Partners
CARA partners with a host of government, university, and community-based organizations to develop and implement programming.
Organizational Partnerships
CARA is housed at the CUNY Graduate Center, within the Center for Human Environments (CHE); the Research Foundation of CUNY serves as our fiscal sponsor. In addition, we collaborate regularly with a range of partners to work in schools and colleges around New York City.
Partnerships include:
Brown University’s Careers in the Common Good
CUNY Central Office of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management
Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation
Foundation for Tacoma Students
New York City Department of Education College and Career Planning Team
Newark City of Learning Collaborative
School of Professional Studies Youth Studies Program
Student Success Center Coalition
Advisory Board
CARA’s Advisory Board plays a critical role in CARA’s long-term planning. Our Board reflects the diversity of CARA’s work and includes school and community-based practitioners, policymakers, academics, funders, and young people impacted by CARA’s programs.
Advisory Board members include:
- Oona Chatterjee: Director of Organizing & Capacity Building, Center for Popular Democracy
- Vanessa Coca: Senior Researcher, American Institutes for Research
- Cass Conrad: Executive Director, Carroll & Milton Petrie Foundation
- Lisa Cowan: Vice President of Programs, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
- Greg Darnieder: Senior Advisor, Steans Family Foundation & Chair, National Postsecondary Strategy Institute
- Michelle Fine: Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center
- David Fonseca: Assistant Director, Office of Financial Assistance, Boston University
- Bennett Lieberman: Principal, Central Park East High School
- Lawrence Louis: Doctoral Candidate, Michigan State University
- Allison Palmer: Associate Executive Director, New Settlement Apartments
- Mandy Savitz-Romer: Senior Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Andrea Soonachan: University Dean, K-16, Initiatives City University of New York
- Emily Van Ingen: Deputy Director, Cypress Hills LDC
Program Partners
