CREDITS & SPECIAL THANKS:
A project likes this requires the collaboration and support of many. We would like to thank:
Manifold Curator: Emily Ramos
Speakers: Sarah Key, Writing Center Poet-in-Practice, Hostos Community College; Jake Boritt, Documentary Filmmaker; Lynn Lewis, Oral Historian; Jason Schafer, Associate Professor, LaGuardia Community College; and Stephen Petrus, Professor, LaGuardia and Wagner Archives.
Production Assistants: Writing Mentors - Maya Abdoussala, Shaneka Crossman, Lauren Genao, Miguel Madrid, Kyanna Pratt, and Eva Soriano.
Illustration - Camila Estrada, Jacob Hilado, Wayne Wiggan.
Video and Sound - Kevin Liu
PROJECT DIRECTORS:
Tram Nguyen is Professor of English at Hostos Community College, specializing in literary modernism and philosophies of subjectivity and ethics. A selection of her scholarship has been published in The Comparatist, Women's Studies Quarterly, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies and edited monographs Readings in Ethics and New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject. Currently she directs the Hostos Writing Center and the English Supplemental Instruction Program, mentoring and training peer tutors to promote retention and academic success.
Bijoyeta Das is an Assistant Professor and Director of Journalism Major at LaGuardia. She has reported for Al Jazeera, Radio France, Radio Netherlands, Deutsche Welle covering South and Southeast Asia, Africa, US, and Turkey. Das has worked in media development and humanitarian communications for Action Africa Help International, European Journalism Center, Women Deliver and Metta Center for Non-violence. As a fellow for Columbia University’s Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability institute, she documented stories of survivors of the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh. She also wrote a creative non-fiction biography about Haiti’s first female prime minister.
Cover Image © Vectonauta on Freepik
© Nguyen & Das