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Save the Date, January 12 | An Evening with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch In conversation with Hon. Carolyn B. Maloney

Posted on December 18th, 2025 · Posted in Public Programs
Roosevelt House is honored to present New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch in a timely and important conversation with former congresswoman, the Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Leader in Residence at Roosevelt Hou... Read more

Garrett Graff — The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb

Posted on December 4th, 2025 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Marking the 80th anniversary of the year of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Roosevelt House presents bestselling historian and journalist Garrett ... Read more

Irin Carmon — Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America

Posted on November 20th, 2025 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Roosevelt House—together with the Hunter College Department of Women and Gender Studies—are pleased to present a conversation with the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Noto... Read more

Cameras, Crosswalks, and Change: Exploring the Policy and Design of Better Streets with Streetfilms

Posted on November 17th, 2025 · Posted in Public Programs
The new Sam Schwartz Transportation Research Program at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a special screening of selections from Streetfilms, an online documenta... Read more

Jonathan Mahler — The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990

Posted on November 17th, 2025 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Roosevelt House is proud to present a conversation with bestselling author Jonathan Mahler... Read more

LGBTQ Immigration: Contemporary Struggles Globally and in New York

Posted on November 10th, 2025 · Posted in LGBTQ Center Program, Public Programs
The LGBTQ Policy Center is pleased to present an urgent discussion—featuring leading policymakers a... Read more

Jonathan Capehart — Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home

Posted on October 28th, 2025 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart about his new memoir Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a... Read more

The David Dubinsky Labor Lecture: Randi Weingarten — Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy

Posted on October 28th, 2025 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Roosevelt House, and the Hunter College School of Education, are proud to present the David Dubinsky Labor Lecture with the President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten... Read more

Democracy Under Pressure: Defeating Authoritarianism and Making the Next Reconstruction

Posted on October 27th, 2025 · Posted in Public Policy Program Events, Public Programs
In the first event of a new “Democracy Under Pressure” series, the new Roosevelt House Public Policy Program Director Joe Lowndes... Read more

Akhil Reed Amar — Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920

Posted on October 14th, 2025 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Roosevelt House is honored to present a conversation with one of the nation’s foremost constitutional scholars, Akhil Reed ... Read more