Seven LaGuardia students are in the running to receive the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Transfer Scholarship: Nabila Akther, Nataly Briones, Mia Gonzalez Lozado, Jiale Lin, Kenny Lin, Thilleli Mehrazi, and Khine Zin (Valentina) Thaw. These seven LaGuardia students are among 485 semifinalists from across the country who will be considered for the scholarship (out of an applicant pool of more than 1,300 students). Students who are selected for the scholarship receive up to $55,000 per year for two to three years, along with personalized academic and transfer advising, access to internships, study‑abroad opportunities, and graduate school funding. Last year, eight LaGuardia students were selected as semifinalist, with three ultimately being selected for the award.

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LaGuardia had a pretty busy calendar of Women's History Month events this year—from a kick-off event celebrating alumni stories and the significance of women as mentors to our annual Women's Literary Salon, there was certainly no shortage of events to celebrate women's history. On March 27, we closed out the month's programming with Celebrating the Women of Queens, an event co-hosted by LaGuardia President Kenneth Adams and New York City Council Member Julie Won. President Adams and Council Member Won presented awards to recognize five highly accomplished women based in Queens: Claudia Chan, Deputy Director for Government Relations; Jazmine Freire, Academic Manager and Adjunct Lecturer in the Health Sciences Department; Rana Abdelhamid, Executive Director of the Malikah Safety Center; Natalie Gomez-Velez, Esq., Interim Dean and Professor of Law at the CUNY School of Law; and Tshering Gurung, Director of Business at Accompany Capital.

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As we get closer and closer to the end of the academic year, many of our students are thinking a bit more about what they're going to do after LaGuardia. To help them out, the folks from LaGuardia's Transfer Engagement Initiative host our bi-annual Transfer Fair every semester—the fair serves as a chance for students to meet face-to-face with admissions representatives from more than 30 different colleges—a wide range of CUNYs, SUNYs, and even a few out-of-state private colleges showed up. This semester, nearly 600 students showed up to the event, where they got to ask questions about the transfer process and learn more about the different academic programs awaiting them when they graduate from LaGuardia.

Did you transfer to a four-year college after your studies at LaGuardia? We'd love to hear your story—reach out to us at alumni@lagcc.cuny.edu and we'll be in touch.

Bijoyeta Sahoria Das, associate professor of Journalism, has been named a recipient of the 2026–2027 Kathy Chamberlain Award from Women Writing Women’s Lives, a feminist biography seminar affiliated with the CUNY Graduate Center’s Center for the Study of Women and Society and the Center for the Humanities. Professor Das was selected from a highly competitive international pool—she's one of 11 writers to receive the honor this year. Her project, Phoolan Devi: Villainized, Sexualized, and Unforgotten, examines the life of Phoolan Devi (1963–2001), a lower-caste Indian woman who rose to notoriety as a bandit before becoming a member of parliament. Das’s work offers a critical reexamination of how caste, gender, and violence shaped—and often distorted—Devi’s public image, contributing to the erasure of her agency. 

In addition to the cohort of Spring 2026 incoming students, LaGuardia also welcomed a handful of new full-time faculty to the campus this semester: Anthony Amen, Victoria Buitrago Brown, Maritess S. Costes, Li Duan, and Thomas A. Hagerty. All five of these educators previously served LaGuardia as adjunct instructors and bring extensive clinical experience to their teaching. Three of these new faculty members are LaGuardia alumni themselves.

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