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On March 19, 2019, the people pictured above along with 50 others, spent five hours in a sun-drenched room at … More

Today, we visited the office of the Secretaria de Integracion Social in City Hall, took part in a workshop on participation and autoethnography facilitated by a […]

We started the day at our home base, the second floor classroom at CINDE where we’ve met every day this week to hear from speakers, watch videos and p […]

Day 4 for the Youth Studies study abroad team brings a visit to Pontificia Universidad and a youth participation discussion at CINDE. Today, the CUNY SPS Youth […]

Youth Studies students 4, 5, and 6 came together to write about this powerful day:  Our early morning began with a visit to the Institute of Family Well-Being ( […]

Below are the individual reflections from three Youth Studies students. Each student has entered the immersive experience prepared to focus on a specific lens that […]

What follows is the first entry in a collective story of blog entries authored by Youth Studies faculty leaders, Elizabeth Bishop and Jennifer Ayala, with […]

The first thing I did when I submitted my last assignment during the winter session was to read a book, I miss reading so much during the semester. The reason I […]

I am sitting here procrastinating, my life has been “busy” [understatement] lately. I am trying to juggle work, my daughter applying to college, another daughter […]

What do you call a busy adult with masochistic tendencies? A student at CUNY SPS! Now that I have your attention… Hello! My name is Milan Fredricks and I am one of […]

In an age when people are into social media, distractions can become the norm. It is even difficult for me to get something done when I am on social media. Time […]