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Join us at Hunter College during Climate Week NYC to celebrate the CUNY Climate Assembly Project on Waste at Hunter College (CCAP), the first university-convened climate assembly in the United States!

Come learn about CCAP and its impact directly from Student Assembly Delegates, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center Leadership, and experts in diverse sectors reimagining democracy, sustainability, and the humanities as key tools for social flourishing in the age of climate change. Students will reflect on the democratic process, share assembly’s recommendations for sustainable waste strategies at Hunter, and chart the path ahead.

After the event, please join us for a reception in the Leubsdorf Gallery (West Building) to mingle and view the current exhibition Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Injustice.

SPEAKERS

Nancy Cantor, President of Hunter College

Joshua C. Brumberg, President of the CUNY Graduate Center

Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Director of the Urban Democracy Lab, NYU

Kelli Stephens, Sustainability and Energy Specialist at Hunter College, CCAP Administration Lead

Kendra Sullivan, Director of the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center

Annie Stoeth, CCAP Climate Democracy Fellow

Aisha Yildirim, Post Assembly Fellow

Maria Sophia “Pia” Valencia, Post Assembly Fellow

Constance Zogzas, Post Assembly Fellow

Erica Kong, Post Assembly Fellow

Reina Gattuso, Small Group Facilitator

Nathaniel Levin, Sustainability Council Member, Hunter College

FREE AND OPEN TO ALL. RSVP to attend.

#climateweeknyc
#climateweeknyc2026 by @humanitiesactionlab

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Join us for the Extreme Heat in New York City: Mixed-Media Data and Storytelling event for NYC Climate Week on September 23 from 12:30–3:30 PM. Explore community-led environmental justice work and connect with local organizers.

Registration is free. 🔗 Sign up via the link in our bio.

#EnvironmentalJustice #nycclimateweek by @humanitiesactionlab

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🔥☀️🔥NEW @weact4ej StoryMap - Concrete Heat: Environmental Justice in a Warming World - EXPLORE AND SHARE: bit.ly/heatstorymap or LINK IN BIO

Understand the impacts of increasingly common extreme heat waves worsened by climate change, poverty, and racism along with ways to push back.

#DidYouKnow this year’s August was the hottest on record worldwide?

While the entire world is warming, impacts of extreme heat are felt more severely by environmental justice communities. But there are solutions: From increasing green spaces and climate resiliency, to equitable energy efficiency upgrades and energy assistance programs, alongside transitioning away from fossil fuels, we can create a safer, healthier world for all.

WHAT YOU CAN DO
✅Explore and share the StoryMap: bit.ly/heatstorymap
✅Sign up for our NYC Extreme Heat Multi-Media Storytelling & Data panel: bit.ly/4xjJvBB
✅Engage your elected officials to address extreme heat inequity!
✅Share your story: healthyhomesfirst.org/takeaction

This @esrigram StoryMap was created by Tali Natter with support from Manuel Salgado, Caleb Smith, Valentina Rojas Posada, Christopher Dobens, Jama Joseph, and Ashley Sullivan, MSc

#EnvironmentalJustice #ExtremeHeat #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice EnergyJustice HeatHealthEquity by @humanitiesactionlab

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🌍 It's here. Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice opens today at the Leubsdorf Gallery and Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College!

Co-created by students and 23 frontline communities across the Americas, this exhibition traces the roots of environmental injustice — and the generations of strategies communities have built to resist, adapt, and heal.

📍 Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter West Building, 132 E 68th St, NYC 🗓️ Now open through February 2027 🎟️ Free admission, by appointment. A portion of the exhibit is also open at Silberman School of Social Work, 2180 3rd Ave, New York, NY 10035.

Come see how communities from New Jersey to Puerto Rico to Mexico City are reimagining a more just climate future.

#ClimatesOfInequality #EnvironmentalJustice #HumanitiesActionLab taken in Hunter College by @humanitiesactionlab

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Listening to the Territory to Transform It

How do we truly understand the territory we inhabit?

More than an initiative, El Camino del Agua is a process of collective learning. It starts with a simple, yet uncomfortable idea: we cannot solve the water crisis without first understanding the relationships — social, cultural, and ecological — that exist around water.

Led by Dr. María Moreno at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Cuajimalpa, and with the support of Humanities Action Lab, the project brings together community and academia to develop a deeper understanding of the territory. Not through technical imposition, but through listening.

Listening to those who inhabit it.
Walking through the places where water appears, transforms, or disappears.
Understanding the stories that do not appear on official maps.

Because water is not simply managed. It is lived.

Through exercises such as collective mapping, territorial walks, and intergenerational dialogue, El Camino del Agua seeks something more ambitious than simply diagnosing the problem: it seeks to reshape the way we relate to our environment.

And that means recognizing something essential: solutions cannot be universal.

Every territory has its own logic, tensions, and possibilities. What works in one place may fail in another. That is why the project is committed to place-based solutions — those that emerge from the context, from the community, and from a deep understanding of the landscape.

