West Side Spirit: Honoring “urban health heroes”
West Side Spirit, December 12, 2018 “Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab and Illumination Fund Founder and President Laurie Tisch announced this year’s recipients of the eighth annual Joan H…. 
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Roosevelt House Celebrates with Pride the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Created Under the Chairmanship of Eleanor Roosevelt Passed Today in 1948 by the UN General Assembly
Roosevelt House celebrates the leadership of Eleanor Roosevelt in writing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as we mark the 70th anniversary of its adoption by the United Nations on…
Roosevelt House welcomes NY Times op-ed columnist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman for 2nd Annual Kossoff Lecture
The Phyllis L. Kossoff Lecture is an annual forum that brings leading figures in public life to Roosevelt House for conversation and reflection on pressing issues of domestic and national…
Winners of The Annual Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize for Excellence in Urban Public Health Announced by Hunter College
(New York, NY – November 14, 2018) – Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab and Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Founder and President Laurie Tisch have announced this year’s…
Public Policy Program Alumnus Publishes “Get Out The Vote” Op-Ed from Indonesia
Luce Scholar Matthew Locastro urges foreign-based American Citizens to Cast Ballots in his Op Ed in the Daily News “How Democrats abroad can help the Blue Wave”.
Roosevelt House Faculty Associate Virginia Valian Publishes New Article in Nature
“No field can afford to ignore or alienate half its potential contributors” writes Virginia Valian, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Hunter College, and Roosevelt House Faculty Associate, in the issue of…
CBS News: Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms,” then and now
CBS NEWS, September 2, 2018 “”The Four Freedoms,” first proclaimed years ago by an American president, have inspired (and continue to inspire) a remarkable body of American art…” Read the full…
Our Town: Making accuracy great again
By Jon Friedman, June 15, 2018 “Jack Newfield would have been proud. On the evening of June 14, the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College hosted a program…
Roosevelt House to Open New Exhibition: Reimagining The Four Freedoms, A Traveling Show From The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
Works by a diverse group of artists were created in response to a challenge from the Museum to create an artwork that expresses what “freedom” means today. This exhibition is…
2018 Public Policy Students Visit Washington D.C. for Annual Trip
Hunter College students from the Public Policy Program at Roosevelt House traveled to Washington, D.C. on Friday, April 13, 2018. Dr. Shyama Venkateswar, Distinguished Lecturer and Director of the Public…
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