Josephine Caputo is Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER). She provides support in the creative process and for the center’s main mission to show artistic and thematic exhibits around CSER’s key areas of interest, including immigration, citizenship, national formations, public space, race, ethnicity and indigeneity. Her role mainly comprises of safeguarding the continuous success for CSER to remain Columbia’s leading interdisciplinary space for the study of ethnicity and race. Aiding the center to cultivate a setting for thinking about culture, power, hierarchy, social identities, and political communities. Josephine coordinates a wide range of public programming, including Artist at the Center, Indigenous Forum and Studies Program Series, Latino Public Speaker Series and the Transnational Asian/American Speaker Series.
Prior to joining the Center, Josephine was manager of continuing medical education and community events for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences for the University of Miami. Josephine has used her gifts and talents in marketing, grant writing and fund-raising. Formerly, she worked at New York-Presbyterian Hospital as a certified surgical technologist. Josephine received her B.A. from The College of New Rochelle, and is currently pursuing her Masters.

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Josephine Caputo is Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER). She provides support in the creative process and for the center’s main mission to show artistic and thematic exhibits around CSER’s key areas of interest, including immigration, citizenship, national formations, public space, race, ethnicity and indigeneity. Her role mainly comprises of safeguarding the continuous success for CSER to remain Columbia’s leading interdisciplinary space for the study of ethnicity and race. Aiding the center to cultivate a setting for thinking about culture, power, hierarchy, social identities, and political communities. Josephine coordinates a wide range of public programming, including Artist at the Center, Indigenous Forum and Studies Program Series, Latino Public Speaker Series and the Transnational Asian/American Speaker Series.
Prior to joining the Center, Josephine was manager of continuing medical education and community events for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences for the University of Miami. Josephine has used her gifts and talents in marketing, grant writing and fund-raising. Formerly, she worked at New York-Presbyterian Hospital as a certified surgical technologist. Josephine received her B.A. from The College of New Rochelle, and is currently pursuing her Masters.