College
Hussam Alharash
Assistant Clinical Instructor, Chief
Resident, Pediatrics, SUNY Downstate
Medical Center, University Hospital
Brooklyn
Peter Bratsis
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
BMCC
Melissa Phruksachart
Doctoral Candidate, English, CUNY
Graduate Center / Lecturer, Asian
American Studies Program, Hunter
College
Michelle Billies
Assistant Professor
Catherine J. Lavender
Director, American Studies Program,
and Professor of History, The College of
Staten Island/CUNY
Eliana Horn
CUNY School of Law
Ethan Anderson
Graduate Student, Brooklyn College
Mubbashir Rizvi
Assistant Professor, Georgetown
University
Aniqa Wahid
Undergraduate, Queens College
Gregory Smithsimon
Associate Professor of Sociology,
Brooklyn College
Jillian R. Cavanaugh
Professor of Anthropology, Brooklyn
College
Talia Schaffer
Professor of English, Queens College
Laura Kaplan
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Priya R. Chandrasekaran
PhD Candidate
Myrto Douma
Undergraduate
Cheryl N. Olivieri
Senior Academic Advisor, Macaulay
Honors College at Brooklyn College
Ryan Chaney
Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
Kingsborough CC
Cindi Katz
Professor and Executive Officer, CUNY
Graduate Center
Ian Blecher
Doctoral lecturer in Philosophy, Hunter
College
Jameelah Hegazy
Assistant Professor of Nursing,
Kingsborough Community College
Shadiq Williams
Black & Latino Male Initiative Student
Ambassador; NAACP at Brooklyn
College President
Hope Parisi
Professor of English, Kingsborough CC
Ira Shor
Professor of Composition-Rhetoric and
Urban Education, CUNY Graduate
Center
William Brett Robertson
Alumni, Hunter College School of
Social Work
Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier
Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
Ala Rashed
Undergraduate
Nisma Zakria
Undergrad, CSI
Brandi Rima
Assistant Professor of Psychology,
Bronx Community College
Rani Allan
Undergraduate, Hunter College
Wilson Sherwin
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
John Norton
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Zoya Chaudhry
Student
Jakob Schneider
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Hamad Sindhi
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Araby Smyth
PhD student, University of Kentucky
and Alumni of Hunter College
Bijan Kimiagar
Graduate Student, CUNY-Graduate
Center
Carla Barrett
Assistant Professor of Sociology, John
Jay College
Franklin Siegel
Distinguished Lecturer, CUNY School
of Law
Ramzi Kassem
Associate Professor of Law, CUNY
School of Law
Terri Bennett
Visiting Professor, Pratt Institute
Susan Bryant
Professor
Erik Wallenberg
PhD Student, Graduate Center;
Instructor, Brooklyn College
Khalid Mohamed
Student
Jean Zorn
Professor Emerita
Deborah Zalesne
Professor of Law
Sarah Schulman
Distinguished Professor of the
Humanities, CUNY, College of Staten
Island
Brian Hasbrouck
Librarian, Brooklyn Public Library
Rida Bint Fozi
Brooklyn College Alumna
Richard F. Storrow
Professor of Law
Yelizaveta Shapiro
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Jean Graham-Jones
Professor of Theatre, CUNY-Graduate
Center
Robyn Spencer
Assistant Professor of History
Daniel Conrad
Undergraduate
Nicholas Glastonbury
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Michael Elster
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Hisseine Faradj
Professor of Political Science, Bronx
Community College, CUNY
Theodor Maghrak
PhD student, CUNY-Graduate Center
Tom Gunn
Alumni
Peter Lee
Rosen Fellow, Undergraduate Student,
Brooklyn College
Maxine Anderson
MA student, CUNY Graduate Center
Todd Fine
PhD Student, CUNY-Graduate Center