CUP’s core staff supports the organization from day to day, but CUP projects are designed and implemented by teams of artists, designers, educators, activists, and researchers.
Sean Kelleher and Danny Aviles, from City-As-School, were part of the Water Underground crew in 2006.
closeKelvin and Leon, from the St. John’s Recreation Center in Crown Heights, were part of the “What the Cell?” crew.
close“Lotto Zone” is a collaboration of The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), the Resilience Advocacy Project (RAP), and high school students from all over New York City. Those students are: Khassandria Chin, Jasmine Downs, Mehnaz Sultana, Elizabeth Adesanya, Shakira Ali, Julien Nizam, Berhtier Francois, and Horace Trim
closeA group of students in Aisling Roche’s film studies class at the Academy of Urban Planning (AUP) worked with the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) and CUP teaching artist Lindsay C. Harris to find out who makes decisions about school food at the school, city, state, and federal levels.Those students were Destiny Azcona, Brandon Benitez, Celeste Cartagena, Joshua Carter, Wendy Centeno, Yulma Cohetero, Alyssa Colon, Lhari Dolma, Tenzin Dolma, Yelisa Feliciano, Keiaira Greene, Nathalie Jordan, Jimmy Mendez, Diana Morocho, Janet Munoz, Jordan Nelson, Anthony Parilla, Mayra Perez, Hortencia Reyes Lucero, Jennifer Santana, Kenia Tapia, and Sharea Walker
closeStudents from Lyons Community School worked on an Urban Investigation about who makes decisions around restaurant grades. Those students were Joshua Arroyo, Gipsy Bisono Ramirez, Dayquan Cogdell, Jason Fernandez, Armanie Fing, Jamal Grainger, Aimee Hernandez, Yuleidy Lugo, Erica Marshall, Esmerlyn Mesa Regla, Kimberly Ponce, Justino Rodriguez, Chardhil Spratley, Gabriella Tinsley, Cristian Tolentino, and Jonathan Trivino.
closeCUP, Dia:Beacon, and CUP teaching artist Katarzyna Balug worked with students from Dutchess County on a project to find out the role of the museum in a city. Those students were Mary Akinmola, Ira Cekici, Jazhane Crockett, Curtis Eckley, Catherine Felton, Zachary Gacer, Sean Grogan, Jazlen Mason, Michelle Moynihan, Rachel O’Mara, Elisabeth Olivencia, Patrick Roa, Aurora Saradjian, Adrianna Simmons, and Airika Yee.
closeStudents from New Settlement’s Bronx Helpers collaborated with CUP and Jonathan Bogarín on Bodega Down Bronx.
closePublic high school students together with the Resilience Advocacy Project (RAP) investigated the high school application process. They created Old School New School to break down the process for middle school students. Those students were: Gongga Baerde, Adriana Deonarine, Destiny Lopez, Safiya Mann, Remorn Radway, Zoya Seaforth
closeIn the fall of 2013, CUP worked with students from Danielle Cardarelli’s Economics class at the Urban Assembly School for Criminal Justice. Those students were Iqra Ahmed, Kiran Amin, Saeeda Batool, Zasica Chowdhury, Quratulain Chughtai, Zannatul Farah, Rose Flores, Sedef Iqbal, Alyssia King, Shania Lett, Aisha Loane, Sidrah Malik, Robyn Pacheco, Dulce Parra, Amna Riaz, Khadija Sarwar, Shazma Shahzad, Shaiza Shakeel, Sanya Shema, Iqra Tariq, Rasanya Taylor, Lizmarie Vazquez, Fevzie Vila, and Jazmine Williams.
closeStudents from the Academy of Urban Planning, in Aisha Haynes’ English Language Arts class, collaborated with CUP and Jonathan Bogarín on “Scary, OK With It, Good.”
closeStudents from the Academy of Urban Planning, in Aisha Haynes’ English Language Arts Class, collaborated with CUP on “Soda Census.”
closeStudents from the BCCP collaborated with CUP and Mads Lynnerup on “Store Stories.”
closeStudents from The Academy of Urban Planning participated in an Urban Investigation on micro-units in New York City. Those students were Antonio Capellan, Miguel Ruiz, and Christopher Viquez; with help from Marcus Carlos and Bernardo Nuñez.
closeStudents from the BCCP’s afterschool program at Walt Whitman Middle School participated in an Urban Investigation on empty lots. Those students were Alex Frederick, Ragjay Green, Jeannegeilia Mathelier, Freddie Larry, Angela Weeks, Evette Drawhron, Latifah Shim, Stephan McKenzie, Lauson Albertine, Deshawn Lindo, and Shanice McBean.
closeStudents from the School for Legal Studies in class worked with CUP and Teaching Artist Sam Holleran on an Urban Investigation that investigated the future of small businesses in NYC.
closeCUP and CUP teaching artist Nontsikelelo Mutiti worked with students from the Bronx High School for the Visual Arts on a project to decode voter eligibility rules and design a take-away to make politics more accessible to other students. Those students were Diana Aguirre, Dyreek Brathwaite, Charles Brown, De Sean Brunson, Karim Christopher, Anthony Denor, Celines Flores, Malcolm Jackson, Devin Lopez, Kassandra Luyando, Quinton Negron, Miguel Peralta, Emani Prioleau, Argzon Qosaj, Albert Rica, Ashley Rios, Jasmine Stackhouse, and Jurgen Tafaj.
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