CUNY Podcasts

CUNY Podcasts


Latest Episodes

CUNY’s Transformation SWAT Team
December 07, 2023

A conversation about CUNY's ambitions for the coming years with Rachel Stephenson and Cathy N. Davidson of the new Office of Transformation.

Tales of the Eng Dynasty
September 19, 2023

How BMCC's Alvin Eng found his soul as an acoustic punk rock raconteur.

For Ava Chin, All Roads Lead to Mott Street
August 30, 2023

CSI and Graduate Center professor Ava Chin uncovers her family's remarkable history and reveals the deeper history of exclusion that defined the Chinese American experience for a century in "Mott Stre

The Emergence of Sidik Fofana
June 14, 2023

Sidik Fofana, a high school teacher who earned his masters in education at City College, wrote fiction on the side for a decade. He finally got his first book published -- and was awarded a prestigiou

A Young Writer Born of a Forgotten War
February 01, 2023

Crystal Hana Kim says the Korean War is so deeply ingrained in her family's history--but so remote for Americans today--that it became the driving force for her to become a writer.

Ryan Martin’s got game. And he’s putting CUNY adaptive sports on the map.
January 27, 2023

Ryan Martin, CUNY's first director of inclusive and adaptive sports, has quickly built a nationally recognized wheelchair basketball program. His focus is on bringing athletes with disabilities to CUN

Behind the Closed Doors of a Queens Family Story
October 31, 2022

Queens College alum Nira Burstein talks about making "Charm Circle," her intensely persona, award-winning documentary about the fractured emotional landscape of her parents' lives in the house in Flus

Ep. #7: Diversifying Media
October 27, 2022

On this latest episode of CUNY Uncut, Danny Chicon-Ramirez joins Hannah Kavanagh in discussing the importance of proper race representation in media, how the lack thereof perpetuates negative stereoty

Ep. #6: Let’s Talk About Sex (and Burlesque)
September 27, 2022

Alyssa Kitt (GC 22) joins host Hannah Kavanagh on this latest episode of CUNY Uncut to discuss how her illustrious burlesque career has shaped her views on body positivity, sexual pleasure, confidenc

Ep. #5: Crypto 101: The New Wave
August 04, 2022

Emily Portalatin-Mendez (Lehman 23) appears on this latest episode of CUNY Uncut to discuss how cryptocurrency and blockchain works, the benefits of investing in it, how Web 3.0 and the metaverse fit