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Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!
My name is Nico Jo Grace, I'm a first year at Lang pursuing a BA in Culture & Media and a MA in Media Studies. My favorite class right now is tied between "Activist Anthropology: Toward Antiracism, Decolonization, and Anti-Oppression" taught by Ramon L. C. de Haan and "The Long Queer 1990s" with Amalle Dublon. Not an individual accomplishment, but the thing I'm most proud of from my time here is the student/faculty organizing campaign that won part-time faculty their contract last semester despite upper admin's egregious union-busting tactics.
My name is Marikit and I study Arts of Environmental Justice: Interdisciplinary Science, Fine Arts, and Religious Studies (in the Self-Design Liberal Arts major at Eugene Lang). Currently, my favorite class is Climate Change because we learn about Indigenous perspectives, community based solutions, and many more forms of resistance that address the underlying drivers of the climate crisis such as ongoing white supremacy and colonialism. I started the Climate Justice Club at The New School for students to collaborate on creative projects that demand for sustainability and equity. Join us for our Earth Day Art Show at Wollman Hall on Saturday, April 22!
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Thank you to the people who nominated me for the Eugene Lang Community Leadership Award and a special thanks to professor Bhawani and her enriching Interdisciplinary Science classes.
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Pictured is a nature mask that I made from leaves and sticks collected by the Seine River in Paris France.
Noor Lima Boudakian studied Global Studies and Economics at Lang, with a minor in Sociology and BA/MA Economics. She has felt most at home at Lang reading outside the CESJ office and had the most fun on the policy debate team. She has previously chaired the student senate and served as the student trustee, as well as co-leading Lang Peer Connect. She is most proud of having facilitated challenging conversations, and for her research work in Armenia.
Anna Montagner is an Italian graduating senior, majoring in Literary Studies with a concentration in Writing at Lang. Her favorite classes have allowed her to discover new authors and explore texts regarding identity, cultural origin, and language. While in school, she interned at L'OFFICIEL Magazine and PAPER Magazine. She is currently an Editorial Intern at V Magazine and a Programming and Place Intern at the one-year-long Lincoln Center Internship Program.
Rama Lapidus is a Liberal Arts major, with focuses in advocacy, education, and creative writing. She grew up in NYC but moved to Long Island for high school, and she is grateful to be back in the city now. Some of her favorite classes at Lang have been Hip Hop Pedagogy & Practice, and Ethnographic Exploration of Personhood. She is most proud of her work as a First Year Fellow and as an Academic Fellow. She will also be a panelist at the 2023 Dean’s Honor Symposium, presenting research about predictive policing algorithms.
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Thank you to my parents for always pushing me to be my best self. Thank you to my siblings, my boyfriend, and my friends for always believing in me. Thank you to my professor Sam Sellers, for motivating me to try for this award and for collaborating with me on such incredible work.
This award commemorates Max Adler, the joy in intellectual engagement that characterized Lang student Max Adler, an award-winning member of the debate team who died in 2008. It is given annually to a student or students in good academic standing who demonstrate an eagerness to engage in the kind of spirited exchange and open discussion that enriches the Lang community.
Kat Butler is a senior at Lang majoring in Politics and Economics and is in her fourth year on the New School Debate Team. Her favorite course she's had is Rats: The Politics and Poetics of Interspecies Migration taught by Professors Rafi Youatt and Radhika Subramaniam, which gave her a whole new outlook on the beauty of NYC. Throughout her time at The New School, Kat is most proud of being able to represent TNS for the first time at the prestigious National Debate Tournament alongside the greatest team a debater could ever hope for. After graduation, Kat hopes to attend law school to use her debate powers for good and continue coaching the next generation of debaters.
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I would like to thank all of the wonderful professors I've had; the entire New School Debate Team; our amazing graduate student coaches, Zhane Lloyd and Jack Booth; our head coach, Vik Keenan, who fully supported me since the day I basically turned up on her doorstep and said I wanted to debate; my fabulous debate partner, Noor Lima Boudakian, who is just insanely good at debate and the best friend I could ever ask for; my wonderful family; and my partner Ben, who has to practice debate me more than any one person should.
I am a Global Studies major with a minors in Migration Studies and Law and Social Change. I love taking the Debate Slam class and the CRS Sanctuary course because together they gave me the chance to think through social justice in theory and in practice. I am proud of the friends and community I have found here and the things we have done in the New York community, and in the debate community.
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Here specifically, I have to thank my debate coach Vik Keenan for helping me through all the wild ins and outs of debate. I also have to thank my partner and all my teammates for keeping debate fun!
This award commemorates Akilah Oliver, a poet, performer, activist, and Lang professor, whose courses challenged students not only to engage poetic texts but also the criticism and conversations that surround them. This award recognizes a student poet at Lang whose poetry has some of the features of Akilah’s writing and teaching.
Nico Neufeld (Brooklyn, New York) will be graduating with a BA in Literary Studies with a concentration in writing. It’s hard to pick but their favorite class throughout their three years at Lang was intermediate multi genre with Professor Wendy Xu; it totally changed their understanding of what writing is and what their writing could be. Nico is particularly proud of their simultaneous completion of the literary and poetry capstone this semester- resulting in a paper about Erasure Poetics and Dracula, and a manuscript titled ‘Motherless Behavior’- in spite of their pathological need to procrastinate. After graduation, Nico plans to pursue a Ph.D in literature and to try to get their first book published ( fingers crossed!)
