Friday, October 19th, 4:30- 7:00pm Hunter College, Room W615
The mspinnyc is honored to host our first guest speaker for this Friday evening event!

Pedro Noguera is a professor in the Steinhart School of Education at New York University. He is an urban sociologist whose research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions in the urban environment. His books, Unfinished Business and City Schools and the American Dream explore the critical topics of closing the racial gap and reclaiming the promise of public education. Noguera has also done extensive field research and worked on several collaborative projects in the Caribbean and Latin America, publishing several articles on the role of education in political and social change in the region. He previously served as a member of the US Public Health Service Centers for Disease Control Taskforce on Youth Violence, and as Chair of the Committee on Ethics in Research and Human Rights for the American Educational Research Association. At the onset of his career, Noguera was a K-12 classroom teacher for several years and in 1997 he was the recipient of the University of California’s Distinguished Teaching Award.