Asian-Latino Coalition Building for a Just City Friday November 6th, 2015 at 4:00pm-6:00pm CUNY Hunter College- Roosevelt House 47-49 E 65th St, New York, NY 10065 2nd Floor Seminar Room To RSVP, please email: MAANYSeminar@gmail.com This panel spotlights several ongoing anti-gentrification community mobilizations in New York City's immigrant neighborhoods. The panel presenters are community organizers and/or scholars of immigrant social movements. The panelists will discuss shared concerns among Asian and Latino immigrants, strategies for coalition building as well as the opportunities and challenges in mobilizing for a just city. Featured Speakers: Tania Mattos was born in La Paz, Bolivia in the 1983, and brought to Jackson Heights, Queens at the age of four. In 2013, Tania became a founder member of Queens Neighborhoods United, a broad-based anti-BID group of residents, small businesses, vendors and workers in Corona, Elmhurst, and Jackson Heights fighting displacement and police abuse. Arturo Ignacio Sánchez is chairperson of the Newest New Yorkers Committee of Queens Community Board 3, visiting professor in the Graduate Program in Administration & Economics, Universidad Externado, Bogota, S.A. and teaches Urban Sociology at LaGuardia Community College. Amir Khafagy is currently a member of The People Power Movement and the President of The Urban Studies Club at Queens College. His main focus has been fighting for a free and democratically controlled CUNY and endingthe mass displacement of working class people of color because of gentrification. Jung Rae Jang- Born in South Korea, Jung Rae immigrated to the United States in 2005. He is a DREAMer who first got involved with the MinKwon Center in 2012. He is currently a community organizer at the MinKwon Center, working with tenants who face displacement as well as advocating for affordable housing in NYC. Event is sponsored by the CUNY Mapping of Asian Americans in New York (MAANY) Faculty Seminar