Lindsey Albracht (English)

(she/her/hers) works as the Co-Director of First-Year Writing and Part-Time Instruction and a Lecturer in the Queens College English department. Both her research and teaching focus on literacy, composition, and the teaching of writing. 

 

Dwayne Baker (Urban Studies)

Dwayne Baker is an Associate Professor in the Urban Studies Department at Queens College and the advisor for the Urban Planning minor. His research and teaching focuses on overcoming the paradox that often arises with large-scale transit projects: while expected to enhance urban accessibility, they may also negatively affect vulnerable populations needing the improvements the most. Specifically he aimsto: 1) improve methods to analyze transit’s neighborhood impacts; and 2) identify policies and practices to balance equity considerations with sustainable and economic development.

 

Sara Hinojos (Media Studies)

Sara Veronica Hinojos (ella/her) is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and is on the advisory board of Latin American and Latino Studies. Her research focuses on representation of Chicanxs and Latinxs within popular film and television with an emphasis on gender, race, language politics, and humor studies. She is currently working on a book manuscript that investigates the racial, visual, and sonic function of “accents” within media, called: GWAT?!: Chicanx Mediated Race, Gender, and “Accents” in the US.

 

Caroline Hong (English / Asian American Community Studies)

Caroline Kyungah Hong is an Associate Professor of English and Asian American Community Studies (AACS) at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), where she has been faculty for 17 years. She is the Co-Director of the Queens College AANAPISI Project (QCAP), which aims to support the academic success, mental health, and community engagement of Queens College’s diverse and underserved AAPI students. She received her PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her primary teaching and research interests include Asian American literatures and cultures, critical ethnic studies, and comics studies, and she has published articles on Asian American comedy, fiction, and graphic narratives. She also serves on the Advisory Boards of CUNY’s Asian American/Asian Research Institute (AAARI), the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS), and the Asian American Literary Review (AALR).

 

Nabila Rahman Samayra (Student)

Hi everyone! I’m Nabila, a sophomore at Queens College majoring in Nutrition. As an international student and aspiring dietitian, I’m interested in the connections between nutrition, public health, and community well-being. My academic interests include nutrition education and understanding how access to food and health resources influences overall health.

 

Noah Segelnick (Student)

After taking a post-high school gap year in Israel, Noah Segelnick is a rising sophomore at Macaulay Honors College at Queens College.  He plans on majoring in Applied Mathematics specializing in the science track.  Helping the community is an important part of Noah’s life.  He volunteers at the Kehilat Food Pantry, helping to distribute food to those in need, along with being a part of CSS (Community Security Service), acting as a security guard for his community.  On his free time, Noah enjoys reading, playing video games, and playing a pick-up game of basketball with his friends.  

 

Amy Wan (English)

Amy Wan (she/her) is Professor of English at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She also currently serves as the Special Assistant to the Provost for Writing at Queens College. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her MA from Binghamton University. Her research interests include composition and rhetoric, language policy, multilingualism, literacy, and public education, and she teaches courses about writing and the teaching of writing. She is the author of Producing Good Citizens: Literacy Training in Anxious Times (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014) and was awarded the Richard Ohmann Outstanding Article Award in 2012 for her College English article “In the Name of Citizenship.” Her writing has been published in College Composition and Communication, College English, Journal of College Literacy and Learning, Rhetoric Review, and Literacy in Composition Studies, among others.