Neha Gautam - who has contributed 1 posts on Queens7.com.
Neha joined SAYA! in 2007 as a Leadership Specialist. While pursuing a dual B.A. in History and International Affairs at CCNY, Neha developed her skills as a community and youth organizer borrowing the principles of popular education and social justice while working for the Women's Center at LaGuardia Community College and Student Liberation Action Movement.
Neha enjoys implementing a multi-disciplinary program at Richmond Hill High School using multi-media and guerrilla youth media to ensure that the youth are developing awareness, a critical understanding of issues that affect them, and practical academic and life skills.
Posted on 09 February 2011
Despite not getting an Oscar nomination, Davis Guggenheim’s film, Waiting for Superman, still has educators, administrators and parents debating the quality of America’s public schools. The film points to low test scores, low graduation rates, and lack of job-readiness as evidence of an education system desperate for reform.
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free …” Perhaps no other city in the entire United States adheres more faithfully than New York City to this passage from Emma Lazarus’s poem “The New Colossus”, engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the Statue of Liberty. Fatima Shama, commissioner of the New [...]
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