CUP’s core staff supports the organization from day to day, but CUP projects are designed and implemented by teams of artists, designers, educators, activists, and researchers.
The Cargo Chain
Making Policy Public
Soda Census
City Studies
What's in the Water?
Making Policy Public
Share, Where?
Urban Investigations
Field Guide to Federalism
City Studies
I Heart East New York
Urban Investigations
Former Board Members
Jason Anderson
Jason Anderson, one of CUP’s co-founders, is an architectural designer in New York City. Originally from Seattle, ... moreJason Anderson
Jason Anderson, one of CUP’s co-founders, is an architectural designer in New York City. Originally from Seattle, Jason has worked and taught in New York and Beijing, where he lived for four years after being awarded the Henry Luce Scholarship in 2005. Jason holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University. Jason served on CUP’s board and as Treasurer from 1997-2006. He continues to be a supporter and a huge fan.
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AJ Blandford
AJ Blandford is a former co-founding CUP board member. As a designer/builder she has worked together with artists including ... moreAJ Blandford
AJ Blandford is a former co-founding CUP board member. As a designer/builder she has worked together with artists including robbinschilds,
AL Steiner, Fritz Haeg, Shannon Ebner, Manfred Pernice, and Davide Balula. She is currently a doctoral student in the History program at
Rutgers University where she studies the cultural history of 19th century American arts and sciences.
Joshua Breitbart
Joshua Breitbart is the Director of Field Operations for the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative. ... moreJoshua Breitbart
Joshua Breitbart is the Director of Field Operations for the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative. Through participatory media, collaborative design, and open source tools, OTI and its partners are building an Internet that people can shape to meet their needs and dreams. In his job, Josh uses the lessons he has learned as a founding board member of CUP and as a collaborator on projects like “The Internet is Serious Business” and “What the Cell?"
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Stella Bugbee
Stella Bugbee is a creative director specializing in identity and publication design. Studio projects might range from ... moreStella Bugbee
Stella Bugbee is a creative director specializing in identity and publication design. Studio projects might range from logos, web sites and books, to self-published projects and collaborations. In addition to running her studio she teaches Advanced Publication Design to seniors in the degree program at Parsons School of Design. Prior to founding a company of her own in the summer of 2005, Stella founded Honest with Cary Murnion and Jon Milott while the three were attending Parsons School of Design. After five years at Honest, she left to work for The New York Times Magazine and then went on to be a Design Director with the Brand Integration Group at Ogilvy and Mather.
Stella’s work has been featured in Print, Res, How, Step, Black Book, Nylon and Eye. Stella Bugbee has worked on Building Codes, Important Housing Rights, and Code City.
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Sarah Dadush
Sarah, a CUP co-founder, is a lawyer currently serving as legal counsel at the International Fund for Agricultural ... moreSarah Dadush
Sarah, a CUP co-founder, is a lawyer currently serving as legal counsel at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome, Italy. She is also a member of the Rome-based faculty of Loyola University Chicago, where she teaches a class on the Architecture of International Development. Her research explores the legal, economic, and political dimensions of marketizing philanthropy and the growing field of social investing.
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Suzanne Menghraj
Suzanne Menghraj teaches writing in NYU’s Liberal Studies Program, where her courses emphasize the imaginative ... moreSuzanne Menghraj
Suzanne Menghraj teaches writing in NYU’s Liberal Studies Program, where her courses emphasize the imaginative possibilities of critical reading and writing. Prior to joining NYU’s faculty, Suzanne taught at Columbia University, and served as director of its Writing Center, as well as assistant director of its Undergraduate Writing Program. She has also worked for the Vera Institute of Justice, where her research focused on reentry programs for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated parents. Suzanne is a contributing writer for Guernica and is at work on a book of essays on art, as well as experimental translations of French interventionist criticism. She served on CUP’s board from 2008-2009.
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Kate Rubin
Kate is Director of Policy & Community Development at The Bronx Defenders, a holistic public defender office in the ... moreKate Rubin
Kate is Director of Policy & Community Development at The Bronx Defenders, a holistic public defender office in the South Bronx. She leads the office’s legislative and administrative advocacy activities and partnerships with community based organizations. She also manages Reentry Net/NY, an online resource center that helps individuals and advocates navigate the consequences of arrest, criminal convictions, and incarceration. Kate’s prior experience is in education and supporting grassroots organizing campaigns that fight for criminal justice reform and accountable in economic development. She holds a BA in history from Cornell University and served on the board of CUP from 2006 to 2012.
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Althea Wasow
Althea Wasow is a filmmaker and a Ph.D. student in Film & Media and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. ... moreAlthea Wasow
Althea Wasow is a filmmaker and a Ph.D. student in Film & Media and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on the intersection of media transition, theories of racial difference, and crime. “the wannabe,” a film she wrote and directed, won Best Short at HBO’s New York International Latino Film Festival. Her work also includes “The Whole World Revolved Around Her,” featuring Wangechi Mutu, and has screened at national and international film festivals, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Queens Museum of Art, and other institutions. Althea has collaborated on documentary films, museum exhibitions, photography books, and multimedia projects including: “For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights” (media researcher & consultant), “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar” (co-writer & senior editor), "Rikers High" (co-producer), “The Autobiography of Malcolm X Multimedia Study Environment” (assistant editor), “The Innocents” (producer & project editor), and “The Mark of Cain” (associate producer). Althea is a co-founder of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) and served on its board of directors for nearly ten years.
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