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COLIN L. POWELL CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK ANNUAL REPORT 2011–2012

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COLIN L. POWELL CENTERFOR LEADERSHIP AND SERVICET H E C I T Y C O L L E G E O F N E W Y O R K

ANNUAL REPORT 2011–2012

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“Participating in the leadership seminars

has helped me shape the issue I am

passionate about.”

Simone Gordon

“The access I’ve had has

been essential to building my understanding

of policy issues.”

Humaira Hansrod

Colin Powell fellows, left to right, from top:

Sergio Galeano, Mouiri Siddique, Alen Sajan-Malliath; Augustine Gnalian, Arielle Elmaleh-Sachs, Isatou Sanneh, Humaira Hansrod; Hector Velez, Simone Gordon; Moyosore Ayodele, and Daniel Asemota.

“The Center has taught me the value of action and fostered within me a sense of duty and responsibil ity.”

Sergio Galeano

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The Colin L. Powell Center for Leadership and Service at the City College of New York is a nonpartisan educational, training, and research center named for its founder, one of CCNY’s most distinguished graduates.

Contents

2 Messages

4 2011–2012 Highlights

6 Colin Powell Program in

Leadership and Public Service

12 Partners for Change Fellowship Program

16 Community Engagement

Fellowship Program

18 Service-Learning Programs

22 Community-Based Research Program

24 Looking Ahead

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DEAR FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS,

I’m pleased to present the 2011–2012 annual report of

the Colin L. Powell Center for Leadership and Service.

This year we introduced several new programs and

expanded others, all designed to recruit and prepare

a diverse group of leaders at one of America’s most

influential public institutions: the City College of New

York. Since 1847, CCNY has provided educational

opportunity to “the whole people”–young men and

women from every walk of life and social background.

CCNY remains today what it was at its founding: a

fundamental engine of American democracy. I’m pleased

that my Center is so deeply involved in its mission.

The Colin Powell Center advances this mission through

leadership training, scholarship support, service-based

teaching, and other programs described in this report.

We continue to grow because the needs and opportuni-

ties confronting us are dynamic and compelling. This

year, our scholarship programs will support nearly 100

students, all through private donations. In 2011–2012,

Colin Powell Center students received Fulbright awards

and worked in the White House. They launched careers

in the New York attorney general’s office and in the

New York Public Service Corps. Our service-learning

programs continue to expand; they passed an important

milestone this spring when service-learning students

rendered their 10,000th hour of service.

Each year, Colin Powell Center students engage in pro-

grams with such national organizations as the Council

on Foreign Relations and the Center for a New American

Security, as well as local groups like West Harlem Group

Assistance. This year, we conducted joint programming

with the Eisenhower Fellowships and City Limits maga-

zine, and we will soon inaugurate a new lecture series

with the Hariri Middle East Center at the Atlantic Council.

We now maintain more than 80 similar partnerships.

Finally, our search to secure permanent facilities for the

Colin Powell Center took an unexpected and welcome

turn this summer when a brownstone townhouse in the

neighborhood immediately north of CCNY became avail-

able to us. The building is a historic structure known as

the CCNY Alumni House. Together with expansions to

our current Shepard Hall facilities, it will provide us with

space to expand our programs for years to come.

There is much more to tell about our work, presented

in the following pages. Our work would not be possible

without your support, and I’m deeply grateful to those

of you who have helped out. I invite you all to visit the

Center, learn more about our work, and find ways to

support this extraordinary organization.

Sincerely,

GENERAL COLIN L. POWELL

FOUNDER AND CHAIR COLIN L. POWELL CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE

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Message from the Founder

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Greetings from the Colin L. Powell Center for Leadership and Service. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Center’s current program of activity, a milestone that, honestly, crept up and caught me unawares.

In 2002, we began by recruiting seven students into a three-year program, the first of whom graduated in 2005. Last spring, 47 students participated in the Colin Powell Program in Leadership and Public Service, and this year we have still more. Since our first program year, we have opened three additional scholarship lines, including our new Partners for Change program, described in this year’s annual report. In 2011–2012, 85 students participated in Colin Powell Center scholarship programs, and in 2012–2013, almost 100 will do so.

Our quantitative expansion, however, tells only part of the story. As we have developed and refined our programs, we have worked to estab-lish a vision of a more engaged mode of public education, tailored to the remarkable democratic laboratory that CCNY has always been. A grow-ing service-learning program embeds teaching directly into the life of our surrounding commu-nity, and we have made great strides in sustaining and expanding community partnerships.

A series of programs for faculty now stand alongside our student leadership programs, encouraging academics—often working with stu-dents—to speak more directly to public concerns, even drawing community partners invested in those concerns into the research process.

Across these programs, I hope you see and are pleased by our coherent and compelling set of goals, and our vision of education as a profoundly public resource, responsive to important social concerns and to the demands of a changing and challenging world.

Thank you for your support.

VINCENT BOUDREAUDirector Colin Powell Center

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

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The Colin Powell Center builds leaders for the common good and creates positive change through publicly engaged scholarship and community–campus collaborations. Here, highlights of the work we supported in 2011–2012:

How We Help

The Center supports the meaningful work of

affiliated faculty, community partners, and students

through the following programs:

n Colin Powell Program in Leadership and

Public Service

n Community-Based Research Program

n Community Engagement Fellowship Program

n Edward I. Koch Fellowships for Community Service

n Partners for Change Fellowship Program

n Public Scholarship Program

n Service-Learning Engaged Department Grants

n Service-Learning Faculty Fellowship Program

2011 –2012 Highlights

Defeating Disease in New York City

n Produced the Heart-2-Heart conference, bring-ing together health professionals and committed citizens to reduce heart disease in New York City.

n Fought hypertension in Harlem through high blood pressure screenings, education, and field research.

n Raised more than $1 million for lupus research.

