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Department Chair Kelly Anderson and Alum Ryan Joseph Release New Film Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square

“[If] you don’t fight for your home, you’re gonna lose it,” Frances Goldin, a community activist until her death in 2020, says in the new documentary, Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square. So Goldin fought, and won. 
Laila Gad

Laila Gad Wins Pulitzer Center Student Reporting Fellowship

Laila Gad came to Hunter College to prepare for a career in medicine. But after she took a course titled Peopling NY through the Macaulay Honors College, Gad became fascinated with climate change and its effects on public health. She decided to add a second major in journalism, to explore this interest and to find ways to write about it for a wide audience.