Meet Our Students

They are visionary artists. They are exceptional scholars. They are masters of their craft. They go beyond conventional paths to chart their own course of study. We invite you to meet a group of students from The New School's seven colleges, hear excerpts from their admission essays, and see how they are preparing for a world that doesn't yet exist.

Strategic Design and Management (BBA)

Chyelle Milgrom: Making Wellness User-Friendly

Strategic Design and Management (BBA)

Laura Zelmanowicz ’20

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Photography (MFA)

Spandita Malik: Embroidering Mental Health

History of Design and Curatorial Studies (MA)

Penny Wolfson: Reclaiming Agency Through Scholarship

Art, Media, and Technology (BFA)

Thalia Kassem '21

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Fashion Design (BFA)

Noga Ben Shaul '23

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Fashion Design (BFA)

Malcolm D. Costa '22

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Fashion Design (BFA)

Araz Yaghoub Nakhjavan Tapeh '22

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Fashion Design (BFA)

Farah Ritter '23

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Fashion Design (BFA), Fashion Design and the Arts (MFA)

Logan Monroe Goff: Tailoring With Intention

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Art, Media, and Technology (BFA)

Annie Como '22

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Art, Media, and Technology (BFA)

Iman Salem ’23

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Art, Media, and Technology (BFA)

Kathryn Frey '21

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Art, Media, and Technology (BFA)

Megumi Tsutsumi '23

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Fashion Studies (MA)

Ilaria Trame '22

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Strategic Design and Management (BBA)

Christian Glover ’21

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Strategic Design and Management (BBA)

Nour-Emilie Jacquot '23

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Strategic Design and Management (BBA)

Zena Tadmoury ’23

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Events & News

Friday, October 2nd, 11:00PM to Friday, January 11th, 12:00AM

Roger Kellaway, John Goldsby & Terry Clarke Autumn Reunion Concert

Join us for a special evening of jazz as we welcome the esteemed trio of Roger Kellaway, John Goldsby, and Terry Clarke to The New School.The program is dedicated to jazz and will include historical and newer compositions by Roger Kellaway and John Goldsby. Kellaway, Goldsby, and Clarke will also reprise a number of selections from their Live at Tokyo album, recorded 40 years ago.Kicking off the month of October, this special Autumn Reunion brings together three musicians with a shared history and decades of experience. It’s an evening of music and connection you won’t want to miss.The concert is being produced by Samuel Turvey, a founder of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival and its producer from 1993 to 2002. New School faculty member and alto saxophone player David Glasser is serving as the Assistant Producer. Pam Shaw and Victor Talbot are serving as the Creative Producers for this event.About Roger Kellaway: Roger is a Grammy Award winner and Academy Award nominated Pianist/Composer and has written in the fields of jazz, classical, and pop, also composing and scoring for films and television. He has worked with everyone from Ellington to Elvis, Joni Mitchell to Barbara Streisand, and Quincy Jones to Yo-Yo Ma. Roger’s commissions range from a ballet for George Ballachine and the New York Ballet to his most prized television credit, “Remembering You,” the closing theme for the groundbreaking “All in the Family” television series. In addition to leading many jazz recordings and accomplishments, he has appeared and recorded with Sonny Rollins, Wes Montgomery, Oliver Nelson, Ben Webster, Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer. Roger resides in Los Angeles.About John Goldsby:John is bass player and musician of extraordinary talents including his accomplishments in jazz education. He has led numerous successful recording sessions of his own and has performed with many legends including Scott Hamilton, Jay McShann, Barney Kessel, Michael Brecker, Mel Lewis, and John Lewis. During his 30-year tenure with the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Big Band (WDR Big Band) he performed and recorded with McCoy Tyner, John Scofield, Joshua Redman, Ambrose Akinmusire, Roy Hargrove, Knower, Nduduzo Makhathini, and many others. John’s current album—Big Band Bass—features Bob Mintzer and WDR Big Band. The Jazz Bass Book is Mr. Goldsby’s classic work documenting jazz bass players and their techniques from a historical perspective. John resides in Germany, near Cologne.About Terry Clarke:Terry is a Canadian jazz drummer who worked in the mid 60’s with the legendary saxophonist, John Handy III and is featured on the recording, Live at The Monterey Jazz Festival. Clarke then joined the GRAMMY-winning group, “The Fifth Dimension”, and appears with the group in the OSCAR WINNING Summer of Soul documentary. He later relocated to Toronto and played with luminaries such as Frank Rossolino, Lenny Breau, jazz guitar legend Jim Hall and piano icon Oscar Peterson. During this period Clarke played for 25 years with the GRAMMY and JUNO-winning jazz big-band, “Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass”. Clarke later worked in New York City with The Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, Helen Merrill, Toots Theilmans, Red Mitchell and Roger Kellaway. Clarke is the only living drummer to be a Member of the Order of Canada (Canada’s highest civilian honour). His recording, It’s About Time, was the winner of “The Best Traditional Jazz Recording” at the 2010 JUNO Awards (Canadian GRAMMY).