Fighting for Environmental Justice

n Recommended best-practice guidelines for New York State’s hydraulic fracturing policies.

n Assessed the primary environmental concerns of Latino residents of Washington Heights.

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The Colin Powell Center builds leaders for the common good and creates positive change through publicly engaged scholarship and community–campus collaborations. Here, highlights of the work we supported in 2011–2012:

How We Help

The Center supports the meaningful work of

affiliated faculty, community partners, and students

through the following programs:

n Colin Powell Program in Leadership and

Public Service

n Community-Based Research Program

n Community Engagement Fellowship Program

n Edward I. Koch Fellowships for Community Service

n Partners for Change Fellowship Program

n Public Scholarship Program

n Service-Learning Engaged Department Grants

n Service-Learning Faculty Fellowship Program

2011 –2012 Highlights

Creating Just Communities

n Evaluated the potential of community land trusts to combat homelessness.

n Broadened support for participatory budgeting, enhancing the role of citizens in fiscal decision making.

n Surveyed 1,100 residents of Harlem’s District 9 to assess community needs and guide decision making.

n Examined how the spirituality of veterans returning to Harlem affects their readjustment to civilian life and counseling needs.

Encouraging Peaceful International Relations

n Produced a five-volume collection of Kofi Annan’s papers, highlighting the former U.N. secretary-general’s role in conflict resolution.

n Advocated for important international policy changes to reduce civilian casualties in warfare.

Improving Long-Term Health Outcomes

n Recommended policy changes to improve access to affordable dental care for New York City seniors.

n Studied the mental health challenges of African immigrants and refugees in Washington Heights.

n Explored innovative solutions to encourage the sale of

fresh produce in under-resourced communities.

Opening Education to All

n Advocated for reducing barriers to girls’ education in Cambodia through improved implementation of the United Nations’ “Right to Education” program.

n Developed a citywide database of college access support organizations for youth and their families.

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Six weeks into the 2011–2012 academic year, the

fellows of the Colin Powell Program in Leadership and

Public Service found themselves in Washington, D.C.,

having a long conversation with General Powell and

sharing their stories and aspirations with him. In the

course of a two-day Washington experience, they

traversed the capital, going to policy centers such

as the Center for Strategic and International Studies

(CSIS) and the Center for a New American Security,

meeting with recent Powell Center alumni and other

young achievers, and, through this, reconceptualizing

their own sense of the possible.

Such opportunities are integral to the Colin Powell

leadership program. “My experience at the Center

wouldn’t be the same without having General Powell

speak to us and seeing firsthand that he cares about

what we do and what we think, and knowing that he

wants to see us grow into great leaders,” said Fellow

Jatnna Ramirez. Reflecting on a meeting with a group

of alumni who work at the U.S. State Department, the

U.S.– India Business Council, and similar organizations,

Fellow Sergio Galeano added, “To see alumni who are

that successful was great. Every person said, ‘you can

have our card; call us.’ ”

STRIVING FOR ACHIEVEMENT

The Colin Powell leadership program is an intensive

two-year experience designed to provide CCNY’s most

outstanding and motivated students with the skills,

knowledge, and experience they need to fully embrace

lives of leadership, public service, and civic engage-

ment. (New York Life graduate fellows, a key cohort of

the larger program, take part in a one-year experience

tailored specifically to their needs.)

In 2011–2012, the program supported 47 fellows

with $553,000 in scholarship and internship support.

This funding, along with our programming and

personalized approach, can be life changing for

our fellows, who come from every corner of society,

are new Americans or the children of immigrants, and

often are the first in their families to attend college.

“Despite their tremendous capacity and potential, some

of our best students still doubt that they have a claim to

a life of substance,” says Colin Powell Center Director

Vince Boudreau. “Everything we do at the Center asks

them to trust in a simple proposition: If you’re smart,

inspired, and dedicated, you can advance. For

someone trying to figure out his or her prospects in the

world, experiences such as

the Washington trip or a

high-powered internship

are huge. Our fellows

return believing that this

vision is viable.”

MAKING AN IMPACT

The transformation is

palpable. We see it when

our students deliver

accomplished capstone

presentations at the end of the fellowship. We hear

it from service and internship supervisors who offer

our fellows jobs and cajole them to extend their

internships. We recognize it in the achievements

of our alumni, who are making a meaningful impact

at organizations such as the Center for Peace

and Security Studies and IntraHealth International

just a few scant years after leaving CCNY. We

celebrate it in their acceptance to highly prestigious

graduate programs such as Columbia University’s

School of International and Public Affairs. We also

find our fellows’ transformation in their unwavering

commitment to civic issues. Savanna Washington,

a New York Life graduate fellow of 2009–2010 and

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Building Tomorrow’s Leaders

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Leadership

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“ The Center has become a source of constant inspiration for me. ” — Jatnna Ramirez

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filmmaker, exemplifies this dedication. Not only has

she produced documentaries such as Greening

of the Bronx, but Center programs opened her

eyes to the humanitarian crisis in North Korea.

