Juno Salazar Parreñas is an assistant professor of feminist biosciences and holds a joint faculty appointment with the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program and the Department of Science & Technology Studies. 

The FGSS Program is pleased to announce that Professor Jane Juffer is the new program director, beginning July 1, 2020.

“The Hidden Life of Rosa Parks,” a new TED-Ed animated video written by Riché Richardson, associate professor of Africana studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, explores Parks’ work with the NAACP, bus boycotts and her lifelong fight against racial inequality.

“This is one of the first times since the ’60s, where the global demand, the intergenerational demand, the multiracial demand is for systemic change,” said Cornell University professor Noliwe Rooks, a segregation expert. “There is some understanding and acknowledgment at this point that there’s something in the DNA of the country that has to be undone.”