Six of our students are all geared up for a good dose of global exposure. They are headed to Berlin, Germany, for a week this November for a conference on the Empowerment of Women. Dina Bangiyev, Brianna Bisogno, Alexandra Rosario, Melissa Seymour, Dawn Slavinksi and Danicia Vargas will make a presentation based on the community work they did in New York. These students are members of the Opportunity Programs’ ‘Haven of Opportunities for Progress in Education (HOPE)’, which [works with children of victims of domestic abuse at a Harlem-based shelter.

Opportunity Programs professor Jacqueline Bishop is in Morocco. Just in case you think that’s exotic, this is exactly what she would not want you to think. She has a Fulbright Fellowship for 2008-09 to focus on how architecture, cuisine, and lifestyle magazines in Morocco present a more complicated view of the country than the exotic view often favored by major U.S. publications. Bishop, who has written the novel ‘My Mother Who Is Me: Life Stories from Jamaican Women in New York’ and a collection of poems, ‘Fauna’, will also explore what organizations, structures, and supports are in
                           place to assist morocco’s fledgling magazine industry.