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I would like to thank my wonderful partner Sky whose unyielding support made this possible, my wonderful professors- in particular Professor Jennifer Firestone, Professor Julie Napolin and Professor Wendy Xu- who dedicated countless hours to helping me improve as a writer and a scholar, and the countless trans punks and freaks who taught me how to live in a world that makes it near impossible for us to survive.
This award commemorates Robin Mookerjee, a scholar, creative writer, and Lang professor, whose creativity, humor, and passion for literature inspired students and colleagues alike. This award recognizes a Lang student whose creativity and passion for literature have some of the features of Robin’s writing and teaching.
My name's Charlie Herbert, majoring in Literary Studies with a minor in Philosophy. It's hard to say my favorite class, but maybe Literary Studies with Professor Napolin.
My last four years at Lang, the projects I've probably been happiest with have been an unfinished and abandoned novel on the death of the author, a pretend "translation" of the first Canto of Inferno; and my final paper, which I'm doing right now, which I'm hoping will convince people that Julius Caesar is Shakespeare's most beautiful play. (It's also about death of the author.)
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I don't know exactly who to thank for this! But I've had great professors here. I'm especially and deeply grateful to Professor Inessa Medzhibovskaya, Professor Julie Napolin, and Professor Jennifer Firestone.
This award commemorates Ann Snitow, feminist writer, teacher, passionate activist, and Lang professor. She founded the university’s Gender Studies program and was hailed as an essential voice in the feminist movement and a hero of late twentieth-century radicalism. This award recognizes a Lang student whose passion for feminism, community, and activism embodies the spirit of Ann’s work.
Hello! My name is Beatrice Jackson and I'm a junior majoring in Culture and Media and double minoring in Gender Studies and Psychology. I am hoping to be a teacher of sex education. I'm incredibly lucky to have enjoyed almost all of my courses at the new school but some of my favorites were Digital Media and Race, Digital Feminisms and History of American Education.
I’ve been a community organizer since I was 13, focusing on union activism as well as planning and facilitating teach ins for multiple communities I’ve been a part of. The past couple of months I’ve been organizing with a local group called Communiversity, we are focused on anticapitalist values, collaborative education and radical fun. In addition, I really enjoyed being a New School first year fellow last semester and learned a lot from that experience. Something I am incredibly proud of during my time here has been organizing Sexual Education Trivia in the University Center in March of this semester!
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Thank you to the New School Community members who continue to inspire me, my friends who keep me silly and my family for literally everything ever.
EUGENE LANG OPPORTUNITY AWARDS MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR STUDENTS WITH FINANCIAL NEED AND ACADEMIC MERIT TO PARTICIPATE IN CO-CURRICULAR PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES. AWARDS ARE DISTRIBUTED COMPETITIVELY ACCORDING TO THE EDUCATIONAL QUALITY AND BUDGET OF THEIR PROPOSALS. STUDENTS BELOW RECEIVED AWARDS From SPRING 2022 to Spring 2023.
Cherisse Bovell, Global Studies '23
International Peace Institute
Cece Deming-Bernstein, BAFA: Politics / Integrated Design '24
NYC Mayors Office of Immigrant Affairs
Anna Drummond, Global Studies and Philosophy '25
Minor: Japanese
Hollis Public Affairs
Leah Hornsby, The Arts '25
People Powered
Zoe Hussain, Journalism+Design ‘24
NYC Civic Engagement Commission
Zoe Kahn, Culture and Media '23
Minors: Philosophy, Gender Studies
The Door
Nina Knoll, BAFA: Interdisciplinary Science / Fine Arts '23
Mercury Public Affairs
Catherine Kerrigan, Politics '23
Institute for Progressive Prosecution at John Jay
Oskar Roberts-Grmela, History '23
Minor: Contemporary Music
Participatory Budgeting Project
John Rieg, BAFA: Journalism+Design / Jazz Performance (Guitar) '25
Museum of the City of New York
Isa Karliner-Li, Environmental Studies '23
Fulcrum Analytics
Honor McConnell, History '24
Minors: Museum and Curatorial Studies
9/11 Memorial & Museum
Adrianna Oquendo, Global Studies '23
Minor: Management and Leadership
Global Americans
Molly Spackman, Psychology '23
PIPs Rewards
Malaika Alilaw
Journalism+Design '25
Minor: Fashion Communications
PISTE
Mikayla Emerson
Journalism+Design '24
The New School Eugene Lang Journalism & Design Department
Ellen Gerberick
Urban Studies '24
Minor: Hispanic Studies
Boston Harbor Now
Ariana Guerra
Theater and Journalism + Design '22
Generation Citizen
Aleyna Ndaw
Sociology '22
Minor: French
M4BL
Blair Potter
Journalism+Design '22
LoveShackFancy
Yetunde Sapp
BAFA: Undeclared / Fashion Design '23
Art to Ware
Cassandra Torsiello
Urban Studies '23
Minors: Race & Ethnicity and Gender Studies
Generation Citizen
Soleen Tran
BAMA: Politics and Global Studies '24 / Politics '25
M4BL
Kathryn Tzivanis
Urban Studies '22
Minors: Global Studies and Food Studies
District of Columbia Public Schools
Kamila Young
Psychology and Literary Studies '22
PISTE
River Wildmen
BAFA: Culture and Media / Communication Design '23
The Institute of Black Imagination
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