Although the Red Card Project is primarily headed by the Student World Assembly and its committed members, several other organizations have been instrumental in coordinating the program's events and activities including mobilizing resources for its implementation.
Student World Assembly
The Student World Assembly is a non-governmental, nonÂpartisan organization created to represent students globally. It provides a deliberative assembly where students around the world can exchange views and translate these views into meaningful actions. Initially launched at California Polytechnic State University in 2003, the Student World Assembly has since expanded to represent approximately 19,000 members from 1500 colleges and universities, representing 150 countries around the world.
The Student World Assembly believes in democratic values; the dignity and worth of all human beings; equal rights for all men and women; social, economic, and cultural justice for every person; and the freedom to promote these causes. SWA chapters in universities worldwide offer a powerful instrument for addressing the vital social and political issues that threaten our global future. By giving students from around the world an equal opportunity to voice their opinions, SWA enables all students to educate themselves, participate in the discourse surrounding pressing global issues, take action to address these issues, and begin thinking of themselves as global citizens.
For more information about the Student World Assembly, please visit their website:
www.studentworldassembly.org
Kingsborough Community College
Kingsborough Community College is located on a 70-acre campus in Manhattan Beach, on the southern tip of Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 1963, the College serves approximately thirty thousand students per year, offering a wide range of credit and non-credit courses in the liberal arts and career education, as well as a number of specialized programs. Kingsborough serves a widely diverse student population and ranks among the top community colleges in the country in associate degrees awarded to minority students.
Civic Engagement at Kingsborough Community College is defined as acting on our mutual responsibility to care for each other in the college, in our communities, and on our planet. Kingsborough accepts as a fundamental principle that education requires both an acceptance of social responsibility and active participation in meeting the challenges of a modern society. This responsibility is borne out through political activity, community service, engagement in leadership roles, advocacy and education on issues which relate to social change.
For more information about Kingsborough Community College, please visit their website:
www.kbcc.cuny.edu
MALAVE Leadership Academy
The MALAVE Leadership Academy strives to be a center for global leadership research and education, while working to build upon CUNY's great tradition of service to our community, New York City.
The Academy is a growing resource for all CUNY students, faculty, and staff. The three core programs of the Academy are the MLA Fellows Program, the signature program of the Academy; the CUNY Ambassadors Program, which focuses on leadership through advocacy; and CUNY Corps, which focuses on leadership through service.
The MALAVE Leadership Academy also hosts the annual Emerging Leaders Conference, open to all CUNY students interested in improving their leadership skills; and the New Leadership Challenge, for all newly elected student government officials. In addition, the MLA hosts the Annual CUNY Student Leadership Awards.
For more information about the MALAVE Leadership Academy, please visit their website:
cla.cuny.edu
New York City Deputy Mayor's Office
Carol A. Robles-Román is Deputy Mayor for Legal Affairs and Counsel to New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. The Deputy Mayor oversees several city agencies that improve the public's access to justice and city services. The office handles a wide range of projects and works on issues including workplace disputes, equal opportunity employment, judicial ethics, and administrative tribunal reform, among others.
