Manhattanville College Professor’s Work Featured in NY Times Live

PURCHASE, NY - (July 29, 2020) – The work of Manhattanville College Professor Mark Nowak, founding director of the Worker Writers School, will be featured on a New York Times live event this Thursday, July 30. A poem from his new book, Social Poetics, will be performed by Okieriete Onaodowan (from Hamilton) and Lexi Underwood (from Hulu's Little Fires Everywhere).

“It's a collective poem written by NYC taxi drivers, domestic workers, and other "essential workers" who participated in one of my workshops at the Worker Writers School,’’ said Nowak.

The event, The America We Need: Making Better Jobs starts with a discussion on how workers have been left behind in recent decades as the U.S. economy expanded and C.E.O. salaries skyrocketed. Guests include Robert B. Reich, former labor secretary under Bill Clinton, and Ai-jen Poo, head of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, who will outline the changes needed for a fairer and better economy, in a conversation moderated by The Times’s David Leonhardt.

Nowak has been giving a voice to workers for 20 years as the founding director of the Worker Writers School, where he brings writing and poetry workshops to the working class including immigrant/migrant refugee workers.

About Manhattanville College: Manhattanville College is a small, private liberal arts institution dedicated to academic excellence, purposeful education, and social justice. Located 30 miles from New York City on a 100-acre suburban campus in the heart of bustling Westchester County, Manhattanville enables easy access to robust entertainment offerings, educational resources, and business opportunities for its primarily residential and diverse student body. The College serves more than 1,500 undergraduate students and nearly 1,000 graduate students from more than 35 countries and 40 states. Founded in 1841, the College offers more than 75 undergraduate and graduate areas of study in the arts and sciences, education, business, and creative writing, as well as continuing and executive education programs. Graduate students can choose from more than 70 graduate and certificate programs and a doctorate in educational leadership. Extracurricular offerings include more than 45 clubs and 20 NCAA Division III teams. To learn more, visit www.mville.edu.

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