Stanley Feingold Lecture Series On American Politics: Hakeem Jeffries
Join us in the historic Great Hall for the 2023 Stanley Feingold Lecture on American Politics, featuring Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Leader of the U.S House of Representatives, (D-NY 8th District) in conversation with Colin Powell School Dean Andrew Rich.
Hakeem Jeffries represents the diverse Eighth Congressional District of New York, an area that encompasses large parts of Brooklyn and a section of Queens. Serving his fifth term in the United States Congress, Rep. Jeffries is a member of the House Judiciary Committee and House Budget Committee.
Rep. Jeffries is the Democratic Leader, having been elected to that position by his colleagues in November 2022. In that capacity, he is the highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives. He is also the former Chair of the Democratic Caucus, Whip of the Congressional Black Caucus and previously co-chaired the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee where he helped develop the For The People agenda.
In Congress, Rep. Jeffries is a tireless advocate for social and economic justice. He has worked hard to help residents recover from the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, reform our criminal justice system, improve the economy for everyday Americans and protect our healthcare from right-wing attacks.
Stanley Feingold (CCNY '46)
Feingold taught political science to a generation of CCNY students. To his students, he was far more than an exceptional teacher: he was a mentor, a guide for their lives, and an inspiration to live lives with integrity, intellectual honesty, and for many, to devote their lives to public service. He made his students intellectually hungry, challenged their assumptions, and taught them analytic rigor and careful reasoning. He retained an intellectual/teaching relationship with his students from the 1950s and 1960s for over fifty years, until his death in 2017 at the age of 91.
This Lecture Series has been supported by many of his students, in loving memory of a teacher who personified the highest values of The City College of New York.