https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/ en https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccny-film-professor-antonio-tibaldi-2025-guggenheim-fellow Antonio Tibaldi, professor of film and video at The City College of New York, is one of 198 distinguished individuals across 53 disciplines in the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows. Chosen by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 3,500 applicants, the Class of 2025 was tapped based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise.  Each Fellow receives a monetary stipend to pursue independent work at the highest level under "the freest possible conditions.” The 100th class of Fellows is part of the Guggenheim Foundation's year-long celebration marking a century of transformative impact on American intellectual and cultural life.  "At a time when intellectual life is under attack, the Guggenheim Fellowship celebrates a century of support for the lives and work of visionary scientists, scholars, writers, and artists," said Edward Hirsch, award-winning poet and President of the Guggenheim Foundation. "We believe that these creative thinkers can take on the challenges we all face today and guide our society towards a better and more hopeful future." About Antonio Tibaldi Antonio Tibaldi is a writer/director of fiction and non-fiction films in North America and Europe. His work has won numerous awards and has been presented at festivals such as Berlin, Sundance, San Sebastian, Rotterdam, IDFA, Tribeca; and released by companies such as Miramax, Warner Bros., and Lion’s Gate. He is a consultant for UNTV (United Nations TV) and works as a videographer to shed light on under-reported realities in South and Central America, Africa, and Asia. As a Fulbright scholar Antonio studied at Calarts (California Institute of the Arts) where he received an MFA in Film & Video. His projects have received support from The Gotham (previously known as: Independent Filmmaker Project), TFI (Tribeca Film Institute), FIND (Film Independent), WEMW (When East Meets West) and DOKINBUBATOR, NYSCA (New York State Council of the Arts). Antonio is a current member of WGA, East, and is the co-Director of CCNY’s MFA in Film Program. Click here to read about Tibaldi’s films. About the Guggenheim Foundation Created and initially funded in 1925 by US Senator Simon and Olga Guggenheim in memory of their son John Simon, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has sought to "further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions." Since its establishment, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted over $400 million in Fellowships to more than 19,000 individuals, among whom are more than 125 Nobel laureates, members of all the national academies, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Fields Medal, Turing Award, Bancroft Prize, National Book Award, and other internationally recognized honors. The broad range of fields of study is a unique characteristic of the Fellowship program. The Guggenheim Foundation centers the talents and instincts of the Fellows, whose passions often have broad and immediate social impact. For example, in 1936, Zora Neale Hurston wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship and dedicated it to the Foundation's first president, Henry Allen Moe. Photographer Robert Frank's seminal book, The Americans, was the product of a cross-country tour supported by two Guggenheim Fellowships. The accomplishments of other early Fellows like E.E. Cummings, Jacob Lawrence, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Martha Graham, and Linus Pauling also demonstrate the strength of the Guggenheim Foundation's core values and the power and impact of its approach. For more information and to see the full list of the 2025 Fellows, please visit www.gf.org.   Wed, 16 Apr 2025 19:16:24 -0400 Jay Mwamba /news/ccny-film-professor-antonio-tibaldi-2025-guggenheim-fellow https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccny-celebrates-our-3rd-annual-homecoming-day-may-3 The City College of New York’s Homecoming Day takes place on Saturday, May 3 from 12-5 p.m. in the North Campus’ Beaver Quad. Alumni and friends of the college will reunite for a fun-filled day of activities, games, campus tours, live music, performances, an art exhibition and more. Special appearances by alumni members of the New York Giants. The free events kick off with Lavender Fever Homecoming Week, which runs from April 28 through May 9. Follow CCNY Student Life on Instagram for upcoming events and activities happening during Lavender Fever Homecoming Week. On Homecoming Day, there will be refreshing drinks and delicious Southern-style comfort food by Harlem's very own, Miss Mamie's Spoonbread Too. To see the full list of activities, click here. Some Homecoming Day activities are at capacity, but register for a general entry ticket, a 1:30 p.m. Campus Tour and a 2 p.m. Alumni Mixer in the Quad at the RSVP link, here. The Harlem Gallery of Science’s Video Games: The Great Connector exhibit is also open to the Homecoming Day community. It explores the academic and career opportunities found within New York City’s digital gaming community. Register here. The City College Center for the Arts and the CCNY Cohen Library presents Intuitive Imprints: An Exploration of Sense and Memory at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. on May 3 in the Morris R. Cohen Library. The world premier dance composition is free with reservations by calling the Aaron Davis Hall Box Office at 212-650-6900, or by visiting our website. Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:51:11 -0400 Ashley Arocho /news/ccny-celebrates-our-3rd-annual-homecoming-day-may-3 https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccnys-sydney-roy-and-deven-morales-win-watson-fellowships Sydney Roy, of the Macaulay Honors School at The City College of New York, and fellow CCNY freshman Deven Morales are among 15 undergraduates from 12 New York colleges selected Jeannette K. Watson Fellows by the Watson Foundation. The highly competitive three-year fellowships accord recipients unprecedented personal, professional and cultural immersions in the United States and abroad. At the center of the program are fully-funded summer experiences with leading organizations in New York City and around the world. Combined with close mentoring, Watson Fellows expand their vision, develop their potential and build the confidence and perspective to do so for others. Fellows go on to attend leading graduate programs, receive national and international scholarships, and become leaders in their fields. “The new class of Watson Fellows represents the character, convictions and aspirations of America's most inspiring student leaders. We look forward to introducing them to the Watson Community and supporting their personal, professional and cultural growth,” said Chris Kasabach, Watson Foundation, Executive Director. Roy is a political science major in CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and is on the Dean’s List. As a Watson Fellow the Queens resident will intern with several organizations. She’ll be interviewing with The Century Foundation. Tides Advocacy, and AFS Intercultural Programs, which hosts the United Nations Youth Assembly Conference.   Roy plans on a career as a lawyer or public policy researcher, “primarily to be an advocate for those who can’t advocate for themselves,” she added. Morales, a Bay Shore resident, is a physics major and member of the Dean’s List. He’s asked to intern at the International Institute of Education as a Watson Fellow. Professionally, he plans to practice patent law. About the Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship Jeannette K. Watson Fellows are chosen through a nomination process from freshman and sophomore students at 12 New York City partner institutions. The fellowship's comprehensive program includes three summers of internships at leading organizations around the world, a cohort of supportive peers and ongoing mentorship. Over 300 Jeannette K. Watson Fellows have been named since the fellowship’s start in 1999. Watson Fellows are represented in America’s top graduate programs and go on to become leaders in their fields including law, medicine, public policy, business, arts and sciences. They are the recipients of numerous Aspen, Coro, Fulbright, Truman, Urban Fellow and many other national awards. About the Watson Foundation In 1961, the Watson Foundation was created as a charitable trust in the name of Thomas J. Watson Sr, best known for building IBM. Through one-of-a-kind programs, and over 100 global partnerships, the Foundation works with students to develop personal, professional and cultural opportunities that expand their vision, test and develop their potential, and build their confidence and perspective to be more humane and effective leaders with a world view.   Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:53:33 -0400 Jay Mwamba /news/ccnys-sydney-roy-and-deven-morales-win-watson-fellowships https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccny-physicists-uncover-electronic-interactions-mediated-spin-waves Groundbreaking research by physicists at The City College of New York is being credited for a novel discovery regarding the interaction of electronic excitations via spin waves. The finding by the Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics (LaNMP) team headed by physicist Vinod Menon could open the door to future technologies and advanced applications such as optical modulators, all-optical logic gates, and quantum transducers. The work is reported in the journal Nature Materials. The researchers showed the emergence of interaction between electronic excitations (excitons – electron hole pairs) mediated via spin waves in atomically thin (2D) magnets. They demonstrated that the excitons can interact indirectly through magnons (spin waves), which are like ripples or waves in the 2D material’s magnetic structure. “Think of magnons as tiny flip-flops of atomic magnets inside the crystal. One exciton changes the local magnetism, and that change then influences another exciton nearby. It’s like two floating objects pulling toward each other by disturbing water waves around them,” said Menon.   