The Communities of Brooklyn

April 23, 2012
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library

Introduction

Introductions

Professor Luigi Bonaffini
President Karen L. Gould
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz

Angelo Falcón

Angelo Falcón was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but was brought to New York City at six months of age. He is president of the National Institute for Latino Policy (NILP), a nonpartisan policy center focusing on Latino issues based in New York. He has published widely on Latino policy and political issues He is the co-editor of Latino Voices: Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban Perspectives on American Politics; Boricuas in Gotham: Puerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New York City; and the forthcoming Latin@s in New York: Communities in Transition.

Joyce Moy

Joyce Moy is the executive director of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute. She was the first Asian American director of a New York State Small Business Development Center. Her area of expertise is entrepreneurship and economic development. She has taught business law and taxation at Queens College, the CUNY School of Law and Cornell University School of Law. She is a former practicing attorney with more than 15 years' experience in corporate law, franchising, taxation and commercial areas. She recently served on the New York State Governor's Taskforce on Small Business and currently co-chairs the New York City Comptroller's Taskforce on Community Benefit Agreements.

Prof. Sara Reguer

Professor Sara Reguer

Professor Sara Reguer has been chair of the Department of Judaic Studies for more than 25 years. Her courses include The Jewish Woman, Land and Cultures of Israel, Italian Jewry, the Sephardic/Middle Eastern Experience, and the new Earning a Living [crosslisted with Business].

She is the author of The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times (Columbia University Press, 2003) and, more recently, The Most Tenacious of Minorities: the Jews of Italy.

In 2010, Reguer spoke on "The Cairo Genizah: The World of Jewish Women" at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Clarence Taylor

Clarence Taylor is professor of history at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also acting chair of the Black and Hispanic Studies Department at Baruch College. He is the author / editor of six books, including Black Churches of Brooklyn; Knocking at Our Own Door: Milton A. Galamison and the Struggle to Integrate New York City Schools; Black Religious Intellectuals: The Fight for Equality From Jim Crow to the 21st Century; and Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era.

Frantz-Antoine Leconte

Frantz-Antoine Leconte was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is the French-area coordinator of the Department of Foreign Languages at the City University of New York's Kingsborough College. He has been teaching, writing and lecturing on French-Haitian literature and culture for many years in the United States, France, Canada, Haiti and elsewhere.

He is the author or editor of nine books, including La tradition de l'ennui splénétique en France (1995)/The Tradition of Existential Ennui in France; Le viol du nouveau monde (edited) (1996)/The Rape of the New World; La République theatre (1998)/ The Republic; 4-En grandissant sous Duvalier (1999)(edited)/Growing Up Under Duvalier; and La montagne ensorcelée de Jacques Roumain (translation)(2007)/The Bewitched Mountain.

Jerome Krase

Jerome Krase is Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor, Brooklyn College. He is a public scholar who writes, photographs and lectures globally on urban and ethnic issues. He has presented his Italian and Italian American–focused work in Rome, Padua, Perugia, Urbino, Trento, Trieste, Bari and Pisa. Recent published works include Seeing Cities Change (Ashgate 2012) and The Status of Interpretation in Italian American Studies (Forum Italicum 2012).

A founding member of the American Italian Coalition of Organizations in 1978, and at one time its vice president, Krase also served as director of the Brooklyn College Center for Italian American Studies from 1975 to 1984 and was a two-term president of the American Italian Historical Association (1993–97).

Dr. Ahmad Jaber

Dr. Ahmad Jaber has been a Bay Ridge community member for more than 30 years. He currently sits on the board of Beit Al Maqdis Islamic Center, the Arab Muslim American Federation and the Islamic Mission of America, and was a past president of the National Arab American Medical Association-New York Chapter. He is the board president and one of the original founders of the Arab American Association of New York. Jaber is a retired obstetrician and gynecologist.