Partners - CARA

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

CUNY K-16 Initiatives

Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation

Foundation for Tacoma Students

Good Shepherd Services

Internationals Network for Public Schools

Make the Road New York

New York City Department of Education College and Career Planning Team

NYC Outward Bound Schools

School of Professional Studies Youth Studies Program

Student Success Center Coalition

The Public Science Project – CUNY Graduate Center

Urban Youth Collaborative

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