Tag Archives: diversity
Women hiring women in film
By Ellie Kourkoulakos A young man was motioning to passersby to avoid the Washington Square South sidewalk where cameramen were peering through lenses and others on the film crew were assembling equipment they pulled from plastic containers. The directors’ chairs lined up on the sidewalk would eventually seat Lena Dunham and Natalie Portman, actresses who […]
For 40 years, training next-gen journos
By Suriah Joseph Student journalist Michelle Yang was looking for free journalism programs ”that had a diversity of participants” and would help her build upon skills she’s gained during two years of working on her high school newspaper. The New York University Urban Journalism Workshop, which selected her for its 2024 summer cohort, provided what […]
NYU labs help diversify STEM fields
By Sophie Gao Standing before a roundtable of 13 high school, college and graduate students considering careers in engineering, Ollintzin Mortera explained his latest three-dimensional design. “I’m working on inter-meshed steel connections. And we’re basically modeling it and making it scalable, so we can use it in different applications, like robotics. And so that we […]