To demonstrate this, the Menon group utilized a magnetic semiconductor, CrSBr which the group had previously shown to host strong light-matter interaction (Nature, 2023).  Post-doctoral fellows Biswajit Datta and Pratap Chandra Adak led the research along with graduate students Sichao Yu and Agneya Dharmapalan in collaboration with the groups at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, University of Chemistry and Technology – Prague, RPTU - Kaiserslautern, Germany and NREL, USA.  “What is especially exciting about this discovery is that the interaction between excitons can be controlled externally using a magnetic field, thanks to the tunable magnetism of 2D materials. That means we can effectively switch the interaction on or off, which is hard to do with other types of interactions,” said Datta.  “One particularly exciting application enabled by this discovery is in the development of quantum transducers - devices that convert quantum signals from one frequency to another, such as from microwave to optical. These are key components for building quantum computers and enabling the quantum internet.” said Adak, another lead author of this work. The work at CCNY was supported by U.S. Department of Energy – Office of Basic Energy Sciences, The Army Research Office, The National Science Foundation and The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Citation: Datta, B., Adak, P.C., Yu, S. et al. Magnon-mediated exciton–exciton interaction in a van der Waals antiferromagnet. Nat. Mater. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02183-0    Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:40:12 -0400 Jay Mwamba /news/ccny-physicists-uncover-electronic-interactions-mediated-spin-waves https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/cuny-iie-releases-literature-guide-immigration-centered-stories The City College of New York-based CUNY-Initiative on Immigration and Education (CUNY-IIE) released its PK-12 Immigration Literature Guide, a selection of 100 recently published PreK-12 books that showcase the transformative power of immigration-centered stories. The guide is organized into four sections based on age range: early childhood and elementary picture books; upper elementary chapter books; middle school; and high school. Each sub-section presents brief summaries of 25 books and highlights five authors to show the people behind the stories. “This collection offers an entry point into the humanization of immigration, introducing readers to resilient characters, courageous journeys, and acts of solidarity, while confronting racism, xenophobia, and healing from trauma,” wrote the authors, Rosa Angela Calosso of the CUNY Graduate Center and Cecilia M. Espinosa of Lehman College, in the introduction. The guide features several authors who presented at the recent PK-12 Immigration Literature Conference, which celebrated the works, writing, and stories of immigrant communities and their authors. The theme of the conference, “Storytelling for Visibility, Understanding, and Transformation,” reflected the organizers’ commitment to amplifying the voices of these communities. As the attendees united in opposition to harmful and hateful anti-immigrant policies and book bans, they also explored immigration through a range of perspectives in recently published books curated for the occasion. Author Edwidge Danticat, Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University, served as keynote speaker. The attendees also heard from four distinguished children's and young adult authors: Sonia Guiñansaca, Areli Morales, Emma Otheguy and Ly Tran. Ten breakout sessions led by educators, social workers, librarians, and community leaders covered a variety of topics, including: “Books as Bridges: How Elementary Students Use Literature for Advocacy;” “Teaching about Religious Diversity with Picture Books for All Ages;” and “The Power of Story: Supporting Immigrant Youth Mental Health Through Literature.” “The conference welcomed over 300 people to CCNY’s Great Hall to celebrate immigrants and authors who center immigration in a time of anti-immigrant discourse, policies and programs,” said the conference organizer, Professor of Bilingual Education & TESOL Tatyana Kleyn. “It allowed us to uplift immigrant voices through storytelling and come together in community as we centered joy as an act of resistance.”  CUNY-IIE envisions educators across New York State and beyond, using its new Immigration Literature Guide to foster deep, meaningful classroom conversations that highlight our shared humanity. “This guide and conference couldn’t have come at a more crucial time,” said CUNY-IIE Project Director Daniela Alulema. “Our educators need the resources and spaces to build community, support one another, and proudly uplift immigrant stories and storytellers.” Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:18:16 -0400 /news/cuny-iie-releases-literature-guide-immigration-centered-stories https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/konig-family-establishes-endowed-grove-school-engineering-scholarship-honoring-patriarch The family of William F. Konig, Jr. (1934 – 2018), an outstanding scholar-athlete from The City College of New York’s Class of 1955 who went on to pursue a successful career as an engineer and inventor, announces an endowed scholarship in his memory in the Grove School of Engineering.   The William F. Konig, Jr. Scholarship, will support a student in the Grove School’s Department of Electrical Engineering. A standout pitcher and the 1954 Frederic Kramer Baseball Award MVP at CCNY, Konig had been offered three contracts by minor-league clubs before earning his B.S. in EE from the Grove School. He rejected all the contract offers on the advice of his parents, neither of whom had attended college but who strongly believed in the value of education.   Konig then attended Columbia University where he received his master's in EE before going to work for the U.S. Department of Defense designing radar and sonar systems. In the mid-1970s, he was one of three inventors of the first portable “Ophthalmic Ultrasound B-Scan”, a pioneering non-invasive device used to detect abnormalities behind the eye. It uses sound waves to measure and produce detailed images of the human eye. Today, the device is routinely used in most optical exams.  The endowment is the second gift in Konig’s memory by his family to The City College in two years. In 2023, his daughter Susan Konig donated $25,000 to CCNY’s baseball program for equipment, uniforms, and transportation.  “He had a lot to thank City College for, including the exciting time that he had with baseball there,” said Ms. Konig. “It was a very important part of his life. He had success with the invention and he had success with the baseball, and it was just an exciting time in his life. “The new endowment honors our father and, hopefully, it will help other engineering students and, or, baseball-playing students get relief from some of the tuition bills because he was one of them once.”  In addition, the endowment, according to Konig, is designed to highlight the transformative powers of a CCNY education. “I want students to see how he went from a very poor beginning and through City College, our father was able to transform his life with a lot of hard work.” Today, CCNY remains a leader in social mobility nationally. It is ranked #1 by the Harvard-based Opportunity Insights out of 369 selective public colleges in the United States on the overall mobility index. This measure reflects both access and outcomes, representing the likelihood that a student at CCNY can move up two or more income quintiles. Education research organization Degree Choices ranks CCNY #1 nationally among universities for economic return on investment. Summing up her father’s twin passions, Konig said: “he’d always wanted to be an engineer. It was kind of in his blood and he was building things as a child. And he was a baseball fanatic as well, not only watching but playing, too.” Wed, 26 Mar 2025 21:46:33 -0400 Jay Mwamba /news/konig-family-establishes-endowed-grove-school-engineering-scholarship-honoring-patriarch https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/spitzer-school-architect-jerome-haferd-receives-major-honors Professor and architect Jerome Haferd of The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture is the recipient of two honors, a fellowship from United States Artists and  selection by the 2025 U.S. Pavilion to participate in the upcoming Venice Biennale.     Fifty artists and collectives make up the 2025 USA Fellow cohort. The national award chose awardees based on their groundbreaking artistic visions and unique perspectives within their field. The fellowship is awarded through a year-long peer-led selection process in the disciplines of Architecture & Design, Craft, Dance, Film, Media, Music, Theater & Performance, Traditional Arts, Visual Art, and Writing. Each awardee will receive a $50,000 unrestricted cash award. Additionally, the Fellows will receive access to a variety of professional services and field resources allowing for a deepened impact on their practice and supporting their essential roles in society.     Artists were chosen from 21 states, spanning the most nascent to mature stages of careers. Deeply rooted in notions of origin and belonging, the 2025 cohort examines a breadth of lived experiences and cultural histories, engaging their communities in dialogues both past and present while charting paths for their collective futures.   Haferd is founder of Jerome Haferd Studio, an award-winning Harlem-based architecture and design office. In addition to Haferd’s fellowship, his studio will be one of 52 selected to participate in the 2025 U.S. Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. The theme of this year’s U.S. pavilion is “Porch: An Architecture of Generosity” which complements the Biennale’s theme “Intelligens: Natural. Artificial. Collective. American finalists, individuals and practices from around the country, will install a "window" of a giant porch-like installation around the pavilion in the Giardini at the Biennale. Faculty adjunct member Pedro Cruz Cruz, current BArch student Gabriel Moyer Perez, and BArch alumni Violet Greenberg assisted in the Venice installation, which includes a series of interviews and a physical installation for the porch “window.”   Haferd’s community-driven practice designs projects nationwide including public artworks and cultural infrastructure. Haferd is one of only 2% of Black licensed architects in the U.S. and currently co-directs the Harlem Place, Memory & Culture Incubator at the Spitzer School of Architecture. The exhibit “Generative Histories Harlem” is recently showcased at the Spitzer School and is up through April 10. Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:48:57 -0400 Thea Klapwald /news/spitzer-school-architect-jerome-haferd-receives-major-honors https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/spitzer-school-architecture-names-former-governor-eliot-spitzer-honorary-chair The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at CCNY announced that Eliot Spitzer, one-time governor and twice-elected attorney general of New York, has been given an honorary chair to the Dean’s Advisory Council of the school bearing his parents’ names.   “I am delighted to welcome Eliot Spitzer to my Advisory Council,” said Marta Gutman, Spitzer School dean. “Like his parents, he brings a lifelong commitment to public education. As Mr. Spitzer told me, ‘Few things are more important than providing a public, low-cost education to those who want to learn, work, and move all of society forward.’”   Spitzer was born and raised in New York. He graduated from the Horace Mann School, Princeton University, and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the “Harvard Law Review.” After clerking for Federal District Court Judge Robert W. Sweet, Spitzer practiced at Paul, Weiss and then joined the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. While there, he rose to serve as chief of the Labor Racketeering Unit and successfully prosecuted some of the most senior members of the Gambino organized crime family.   After several years in private practice, he was elected attorney general of New York in 1998 and was re-elected in 2002.  His prosecutions in the areas of financial fraud, environmental protection and civil rights set a new standard for law enforcement, and in 2002 “Time Magazine” named him "Crusader of the Year." “60 Minutes” dubbed him the "Sheriff of Wall Street," and the “Financial Times” named him "Man of the Year."   He was elected governor of New York in 2006. His administration restructured New York’s educational and healthcare finance systems. Since 2008, he has served as an anchor on CNN's prime time show 'In the Arena," hosted “Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer” on Current TV, taught as a professor at CCNY and been a regular contributor to “Slate Magazine.” He now runs Spitzer Enterprises, a real estate development firm founded by his father.     THe Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Dean’s Advisory Council Members Eliot Spitzer, Honorary Chair Joseph Fleischer, B.S.  ’65, B.Arch  ’66, co-chair Carlos Cardoso, B.S.  ’92, co-chair Venesa Alicea-Chuqui, B.Arch  ’05 John Cetra, B.Arch  ’76 Alan Hantman, B.S.  ’65, B.Arch  ’66, MUP  ’79 Edmund Hollander Joan Krevlin Carol Kurth, B.Arch  ’81 Fern Lan Siew, M.L.A  ’15 Jonathan Marvel Nancy Ruddy Frank Sciame, B.S.  ’74 Adi Shamir-Baron Charles Shorter Claire Weiss Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:12:50 -0400 Thea Klapwald /news/spitzer-school-architecture-names-former-governor-eliot-spitzer-honorary-chair https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccny-science-dean-susan-perkins-earns-top-aaas-honor Dr. Susan L. Perkins, the Martin & Michele Cohen Dean of Science at The City College of New York, is one of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s new 2025 Fellows. Dating back to 1874, the honor is bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. The AAAS Council cited Perkins “for distinguished scientific contributions in the fields of evolutionary biology and parasitology as well as for advancing scientific knowledge in the public through education, outreach, and administration.”  It elects Fellows deliberately and carefully to preserve the honor attached to this recognition. A microbiologist with expertise on protozoan parasites that cause malaria, Perkins has served as CCNY’s Science Dean since January 2020. Her tenure has been marked by her keen focus on student success, commitment to research, and building community. "City College is such a unique and special place," she said. "We have a dual role of conducting extensive, important research across so many fields of science and mathematics while also playing pivotal roles in promoting social mobility for so many New York City students." Funded research in the Division of Science has grown under her tenure and reached $100 million this past year.  