The following announcement was shared in the CHER January 2024 newsletter:
Happy New Year and welcome to a new semester! This newsletter highlights CHER’s Fall 2024 semester in review, and provides updates on our work to strengthen mutually beneficial partnerships between Trinity and Hartford.
We wish Laura Minor all the best as she recently decided to step down from her position as Director of Academic programs at CHER. As sad as we were to see her go, this departure gave us the opportunity here at CHER to do a bit of restructuring to build on the enormous talents of our staff. It is with great pleasure, then, that we can join Sonia Cardenas, Dean of Faculty here at Trinity, in announcing the following changes:
- On the academic side, Erica Crowley has been promoted to Senior Director and Instructor of CHER Academic Programs. She will oversee the Center’s academic programs and work closely with Derin Atalay, who has been promoted to Director of the Liberal Arts Action Lab.
- On the co-curricular side, Liliana Polley has been promoted to Executive Director of CHER. She will continue leading co-curricular initiatives and major strategic partnerships (including with HMTCA), now also overseeing daily operations and management of CHER.
Many thanks also to the entire staff, whose dedication and talent account for CHER’s vitally impactful work: Erna Alić (Program Manager of CHER), Joe Barber (Director of Community Service and Civic Engagement), and Karolina Barrientos (Program Manager of Trinfo.Café and Community Relations). The CHER Advisory Board and Faculty Advisory Board also play crucial roles in supporting the work of the Center and its team.
Trinity Receives Mellon Foundation Grant to Support Environmental Justice in Hartford
We are thrilled to announce the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Higher Learning program which will support a groundbreaking project on Urban Environmental Justice in Hartford, a collaboration between Trinity’s Center for Hartford Engagement and Research (CHER), the Center for Caribbean Studies (CCS), the Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS) and Hartford-based partners the Stowe Center for Literary Activism and the Center for Leadership and Justice/Greater Hartford Interfaith Action Alliance. The 3-year project will examine the historical land-use decisions that have disproportionately impacted Latine and Black residents in Hartford, building regional consensus to address challenges brought about by that history. Read more here.
