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Brooke Hansson, Bachelors Program, 09
Brooke Hansson discovered The New School after hearing Bob Kerrey’s questioning of Condoleezza Rice during the 9/11 Commission. The university’s liberal and interdisciplinary approach to education, small classes, and diverse student body intrigued her, and she moved the university to the top of her list of schools she was considering.
A Psychology major, Hansson has taken advantage of the school’s collaborative academics and incorporated her interests into her curriculum. By studying community psychology, for example, she can examine how sociopolitical circumstances and individual environments contribute to one’s psyche. “The courses offered at the New School have been indispensable in allowing me to study psychology from this unique perspective,” she says.
Hansson is also looking to the future. She is enrolled in an accelerated BA/MA program at the university and in December, she will graduate with 12 credits toward her graduate degree in psychology. She plans to pursue a PhD, eventually teach psychology, and create an organization devoted to community education and empowerment. “It has always seemed so profoundly unfair to me that the price of knowledge is set so that too few can truly access and utilize it,” she explains. “It is my intention to share what I have learned throughout my education in the hopes of mobilizing community-level change.”