Dr. Paoyi Huang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at BMCC/CUNY. In 2016 Dr. Huang received her PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center for the dissertation, “’Love’ Across the Strait: Cross-Border Marriage Between Chinese Women and Taiwanese Men.”

Sarah Hanssen is an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at BCC/CUNY. Sarah Hanssen’s films have been shown at festivals, museums and screenings around the world. Most recently, her short documentary, Working Stiff, about an aspiring cartoon artist, played at the Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival, The Independent Film Festival of Boston, DOCNYC, and GlobeDocs Festival. Her writing has been published in The Projector: A Journal on Film, Media, and Culture, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, and The Curator. Professor Hanssen is the Faculty Advisor to the recently created Bronx Community College Film Society. Her research and teaching interests are Digital Film and Video Production, Digital Film and Video Editing, World Cinema. Professor Hanssen holds a M.F.A. in Film from Massachusetts College of Art.

Shawn Grant is an Assistant Professor in the Business Management Department at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (“BMCC”) CUNY.  Following her graduation from the University of Virginia School of Law, she practiced corporate and securities law for a number of years.  She has over 14 years of teaching experience during which time she has taught business law, political science, and women and gender studies to undergraduate and graduate students, as an adjunct professor at various private and CUNY colleges.  Since 2018, she has taught business law on a full-time basis at BMCC.  Her research interests include discrimination based on disabilities, gender and race in higher education and employment.

Dr. Millicent Freeman is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at BMCC/CUNY. In 2007 she received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Capella University. She has worked for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for around 25 years. She is Director of Outreach and Training at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Sexually Transmitted Infections. Her research interests include history of trauma-informed care and behavioral health, with emphasis on cisgender men and women of color and LGBTQ teens through young adults.

Dr. Monica Foust is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at BMCC/CUNY. She has a PhD in Developmental Psychology from University of Michigan and an MA in Educational Psychology from NYU. Professor Foust’s research explores the role of messages individuals receive about (sex)uality in shaping individuals’ sexual attitudes and behaviors. She has examined the link between the messages individuals receive about homosexuality and individuals’ attitudes toward lesbians and gays. She is currently exploring issues related to women’s sexuality development. In 2021 her co-written article “Parent and Peer Messages about Homosexuality: Considering the Role of Gender” was published in Sexuality and Culture.

Dr. Nicolle Fernandes is an Associate Professor and Director of the Nutrition and Culinary Management Program within the Health Sciences Department at LaGuardia Community College. Her research interests include impact of nutrition in cancer, obesity, falls and fracture in the geriatric population, herbs and spices, culinary nutrition, hunger, food insecurity and sustainability in the food arena. She received her Ph.D. in Nutrition from Texas Woman’s University and worked on dδ-Tocotrienol-mediated cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in human melanoma and prostate cancer cell lines. She completed her postdoc at Nestlé Nutrition R&D Centers in Hopkins, Minnesota and worked in the Aging Care platform. Dr. Fernandes is also a Registered Dietitian through the Commission on Dietetic Registration, the credentialing agency for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in the Unites States and in India through the Indian Dietetic Association. She was a practicing Dietitian in India and began teaching there in 2003 at the Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition in Dadar, Mumbai.

Dr. Asrat Amnie received a Doctor of Education in Health Education (EdD, 2016) from Teachers College, Columbia University in the City of New York. He also graduated with a Master’s in Global Health (MPH, 2013) with Infectious Disease Concentration from Emory University. He is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES®), a nationally recognized designation for an advanced-level professional competence and experience in the field of health education and health promotion. Dr. Amnie is an International Medical Graduate with more than 20 years of experience in clinical and public health practice. He earned a Doctor of Medicine (MD, 1992) from Jimma University and graduated with a specialty in General Surgery (2002) from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia—his country of origin. His recent published work and research interests focus on prevention of high-risk health behavior at individual, family, and community levels.

Dr. Angela Ridinger-Dotterman received a Ph.D. in English from CUNY’s Graduate Center and is an Assistant Professor at QCC/CUNY. Her teaching and research interests include 19th -century American women’s literature; voice studies; disability in literature; disability and composition pedagogy; digital composition projects.

Amy E. Traver is a professor of sociology at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. Her research interests include student success in community colleges, as well as intersections of agriculture, adoption, race/ethnicity, religion, and gender in American family life. Traver has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and coedited three scholarly volumes on teaching/learning in the community college. Her research was recently recognized by a 2019–2020 Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowship.