… City, Vietnam. Some of my most meaningful memories are of the times my mother taught me about censorship as we read the … to the Chinese side of my family. Growing up amongst First Nations in Canada and seeing firsthand how they were … where racism, gender inequality, and discrimination are being thought about and challenged in new ways, I am super …
/scholars-of-distinction/alumnae-and-recent-alumnae-section… , only three percent of current published discoveries are being made by woman botanists. It’s important to acknowledge … colonialism and imperialism, which brings to question the accessibility of scientific discovery as well as who is … Service District’s Outdoor School Program that I was first introduced to plant field studies and developed an …
https://biology.barnard.edu/opportunities/research-corner/tiffany-vo-sri-2021… and Daredevil—all white males—and superheroines such as the Black Widow and the Invisible Woman. In 2014, the company unveiled Kamala Khan, the first Muslim superhero with her own book series, thanks to … to a lot of the feelings I had in high school about being a minority in a country where the racial norm is being …
/magazine/summer-2016/new-kind-superhero… The Keys to Inclusion Moving Diversity Forward: How to Go … inclusion? I like to say that it’s the difference between being invited to the party and being asked to dance once … at white readers. What led you to focus on this audience? First, I had to come to grips with my true feelings. I kept …
/magazine/spring-2012/keys-inclusion… born in Belgium to Orthodox Jewish parents and escaped the Nazis with them, though not before being held for a period in concentration camps. You lived as … schoolgirl in Cuba, then came to New York and attended, first, the Bronx High School of Science, and then, Barnard, …
/commencement/archives/2021/morgenstein-sarachik-citation… An Outsized Impact ‘The Barnard Effect’ By Nicole Anderson Barnard Magazine Barnard magazine Winter 2025 Image I first read Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God … new Francine A. LeFrak Foundation Center for Well-Being, you can read about the full breadth of the center’s …
/magazine/winter-2025/outsized-impact… work. They come from my knowing this dazzling human being across her days as a student, a lawyer, a professor, a … Laura connects with people. She connects ideas, she gives the gift of attention, she imagines splendid possibilities, … for women meant fewer for men, and today she would be the first to talk about women-identifying individuals. She drew …
/inauguration/archives/2024/martha-minow-remarks… (D-NY), who attended as a panelist to support the New York premiere of Knock Down the House . March 6, 2019 … incumbents. Director Rachel Lears introduced the film as being about power, personally and politically. In a panel … audience in the Diana Center’s Event Oval. It was the first time Ocasio-Cortez had seen the film with an audience — …
/news/barnards-athena-film-festival-empowering-womens-voices-and-stories… Image “When she arrived at Barnard, Sian promised to raise the College’s eminence in STEM fields, and she has delivered. … access the extraordinary education we provide. “For the first time ever, over 40% of Barnard students are math and … — supporting their physical, mental, and financial well-being outside of the classroom. “Finally, we are sending our …
/magazine/spring-2023/selection-accolades… Johnson, Anna Quindlen, and Rhea Suh. And to each of the 619 bad-ass women of the Barnard graduating class of … underneath your Handmaid’s Tale cape. And she does… at first. But then she dares to get a little curious and she … WILL HAPPEN. I stayed on the path out of fear, not of being eaten by a wolf, but of being cut, being benched, …
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