Wednesday, October 7th, 3:00PM to Thursday, October 8th, 3:59AM

The Social Security Retirement Earnings Test: Should it stay or go?

Thursday, October 8th, 8:00PM to 10:00PM

Capitalism and its Critics: the Big Questions Return

Thursday, October 8th, 10:00PM to Saturday, October 10th, 10:30PM

71st Flaherty Film Seminar NYC Pod

Join us for three days of incredible film and discussion as part of the Flaherty Film Seminar NYC Pod! The Flaherty Film Seminar is an internationally recognized forum for collective inquiry into the form and function of non-fiction cinema, fostering field-building dialogue, encouraging the exchange of cinematic ideas across generations and cultures, and promoting the expansion of the limits of cinema itself. The 71st Flaherty Film Seminar will be taking place this year in Marlboro, Vermont with films and discussions programmed from October 8 through October 10th. Our NYC Pod will take place simultaneously on the campus of The New School alongside several global Pods. After co-hosting the 70th anniversary Flaherty Seminar here last summer (along with Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Firehouse: DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Film), The New School’s MA Media Studies is excited to be hosting this year’s NYC Pod. The seminar schedule is rigorous, with up to 3 screenings with discussions each day, punctuated by coffee and meal breaks. The NYC Pod is free and open to the public but space is limited, registration is required, and an honest effort to engage with the entire 3-day program is expected. Register at the link (to left) for the entire seminar (see schedule below).NYC Pod Schedule:DAY 1 - Thursday, Oct 8, 2026Starr Foundation Hall University Center, UL10263 Fifth Avenue 6:00 - 9:30 PM - Program 1 + discussion DAY 2 - Friday , Oct 9, 2026Starr Foundation Hall University Center, UL10263 Fifth Avenue12:00 - 1:30 PM - Program 21:30 - 2:00 PM - Coffee break 2:00 - 3:30 PM - Program 33:30 - 6:00 PM - Program 2+3 Discussion6:00 - 7:00 PM - Dinner break7:00 - 9:30 PM - Program 4 + discussion DAY 3 - Saturday , Oct 10, 2026Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, room N101Sheila C. Johnson Design Center66 Fifth Avenue 1:00 - 2:30 PM - Program 5 + discussion 2:30 - 4:00 PM - Break4:00 - 6:30 PM - Program 6 or 7 + discussionWhat to expect at the Flaherty Seminar: Gestures of RefusalThe Seminar is an exploratory experience that emulates the concept of non-preconception. To this end, the organizers do not announce the Seminar program beforehand. Beyond the programmers and production team, no one knows what they will be watching until the lights go down. Film notes and trigger warnings will be made available upon request to participants before each screening begins. The Seminar is programmed as a continuum wherein individual screening programs relate to, riff off of, and expand upon one another.About this year’s Seminar theme:Programmed by The Flaherty team, the 71st Flaherty Seminar will delve into images that resist disintegration: works that excavate what empire and erasure have buried beneath systems, structures, and the surfaces of images themselves. Through fragmentation, recollection, and archival intervention, this year’s program will explore how memory is constructed, displaced, or reclaimed.