She embraced the issue and is now wrapping up

a feature devoted to the plight of North Koreans.

LEARNING FROM ONE ANOTHER

The demanding program includes formal

leadership training and an in-depth examination

of the diverse ways one can create social change

(through policymaking, advocacy, direct service,

and research). Fellows learn not only from program

staff and special instructors, but also from one

another, an aspect that led Fellow Ramirez to

note, “The Center has become a source of constant

inspiration to me.”

The leadership program also includes extensive

advisement and mentoring. Center staff meet with

students regularly, ensuring that they are on track

both with the program and with their coursework.

Staff members also help fellows articulate and

develop their post-graduation plans, and ensure that

Center-supported internships and service experi-

ences dovetail with those goals. This support is one

reason fellows tell us the Center is a home for them

on campus.

Additionally, in 2011–2012, the program included the

following components:

n The Center’s new “Conversations with

Leaders” series. These discussions with local,

state, and national public figures such as Fatima

Shama, New York City commissioner of immigrant

affairs, and Jeffrey Laurenti, senior fellow at the

Century Foundation, provided an intensive focus

on leadership and policymaking through the eyes

of experienced policymakers and opinion leaders.

Separately, the Center hosted talks by other

notable public figures, including former U.S.

Ambassador John Price.

n Exposure to leading policy experts through

the Council on Foreign Relations’ invitation-only

teleconferences, such as “The United States and

Iran on the Brink,” and “Energy Dependency.”

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KEN MISSBRENNER

Reducing Water Pollution and Creating Green Space

New York City’s aging drainage system is designed to handle both storm water and sewage. But in many areas, even minor rainstorms quickly overwhelm the system. Then a polluted stew of storm water, domestic sewage, and industrial runoff pours into the city’s open waterways. In response, the city is rolling out an innovative green infrastructure plan. Green infrastructure includes planned ditches, expansive tree pits, vegetative areas, and porous pavements that let storm water soak into the ground rather than flood the system. New York Life Graduate Fellow Ken Missbrenner, a 2012 master’s degree graduate in landscape design, investigated whether the plan could also address the lack of green spaces in under-resourced neighborhoods. He found the city could implement its plan to create pocket-sized parks in green-deprived areas of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. He says, “It doesn’t take a lot to achieve real positive benefits for the community in terms of open space.”

“It doesn’t take a lot to achieve realbenefits.”— Ken Missbrenner

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“The result is ‘racial battle fatigue.’”— Hannah Wallerstein

HANNAH WALLERSTEIN

The Psychological Impact of “Stop and Frisk”

In 2011, New York City’s Stop and Frisk program led to a record 684,000 stops, primarily in the city’s under-resourced communities. What’s harder to quantify is the program’s psychological impact. New York Life Graduate Fellow Hannah Wallerstein, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology, set out to try. She found officers regularly treat their primary targets—young black and Hispanic men and women—in a racially derogatory way, or subject them to racially tinged slights, insults, or acts of aggression. The result of living under the constant threat of Stop and Frisk, Wallerstein says, is what William A. Smith, Ph.D., has termed “racial battle fatigue,” which mimics bat-tlefield stress. Its effects include feelings of pervasive anxiety, intrusive thoughts, ulcers, loss of appetite and sleep, and loss of self-confidence. Additionally, being stopped and treated like a criminal suspect can lead to disengagement and feelings of shame, she adds. Shame, Wallerstein notes, is a feeling that researchers have linked to violence. All the more reason, she says, to implement policy alternatives to the program.

“Secure Communities creates a climate of fear.” — Ezra Christopher

EZRA CHRISTOPHER

How “Secure Communities” Misses the Mark

The U.S. government launched Secure Communities in 2008 primarily to identify and deport dangerous non-resident criminals. Yet the vast majority of the 162,000 individuals deported under the program in 2011 committed only minor offenses. New York Life Graduate Fellow Ezra Christopher, a 2012 master’s degree graduate in public administration, analyzed the program and found widespread extended detentions, wrongful arrests, separated families, and due process violations. Secure Communities also creates a climate of distrust and fear, she says. Under the program, once an immigrant enters the criminal justice system—whether as a witness, victim, or perpetrator—officers must notify the U.S. Im-migration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, put-ting that person at risk of deportation: “This undermines community–police relations and makes immigrants afraid to report crimes,” Christopher says. States are required to implement Secure Communi-ties in 2013. But first, Christopher says, ICE must address the program’s flaws. Most important, she adds, “Secure Communities should stick to its original mandate of focusing on dangerous criminal aliens.”

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n Capstone projects that emphasized working in

teams to research and address pressing public

problems. This year’s projects were “fracking” in

New York State, the implementation of the U.N.’s

Right to Education program in Cambodia, doctor–

patient relations in poor urban neighborhoods, and

ways to combat urban fresh-food “deserts.”

n Skills development workshops in areas such

as networking, resume writing, and interviewing

techniques.

n Sixty hours of dedicated service at a nonprofit

institution, such as the International Rescue

Committee, designed as a hands-on examination

of organizational culture and leadership practice.

n Substantive summer internships that were

carefully designed and vetted to provide formative

leadership and service experiences. Daniela Parra,

for instance, served as a mediator with the New

York State Attorney General’s Office, acting as a

consumer advocate.

