Events

Fay Sanders earned her MFA from Brooklyn College in 2019 and her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 2013. She has held residencies at the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, MASS MoCA, and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been exhibited in numerous institutions and galleries, including Smith College; the Kupferberg Center for the Arts; La Loma Projects; and Field Projects. Sanders currently lives and works in Queens, NY. 

Join this virtual information session to learn more about the Health Advocacy Master's and Certificate Programs at Sarah Lawrence College and discover if health advocacy is the right career path for you. The session will be hosted by Bridget Bohannon, Director of the Health Advocacy Program, who will be joined by faculty members.

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Carolyn Ferrell '84 is the author of the novel, Dear Miss Metropolitan, and the short-story collection, Don’t Erase Me, which was awarded the Art Seidenbaum Award of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize program, the John C. Zacharis Award given by Ploughshares, and the Quality Paperback Book Prize for First Fiction. She has also received grants from the Fulbright Association, German Academic Exchange (DAAD), City University of New York MAGNET Program, and National Endowment for the Arts. Ferrell’s stories have been anthologized in the 1994, 2018, and 2020 volumes of Best American Short Stories and The Best American Short Stories of the Century, among other places . She teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York with her husband and children. 

Cary Johnson is an author, activist and Africanist raised in Brooklyn and currently living in Central Africa. He studied writing with Wesley Brown, Jane Copper Alexis DeVeaux, Randall Kenan, Louise Meriwether, and Susan Scarf-Merrell and has a Bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. A long-time innovator in national and international queer politics and cultural activism, he was a founder of several groundbreaking organizations, including the Blackheart Collective, Gay Men of African Descent, Other Countries, and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. A public health and HIV specialist with experience living and working in Guinea, Haiti, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe, Cary is currently the country director for Population Services International in Burundi.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, journalist, educator and thought leader, will join the Sarah Lawrence community via Zoom for a discussion of The 1619 Project, The New York Times groundbreaking work examining slavery's centrality to American history as well as its modern legacy, reframing the way we understand this history and the contributions of black Americans to the nation and its democratic aspirations.

Set in the afterlife and featuring the beauty of God’s creation, Let There Be Light follows 21-year-old Andrew as he explores faith, 
queerness, and self-love in a journey to accept himself and rekindle his eternal love force. This piece is presented as part of the First Look Reading Series. 

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