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Join us on Thursday, November 19 from 2-3:30 pm ET for our Fall 2020 Urban Studies pre-registration event! Students, alum, faculty, and staff are encouraged to attend to learn about Spring 2021 courses, meet one-on-one with advisors, and discuss any concerns.
We're excited to share that alum Kjerstin Pugh ('08) will join as our guest speaker. This is a special opportunity for current and prospective students to hear from a former Urban Studies student and ask questions about her journey.
Pugh graduated from Eugene Lang College with a double-concentration in Urban Studies and Writing. She worked for several years in small nonprofits and family businesses following graduation. These experiences gave her a greater sense of urgency in the work still needed to be done to foster relationships and repair social systems in a society that increasingly isolates individuals and groups. From 2011 to 2018, Kjerstin worked for a partnership between Yale University, the CT State Department of Education, and New Haven Public Schools to create and administer free, high-quality programming and classes for high school students. During this time, she completed a MS in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia University, and is now an Associate Director of that program. Continuing her ongoing youth development work, Kjerstin launched and runs a nonprofit called Offroute Art. Offroute works with and supports emerging visual artists aged 16 - 24 as well as connects the broader public to affordable, handmade art.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kjerstinpugh/
Offroute: www.offrouteart.com
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020
6-7:30 pm ET
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Join the Environmental Studies program in the documentary screening followed by a panel discussion with film director Nathan Kensinger, alumna Devin Borg, and faculty & Director of the Urban Systems Lab Timon McPhearson, moderated by Chair Elaine Savory.
"Managed Retreat" is a short documentary portrait of three New York City neighborhoods that were purchased by the New York State government in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, to be demolished and returned to nature as part of the city’s first ‘managed retreat’ from rising sea levels. By the end of this century, New York City is expected to have up to 9.5 feet of sea level rise, radically reshaping its 520 miles of coastline, and impacting more than 100 coastal neighborhoods. This observational documentary follows the process of retreat over the course of one year in three waterfront communities on Staten Island, as homes are destroyed, streets are abandoned, and wild animals begin to return.
Presented by the Environmental Studies Program and co-hosted by the Urban Systems Lab, the Urban Studies Program, and the Global Studies Program at the Schools of Public Engagement.
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