Don't Bank On It

Making Policy Public

Don't Bank On It

¡El poder de prepararse!

Public Access Design

¡El poder de prepararse!

Know Your Lines

Making Policy Public

Know Your Lines

Soda Census

City Studies

Soda Census

Grand Army Plaza

Urban Investigations

Grand Army Plaza

Immigrants & NY

Making Policy Public

Immigrants & NY

Welcome Yasmin Safdié, CUP’s new Director of Programs!

Welcome Yasmin Safdié, CUP's new Director of Programs!

We are thrilled to welcome Yasmin Safdié to our team as our first ever Director of Programs.

In this new role, Yasmin will oversee CUP’s core programming, playing a key role in implementing our strategic plan and supporting our staff as we continue to grown and deepen the impacts of our work.

Yasmin is a radical social worker, community organizer and educator. Her work is grounded in an anti-oppressive framework, which seeks to ensure that those most affected by social issues are centered in movements for justice. For over a decade, she has worked on a range of social justice issues including: ending mass incarceration, anti-racism, and gender justice. Yasmin has extensive experience designing and facilitating anti-oppressive trainings and leadership development programs

Prior to CUP, Yasmin was the Senior Manager of Organizing and Advocacy at the New York City Anti-Violence Project where she worked to end violence against the LGBTQ community. Yasmin is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work and CUNY Hunter College. She is a member leader and Board Member at Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, where she co-founded the Mizrahi Caucus, which organizes Arab/Middle Eastern/North African/Central Asian Jews. She received her M.S. in Social Work from Columbia University and her B.A. in History and Anthropology from McGill University. In her free time Yasmin loves to do ceramics and dance.

Welcome aboard, Yasmin!

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

Making Policy Public

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

Up Closed and Personal

Urban Investigations

Up Closed and Personal

Making Change

City Studies

Making Change

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

What's Going On In The Neighborhood?

Envisioning Development

What's Going On In The Neighborhood?

The Who in the Q!

Urban Investigations

The Who in the Q!

Break it Down!

Making Policy Public

Break it Down!