Daniel Schensul is a Technical Specialist in Population and Development for the United Nations Population Fund.
Peter Sellars, Lincoln Center, 2014 Photoby : Ben Grad Peter Sellars is an internationally renowned theater and opera director.
Yang Jianli is Founder and President of Initiatives for China, an organization dedicated to bringing about a peaceful transition to democratic governance in China.
In 1825, on approximately five acres of land just north of what is now 82nd Street in New York City, a group of freed black slaves founded a settlement that came be to known as Seneca Village.
In her recent book, Greening Death—Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth, writer, farmer, and feminist scholar Suzanne Kelly looks at the development of a grassroots movement that has been leading people towards more sustainable burial practices.
Robert Hawkins is Assistant Dean and Director of the Undergraduate Program at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work, where he also serves as McSilver Associate Professor in Poverty Studies.
When political economist and social reformer Henry George died in 1897, his funeral was attended by thousands who proceeded from Grand Central Palace in Manhattan to Brooklyn City Hall on their way to Green-Wood Cemetery, his final resting place.
On Monday, March 26th, The Straddler met with Lewis Lapham at his offices on Irving Place in Manhattan.