STEPPING INTO THE FUTURE

For the program’s 26 second-year and graduate

fellows, the 2011–2012 closing celebration on May 8

represented a truly significant milestone. Each

program graduate received not only recognition, but

also a special book, which Program Director Kamilah

Briscoe chose to honor his or her unique achieve-

ments, goals, and character. For Humaira Hansrod,

winner of a Fulbright Scholarship to examine the

country of Oman’s supportive economic policies for

women, Briscoe chose Paradise Beneath Her Feet by

Isobel Coleman. For Ed Martinez, a graduate fellow

focused on urban education and director of multisite

after-school programs in the Bronx, she selected

There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz.

At the close of the ceremony, Jill Iscol, noted

philanthropist and coauthor of Hearts on Fire: Twelve

Stories of Today’s Visionaries Igniting Idealism into

Action, stepped to the podium. “I’m incredibly moved

by what you are doing,” Iscol said, looking out at the

graduating fellows. “You are part of what makes me

and my generation feel optimistic about the future.”

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“We need artists to be provocative, to question.” — Kanene Holder

KANENE HOLDER

Turning Art into Advocacy

Whether she is satirizing American “blonde and blind” injustice in a one-woman show, delivering a presentation on “culturally responsive pedagogy” at an education conference in Baeza, Spain, or using Notorious B.I.G.’s hip-hop song “Mo Money, Mo Problems” to enrich a lesson on the Great Depression, Kanene Holder, an award-winning educator, performance artist, and activist, works tirelessly on behalf of her commitment to social justice. Master of curriculum at the Urban Arts Partnership’s Fresh Prep Program, Holder pairs her work in the class-room with advocacy in the larger world. She is a participant in and national spokesperson for the Occupy Wall Street movement, and says the understanding of policy she gained at the Center informs her message. The former New York Life graduate fellow (2007–2008) confronts economic injustice constructively in her current performance piece, “$earching for American Justice: The Pursuit of Happiness.” She says, “We need artists to be provocative, to question, to excite, as well as to entertain.”

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“Stable governments are a pre-requisite for peace.” — Michelle M. Muita

MICHELLE M. MUITA

Building Stability in Africa

Michelle Mendi Muita calls 2012 her “year of experiments.” After traveling to China, the former New York Life leadership fellow (2009–2011) relocated to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s vibrant capital and the continent’s political hub. There, Muita, a native of Kenya, joined the recently established Institute for Peace and Security Studies of Addis Ababa University as a communications officer. Thoroughly dedicated to issues of governance and human rights, Muita works to promote the institute’s peace and security initiatives, and has helped organize high-level forums on African security issues. What motivates Muita is a core belief that “a stable, accountable government is a prerequisite for peace and economic prosperity.” Her dream, she adds, “is to work towards building a continent that is integrated in a political, economic, and cultural sense.” Muita says her Powell fellowship helped her develop key professional and communication skills. It also led to an internship with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City and spurred a capstone project on the International Criminal Courts’ intervention in Kenya, knowledge she finds “essential” to her work today.

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“Nuanced understand-ings can be tricky to achieve.” — Ethan Frisch

ETHAN FRISCH

Contributing to Development in Afghanistan

Based in Kabul with the Aga Khan Foundation, a humanitarian organization, Ethan Frisch regularly travels throughout five Afghan provinces. As national program coordinator for engineering, he helps administer engineering and infrastructure projects vital to the lives of countless Afghans. Deeply committed to the foundation’s large-scale approach, Frisch also aims to effect change in small ways—despite logistical, linguistic, and cultural boundaries. “Afghans’ opinions of the United States are often suspi-cious at best,” says Frisch, a Colin Powell fellow from 2006 to 2008. “Through my behavior, I hope I can at least encourage people to reconsider.” For now, Frisch says his primary goal is to learn. “Especially in policy, push yourselves to understand not just what people’s opinions are, but why they have them,” he advises. “Nuanced understandings can be tricky to achieve and even trickier to work with, but at the very least they’re more interesting, and they’re usually more accurate.”

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Listening—to real community needs; collaborating—

with visionary professionals; discovering—root causes

and issues; and implementing—creative, sustainable

solutions. These are the essential components of the

Center’s exciting new community-directed fellowship

program, Partners for Change.

In 2011–2012, the program’s inaugural year, we tackled

two compelling issues: hypertension in Harlem and

college access and success. Community leaders

identified these areas as ones in which the Center

could make a measurable difference by, respectively:

n Working with community partners to target devastat-

ingly high rates of heart attack, stroke, diabetes, and

hypertension.

n Helping more young people open the doors to higher

education and thrive in potentially daunting college

environments.

This year, we selected two remarkable New York Life

leaders-in-residence to guide our efforts: Allison Palmer,

director of the New Settlement College Access Center,

and Alwyn Cohall, M.D., director of the Harlem Health

Promotion Center. Through Partners for Change, they

mentored and guided eight students whom we chose

to be program fellows. Cyndi Gonzalez, Stephanie

Guzman, Whitley Jackson, and Shodan Rodney

focused on college access; Elbert Greenaway Jr.,

Rebecca Moore, Rammiya Nallainathan, and Lynette

Peguero focused on heart health.

TAKING OWNERSHIP

Each student, supported with a $5,000 scholarship,

devoted hundreds of hours to executing issue-oriented

tasks. They gained familiarity with their issue area

through service placements, and they clarified their

advocacy work through research and discussion.

“Whether it was facilitating workshops, promoting

health education, providing one-on-one college guid-

ance, or conducting focus groups, our students took

ownership of numerous projects and programs that

deeply impacted many community members,” says

Program Coordinator Sophie Gray.

