Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights

A Fair Chance

Making Policy Public

A Fair Chance

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Making Policy Public

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Is Suspension The Solution?

City Studies

Is Suspension The Solution?

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

From Shelter to Apartment

Making Policy Public

From Shelter to Apartment

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!

The Newtown Creek BOA

Technical Assistance

The Newtown Creek BOA

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Making Policy Public

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Our Voice, Our Choice

Urban Investigations

Our Voice, Our Choice

What Is Mandatory Inclusionary Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Mandatory Inclusionary Housing?

Parents' Rights During COVID-19

Technical Assistance

Parents' Rights During COVID-19

What the Cell?

Urban Investigations

What the Cell?

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Urban Investigations

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

What is asylum?

Making Policy Public

What is asylum?