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'I Felt Like a Nobody': The Hidden Lives of Immigrant Caregivers
Monday, May 18, 2026
Buena Vista (BV) 101
12:30-1:30pm
Tsisnami "Sissy" Sakvarlishvili
Pulitzer Fellow * Author * Activist * Journalist * Immigrant
Community College Graduate
Tsisnami "Sissy" Sakvarlishvili is a Georgian-American journalist, writer, and activist whose work amplifies the voices of marginalized communities and champions freedom and democracy.
Born in Tbilisi during the Soviet era, she endured political upheaval and Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia, which displaced her family, before pursuing her passion for education and storytelling.
Sissy has reported on politics, culture, and the Georgian diaspora in New York, interviewing figures such as former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili and NBA star Zaza Pachulia. She will attend The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism this fall. Her third book, “Georgia After the Collapse of the Soviet Union,” examines Georgia’s political and historical transformation after the Soviet era.
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Presented by GCC’s Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium
Supported by: GCC, Language & Communication Pathway, Pulitzer Center, People, Power & Perspectives Pathway, Glendale College Foundation
Immersed in Oil
Tuesday, Sept. 10th
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Kreider Hall (SR 138)
Dr. Tara Pixley is a queer, Jamaican-American photojournalist and Assistant Professor of Journalism at Temple University. Her photography, which reimagines race, gender, and LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities through a liberation lens, has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Newsweek, Allure, ProPublica, and ESPN, among many others. She’s coming
to GCC to discuss Big Oil and environmental injustice in LA.
- Ask Your Instructor if Extra Credit is Offered
- Free + Open to the Public
- Faculty FLEX Available / Student Prizes!
- Questions? Ask mstonis@glendale.edu
The Baby Broker Project:
Inside the World’s Leading Low-Cost Surrogacy Agency
Naipanoi Lepapa
Pulitzer Center Grantee & 2022 Journalist of the Year in Kenya
Thursday, March 14th
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Kreider Hall (SR 138)
Giveaways & FLEX Available
Optional - Want to read her article before the event? bit.ly/babybrokerproject
Questions or accommodations? Please email gccpulitzercenter@glendale.edu
This event is presented by GCC's Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium.
Flex available. Please sign up through the Vision Resource Center.
Flyer in text format
Harsh Sentencing: Children Behind Bars?
LECTURE WITH ROBUST Q&A DISCUSSION
Lisa Armstrong, Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, is an award-winning journalist with credits in The Intercept, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, USA TODAY, and other outlets. She has reported from several countries, including Sierra Leone, Kenya, and the Philippines, and reported from Haiti from 2010 to 2014. She is currently reporting on incarceration, including COVID-19 in New York State prisons and Miami jails. Armstrong also produced a documentary for CBS News about the role that for-profit-provided mental health care has played in the increase of suicides in state prisons.
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
12:30-1:30pm
Kreider Hall (SR 138)
FLEX AVAILABLE
IN PERSON ONLY
FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Flyer in text format
Pulitzer Center Information Session
You are warmly invited to join us for a special info session featuring a Pulitzer Center representative to learn about how to apply for a reporting grant.
Students, staff and faculty will specifically learn about gender reporting and international journalism opportunities during this event. Our 2023 Research Fellow, Brittany Klintworth, will also be on hand to answer questions.
Ms. Klintworth recently traveled to Italy, where her focus was the intersection of feminism and fast fashion. You can read her work here.
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 19
Where: Sierra Vista 130
When: 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
The event is open to the public! Light refreshments will be served.
Questions? Please email gccpulitzercenter@glendale.edu
This event is presented in partnership with GCC's Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium and the Language Arts Division.
Flex available. Please sign up through the Vision Resource Center.