This process also reveals something uncomfortable but necessary: the growth of the surrounding environment — urban, economic, and demographic — is not neutral. It has direct impacts on water and on people’s lives.

Understanding this is the first step toward intervening responsibly.

El Camino del Agua does not offer quick answers. It offers something more valuable: a path toward asking better questions.

And at a time when the water crisis demands urgent action, learning to listen may, paradoxically, be the most radical act of all.

This journey continues.

And every person who joins it becomes part of the solution. taken in La Huerta San Agustín by @humanitiesactionlab

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👀 Something's opening at Hunter College... Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice arrives August 31!

Co-created by students and 23 frontline communities across the Americas, this exhibition traces the roots of environmental injustice — and the strategies communities have built to resist, adapt, and heal. Mark your calendar. 🗓️

📍 Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter West Building, 132 E 68th St, NYC 🗓️ Opening August 31 · Free, Docent led tours by appointment

#ClimatesOfInequality #EnvironmentalJustice #ComingSoon taken in New York City by @humanitiesactionlab

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Join Carolina Villalba, one of our States of Incarceration Partners, as she presents on her work collaborating with with HAL and FLIC and about her Florida International University students' work on SOI 2.0, in DePaul University's HumanitiesX upcoming Zoom workshop, “Building and Benefitting from Collaborative Infrastructures in the Publicly Engaged Humanities,” on Thursday, July 16, at 12 pm EST. Link to register: bit.ly/4xXyLKE by @humanitiesactionlab

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It's been 31 years since the 1995 uprising at the Elizabeth Detention Center, yet we are still pushing to end the inhumanity of immigration detention.

Join the Rutgers University Department of latino and Caribbean Studies for the first launch event of "Elizabeth Detention Center: A Social History of Confinement in the United States, 1993–2025," a powerful new book that brings together the voices of formerly detained people, advocates, scholars, and community leaders to examine three decades of detention and resistance.

As protests continue at Delaney Hall, this conversation reminds us that New Jersey has long been at the center of the struggle for immigrant justice. Don't miss this important discussion with several of the book's contributors and the multiple voices of those who have experienced and resisted detention.

📅 June 18, 11 a.m
📍Outside Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey
We look forward to seeing you there!
#ImmigrantJustice #NewJersey #BookLaunch #ICEDetention by @humanitiesactionlab

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On February 2 – 3, the @HumanitiesActionLab at Hunter College hosted a two-day convening, “States of Incarceration: Connecting Stories Across Borders and Bars.” The event brought together faculty members, students, advocates, and justice-impacted individuals from states and localities — including Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C. — to share first-hand accounts of the explosion of incarceration in their communities and envision how to create public narratives to contest immigration detention and civil incarceration together. #TBT by @humanitiesactionlab

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In recognition of our partners' incredible work on projects including States of Incarceration, Climates of Inequality, Rikers Public Memory Project, Guantanamo Public Memory Project, and The Renewal Project, the Humanities Action Lab has been awarded the 2026 Robert Kelley Memorial Award from the National Council on Public History.

The award recognizes "distinguished achievements by individuals, institutions, or nonprofit or corporate entities for making history relevant to individual lives of ordinary people outside of academia."

Our Partners are HAL, and we are so proud of them for this incredible achievement and recognition of their work!

Here is a link to the full announcement: ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026-NCPH-Awards-Listing.docx.pdf by @humanitiesactionlab

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Join us on Wednesday, April 29th for a special public panel event to honor the inclusion of @rikers.public.memory.project oral histories into the New York Public Library collection.

This archive—consisting of ninety interviews conducted between 2018 and 2021—preserves and highlights the stories of those most impacted by Rikers Island, including formerly incarcerated individuals and their families. A panel bringing together voices behind the project discusses how these histories confront generational harms and challenge dehumanizing narratives—while also exploring how public memory can advance reparative justice.

The panel will be moderated by Shana Russell, Ph.D., RPMP's resident historian. Shana will lead a conversation with narrators Turquoise Martin and Edwin Santana and longtime collaborator Tamara Santibanez.

Join the event in-person at the main NYPL building or tune in online. Event info and RSVP can be found here: on.nypl.org/rpmp by @humanitiesactionlab

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🌬️4th Annual Art of Breathing Gallery Event!!
Join us May 16, 2026 from 12–4pm at @creatvegrounds (395 N. E St, San Bernardino).

Meet local artists, enjoy free food for the first 150 people, food for sale as well, live music by @djdarcierickert, live art by @uuupah, a fashion show from local designers, free swag (while supplies last), and tons of local Art + Art/Resource Vendors.

May is Asthma Awareness Month and Mother’s Day — let’s make sure Mother Earth continues to breathe.
We’re calling for art related to breathing, air quality, environmental justice, environmental racism, respiratory issues, and more.

Artist + Vendor deadline: May 1st
Apply through the link in our bio or at www.pc4ej.org/events
Questions: theartivistie@gmail.com by @humanitiesactionlab

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