Hunter College and the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute commemorate the awarding of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize (for efforts to promote peace and international law) to the extraordinary human rights advocate…  

Remembering with awe her lifetime of pioneering, nation-changing activist feminism, and recalling with pride her meaningful visits to Roosevelt House.  Photo: Matt Capowski

Joe Lowndes, Director of the Public Policy Program at Roosevelt House,  joined Gloria J. Browne-Marshall on Law of the Land for an in-depth discussion on the rise of white nationalism and the…  

Hunter’s female alums were front and center as the college celebrated Women’s History Month with the launch of The Whole World Goes to Hunter, Creating a Culture of Excellence and Activism,…  

Harold Holzer can’t escape the pull of presidents — or of history. As the Jonathan F. Fanton director of Hunter College’s Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, Holzer has served since…  

Click below to hear Prof. Joseph Lowndes, Director of the Public Policy Program at Roosevelt House, discuss the legacy of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson. Prof. Lowndes joins Donna Brazile…  

Earlier this week U.S.A. Today published an opinion piece by Juan Diaz (’18) on the impacts of Donald’s Trump’s executive order to restrict birthright citizenship on immigrant families. Diaz graduated with a…  

On June 25 Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College celebrated the legacy of Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer with a conversation with the co-authors of her final book, The…  

On June 10, 2025, the Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice at The City University of New York was officially relocated to its new home at the Roosevelt House…  

President Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, less than a month before the end of the war in Europe. With the unconditional surrender of Germany effective May 8, the day…