Linsey Abrams
'Be accurate. Go deeper.' Four words from Grace Paley that opened the road between myself and the reader. Between myself and myself.”
Aalia Ali
“A bonus of being a Muslim Jewish Studies major is that after the moment passes when someone thinks of it as an oxymoron, I’ve just broken a stereotype”
Michelle Ayoub
My university experience at City College has so far been stimulating on many levels. I would never have imagined that the same little girl who had become so distanced from her ethnicity would one day be studying Arabic at university.
Carmen Vidal Balanzati
If you telling stories through image and sound, you might ask Carmen what CCNY's MFA in Media Arts Production can do for you.
Mariola Bruszewska
Mariola’s pull to the visual arts is powerful and constant. She feels she is in the right place at the right time, the perfect place. “All of my experience in City College made me stronger, more mature, ready to take risks.”
Ivan Butka
Ivan Bukta was born in Novi Sad, Serbia. After growing up through wars, poverty and upheavals in his country, he followed his passion and a lifelong dream to become a student of Film and Video Production at the City College of New York.
Aidan Carroll
After completing the prestigious 2006 Banff International Music and Jazz Workshop, the City College jazz performance program just seemed like a natural to Aidan Carroll.
Rebecca Carter
“It was here that the classroom became almost a sacred setting, where abstract concepts were slowly unpacked with prudent inquiry”.
Stephen Jablonsky
Stephen believes that the academic environment should be a happy place where the adventure of learning is celebrated.
Piotr Kajstura
Polish immigrant Piotr Kajstura was working on campus when he heard an African folktale from a fellow student at The City College of New York about magic and its uplifting effect on a group of slaves in the antebellum South.
Craig Levinsky
Craig feels all his writing is a quest for a moral center, and fair judgment, too,. "Either I'm looking to get into heaven or I need acceptance from my family," he says.
Laura Malandrino
This Venezuelan advertising major worked for many years in her native country as an editor in the arts, culture and the fashion world, but felt compelled to continue her studies in the US.
Maria Martinez
Maria Martinez, an Advertising and PR major & 2007 graduate, proved to be a dynamic student and mentor, winning two awards in her final semester.
Folake Olowofoyeku
The role that won the Nigerian-born Folake Olowofoyeku the Best Actress Award at the 2007 ReelHeART International Film Festival in Toronto was written by fellow CCNY student Piotr Kajstura.
John Patitucci
John Patuttici began playing the electric bass at age 10, composing and performing at age 12, playing the acoustic bass at age 15 and the piano at age 16. He quickly moved from playing soul and rock to blues, jazz and classical music.
Georgios Pesios
Born in Bulgaria and raised in a household where music was a constant presence, the pursuit of a music with a concentration in audio recording seemed like a natural for Georgios pesios
Maquita Peters
After working in the Barbados as a print and broadcast journalist Maquita wanted to strengthen her academic background and to branch into Public Relations.
Yolanda Pividal
Yolanda Pividal, a June 2007 graduate of CCNY’s M.F.A. in Media Arts Production program, won the $10,000 Fledgling Fund Award for Emerging Latino Filmmakers from the Independent Feature Project (IFP) for her thesis project “Tijuana Nada Mas.”
Neal G. Ten Eyck
Neal is President of the Cinema Society in City College and plans on being awarded money to produce a feature film, followed world recognition. "I mean that's what you get after a BFA, right?"
Brian Trent
Brian grew up in Syracuse, New York and began playing guitar at the age of 13 and as he says himself he has been obsessed with music ever since.
Robert Ushiro
Robert Ushiro is from Granada Hills, Southern California and is a senior in the Electronic Design and Multimedia BFA at City College. He likes the Valley but loves the New York energy.
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