Join us in-person for our third and final discussion of the semester with two corporate and academic leaders:

Yuliya Guseva, Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School. Professor Guseva is the Head of the Fintech and Blockchain Program of the Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance. Guseva’s recent scholarship includes articles published in the Boston College Law Review (reprinted in the Securities Law Review), the Journal of Corporation Law (selected for republication in the Securities Law Review), the Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy (lead article), the Columbia Business Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, Postscript, and other law reviews. Read more here...

Ali Taatian, Ph.D. in Business from Stevens Institute, Senior Associate at KPMG. He is knowledgeable in empirical corporate finance and banking. With more than ten years of work experience in quantitative finance, financial modeling, optimization, and machine learning, he has been actively involved in quantitative finance and financial data science. Taatian has participated in conferences and presentations worldwide, from Italy, Taiwan, France, the UK, and Iran. Read more here...

Our speakers will cover the role of corporate governance in each of their positions, as well as offer some insight into how the rise of cryptocurrency fits in to the topic. There will also be an opportunity for networking with the speakers and other attendees over catered refreshments.

Attending this event is also an opportunity to qualify for a scholarship of up to $750!

To apply, please submit an essay of no more than 900 words answering the question: "What is the number one corporate governance issue in your home country and how would you address it?" You can email a PDF of your submission to me at [email protected] to be considered for a first-place prize of $750 and a second-place prize of $500, made possible by the Harold S. Geneen Charitable Trust. Please also include your name, contact information, field of study, university, and home country.

The application for the scholarship deadline is: Monday, May 2nd at 10:00AM EST

**Proof of vaccination and a valid I.D. is required for this event.

**Please note that all program fees are nonrefundable unless new Covid-19 restrictions are put in place that affect this event.

There's no better way to get to know your community than through service projects! Join other international students and local New Yorkers at Asser Levy Park in Brooklyn for a day of helping to keep New York's green spaces healthy and beautiful.

We'll be doing some light gardening activities, including removing debris and invasive plant species, weeding, mulching and planting. Gardening tools and gloves will be provided, just wear sturdy shoes and comfortable clothes. Don't forget to bring plenty of water!

After we finish beautifying the park, you'll have the option to join our Coordinator, Noa for some fun in Coney Island! Coney Island is a New York City neighborhood that features an amusement area and includes 50 or more separate rides and attractions. We will be right next to the fun - the Aquarium, Cyclone, and Wonder Wheel!

This is a great way to spend a day at one of New York's most beautiful parks, while making new friends and exploring one of the most popular attractions in the city.

Are you curious to learn more about the education system in the US from the perspective of higher education? Are you interested understanding the difference between 4-year institutions and community colleges, as well as the workforce development programs that exist at these institutions? You’ll have the opportunity to hear from three higher education professionals as they offer some background about their respective institutions, as well as their transfer program partnership at this informative virtual session.

During this virtual talk, you will hear from:

• Eli Cohen, Deputy Director, International Student Recruitment & Marketing at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
• Paul Shively, Director of BMCC Language Immersion for International Students, CUNY Language Immersion Program and others, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
• Kim Vo, Assistant Director of Admissions, Recruitment & International Outreach/DSO at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY

There will be a Q & A at the end so come prepared with questions!

Did you know that the Statue of Liberty's residence is actually in Jersey City? Take a break from studying for finals and congratulate yourself for getting through the semester by exploring a different city!

Just across the river from Manhattan, Jersey City awaits - full of American history! On this two-hour guided tour with Tim White, history professor at New Jersey City University and former professional tour guide, you'll learn about the city's growth from its founding as a primary U.S. port and diplomatic base for George Washington, to its current roles as a cultural and financial hub. You will walk away with a greater appreciation of the Garden State and a new spot to hang out! And don't worry! It's quick, easy, and cheap to get to Jersey City using the PATH train.

We will also be ending the tour with an optional stop at a local beer garden for some delicious food & drinks.

Please note that all program fees are non-refundable.

Are you new to New York and hoping to learn your way around? Or are you a veteran NYC-resident looking to test your knowledge? Whether you're a New York Novice, Empire State Expert, or somewhere in between, join us in celebration of the end of the school year with a scavenger hunt around New York City!

We'll assign you a team, and together you will earn points based on how many tasks you can accomplish on the game's checklist. For example, one of the tasks could ask you to take a photo with a Central Park horse & buggy (see the photo above). Winners will be announced in Central Park at the endpoint of the game, where there will be snacks to enjoy in celebration!

If you joined us last time, we have prepared a different checklist so you'll have the opportunity to see more of NYC!

To celebrate Women's History Month, join us for a Gallery tour and Artist talk at the A.I.R. Gallery. You'll have the opportunity to walk through two exhibitions with a Gallery expert providing detailed descriptions of each work and a short talk on the history of the gallery. One of the curators of CURRENTS, Christian Camacho-Light, will talk about the process of their work.

A.I.R. Gallery (Artists in Residence, Inc.) was established in 1972 as the first not-for-profit artist-directed and maintained gallery for women artists in the United States. A.I.R. Gallery is a permanent exhibition space that supports an open exchange of ideas and risk-taking by women arts in order to provide support and visibility. The space is intended to be focused on women, including transgender women and non-binary people.

The Gallery Tour will include two exhibitions:

S...as in Sylvia by Sylvia Netzer 

The works meditate on Netzer's sense of self as a woman, daughter, wife, artist, and educator. Netzer was born in NYC to observant German-Jewish parents who escaped the increasingly hostile and deadly Nazi regime to find succor as Palestine refugees in the mid-1930s. Reflecting on the relationship between self and history, Netzer's new works, with their repeated esses, are assertive and insistent declarations of presence, testaments to intergenerational strength and fortitude.

CURRENTS: Identity Politics 

The 7th edition of CURRENTS, a biennial open call exhibition series in which artists respond to current topics. This exhibition looks to the agency to be harnessed in unique lived and embodied experience, as well as in the co-conspirators with which our intersectional identities put us in relation and potential collective action. Through a broad array of media - including painting, sculpture, installation, video, and performance - the 12 artists included in the exhibition represent the range and rigor which contemporary visual artists are addressing timely issues of identity, coalition building, and intersectional analysis and action.

**Proof of vaccination and a valid I.D. is required for this event.

**Please note that all program fees are nonrefundable unless new Covid-19 restrictions are put in place that affect this event.

Why spend $30 or more on just another Yoga, Zumba, or Pilates class? Join us for an Irish Step Dance Fitness class as an entertaining and active way to stay fit! With St. Patrick's day just around the corner, there's no better time to give it a try!

The New York Studio of Irish Step Dance is excited to teach basic soft shoe dance moves to celebrate the Irish holiday with the One To World community. The school will host a 1-hour class in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Instructor, Sarah Lucie, will guide us through a lesson that consists of a basic overview of Irish step dancing, instruction of a lively soft shoe dance, and a Q&A discussion.

All participants must wear comfortable athletic apparel allowing them to move in a safe manner. Safe and comfortable sneakers or dance shoes as well as hair pulled away from face are required, with no baggy pants worn. Each participant should also have a water bottle as Irish dancing is a very aerobic exercise!

This will be a great chance to get your heartrate up while celebrating another culture!

*The Coordinator of Enrichment Programs will be joining interested participants in an optional meal after the class*

**Proof of boosted vaccination is required**

Please note that all program fees are non-refundable.

Are you interested in networking with professionals and other business-minded international students?

Join us for a discussion with two corporate leaders: Charles Elson, Chair in Corporate Governance and Founding Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, and the Executive Editor at Large for Directors and Boards and Martin Gelter, Professor of Law at Fordham University. They will discuss best practices for companies in communicating corporate governance issues, including shareholder activism, and you'll have a chance to offer your experiences and opinions to them in this open dialogue. This is a great chance to learn about an important issue that affects us all, while networking with a top professional in the corporate world! More details about the speakers below:
Charles Elson
Charles M. Elson practices in Holland & Knight's Tampa office in the areas of corporate and securities law. Mr. Elson has vast experience in corporations, securities regulation and corporate governance. He is currently first occupant of the Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair of Corporate Governance and the director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware.
Martin Gelter
An expert in comparative corporate law and governance, Martin Gelter joined the faculty of Fordham Law School in 2009. He has been a Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University and University of Paris-II, a Considine Fellow in Law and Economics at Harvard Law School, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bologna, and an assistant professor at the WU Vienna University of Economics. Martin has been an ECGI research member since 2006. Among other degrees, Martin holds an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.A. in Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences from Columbia University.
Attending this event is also an opportunity to qualify for a scholarship of up to $750!

To apply, please submit an essay of no more than 900 words answering the question: "What is the number one corporate governance issue in your home country and how would you address it?" You can email a PDF of your submission to me at [email protected] to be considered for a first-place prize of $750 and a second-place prize of $500, made possible by the Harold S. Geneen Charitable Trust. Please also include your name, contact information, field of study, university, and home country.

The application for the scholarship deadline is: Monday, May 2nd at 10:00AM EST

Did you know that the U.S. federal government was founded in downtown Manhattan? Join us on a historic walking tour of the Financial District and lower Manhattan, and visit the:

• Site of America's founding
• Former House of Morgan (home of world capitalism in the 1920s)
• New York Stock Exchange
• Trinity Church (and the grave of Alexander Hamilton)
• Route of New York's famed tickertape parades
• Old Customs House (currently containing the National Museum of the American Indian)
• Fraunces Tavern, where a Black tavern owner was a key spy for Washington's army
• Gorgeous Woolworth Skyscraper
• Site of the notorious Five Points neighborhood
• Chinatown, and the oldest, most impossible tenement in New York

There's lot's to see, so bring your walking shoes!

Our tour guide Kevin Baker is a novelist, historian, and journalist, who has lived in New York for 45 years. A graduate of Columbia, he is the author of five novels, the author or co-author of six works of nonfiction and two graphic novels, and has written for many major periodicals and for television.

In the event of rain, this program will take place one day later on March 27th.

Please note that all program fees are nonrefundable.