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Climate Week NYC is here! Don’t miss events forStony Brook Universityfaculty, students, and the larger community

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Learn more about New York Climate Exchange here.

Open Call for Grad Students

CCSP at Stony Brook is seeking applications from graduate students to serve on its Student Leadership Committee for the 2025–2026 and 2026-2027 academic years.

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Sign up for our Climate Week storytelling workshop with The Moth + NYU!

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Join The Moth and NYU for an interactive session on the art of storytelling, confidence-building, and community connection.
NYU Tandon, Brooklyn | Wed, Sept 24, 2025 | 2–5 p.m. ET
[Sign up now – spots are limited!]

CCSP Executive Director Manisha Desai Receives 2025 ASA Jessie Bernard Award for Advancing Decolonial Feminist Scholarship

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Just Launched! Website of the Global Research and Action Network for a New Eco-Social Contract

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Explore the new website of the Global Research and Action Network for a New Eco-Social Contract

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The GD campaign is finished but you can still support CCSP by selecting the designation "Center for Changing Systems of Power Excellence Fund"

CCSP 2025 Summer Social Justice Grant

Learn about our grant recipients' projects

"Writing Beyond the Prison" featured in The Statesman

Read Stony Brook Press article featuring CCSP director, Manisha Desai

On Indigenous Peoples' Day: Indigenous Activists Urge UN Leaders to Support Treaty

Indigenous coalition members, activists and allies sent a letter to UN leaders urging them to support a treaty in the form of a new Optional Protocol to CEDAW to end violence against women and girls.

Learn about this effort to secure a binding global framework to end the most widespread human rights violation on earth.

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