Gentrification – a process by which an influx of wealth alters the makeup of a low-income neighborhood – is an untenable reality in Brooklyn. The location of the Brooklyn Campus,…
To prepare for the Lobby Day trip, Arias, along with students Conor Johnson and Nicholas Bates from SJC Long Island, learned about the state’s budget process and how citizens can work to advance their interests with their legislators in the state Assembly and state Senate, as well as discover which issues are important to legislators in different regions.