Junet Bedayn

BA in Education & Ethnicity and Race Studies

School: GS

Year: 2023

Junet comes from a small town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. She is a junior in the Dual Bachelors program between Columbia University and Sciences Po in Reims, France. She studied Political Humanities for her first two years at Sciences Po, and she now studies Education, and Race and Ethnicity, at Columbia University. Junet is a taxi-boat driver by trade, but she has also been a political Field Organizer, and a long-term volunteer at two migrant shelters in Southern Mexico. She loves to cook and dance, and she is passionate about education, and immigration justice.

Junet Bedayn

CSER continues to be Columbia's main interdisciplinary space for the study of ethnicity and race and their implications for thinking about culture, power, hierarchy, social identities, and political communities. The Center also offers a wide range of public programming, including Artist at the Center, Indigenous Forum, and Latino Public Speaker Series and the Transnational Asian/American Speaker Series. CSER's most recent spaces include the Media and Idea Lab and Gallery at the Center, a space dedicated to curating artistic and thematic exhibits around the Center’s key areas of interest.

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