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... Read more
The David Dubinsky Labor Lecture: Randi Weingarten — Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy
November 10, 2025
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... Read more
Democracy Under Pressure: Defeating Authoritarianism and Making the Next Reconstruction
November 3, 2025 
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In the first event of a new “Democracy Under Pressure” series, the new Roosevelt House Public Policy Program Director Joe Lowndes... Read more
Roosevelt House is honored to present a conversation with one of the nation’s foremost constitutional scholars, Akhil Reed ... Read more
The Real End of WWII 80 Years Ago
October 22, 2025 VIDEO
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a special event to mark the 80th anniversary of the ... Read more
Asian American Activism, Civil Rights, and a Better Tomorrow
October 17, 2025
Celebrate the Asian American Studies Program and the inaugural Helen Zia Deputy Director, Daniel Woo. Dr. Woo will be in conversation with Helen Zia.
Helen Zia is a writer and activist.... Read more
Professor Susan Sturm has written the sixth installment in CSS’s Our Compelling Interests book series, What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions.... Read more
The Immigration and Nationality Act 60 Years Later: The Making of Modern New York City
October 14, 2025 VIDEO
Please join us as Roosevelt House and the Tenement Museum host a discussion to mark the 60th anniversary of the Immigration and Nationality Act, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 3, 1965. Lifting the restrictive... Read more
The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994 by renowned novelist and critic Thomas ... Read more
Roosevelt House is honored to present a conversation with Hunter College Professor of Public Policy Joseph P. Viteritti about his new book Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American... Read more
John Catsimatidis in conversation with Hon. Carolyn B. Maloney
September 18, 2025
Roosevelt ... Read more
After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
September 18, 2025
Roosevelt House’s Public Policy Program and the Department of Economics at Hunter College present a book talk on the new book After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People by Dean Spears... Read more
The Remarkable Madame Pandit: Champion of India, Citizen of the World
September 16, 2025 VIDEO
Join us for a conversation with Hunter professor, Manu Bhagavan, as he discusses his new, definitive biography of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit—India’s first woman cabinet minister, pioneering diplomat,... Read more
Launching its 15th season of public programming, Roosevelt House is proud to present a unique two-part event to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the milestone social program conceived right... Read more
Launching its 15th season of public programming, Roosevelt House is proud to present a unique two-part event to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the milestone social program conceived right... Read more
5:00 PM: Doors open
5:30 PM: Conversation with Dr. Ruth’s Co-Authors
6:15 PM-7:55 PM: Screening of Ask Dr. Ruth
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Elaine Weiss — Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement
June 23, 2025 VIDEO
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a conversation with acclaimed historian Elaine Weiss about her new book Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights... Read more
Mike De Socio — Morally Straight: How the Fight for LGBTQ+ Inclusion Changed the Boy Scouts – and America
June 11, 2025 VIDEO
Marking Pride Month at Roosevelt House, the LGBTQ Policy Center is pleased to present a discussion of Morally Straight: How the Fight for LGBTQ+ Inclusion Changed the Boy Scouts – and America by award-winning journalist... Read more
Craig Symonds — Annapolis Goes to War
June 10, 2025 VIDEO
To continue our observance of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the death of American Commander-in-Chief Franklin D. Roosevelt,... Read more
Roosevelt House is pleased to present an evening with Dr. Nancy O’Reilly, an international philanthropist, author, educator, and passionate advocate for women’s empowerment. She founded Women Connect4Good, Inc., a 501(c)3... Read more
Drawing Her Own Conclusions: An Evening with Political Satirist and Illustrator Cathy Hull
May 21, 2025 VIDEO
When words elude, award-winning illustrator and political satirist Cathy ... Read more
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a primary election forum featuring six candidates seeking the Democratic nomination to represent the East Side’s District 4 in the City Council. Covering... Read more
Chris Whipple in conversation with Lawrence O’Donnell — Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History
May 19, 2025 VIDEO
“Don’t talk to Whipple.”
–Reince Priebus, Donald Trump’s former White House Chief of Staff, to his incoming chief Susie Wiles
Roosevelt... Read more
Roosevelt House is pleased to present the first of two primary election forums, designed to give members of the Hunter Community the opportunity to explore policy issues with those running for office in the June primaries. We begin with the three... Read more
Roosevelt House is proud to present a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary short Death by Numbers—written by and starring Hunter College senior Sam Fuentes, a survivor of the tragic 2018 shooting at Marjory... Read more
Marking Asian American Pacific Islander month at Roosevelt House, please join us, together with the Hunter College Asian American Studies Program, for a discussion of the new Penguin Classics anthology, The Literature of Japanese American... Read more
2025 Theodore W. Kheel Lecture on Transportation Policy with Janno Lieber & Sam Schwartz
May 12, 2025 VIDEO
We are pleased and proud to invite you to the annual Theodore Kheel Transportation Policy Lecture—one of the most important public policy events on the Roosevelt House calendar. Previous transportation policymakers to have appeared in the... Read more
Jaha Dukureh — I Will Scream to the World
May 8, 2025 VIDEO
In this inspiring memoir, I WILL SCREAM TO THE WORLD, Jaha Dukureh shares her deeply human story, detailing how she survived female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage, and how her experiences compelled her to fight for... Read more
LGBTQIA+ Healthcare and the Fight Forward
May 6, 2025
The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to announce an urgent discussion on LGBTQIA+ healthcare. After decades of sustained progress, the LGBTQIA+ community is facing unimaginable healthcare policy and legal setbacks—in a mounting... Read more
American Voices: An Evening with Richard Blanco — Reflections and Recitations from a Poet to the Presidents
May 5, 2025 VIDEO
“We head home: through the gloss of rain or weight / of snow, or the plum blush of dusk, but always—home, / always under one sky, our sky.”
Roosevelt House is proud to present a new event in our popular series, American... Read more
Public Programs at Roosevelt House are free to the public and open with advance registration, made possible through the support of the Charina Endowment Fund and other generous donors.