BARRIERS TO ENTRY

The college access fellows launched their year with

an in-depth literature review of the obstacles that keep

first-generation and other disadvantaged students

out of college, or that limit their success if they gain

admission. Among the barriers, they identified a lack of

resources such as

Internet access and

trained guidance

counselors, overwhelming

financial constraints, and

family obligations.

Informed of these

obstacles, the fellows

teamed up with Gradu-

ate NYC, a city initiative

funded in part by the Bill

and Melinda Gates Foun-

dation, which aims to substantially increase graduation

rates at City University schools. Together they worked

on a Web-based database and guide to college access

resources and organizations for students and their

families. To sharpen the site’s effectiveness, the fellows

conducted five focus groups with high school students,

gathering an abundance of data and developing clear

insights about what would draw teenagers to a search-

able site and database—and keep them coming back.

The fellows also worked many hours at their service

sites. Volunteering in the college office of Health

Opportunities High School in the Bronx, Cyndi

Gonzales brought “passion, honesty, and empathy for

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the students she has worked with,” says her supervi-

sor, Gerald Thompson. He adds, “Cyndi’s persistence

has allowed me time to assist more students, handle

logistical work, and contribute more to the college

process for my students.” At Harlem RBI, an organiza-

tion that harnesses the power of teams on behalf of

youth, Fellow Shodan Rodney discovered a level of

dedication that altered his view of what work can be.

“It wasn’t just a job for the staff,” said Rodney. “They

love what they do, and it was refreshing to see that.”

TARGETING A “SILENT KILLER”

Our four health fellows also immersed themselves in

tremendously important work: Project SHARE, an

initiative of the Harlem Health Promotion Center

intended to increase the number of local residents

who know whether they have hypertension—and how

to control it if they do. Known as the “silent killer,”

hypertension is the red flag of deadly cardiovascular

diseases that are devastating the Harlem population.

Working under the guidance of Dr. Cohall, and in

cooperation with local churches, the Harlem YMCA,

and other organizations, the fellows offered blood

pressure checks, resources, and education at

outreach events. They also conducted extensive

field research on hypertension-related knowledge

gaps, attitudes, and belief systems.

Their data and research are now providing Project

SHARE with valuable findings about the fears and

fundamental misconceptions regarding blood pres-

sure screenings. “The fellows made significant

contributions to our project and touched the lives of

many Harlem residents,” Dr. Cohall says. “They also

learned a tremendous amount about health dispari-

ties, chronic diseases, and health communication.”

Additionally, the fellows discovered how a community

fundamentally impacts individual health decisions.

“Before having the opportunity to be a health fellow,

I had never truly recognized the health crisis facing

the Harlem community,” notes Health Fellow Rebecca

Moore. “I knew it existed, but... I did not know how

complex and deep-rooted these issues are.” They

also discovered the project’s impact on themselves

personally: “In trying to learn about community,” says

Fellow Lynette Peguero, “I became part of one.”

“ I was able to see what students need to get through the doors of college and come out the other side successfully.”— Stephanie Guzman

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You want students to have success.— Allison Palmer

ALLISON PALMER

Creating a Bridge to College Success

In her 10 years as director of New Settlement’s College Access Center in the Bronx, Allison Palmer has helped hundreds of young people get into college. Now, she is helping them thrive there. As a New York Life leader-in-residence, Palmer collaborated with the Options program of Goddard Riverside Community Center to launch a new program to increase college retention rates, especially at community colleges, where most of her students enroll. Palmer enlisted major players in New York’s world of college access and gained funding to build an “extensive and intensive college success program” for 250 students, geared toward those without a college graduate in the family. Modeled on the work of On Point for College, an award-winning nonprofit organization in Syracuse, Palmer’s program will include workshops on adjusting to campus life and succeeding academically. The program will help students navigate the financial aid labyrinth and will provide a small clothing allowance. Palmer says her leader-in-residence appointment spurred her to act on an issue she cares deeply about. “You want to send students into an environment where they are going to have success,” she says.

“We envision a Harlem of health equity, not disparity.”— Alwyn Cohall, M.D.

ALWYN COHALL, M.D.

Targeting “an Epidemic of Broken Hearts”

On May 2, the Center issued an urgent call to action through its 2012 New York Life Symposium, “Heart-2-Heart: Improving Heart Health in Harlem and Winning the Million Hearts Campaign.” Conceived under the leadership of Alwyn Cohall, M.D., a New York Life leader-in-residence, this centerpiece event marked the Harlem launch of the Million Hearts Campaign, a nationwide effort by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes in five years. Presenters urged health-care providers and other participants to join together to promote change in their families, organizations, and neighborhoods. Speakers also presented innovative approaches to improving cardiovascular care and outcomes. A highlight: Hip Hop Stroke, an effective new program that uses hip-hop to teach kids the signs of stroke—and through them, reaches their parents and grandparents. The goal: to get more stroke victims to emergency rooms in less than four hours, when powerful clot-busting drugs are still effective.

PA R T N E R S

F O R C H A N G E

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s c r e e n i n g s c o n d u c t e d

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While heading home from a few hours of basketball,

Felix Navarro had a breakthrough with Ledane, a

13-year-old he had been mentoring for several months.

