Jemmott, featured in the documentary about Brooklyn high school students who served as college guidance counselors, spoke after the filmās screening at TCās Academic Festival in April, themed āCreating Pathways for All to Flourish.ā
āEducation is the human capacity to take a hand in our own flourishing,ā said TC President Thomas Bailey, paraphrasing psychologist and TC alumnus Rollo May. āPeople turn to TC to increase equity, inclusion and opportunity.ā
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Tech judges Reshan Richards (Ed.D. ā13), Azi Jamalian (Ph.D. ā14) and Thomas Bailey (Photo Credit: Roy Groething)
Connections old and new (Photo Credit: Roy Groething)
Peace educator Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams (Photo Credit: Roy Groething)
Fanshen Cox (left) and Denny Taylor (Photo Credit: Roy Groething)
A STEAMnasium cube for space exploration (Photo Credit: Roy Groething)
Academic Festival included a panel on newer Americansā self-advocacy, student technology and research poster competitions, and the first Minority Postdoctoral Fellow Lecture.
In addition:
- Outgoing Provost and Dean Thomas James was honored (see page 7).
- Distinguished Alumni Awards were presented to Bruce Ballard (Ed.D. ā94), teacher and World Parkinson Congress blogger; Fanshen Cox (M.A. ā97), whose one-woman show, One Drop of Love, explores her familyās search for identity and justice; and Denny Taylor (Ed.D. ā81), creator of the field of family literacy.
- Early Career Awards went to Tony Alleyne (M.A. ā10), founding director of Delaware College Scholars, which supports promising underserved students; Kim Baranowski (Ph.D. ā14), Associate Director of the Mount Sinai Human Rights Program, which conducts forensic psychological evaluations for U.S. asylum seekers; and Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams (Ed.D. ā12), Gettysburg Collegeās Director of Peace & Justice Studies and shaper of a new critical peace education.
- (Ed.D. ā18), a Barnard lecturer, won TCās Shirley Chisholm Dissertation Award.
- Joohee Son (Ed.D. ā13), Founding Director of the Center for Education & Technology and TC Korean Alumni Association President, received TCās inaugural Alumni Award for Outstanding Service.
- And prison abolitionist and TC doctoral candidate Ahram Park (M.Ed. ā19) were honored by TCās Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution.