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Associate Professor in the School of Information John Lauermann co-organized the GIS+LIS Workshop, which brought together 46 attendees, including 27 grad students from Pratt and Queens College CUNY. The program featured Pratt School of Information faculty, including Visiting Assistant Professor Claudia Berger, Assistant Professor Kathy Carbone, Electronic Resources Librarian Matt Garklavs, and Visiting Assistant Professor Will Geary, as well as recent alum Gabby Evergreen, MSLIS ’24.

The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront by Cisco Bradley, associate professor of social science and cultural studies, was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books, which calls it a “powerful manifesto for the shared artistic visions and cross-cultural pollinations of artists driven by a fearless anti-commercial desire to tinker and explore.”

Leslie, a Non-Fiction II project by Lisa Dodell, BFA Film ’25, is showing at DOC NYC. It will be playing at the Angelica on November 21.

Rebekah Morris-Gonzalez, director of climate initiatives at the Pratt Center, wrote a piece for City Limits about New York’s $5 billion climate opportunity. “With $5 billion at our disposal and the climate and housing crises looming, we can’t afford to continue the energy efficiency redlining that is currently built into the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) incentive design,” she writes. “It’s time to address long-standing inequities and make investments that will deliver clean energy technology to LMI communities hardest hit by historical disinvestments and the climate crisis.”