Ledane’s parents are incarcerated, and he’d been

happy to talk hoops, but skirted personal issues. That

day, Navarro asked about Ledane’s dream of playing

in college. The middle-schooler revealed he hoped to

avoid the “guys on the block” and to focus on basket-

ball and school. Navarro, a May 2012 CCNY graduate,

shared that he had passed through similar struggles

when he was Ledane’s age. The disclosures, Navarro

says, “opened a gate for

honesty, understanding,

and strong advice.”

About three years ago,

Navarro casually ac-

cepted an invitation to

attend a fund-raiser for

the Innocence Project, an

organization dedicated

to exonerating wrong-

fully convicted individuals.

What he heard that night

changed his future.

Navarro, then studying political science and pre-law, com-

mitted himself to fighting prison injustice and mass incar-

ceration, and to alleviating their consequences. In 2010, he

formed a CCNY group that evolved into Leaders Against

Systemic Injustice (LASI), which focuses on research,

advocacy, and the mentoring of children like Ledane.

IMPLEMENTING A VISION

This year, the Colin Powell Center awarded Navarro a

2011–2012 Community Engagement Fellowship to

expand LASI and extend its impact. Community

Engagement Fellowships enable three or more CCNY

students a year to imagine how they might address a

pressing social need, and build that vision into a project

they can implement in a sustainable way. The program

provides $5,000 in funding, office space, leadership

training, and guidance from Center staff.

In 2011–2012, LASI brought 15 speakers to campus to

raise awareness on issues such as the rights of women

prisoners and the dangers of wrongful convictions.

With Colin Powell Center support, the group expanded

to 74 members, five of whom took positions as mentors

alongside Navarro. As mentors, each committed himself

or herself to easing the pain inflicted by incarceration

and guiding kids like Ledane onto paths that lead toward

successful, enriched lives, and away from prison.

HELPING UNDERSERVED STUDENTS

In 2011–2012, the Center also awarded Community

Engagement Fellowships to Moya Brown and Victoria

King. Brown launched Health Education for Youth,

which trained 40 CCNY students to provide health

education workshops in underserved city schools.

King created Faces of America with the American Field

Service to increase the number of high school students

of color who have the opportunity to explore the world

through study abroad programs.

Over the long term, Navarro plans to turn the research

arm of LASI into a think tank dedicated to addressing

issues such as wrongful convictions. Such convictions,

he notes, “result from prejudiced policing and faulty

legal practices, not coincidence.” Eradicating systemic

problems will never be easy, Navarro understands.

But with children like Ledane hanging in the balance—

alongside countless others—it’s impossible not to try.

C O M M U N I T Y

E N G A G E M E N T

F E L L O W S H I P

P R O G R A M

“ Our talk opened a gate for honesty and understanding. ” — Felix Navarro

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Shaping Justice on Many Fronts

Felix Navarro

opens a LASI

conference

on the

carceral state. 1,200 N u m b e r o f h o u r s m e m b e r s

o f L e a d e r s A g a i n s t S y s t e m i c

I n j u s t i c e ( L A S I ) v o l u n t e e r e d .

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N u m b e r o f h o u r s m e m b e r s

o f L e a d e r s A g a i n s t S y s t e m i c

I n j u s t i c e ( L A S I ) v o l u n t e e r e d .

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This past January, the National Task Force on Civic

Learning and Democratic Engagement issued its

game-changing report, A Crucible Moment: College

Learning and Democracy’s Future. Released by the

White House and commissioned by the U.S. Depart-

ment of Education, the report calls for building a new

ethic of public-spiritedness at institutions of higher

education across the United States.

It directs academia and the community to shatter

traditional boundaries and forge new creative alliances

in which higher education is truly “part of the communi-

ty—whether the community is local, national, or global.”

The report urges cultivating in each student “an open

and curious mind, critical acumen, public voice, ethical

and moral judgment, and the commitment to act

collectively in public to achieve shared purposes.”

SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE TEACHING

At the Colin Powell Center, we have long embraced

these principles. Since our founding, our goal has

been to promote civic engagement among City College

faculty in ways that:

n Address authentic community needs.

n Are strongly collaborative with students and

community partners.

n Guide faculty toward socially responsible teaching

and scholarship.

Service-learning is our most established and far-

reaching effort to promote civic engagement. Faculty

who embrace this dynamic teaching approach embed

opportunities for service into their curriculum, enriching

the material and their students’ experience. At the

Colin Powell Center, service-learning stands as one

of a triumvirate of programs—along with community-

based research and public scholarship—designed to

support CCNY’s exceptionally engaged faculty.

The Center’s service-learning program enables

faculty to leverage an expansive network of community

connections, an understanding of pedagogy, and

financial and technical support to tackle the issues

they care most about. Whether helping to bring

farmers’ markets to fresh-food “deserts,” expanding

micro-financing opportunities for immigrant

entrepreneurs, or addressing health disparities, faculty

are exploring new realms of what they and their

students can accomplish through meaningful projects.

ENABLING STUDENTS TO FLOURISH

In 2011–2012, the Center

supported 22 service-

learning courses, reaching

more than 600 CCNY

students. In an art

education course, Marit

Dewhurst’s graduate

students developed and

offered a free after-school

arts program. The

project provided urban

teens in local schools

an opportunity to explore their own creativity. It also

offered the graduate students a chance to go beyond

the typical arts curricula and create more memorable

lessons, said Dewhurst, an assistant professor of art

education, adding, “They gained a more expansive view

of what young people are able to achieve in a setting

where they are able to flourish.”

