City Tech supporting the CUNY Anti-Hate initiative

Shedding Light: A Celebration

Mission

The three-year CUNY Anti-Hate Initiative confronts hate in the United States. Focusing this year on Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Jewish communities, it continues in future years to address Black, Hispanic, Islamic, and LGBTQ populations.  Hoping to break chains of stereotyping, prejudice, and violence through multi-disciplinary actions, and rooted in the philosophy where combating hate means fostering pro-love, acceptance, and empathy, our goal is to fuse ideas and cultures, inviting participation from all both within and from outside of the targeted populations. This meta-project consists of a variety of activities during the Spring semester, culminating in an annual May event of ideas and expressions across physical and digital realms, drawing from a heritage of cultural celebrations and aiming to preserve a digital footprint upon which to build in succeeding iterations of the project. Our goal is to continue to develop this over the next years, thus allowing for ambitious projects requiring more than a single semester to come to fruition.

 HOW CAN I GET INVOLVED?

We welcome engagement in and outside of the classroom.  Possibilities range from in-class assignments, activities, and publicising opportunities with students and clubs.  See the links below for possible ideas.

In-class activities

May 2 Shedding Light: Culminating Celebration

Documenting History: A City Tech Living Archive

Story collection

Dan Wong 

Ux Research

Michael D'Andrea

Communications

  • Iris Fleischmann-Maenza
  • Michael Mcauliffe (HUM faculty)
  • Alexandra Tourkova (COMD student)
  • Felix Lin (COMD student)

Technical Support

  • Building and Grounds
  •  Media Services
  • Aryan Lnu (ENT student) 
  • Nicholas Ramdin (MTECH student)
  • Catalin Zidaru
  • Melissa 

Organizing Committee

  • Ann Delilkan
  • Trang Le-Chan
  • Nazanin Munroe
  • David B. Smith
  • Ryoya Terao
  • Daniel Wong

Support

  • Mariano Almedy
  • Juan Alvarez
  • Pamela Brown
  • Billie Coleman
  • Russ Hotzler
  • Josh Gonzalez
  • Jessica Morella
  • Brendon Stack

Screened Off

  • Zoe Carney, Heaven Chase, Johanna Espinal, Janet Gili, Pamela Lahoz, Aliyah Latif, Paola Lena, Shubham Mahabad, Joseph Mulligan, Jailen Paguay, Lesley Rivera, Crystal Sanchez, Kristen Soliman, Johanne Viery, Dominique Whelan, Charisse Williams (BUS students)

Kimono designs by students: 

  • Aliyah Latif, Paola Lena, Joseph Mulligan, Najae Ricketts, Lesley Rivera, Crystal Sanchez and Dominique Whelan (BUS students)


Blended Shadow Puppet

  • Tshari Lancey  (ENT) - Director of Physical Puppetry
  • Samuel Cheung (ENT) - Director of Virtual Puppetry
  • Aryan Lnu (ENT) - Director of AV Technology

Blended World Map

  • Nicholas Ramdin (ENT) - Software design, system integration

I am a Jew

  • Keith Muchowski
  • Rebecca Shapiro

Research and Development

  • Danica Liu, 
  • Lizbeth Bolanos 
  • Michelle Wu Feng 
  • Diana Diakite 
  • Francesca Salas

Video and Photography

  • Media Services
  • David Binns (ENT)
  • Nicholas Bueta (ENT),
  • Gustavo Martinez (ENT)
  • Vishal N. Naraine (ENT)
  • Samuel Cheung (MTEC)

Questions?

Contact dsmith@citytech.cuny.edu or adelilkan@citytech.cuny.edu  to get more information on the project