Thursday, October 8th, 10:00PM to Friday, October 9th, 3:59AM

Designing for Performance

Thursday, October 8th, 11:00PM to Friday, October 9th, 1:00AM

Book Launch: Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated by R. Sikoryak

Friday, October 9th, 4:00PM to Saturday, October 10th, 3:59AM

Art, Poetry, and Existence(s)

Please join us for a book launch and artist talk by Truong Tran, poet and visual artist, moderated by Margaret Rhee. Tran's new book, How to Exi(s)t: A Poet’s Memoir, was just published by City Lights Books. Truong will discuss his art practice, his new book, and issues around queerness and resistance through poetry and memoir.About How to Exi(s)t: A Poet’s Memoir: How to Exi(s)t: A Poet’s Memoir is an experiment in nonlinear autobiography by the author of the American Book Award-winning Book of the Other, Truong Tran. Beginning in the present–at a writing residency in the aftermath of this success–How to Exi(s)t moves back and forth in time, in bursts of brief poetic essays grouped by theme. The duality of the title thematizes a dilemma at the heart of the book: how does a poet separate himself from the academic career to which he’s devoted his professional life and what does being a teacher mean outside of it?Unpeeling the layers between present and past, Tran proceeds in reverse as he explores crucial events and figures in his life, including the reaction to the publication of Book of the Other, the dynamics of whiteness and power framing his repeated rejection for a tenure track position, the profound effect of his dyslexia on his evolution as a writer and artist, the repercussions of being outed by a newspaper after winning an undergrad poetry prize, traumatic episodes growing up in the Vietnamese diaspora in San Jose, and complicated relationships with both his family and his chosen family. Attempting to fathom these experiences and connect them to his present self, Tran examines and reexamines key details rather than dispensing with them in neat anecdotes, reflecting the volatile process of imagination and memory.Unsparing, even caustic in its instance on racism as a dominant note of American life, but marked by surprising tenderness and humor, How to Exi(s)t is a compelling portrayal of Tran’s pedagogical philosophy as well as an interrogation of a poetic language that conceals as much as it reveals."Vietnamese American poet and visual artist Tran (Book of the Other) examines racism, queer history, and his own life in this striking nonlinear account."—Publishers Weekly"Tran's prose speaks directly to the reader and offers opinions and perspectives that are superbly barbed and lushly poetic all at once. . . . A wise, reflective self-portrait shimmering with genuine emotion and bracing honesty."—Kirkus Reviews

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Meet Our Students

Chyelle Milgrom: Making Wellness User-Friendly

Laura Zelmanowicz ’20

Spandita Malik: Embroidering Mental Health

Penny Wolfson: Reclaiming Agency Through Scholarship

Thalia Kassem '21

Noga Ben Shaul '23

Malcolm D. Costa '22

Araz Yaghoub Nakhjavan Tapeh '22

Farah Ritter '23

Logan Monroe Goff: Tailoring With Intention

Annie Como '22

Iman Salem ’23

Kathryn Frey '21

Megumi Tsutsumi '23

Ilaria Trame '22

Christian Glover ’21

Nour-Emilie Jacquot '23

Zena Tadmoury ’23

Events & News

Roger Kellaway, John Goldsby & Terry Clarke Autumn Reunion Concert

The Social Security Retirement Earnings Test: Should it stay or go?

Capitalism and its Critics: the Big Questions Return

71st Flaherty Film Seminar NYC Pod

Designing for Performance

Book Launch: Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated by R. Sikoryak

Art, Poetry, and Existence(s)

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