Public Engagement
CNSM convenes nonprofit and international NGO stakeholders online and on the Baruch College campus in New York City for events throughout the academic year. Periodic events include expert panels, book talks, and workshops. Annual events include Consulting Day, which offers free consulting sessions for nonprofit practitioners, and the BBB Charity Effectiveness Symposium, which features a new theme each year.
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Advocating for People in Poverty:
Getting Policymakers to Listen and Act
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 | 1:00 – 2:30PM
In-Person Event | Livestream will be available
Social workers and nonprofit practitioners face challenges when advocating for people living in poverty. Join us for this public event to learn about advocacy strategies developed in close collaboration with communities facing discrimination, racism, and poverty that can encourage policymakers to listen and act.
In-Person Location at Baruch College:
Administrative Building,
135 E 22nd St, New York, NY 10010,
3rd Floor, Room 301
RSVP required. Coffee and light refreshments will be served.
Moderator
Merrill Sovner | Affiliated Scholar, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, CUNY Graduate Center
Host
George Mitchell | Professor and Director, Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management, CUNY Baruch College, Marxe School
Featured Speaker and Discussant
Peter Raeymaeckers
Professor of Social Work and Sociology, the University of Antwerp
Peter Raeymaeckers is a Professor of Social Work and Sociology at the University of Antwerp. His research focuses on public-nonprofit collaboration, network governance, advocacy, and the evaluation of social work interventions.
Discussant: Samantha Majic
Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; PhD Programs, CUNY Graduate Center
Samantha Majic
Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; PhD Programs in Political Science and Criminal Justice, CUNY Graduate Center
Samantha Majic is the author of Lights, Camera, Feminism? Celebrities and Anti-Trafficking Politics (University of California Press, forthcoming 2023); co-author (with Carisa Showden) of Youth Who Trade Sex in the US: Agency, Intersectionality, and Vulnerability(Temple University Press, 2018); Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014); and co-editor (with Carisa Showden) of Negotiating Sex Work: Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2014). Her research has also appeared in numerous political science and gender studies journals and has been supported by the PSC-CUNY Grant Program, the American Association of University Women, and the Woodhull Freedom Foundation. Dr. Majic is a member of the editorial boards for Perspectives on Politics, The American Political Science Review, Critical Policy Studies, and Sexuality Research and Social Policy.