Barnard College News
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Financial security expert Joanna Smith-Ramani ’98 explains how social policies that prioritize equity and justice can close the racial wealth gap and improve women of color’s mental well-being.
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In celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the president of the Myanmar Association at Columbia discusses advocating for the Burmese community in New York.
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Zarghamee’s Economics of Gender course engages with women’s unique relationships to career and family.