You are cordially invited to attend 
Lehman College's virtual

Convocation
Ceremony

Wednesday, September 16, 2020
10:00 a.m.

Remarks by
President Daniel Lemons | Provost Peter O. Nwosu
SGA President Jada Quinland

Awards Presentations
Teacher of the Year | Adjunct of the Year
Outstanding Contributions to the College

Plus Special Features & Performances

Open to all. No registration required.
View via livestream at lehman.edu

Winter Schedule

Mon – Thurs: 8am – 8pm

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Moderated by: Suzette Ramsundar and David Charcape.

ALEJANDRA Y. CASTILLO
is the CEO of YWCA USA, an organization that serves 2.3 million women and girls around the country with a network of over 200 associations. YWCA plays a dual role as both a social service provider and an advocate for reform and justice.
Alejandra has over two decades of professional experience in Washington, D.C., having served in senior leadership roles during two presidential administrations, including the Obama Administration, where she served as the national director of the Minority Business Development Agency. Ms. Castillo is the first Hispanic American woman to lead the agency.

KATINA ROJAS NAZARIO-JOY
is the Latino Liaison in the Office of the County Executive in Prince George's County, MD, ensuring that Latinos have access to, and are able to utilize County programs and resources. She served two terms in the Obama Administration as a political appointee at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Katina is a native of the Bronx and a Lehman College alumna.

ROSSANA ROSADO
is the New York State Secretary of State. Rosado has also ushered in improved and responsive services for immigrant New Yorkers. Prior to joining Governor Cuomo's administration, she has served as an advisor to elected officials on their transition teams in New York City and State governments. She also served as the first female Editor and Publisher of the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the country.

Based on the book by Eleanor Cameron, a script by Jeffrey Beer, Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet was scheduled to premier live in March at Lehman College. COVID-19 changed all of that. Undeterred, Music Professor Penny Prince, who wrote the show’s music and lyrics, decided to make use of the tools available to them—Zoom and cellphone cameras—to record Lehman College’s first virtual musical.

Read more about the show in The Riverdale Press: https://riverdalepress.com/stories/pushed-off-campus-lehman-assembles-online-for-musical,72522

Premiers on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbwgYh2b_KA&feature=youtu.be

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Mon – Thurs: 8am – 8pm

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Andrés Gómez is a Colombian American poet, speaker, actor, and author of Fractures, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, Hijito, winner of the Broken River Prize and a #1 SPD bestseller, and the memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood, released by Penguin Random House. A star of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, TV One’s Verses and Flow, and Spike Lee’s #1 box office movie Inside Man with Denzel Washington, Carlos is widely known for his viral poems, “Where are you really from?” and “What Latino Looks Like,” which have garnered millions of views online. Winner of the Atlanta Review International Poetry Prize and the Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry, he partnered with John Legend on Senior Orientation, a program to counteract bullying and champion inclusive masculinity among high school students. Carlos is a proud Latinx and father. 

Mariam Bazeed is an Egyptian immigrant living in a rent-stabilized apartment in Brooklyn. Mariam received their MFA in Fiction from Hunter College, and is a singer, playwright, and performance artist. They have been the recipient of fellowships/residencies from Asian American Writers Workshop, the Hemispheric Institute at NYU, Lambda Literary, Millay Colony, and Hedgebrook. 

J K Chukwu is a writer and visual artist from the Midwest. She holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. She was a 2019 Lambda Fellow and her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, and TAYO.

Edgar Gomez is a Florida-born writer with roots in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico. A graduate of University of California, Riverside’s MFA program, his writing has been published widely in such outlets as POPSUGAR, Narratively, Best Gay Stories, and The Rumpus. His memoir, High-Risk Homosexual, about coming-of-age as a queer man in a culture of machismo, is forthcoming in fall of 2021 with Soft Skull Press. He lives in Queens, New York. More at EdgarGomez.net. 

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is Assistant Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. A proud native of Harlem, her debut short story collection Blue Talk and Love won the Judith Markowitz Award from Lambda Literary. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Her forthcoming book, The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora, explores the politics of experiment in black queer and feminist literary cultures. 

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Professor Velez received his PhD from Cornell University in 1983. A former Associate professor at Ithaca College as well as an adjunct faculty member at Cornell University since 1977 in the Department of Sociology, he created the first Latinx course which he continues to teach today. He has worked as a consultant to the Dominican Republic, has traveled to Cuba, investigating the effects of "Radio Marti", and was an official observer in the Paraguayan elections in 1994. He is one of the founding members of the Latino Studies Program at Cornell, on the Board of Directors of the L.S.P.S., and has served as Acting Director of the program. 

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Mon – Thurs: 8am – 8pm

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Media Advertising - Then & Now

With Advertising Executive & Consultant

Neil Baker

A Live Conversation:

Thursday, October 22 at 7:30 PM

Neil Baker’s 36 year career in National Ad Sales and Marketing is punctuated by growthpositions at every major broadcast

network and includes the very highest level world class properties such as the Super Bowl, Olympics, Academy Awards, Grammys, Emmys, Golden Globes, NFL, MLB, NHL and the PGA Tour among many other sports and entertainment broadcast, cable and digital programming. Over the past 5 years, Baker has consulted for The New York Giants, ad tech firms, and currently is working with John Hendricks, founder of Discovery Networks as well as The World Golf Group, an explosive new entry in the golf industry and IMG/Sport 24 Inflight Live Sports.