This year, the Center expanded its emphasis on

student development. We provided in-class sessions

on skills that faculty identified as relevant to their

projects, such as public speaking and collection of

oral histories. We also began offering faculty more

individualized support. We met one-on-one with faculty

S E R V I C E -

L E A R N I N G

P R O G R A M S

Reimagining Service-Learning

“ There is absolute clarity in my syllabus now. ” — Vanessa Valdés

C C N Y — 1 9

Service-

learners bring

Afro-Latino

culture

to middle-

schoolers.

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as they reconceptualized their curriculum to

incorporate significant service opportunities. “There

is absolute clarity in my syllabus now in terms of

course design, my learning outcomes, and what

I can assess,” notes Vanessa Valdés, an assistant

professor of Spanish and Portuguese.

LIKE-MINDED COLLEAGUES

We also expanded opportunities for faculty members’

professional growth, adding options for them to travel

to national service-learning conferences or publish

related research in the Center’s new working paper

series, Issues in Engaged Scholarship: An Exploration

of Community–Campus Collaborations.

Launched in March 2012, the series enables

Center-affiliated faculty to contribute to the national

conversation through rigorously developed papers.

Most important, we are linking civically engaged

faculty with like-minded colleagues across the

disciplines. “The greatest benefit,” Dewhurst says,

“is being connected with a community of faculty

who are interested in this kind of teaching.”

WELCOMING COMMUNITY PARTNERS

In 2011–2012, the Center also deepened its support for

community partners. We welcomed them to explor-

atory meetings, professional development workshops,

and our recognition celebration. We provided resourc-

es and technical support, and, through our regional

network, the New York Metro Area Partnership for

Service-Learning (NYMAPS), offered connections to

fellow organizations with model partnerships.

NYMAPS, a Center-led alliance of community-based

organizations and 18 area colleges and universities,

continually challenges its members to “set the bar

higher,” in the words of Tania Mitchell, Ed.D., keynote

speaker of the 2012 NYMAPS Symposium, “Ethics

and Service-Learning.” Stretch beyond surface

solutions, urged Mitchell, an assistant professor at

the University of Minnesota and a national leader in

service-learning. See projects through to their true

completion and delve deeper to uncover the paths to

sustainable change. At the Colin Powell Center, we are

ready to meet these challenges, as we join with faculty,

partners, and students to create our reimagined

landscape of civic engagement.

S E R V I C E -

L E A R N I N G

P R O G R A M S

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— Elena Romero, Adjunct Lecturer, Center for Worker Education

50 N u m b e r o f C C N Y

s e r v i c e - l e a r n i n g

c o m m u n i t y p a r t n e r s .

22 N u m b e r o f s e r v i c e -

l e a r n i n g c o u r s e s o f f e r e d

i n 2 0 1 1 – 2 0 1 2 .

“ The impact of service-learning is immeasurable — extending from me, to my students, to the organizations, to every individual those organizations touch. ”

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P R O G R A M S

“This gives neighbors a way to communi-cate their concerns.” — Mary Lutz

“Latinas Forward creates a safe space for young women at risk.” — Judith Escalona

JUDITH ESCALONA Preventing Latina Suicide

Young Latinas have the highest attempted suicide rate of any population group. “When I learned this, it was really alarming to me,” says Judith Escalona, founder of MediaNoche, an East Harlem–based new media exhibition space. “My response as a filmmaker and being grounded in the community was to conceive Latinas Forward. “Latinas Forward creates a safe space for young women at risk to discuss the issues they are dealing with, and to use new media techniques to create public works,” Escalona adds. Escalona, who is also a faculty member in CCNY’s Department of Media and Communication Arts, invited service-learning students in Lynn Appelbaum’s PR Writing course to develop marketing and public relations campaigns for Latinas Forward. “The students were highly motivated,” Escalona says. “They felt they were contributing to something bigger than themselves. They came up with very original ideas and tapped into their backgrounds—especially the Latino students. They understood, ‘This is a real cry for help, and I can use the knowledge I’ve gained at City College to make a real impact.’”

MARY LUTZ Expanding Community Input

What do you really care about? For Mary Lutz, a professor of interdisciplinary studies at CCNY’s Center for Worker Education, the answer includes giving Harlem’s community members a greater voice in local decision making. To link her passion to meaningful change, Lutz incorporated service-learning into her Community Needs Assessment course. Her students, working in pairs, canvassed randomly selected pedestrians on the streets of West Harlem about local community needs. The group collected 1,117 responses, analyzed their data, and presented their results to members of Community Board 9, which encompasses West Harlem. Housing and unemployment issues dominated residents’ concerns, students found. A perceived lack of recreational programs also ranked high. For Reverend Georgette Morgan-Thomas, chair of the community board, the project has been of “tremendous help” in supporting requests for services and in better positioning community resources.

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p a r t i c i p a t e d i n s e r v i c e - l e a r n i n g

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Boarded-up vacant buildings are part of almost every

New York City neighborhood. In fact, there’s enough

unused space in the city to house 199,981 people,

according to a study by Picture the Homeless, a

grassroots housing activist organization staffed by

homeless or formerly homeless members. “There’s no

need for anyone to sleep on the street,” says Kendall

Jackman, a Picture the Homeless campaign leader.

This knowledge drives John Krinsky’s partnership with

Picture the Homeless. Easing homelessness must

begin with providing dependable, affordable housing for

those most likely to lose their homes, says Krinsky, an

associate professor of political science at City College.

