Weather Update

Due to the storm, Barnard College closed at 4pm Friday, for non-essential personnel. “Essential personnel" include staff in Facilities, Public Safety and Residence Halls.  

Friday evening and weekend classes are cancelled but events are going forward as planned unless otherwise noted. The Athena Film Festival programs are also scheduled to go forward as planned but please check http://athenafilmfestival.com/ for the latest information. 

The Barnard Library and Archives closed at 4pm Friday and will remain closed on Saturday, Feb. 9.  The Library will resume regular hours on Sunday opening at 10am.  

Please be advised that due to the conditions, certain entrances to campus may be closed.  The main gate at 117th Street & Broadway will remain open.  For further updates on college operations, please check this website, call the College Emergency Information Line 212-854-1002 or check AM radio station 1010WINS. 

3:12 PM 02/08/2013

Sonya Shadravan '10 awarded the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship

February 28, 2011
activism
global
Africa

Sonya Shadravan '10 has received the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship, an annual award that returns SIT Study Abroad alumni to their host countries to conduct development projects that benefit human rights.

Shadravan was a 2009 participant of SIT Study Abroad's Senegal: National Identity and the Arts program. She will return to Dakar, Senegal to implement a series of neighborhood-based youth empowerment programs for teenagers that will be run by older youth and local hip-hop artists. During her time with SIT, she researched how hip-hop artists advocate for social change, and she plans to continue her work with many of the young artists and activists she met in 2009.

"The goal of the program is to provide a safe space for these youth to increase their powers of expression, to analyze the social forces acting upon them in their communities and to recognize themselves as agents of social change," said Shadravan.

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