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| 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM | Health, Health Care, and Health Disparities Among Latinx Populations
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the CUNY Institute for Health Equity will hold panel discussions highlighting scientists, scholars, and leaders from a Hispanic or Latino background conducting important research and helming key organizations.
Panel Chairs: Judith Aponte, associate professor at Hunter College’s School of Nursing, and Maria Isabel Roldós, director of the CUNY Institute for Health Equity and an associate professor of Health Sciences at Lehman College.
The panel includes Cristina Contreras, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan; Paule Joseph, Ph.D., chief of the Section of Sensory Science and Metabolism at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute of Nursing Research; Omar Martinez, who leads Temple University’s Disparities and Inequities in HIV/AIDS Research Lab; and Karen Tejada, a community/public health nursing graduate student.
Register here.
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| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | The American Tragedy of COVID-19: Social and Political Crises of 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is a classic tragedy of destruction following errors in judgment. Naomi Zack presents social and political aspects of this disaster as it unfolded in public health through federal and local government structures, society, culture, and the economy.
Federalism combined with politics in facing and denying the SARS-CoV2 pandemic has revealed both weaknesses and strengths.
Naomi Zack is Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College.
RSVP by September 29th: https://libcal.lehman.edu/event/8111923?hs=a
*This is an online event - URL will be sent via registration e-mail*
*Registration is required*
Information: Michelle.Ehrenpreis@lehman.cuny.edu
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| 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | Anthony Ray Hinton - Special Zoom Event
Join us as we welcome:
ANTHONY RAY HINTON
to Lehman College, for a special Zoom event.
Anthony Ray Hinton survived for 30 years on Alabama’s death row. His story is a decades-long journey to exoneration and freedom.
In 1985, Mr. Hinton was convicted of the unsolved murders of two fast-food restaurant managers based on the testimony of ballistics experts for the State who claimed that the crime bullets came from a dusty revolver found in Mr. Hinton’s mother’s closet. Without the benefit of a competent expert to challenge the State’s theory (Mr. Hinton’s lawyer hired a ballistics expert who was blind in one eye), an all-white jury convicted Mr. Hinton and he was sentenced to death.
After years of petitioning to have the revolver re-analyzed, three independent experts concluded that the bullets could not have been fired from his mother’s revolver. With the assistance of the Equal Justice Initiative, led by attorney Bryan Stevenson, Mr. Hinton was freed in 2015.
Since his release, Mr. Hinton has traveled the world sharing his story and discussing the changes that need to be made to prevent similar injustices from happening to other people. In 2018, Mr. Hinton published The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, which was selected for Oprah’s Book Club and is a New York Times bestseller. In 2019, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from St. Bonaventure University.
Faculty and Staff are invited to bring students!
FOR RESERVATIONS, RSVP AT CLUBS.LEHMAN.EDU
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| All Day | Spring GYN Hours (Multi-Day Event)
GYN Hours will resume on January 28th:
Mondays 9-5pm
Tuesdays 9:30-5pm
Wednesdays 9:30-2:30pm
Appointments need to be made in person since a $5 deposit and a validated ID are required. | Old Gym Building
Old Gym Building - (Student Health Center, B008) |
| 8:00 AM - 4:45 PM | | Information Technology Center
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| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Accessibility Advocate Chancey Fleet to Discuss "The Joys and Frictions of Blindness in the Digital Commons"
Chancey Fleet, a Brooklyn-based accessibility advocate, will deliver a talk on the liberations and complications of using tech while blind. Her talk, titled "De-visualizing Technologies: The Joys and Friction of Blindness in the Digital Commons," is presented by the Lehman College Disability Studies Program.
Friday, May 3, 11 am-12:30 pm
Gillet Hall, Rm. 226
She will explore exciting problems in nonvisual workflows: How do design decisions taken by sighted developers perpetuate the scarcity of tech for tangible transmission of spatial information? What happens in skill- building, self-study and tech education when the general public is unfamiliar with the very existence of the features critical to nonvisual success? When major platforms track accessibility-related interests for the convenience of advertisers, or hide the field for describing social media images behind an opt-in setting, how can we cut through the mystique around accessibility tech to bring these dark patterns into the light?
Fleet coordinates technology education programs at the New York Public Library's Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. Her current library-based projects include group workshops highlighting mobile technologies for independent living and information literacy; programs introducing youth and adults to non-visual techniques for coding and making with Arduino; and the Dimensions project (a recipient of NYPL’s 2016 Innovation Grant for staff projects), which equips community members with the training and tools they need to create accessible tactile maps, diagrams, graphics and objects. Chancey was recognized as a 2017 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. In her Data & Society fellowship work in 2018-2019, Chancey hopes to deepen public understanding and spark widespread curiosity about how cloud-connected accessibility tools enhance or undermine digital equity, autonomy, security, and privacy.
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| 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Herbert H. Lehman Memorial Lecture with the Honorable Alessandra Biaggi
The Honorable Alessandra Biaggi, senator representing New York's 34th District, will deliver the keynote address at the 50th Annual Herbert H. Lehman Memorial Lecture. Her talk is titled "Courage, Disruption, and Resilience: Transformational Politics in the State of New York."
A reception will immediately follow the lecture.
RSVP: events.rsvp@lehman.cuny.edu | Music Building - (Faculty Dining Room) |
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