CUNY Uncut: Recent Episodes
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Join Hannah Kavanagh, Macaulay@Hunter senior, on the first ever student podcast brought out from CUNY, where she talks about anything and everything uncensored, unedited and uncut.
On this latest episode of CUNY Uncut, Danny Chicon-Ramirez joins Hannah Kavanagh in discussing the importance of proper race representation in media, how the lack thereof perpetuates negative stereotypes and promotes implicit bias—and how those biases in turn impact every facet of our own personal lives. From there, we try to answer this seemingly age-old question: How can we actively deconstruct racial misrepresentation and where do we go from here?
Emily Portalatin-Mendez (Lehman ’23) appears on this latest episode of CUNY Uncut to discuss how cryptocurrency and blockchain works, the benefits of investing in it, how Web 3.0 and the metaverse fits into all of this, as well as how different cryptocurrency companies plan on mitigating the environmental and classist issues associated with it—all the […]
Timothy Hunter (Baruch MPA ’23 and City Tech ’20) and Djenabou Barry (City College MPA ’22 ’20 and Guttman ’19) join me in discussing how they founded the incredible CUNY-led initiative Strategy for Black Lives as well as how they utilized both their community networks and their studies at CUNY to contribute to the BLM movement--all the while learning more about themselves and the world around them.
Student leader Dave Basnet--a Hunter senior who was just named a Rhodes Scholar--joins Hannah to discuss his experiences being a DACA recipient from Nepal, the various trials and tribulations he faced when solidifying his legal status, and what could be done to make the immigration process more accessible to undocumented people.
CUNY Student Trustee Juvanie Piquant (City Tech ’22) joins me in discussing mental health, how we’re feeling about the stress and anxiety surrounding this fall semester, and how we care for ourselves during difficult times — uncensored, unedited, uncut.