 | Sonja Chen, Program Coordinator, Center for Faith & Work Princeton, NJ Sonja Lee Chen has been on the staff at CFW since 2006. Sonja is the program & assessments coordinator for The Gotham Fellowship. Before joining CFW, she apprenticed with World Harvest Mission in Ireland. Sonja originally moved to New York to study architecture at Barnard College, Columbia University and subsequently worked as the program coordinator of openhousenewyork, an arts organization, during its inaugural years. She will complete an M.A. in Urban Ministry at the City Seminary in New York in 2010. |
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RSS May 14, 2009 | Categories: Arts, City, Common Grace, Community, Death, Education, Entrepreneurship, Finance/Business, Glory, Resurrection, Vocation, World |
Archbishop Rowan Williams gave the following talk earlier this month. http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/2323 March 24, 2009 |
To those who love this city: this Museum of the City of New York lecture may be of interest. Ken Jackson is hot stuff. He teaches a class on the history of the City of NYC that was standing room only. It used to include a midnight bike tour, but the police shut it down when 1000+ people started showing up for the ride. The Resilient City: New York Facing Adversity The Resilient City: New York Facing Adversity
Urbanist Jane Jacobs wrote in The Death and Life of Great American Cities that "lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration." Join Columbia University professor Kenneth T. Jackson as he moderates a discussion on New York's resilience over time. He will be joined by Nicholas Bloom of the New York Institute of Technology and author of Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century (Pennsylvania Press, 2009); Fred Kameny of Duke University and co-author of The Almanac of New York City (Columbia University Press, 2008); and Lisa Keller of SUNY Purchase College and author of Triumph of Order: Democracy and Public Space in New York and London (Columbia University Press, 2008). $ http://www.mcny.org/public-programs/all/The-Resilient-City.html March 24, 2009 |