Friendship Series

Before joining CUNY, Dr. Cravero spent 25 years working for the United Nations, serving in five different United Nations agencies and living in four different countries. Michael H. Merson is the Wolfgang Joklik Professor of Global Health and Professor of Medicine in the Duke University School of Medicine. Join Cravero and Merson for a conversation […]

Ann Friedman is an American magazine editor, journalist, podcaster, and pie chart artist. She writes about gender, politics, and social issues. Aminatou Sow is a United States-based businesswoman, digital strategist, writer, podcast host, and co-founder of Tech LadyMafia. Join Friedman and Sow for a conversation of how their friendship has shaped their lives, work and […]

Bree Newsome Bass is an artist, activist and public speaker. She is an organizer in the modern civil rights. In 2015, she attracted national attention when she scaled a flagpole at South Carolina’s capitol building to remove the Confederate battle flag in protest of systemic racism. Dr. Gina Newsome Duncan is an adult psychiatrist and psychotherapist […]

  Julie Beck is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where she oversees the Family section. She is the creator of "The Friendship Files," a series of interviews with friends about their friendships. Mary Katherine Howell is an Allied Health Fellow at the Capitol MIRECC (Mental Illness Research, Education, & Clinical Center) for the Department of […]

Lisa Borders (www.lisaborders.us) has three decades of leadership experience, delivering results in the private, public and non-profit sectors. She is the CEO of LMB Group, a management consultancy firm, and recently chaired the Borders Commission.  Wendy Clark is a marketing and agency veteran and is the global CEO of Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN). She is […]

Anthony Arnove produced the Academy Award–nominated documentary Dirty Wars, based on Jeremy Scahill’s book Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield and wrote, directed, and produced The People Speak with Howard Zinn. Sonia Shah is an investigative journalist and author of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books on science, human rights, and international politics. Join Arnove […]