Our country has a painful history of racial injustice. It’s a history we need to reckon with, and a cruel ideology that we can no longer deny still exists today. Our communities of color regularly...

New York City is at the epicenter of the Covid-19 health crisis, and as a New York City-based College that educates students committed to public service, our alumni, students, faculty, and staff are...

As a winner of the 2020 Fulbright U.S. Student Program Fellowship, John Jay alumna Shanell D. Bailey ’18 will head to the University of the West Indies at Mona, in Jamaica, to follow the development...

Alumna Reachelle Ramirez ’19 has always dreamed of becoming a lawyer, and after being accepted to 15 law schools, she’s about to make that dream come true. This past April, amid the statewide...

I am distraught to see George Floyd so senselessly killed at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. I am so saddened to see the justified outrage at the unjustified killing of another Black person...

Yuliya Zabyelina, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science at John Jay College, has spent the vast majority of her career researching and examining transnational organized crime, including its...

Unlike many of her peers at John Jay, Selina Li ’20 was unsure about her future career path when she first came to campus. “I felt some pressure to pick a major and minor, and apply to internships...

Student-athlete Jaime Bilotti ’20 always had a passion for music and envisioned herself working in the music industry, but when she couldn’t afford to attend a private college with a dedicated music...

Graduating senior Tasha Turner ’20, a first-generation college student, knows how to turn a setback into a comeback. During her time at John Jay, she met each challenge—whether it was the loss of her...

Sofia Vescovo was born and raised in Milan, Italy. After finishing high school, she wanted to spread her wings and see more of the world. “I decided to move to the U.S. to learn English and...