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MA Student Christina Sparrock will participate in a panel this evening, May 21 at 6 p.m. on alternative mental health crisis responses. People may attend via zoom (register here) for a discussion of a joint report, “Self-Determination is the Pathway to Liberation”: Alternative Mental Health Crisis Response in the United States, by New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), Human Rights Watch, and the Center for Racial and Disability Justice at UCLA School of Law.

The writer and critic Susan Sontag once noted, “A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.” It makes sense, then, that 2026 Valedictorian Christine Clemmings has a keen interest in the nuanced mechanisms that keep New York City humming.

And just like that, another semester at SLU comes to a close. For any fellow students that I didn’t get the chance to meet: my name is Carmen and I’ve been serving as your Student Union Secretary this year and as SLU’s Graduate Delegate to the University Student Senate.

The Manhattan view from Ayetuoma Owheruo’s 39th-floor office in the World Trade Center could not be more of a contrast from the lush landscape of his grandparents’ farm in Nigeria.

SLU students joined in the events at the CUNY Student Women’s Leadership Conference last month, a one-day whirlwind of speakers and networking. SLU Director of Student and Community Affairs Rochel Pinder was proud that five students attended this year, the largest number yet for the annual event.

Distinguished Lecturer in Labor Studies Ellen Dichner is a labor lawyer with deep experience representing workers and unions. Prior to joining the SLU faculty, she served as Chief Counsel to the Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board in Washington during the Obama administration.

Here at SLU, food insecurity isn’t just about hunger – it’s about stigma, survival, and the kind of community we choose to build. For many students, the challenge of accessing food is not only financial, but social – shaped by whether they feel safe, seen, and supported enough to ask for help.

Catherine Nolan, a Queens lawmaker who served in the State Assembly for almost four decades and was widely known as a fierce advocate for workers’ rights, passed away on March 11, one day before her 68th birthday.

Having a child alters your life, it’s safe to say. But you won’t know how, exactly, until it occurs.

Professor of Labor Studies Penny Lewis is union through and through. Lewis is one of the original full-time faculty members of the School of Labor and Urban Studies, and worked at its predecessor, the Joseph S. Murphy Institute, beginning in 2009.