Healthy Living Fair: Surviving and Thriving - From DREAMer to Politician
On Thursday, May 6, 2021 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM
This is a virtual event using Zoom
This Special Event / Fair
is for Students, Faculty and Staff
Surviving and Thriving – From DREAMer to Politician: A conversation with New York State Assemblywomen Catalina Cruz about her life lessons and how they helped her during COVID-19.
Assemblywomen Cruz represents District 39 (Corona, Elmhurst and Jackson Heights). She came to New York from Colombia at the age of 9, eventually becoming graduate of John Jay College and CUNY School of Law. Currently, in the New York State Assembly she is serving as the Chairwoman of the Task Force on New Americans, along with various other committee memberships. Assemblywoman Cruz has worked on criminal justice reform, tenant protections, reproductive and immigration rights. When COVID began she turned her district office in Queens into a Food Pantry.
This event is sponsored by The Counseling Center
and Co-Sponored by NYPRIG
Contact Name: Jun Ishidoya-Wang
Contact Phone: 718-631-6370
Contact Email: jishidoyawang@qcc.cuny.edu