One promising approach centers on community land

trusts, member-run nonprofit organizations that own

property and lease it as affordable housing.

EXPANDING THE CONVERSATION

With the help of a Community-Based Research Fellow-

ship from the Center, Krinsky and Picture the Homeless

are spearheading an investigation into the potential of

community land trusts to provide the stability needed to

prevent homelessness. The fellowships, which include

guidance and funding of up to $8,000, support faculty

who partner with community groups on research and

policy formation. “It brings the experience and knowledge

of those most affected by a problem into the conversation

that shapes potential solutions,” Krinsky says.

To launch the investigation, Krinsky invited members of

Picture the Homeless into his service-learning course

on affordable housing policy. Their unique perspectives

played off the students’ points of view, ignited discus-

sion, and built trust and collegiality. Together the groups

took on service projects mapping Central Harlem,

Bedford-Stuyvesant, Central Brooklyn, and the

South Bronx to locate properties that could benefit

from being in a land trust. They also conducted a

nationwide survey of community land trusts that

provide housing affordable to people with extremely low

incomes. Now Krinsky and Picture the Homeless have

formed a larger working group to develop a community

land trust as a nonprofit entity to renovate and preserve

vacant and troubled housing. Says Krinsky, “This is

among the most exciting things I’ve done in 10 years at

City College as a faculty member.”

Krinsky joins three other CCNY faculty invested in equally

challenging and rewarding

community-based research

projects. Adeyinka M.

Akinsulure-Smith, an

assistant professor of psy-

chology, is examining the

mental health challenges

faced by local African

immigrants and refugees,

in partnership with the

African Hope Committee.

Glen Milstein, an associate

professor of psychology,

is collaborating with the Harlem Vet Center to assess

the spiritual needs of Harlem’s returning veterans to

ease their readjustment to civilian life. Ana Motta-Moss,

director of evaluation and research at the Sophie Davis

School of Biomedical Education, has joined forces with

the Washington Heights “Y” and WeACT for Environ-

mental Justice to assess Latino residents’ environmental

concerns related to asthma and other health issues.

All are looking deeply into constructive solutions to endur-

ing problems. For Krinsky, this encompasses addressing

not only what to do with vacant properties, but also the

larger question of how to stabilize neighborhoods. Through

their community-based research partnership, he and

members of Picture the Homeless hope to find the answer.

C O M M U N I T Y-

B A S E D

R E S E A R C H

P R O G R A M

Assessing a Promising Housing Solution

“ It brings those most affected by a problem into the conversation. ” — John Krinsky

C C N Y — 2 3

Kendall

Jackman

(right) and

John Krinsky

lead a housing

forum.

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Looking Ahead to a Welcome Vision

Ten years into our current slate of activity, our scholar-

ship and fellowship programs are flourishing, and our

service-learning initiatives support remarkable levels

of innovative civic engagement activities across campus.

We have grown to this point by expanding these

programs, carefully assessing our outcomes, and

continually refining our strategies. We now stand ready

to take the next steps in the Colin Powell Center’s

evolution. Our foremost goal is to more extensively and

intentionally integrate Center activities with the life of the

broader campus.

EXTENDING OPTIONS FOR STUDENTS

New programs for students will supplement existing

intensive, scholarship-driven programs, such as the

Colin Powell leadership program, with shorter leader-

ship and service training opportunities, designed around

the needs of specific majors, particular issue areas, or

selected career trajectories. Some programming will con-

tinue to target students enrolled in Colin Powell Center

programs, but more and more, we will engage the cam-

pus at large in a mission of leadership development and

service that will shape generations of CCNY students.

CREATING NEW FACULTY AFFILIATIONS

For CCNY faculty, we are developing a new designa-

tion, signifying deep and continuing affiliation with the

Colin Powell Center. CCNY faculty currently engage the

Center as professors teaching service-learning classes,

as participants in our community-based research fellow-

ships and public scholarship programs, and at our public

events and lectures. Center affiliation status will repre-

sent an invitation to reconceiving the scholarly profession

in ways that more actively link teaching, research,

and public discussion to public purposes, community

partnerships, and civic engagement.

CONNECTING COMMUNITY TO RESOURCES

Community partnerships, more robust and multifaceted

than they previously were, represent the third element

of our emerging vision. These partnerships enabled our

service-learning and student leadership programs to

move forward, and many organizations grew as stable

collaborators in various Colin Powell Center initiatives.

In the coming years, we will deepen these partner-

ships, adopting, in some cases, a problem-focused and

sustained vision for service-learning. A powerful step

forward, that vision will enable interdisciplinary collabora-

tion across campuses, and draw those collaborations

into the service of communities in need. As a first step

in this process, we will soon offer training programs to

community organizations to help them more effectively

engage the resources of the university to advance their

social missions.

Together, these changes mark an exciting new phase of

development for the Colin Powell Center, during which

it will seek to become a more vibrant home for, and

partner to, some of the most exciting, civically engaged

activities and projects happening at the City College

of New York. It’s a vision we’re committed to, and it’s

launching in 2012–2013.

We never designed—and never intended—the Colin Powell Center as a stand-alone entity. From the first, we sought to fully embed the Center in City College’s life and tradi-tions. We seek to connect our mission to CCNY’s core values, elevating our community’s “strivers and doers,” to borrow the apt words of CCNY President Lisa S. Coico.

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Tom BrokawSpecial Correspondent, NBC

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