Housing + Tenant Rights: Tenant Organizing in the New London Area
This event is part of "We Live Here New London," an exhibit examining the history and present-day realities of the housing crisis in America, presented by Connecticut College and the Center for Housing Opportunity Eastern Connecticut.
Speakers
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Caroline Fermo Co-President
Alpha East Lyme Tenants Union
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Daz Park Member
Alpha New London Tenants Union
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Luke Melonakos Co-President
CT Tenants Union
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Hannah Srajer Co-President
CT Tenants Union
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Ariella R. Rotramel (Moderator) Vandana Shiva Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies
Connecticut College
Caroline Fermo, Co-President, Alpha East Lyme Tenants Union
Caroline Fermo is a Project Manager for the New London Homeless Hospitality Center. Caroline holds a M.S.Ed. in Higher Education from University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and a B.A. in Business, Organizations & Society and French & Francophone Studies from Franklin & Marshall College.
Daz Park, Member, Alpha New London Tenants Union
Luke Melonakos, Co-President, CT Tenants Union
Luke has helped build the CT Tenants Union since it began in 2021.
Hannah Srajer, Co-President, CT Tenants Union
Ariella R. Rotramel, Vandana Shiva Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies, Connecticut College
Ari served as as the Interim Dean of Institutional Equity and Inclusion August 2021-January 2022.
Rotramel holds a bachelor of arts degree for Intersections of Racial, Sexual and Gender Identities from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University. Ari is the 2019 recipient of Connecticut College’s Helen Mulvey Faculty Award for Fostering Student Achievement, the 2017 Faculty Mentor Award from the College’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, and the 2015 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Service Award.
Hosted in partnership with
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Connecticut College
Connecticut College educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens in a global society. The College promotes an understanding of local, regional, national, and international peoples, groups, cultures, and issues, and encourages students to take a life-long interest in them.
