{"id":199687,"date":"2026-04-16T18:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199687\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:22:32","slug":"brooklyn-college-brings-back-exhibit-on-immigrant-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199687\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn College Brings Back Exhibit on Immigrant Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We Are Brooklyn: Immigrant Voices” is a multimedia exhibition that is a living archive where student voices illuminate identity, migration and belonging. After traveling around the city for seven years, the exhibit made its way back to Brooklyn College. <\/p>\n

First debuting seven years ago,\u00a0Brooklyn College<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday reopened We Are Brooklyn: Immigrant Voices,<\/a> a multimedia exhibition built from student interviews with immigrants and children of immigrants, many drawn from the students\u2019 own families.<\/p>\n

Produced by the Brooklyn College Listening Project<\/a>, the exhibition features stories rooted in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Haiti, Pakistan, Albania, Grenada, Italy, and beyond. It first debuted on the CUNY campus seven years ago amid heightened national debates over immigration and identity. After traveling to five venues across New York City, the exhibition returns newly updated amid a political and cultural moment defined by questions of belonging.<\/p>\n

Installed in the library, the re-opening event drew students, faculty, and staff into a space where storytelling feels immediate and alive. Each visual display is paired with a QR code, allowing visitors to listen to the original interviews on their phones. The result is an immersive experience, one where voices, accents, pauses, and emotions add depth and humanity beyond what text alone can convey, officials said.<\/p>\n

Joseph Entin, the project\u2019s current director and professor of English and American Studies, said the initiative bridges classroom learning with lived experience, positioning students not just as learners, but as knowledge makers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Brooklyn Listening Project flips the educational script,\u201d Entin said. \u201cWe sometimes think that college students are missing something, that they come to college to get what they lack. The Listening Project turns that idea upside down. It says: what we need at the college is what students have access to, what students know, what their families know, what their neighbors know. Through the Listening Project, students become experts. So this project is designed to allow you students to really bring the world to us, to show us what you know.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nPublic Advocate Jumaane D. Williams with his mother, Patricia, who is part of the exhibit. . Photo: Supplied\/Brooklyn College <\/p>\n

Among those in attendance on Wednesday’s opening was Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, a Brooklyn College graduate,\u00a0alongside his mother, Patricia, whose own immigrant story is featured in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

Other speakers included organizers Jessica Siegel, professor emerita and the former director of the Listening Project and Jes\u00fas P\u00e9rez, the director of the Brooklyn College Immigrant Student Success Office, who emigrated from Mexico as a child and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1995.<\/p>\n

The exhibit can be seen in the\u00a0Brooklyn College library lobby, 2900 Bedford Ave., through May 15.<\/p>\n

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