John Langdon
Cassandra Agredo has grown the soup kitchen at St. Francis Xavier church into the multi-service agency that is Xavier Mission. As the organization’s executive director, Agredo and her team provide an array of services and opportunities to New Yorkers in need. They prefer to be called a “for-impact” instead of a “nonprofit” organization, focusing on things they can change instead of those they can’t.
Direct service work has always been a part of Agredo’s life. When she was growing up in Rhode Island, her father worked at the Department of Human Services, and once the first soup kitchen opened, her parents would bring Agredo along while they volunteered. She continued on this path and obtained a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work from Fordham University. Since then, her passion to enact positive change has shone both through her work at Xavier Mission and Hunger Free America, a national organization set to end domestic hunger, where she’s a
The rise in anti-Asian hate crimes has again underscored the long-standing anxiety and concern regarding racism and xenophobia.
In response to the growing call to action to support anti-racism movement and to foster an inclusive community, this thematic discussion series, titled Stand in Solidarity: Combating Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia , aims to offer support especially to Columbia University’s Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander community during this challenging time.
The Series will address the rising violence against Asians and Asian Americans in the U.S., examining the ongoing history of race discrimination that has been employed to distract and divide our communities to protect systematic inequality.
On Standing Up For Black Trans Lives
Many of us have that one person who we can openly speak to about sex, and for almost half a million people on social media and in real life, that someone is Ericka Hart. When Hart isn t teaching sex education (she s an award-winning sexuality educator), she s either writing, modeling, or speaking publicly. No matter what they re up to, people know and love her for the Black, queer, femme activist she is. Not to mention, they re also a fearless disruptor and breast cancer survivor.
In 2016, Hart gained recognition for going topless at a music festival and showing their double mastectomy scars in public. Since then she has used their platform to speak out about human sexual health as it intersects with race, gender, chronic illness, and disability. And they don t just talk the talk. Most recently, Hart spoke out on social media about the racism and gas lighting they experienced at Columbia University School of Social Work (CSSW), where they were a
How grief rewires the brain and can affect health - and what to do about it
Michael Merschel, American Heart Association News
March 10, 2021
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Grief is a common, if not universal, human experience. But that doesn t make it simple.
It s psychological, but it affects people physically. It s a matter of science, but scientists who discuss it can sound poetic. Dr. Katherine Shear, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University School of Social Work in New York, calls grief the form that love takes when someone we love dies.
COVID-19 has both brought grief and disrupted the way people experience it. But researchers have been examining grief since well before the pandemic.
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