Perkins also has been a driving force behind making CCNY’s Gaming Pathways Program, and in bringing the Post Bac Health Professions program to fruition. It prepares students who want to go into the health professions but spent their undergraduate careers with other goals. In tandem with all the administrative work that she has accomplished, she’s continued with her own research and taught classes in parasitology and Disease and history. Prior to her current position, Perkins was Curator and Professor of Microbial Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History. Perkins and the other new Fellows will be recognized during the annual Fellows Forum June 7 in Washington, D.C. About the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science as well as Science Translational Medicine, Science Signaling (a digital, open-access journal), Science Advances, Science Immunology and Science Robotics. AAAS was founded in 1848 and includes nearly 250 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Wed, 19 Mar 2025 22:51:44 -0400 Jay Mwamba /news/ccny-science-dean-susan-perkins-earns-top-aaas-honor https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/jafar-javan-colin-powell-schools-newest-leader-residence-brings-international-development Longtime United Nations executive, international development expert, and educator Jafar Javan joins the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership as a Leader-in-Residence on April 1. As a Leader-in-Residence, Javan will mentor and advise students enrolled in the master’s degree program in international relations, and teach a course on “Leadership in Global Justice.” Javan will also work closely with Colin Powell School leadership on the Nelson Mandela Project for Social Change, which he conceived and helped to launch during his tenure as director of the United Nations Systems Staff College. “Jafar and I came to know each other last year, when the Colin Powell School became the higher ed anchor for the UNSSC’s Nelson Mandela Project for Social Change, an innovative and timely endeavor to bridge societal polarization,” said Andrew Rich, the Richard J. Henley and Susan L. Davis Dean of the Colin Powell School. “Jafar conceived this program for the United Nations, and he has been directing its launch there. We are thrilled that he will be joining us as a Leader-in-Residence.” The Colin Powell School-based U.S. component of the Mandela Project is led by Richard Stengel, who served as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs during the Obama Administration, and is a former editor of TIME magazine. Stengel collaborated on Mandela’s bestselling 1995 autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, which became the basis for his own 2010 New York Times bestseller, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage. “The Nelson Mandela Program for Social Change, which launched under Jafar’s leadership at the UNSSC, has developed into an active network of universities across the world to develop learning offerings in leadership inspired by the values and achievements of Mandela,” said Stengel. “As a member of this network, CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership welcomes Jafar Javan’s new contribution to this important initiative.” “One of the thrills of working in the Colin Powell School is the ability to work with world-leading professionals like Jafar,” said Associate Professor of Political Science Nicholas Rush Smith, the director of the M.I.A. program. “Having him teach a leadership course for our students will help the master's program in international affairs achieve our mission of fostering the next generation of global leaders.” During his more than three-decade career in the United Nations system, Javan specialized in policy formulation for community development, empowerment and social participation, training, and education, as well as post-conflict reconstruction and recovery. He retired earlier this year as director of UNSSC, where he was previously deputy director and head of programs. He also served as director of policy support and program development for the Bratislava, Slovakia-based United Nations Development Programme’s Regional Development Centre for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. “I am looking forward to being a member of the Colin Powell School community, and to contributing to building a cadre of young leaders who are committed to change through social and political engagement and activism,” said Javan. Launched in 2023, the Leaders-in-Residence program brings together leaders in their fields who impart their wisdom and experience to Colin Powell students through teaching and mentoring. Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:57:56 -0400 /news/jafar-javan-colin-powell-schools-newest-leader-residence-brings-international-development