Dr. Kendra Sullivan

Kendra Sullivan is a poet, a public artist, and an activist scholar. She is Director of the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center; co-director of the NYC Climate Justice Hub; publisher of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative; and a co-editorial director of Women’s Studies Quarterly. She led the Andrew W. Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research from 2014-2024.

Kendra has produced public art addressing water access and equity issues in cities around the world and has published her writing on art, environment, and engagement widely–her most recent op-ed in City Limits calls on civic leaders to help make CUNY the climate justice university of New York. She is the co-founder of the Sunview Luncheonette, a cooperative arts venue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; and a member of Mare Liberum, an eco-art collective. Her books include Zero Point Dream Poems (Doublecross Press) and Reps (Ugly Duckling Presse).