by Staff | February 3, 2021 | News
A number of friends of the Center have drafted a petition to President Biden requesting the cancellation of student debt. They make the case that this would be a progressive step because the cancellation would disproportionately benefit college graduates in lower...
by Staff | February 3, 2021 | News
Nantina Vgontzas, a 2018-2019 CES fellow, is the co-author of an important article posted on The Nation website. In the early 1940’s, singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, the left-wing bard, famously placed a sign on his guitar saying, “This machine kills fascists.”...
by Staff | January 8, 2021 | News
Between 2018-2019, Joss Green (one of our 2019-2020 CES Fellows) and Woods Ervin traveled to 5 cities (Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco) and interviewed 23 trans women and femmes of color about their work experiences. In each interview, they...
by Staff | January 9, 2021 | News
Newly appointed CES Fellow, Isaac Jabola Carolus, has gained press attention in California for his research on home health workers. Isaac’s report, issued by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, “Unprotected on the Job: How Exclusion from...
by Staff | January 11, 2021 | News
George Aumoithe, CES Fellow in 2016-2017, is now an Assistant Professor of Global Health at Stony Brook University. He completed a Ph.D. in history at Columbia University. George has written an Op-Ed, published in the Washington Post, “The racist history that explains...