He will review his experiences and trace the evolution of Media Advertising from the “Golden Age of TV Advertising” and the Almighty 30 Second Spot, to the uncharted and unpredictable world of Digital.

All are Welcome and Questions from participants are encouraged. Live on Zoom 10/22/20 at 7:30 PM. 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89857684539?pwd=dWx5cXJaRjNXRnArRVRlM0Q2ZGhGZz09

Meeting ID: 898 5768 4539 Passcode: Baker

One tap mobile +1-929-205-6099, 898-576-84539# US (New York)

Please RSVP to jcarney@lehman.cuny.edu

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Mon – Thurs: 8am – 8pm

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Mon – Thurs: 8am – 8pm

Fri & Sat: 9am – 5pm

Winter Schedule

Mon – Thurs: 8am – 8pm

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Winter Schedule

Mon – Thurs: 8am – 8pm

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Winter Schedule

Mon – Thurs: 8am – 8pm

Fri & Sat: 9am – 5pm

• Any papers, recycle some mail or newspaper
• Carboard and Cardboard Boxes
• Old toys
• Scissors
• Glue or Glue Stick
• Masking Tape or other tapes

• Crayons
• Markers 
• Colored Pencils

Obscura, Lehman College's Literary Magazine,
presents:

 Poetry in the Times of COVID-19

Featuring more than 20 students and alumni, the chapbook was edited by junior English creative writing major and Obscura secretary, Rafiana Martinez.

Winter Schedule

Mon – Thurs: 8am – 8pm

Fri & Sat: 9am – 5pm

Friday, December 4 at 6 p.m.

Show will be followed by a conversation with the castFREE

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2020 marks the 250^th birthday of legendary Viennese composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Cellist Hamilton Berry and Lehman Music Professor Diana Mittler-Battipaglia commemorate the occasion with a performance of his dramatic Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano. This “virtual concert” by the Lehman Chamber Players will be featured on the Music Program’s YouTube channel throughout December, Beethoven’s birthday month.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DAGekAKNj0

WONDERFUL FLIGHT TO THE MUSHROOM PLANET will be aired on Bronxnet, Optimum and Fios and www.bronxnet.tv worldwide, beginning December 10. Please enjoy this production of the Collaborative Musical Theatre Troupe at Lehman composed by Professor Penny Prince. The work featured various members of the Lehman College community, including current students, alumni, and staff. You can see Lehman College alumni Colette Ambo pictured below.

Other information:

MUSHROOM PLANET plus the Interview feature Eduardo Resendiz directed will be aired on Bronxnet channel 68 Optimum and 2134 Fios, and www.bronxnet.tv worldwide. It will also be accessible via live stream around the world via http://bronxnet.tv

Admission Info/Additional Info:

The 2020 Pacheco Festival Highlights will be broadcast on “Giant Steps from the Bronx" BronxNet channel 67 Optimum + 2133 FiOS in the Bronx and http://bronxnet.tv worldwide.

WONDERFUL FLIGHT TO THE MUSHROOM PLANET will be aired on Bronxnet, Optimum and Fios and www.bronxnet.tv worldwide, beginning December 10. Please enjoy this production of the Collaborative Musical Theatre Troupe at Lehman composed by Professor Penny Prince. The work featured various members of the Lehman College community, including current students, alumni, and staff. You can see Lehman College alumni Colette Ambo pictured below.

Other information:

MUSHROOM PLANET plus the Interview feature Eduardo Resendiz directed will be aired on Bronxnet channel 68 Optimum and 2134 Fios, and www.bronxnet.tv worldwide. It will also be accessible via live stream around the world via http://bronxnet.tv

WONDERFUL FLIGHT TO THE MUSHROOM PLANET will be aired on Bronxnet, Optimum and Fios and www.bronxnet.tv worldwide, beginning December 10. Please enjoy this production of the Collaborative Musical Theatre Troupe at Lehman composed by Professor Penny Prince. The work featured various members of the Lehman College community, including current students, alumni, and staff. You can see Lehman College alumni Colette Ambo pictured below.

Other information:

MUSHROOM PLANET plus the Interview feature Eduardo Resendiz directed will be aired on Bronxnet channel 68 Optimum and 2134 Fios, and www.bronxnet.tv worldwide. It will also be accessible via live stream around the world via http://bronxnet.tv

WONDERFUL FLIGHT TO THE MUSHROOM PLANET will be aired on Bronxnet, Optimum and Fios and www.bronxnet.tv worldwide, beginning December 10. Please enjoy this production of the Collaborative Musical Theatre Troupe at Lehman composed by Professor Penny Prince. The work featured various members of the Lehman College community, including current students, alumni, and staff. You can see Lehman College alumni Colette Ambo pictured below.

Other information:

MUSHROOM PLANET plus the Interview feature Eduardo Resendiz directed will be aired on Bronxnet channel 68 Optimum and 2134 Fios, and www.bronxnet.tv worldwide. It will also be accessible via live stream around the world via http://bronxnet.tv