Join Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2) for a Sip n Chat taking place Wed, May 15 from 2PM to 3:30 PM in the Skylight Room (9100) at the CUNY Graduate Center, which is a space for current GC students to create community about their public-facing / community-engaged / applied / activist research. No presentations or talks, just an informal gathering of community. Like all good community gatherings, we will have food and drink. If you’re a GC student interested in stopping by, please register here so we know how much food and drink to prepare. We’d love to see you at Sip n Chat – a semesterly peer-led get together:
- where you can meet fellow Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2) fellows, and other GC students who hold a deep commitment to applied, engaged, and/ or public-facing research
- No presentations or talks, just an informal gathering of community.
People
Dasharah Green (she/ her/ hers) PS2 Presidential Research Fellow, Public Scholarship.
Dasharah was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She uses experiences growing up in her, pre-gentrified, Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood as a backdrop to explore the intersections of Blackness. Her early interests trickled down to inspire her academic career as she went on to earn a Bachelor’s degree in English honors, with a double minor in Africana Studies honors and Political Science, from John Jay College. In May 2020, Dasharah graduated from St. John’s University with a Master’s degree in English. She is currently an adjunct in Baruch College’s Black and Latino/a Studies Department. As a fourth year PhD candidate in the English department, Dasharah is currently working on her dissertation – which explores the genealogy of Black women’s storytelling, from the early 20th century to present day. She is specifically focusing on how these writers contribute to a borderless literary culture and reimagine/rethorize archival materials as a means of storytelling.
Prithi Kanakamedala (she/ her/ hers) PS2 Faculty Coordinator. Prithi is an Associate Professor of History at Bronx Community College CUNY, and a faculty member in the MALS program at CUNY Graduate Center. She is an active public historian and has worked with a number of cultural organizations across the city. Prithi’s work examines the archives, material culture, and community-building, race, and citizenship in Brooklyn and New York’s 19th-century free Black communities.
