Sustainable Thinking in Practice: Fashion, Cultural Industry, Labor, Immigration


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This panel will consist of Barnard College Theatre Professor and Director of Sustainability Sandra Goldmark and Custom Collaborative Executive Director Ngozi Okaro along with moderators Profs. Eugenia Paulicelli (CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College) and Deepsikha Chatterjee (Hunter College). The speakers will discuss their work of sustainable practices in the cultural industries with a wide range of students from disciplines such as languages, design, fashion, theatre, and the wider public. Student audiences will come prepared with questions for a project they will design after the event, aiming to widen the pedagogical scope of this discussion on sustainability and inform personal and collective consumption habits.

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About Jessica Murray

Jessica Murray received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at The Graduate Center, CUNY in 2020. She is the Director of Digital Communications for Transformative Learning in the Humanities (TLH), a three-year initiative supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is also working on a web project with teaching materials about civil rights struggles in New York City, including disability rights history. She advocates for improving public transit accessibility in New York City for people with disabilities and chairs the Advisory Committee for Transit Accessibility for New York City Transit.