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Two City College of New York students have been awarded New York City Urban Fellowships by the city’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services.

The students, Abram Morris B Arch  ’25, UD  ’26, and Victoria Lu, will join a cohort of 25 Fellows who will be assigned to various mayoral offices and New York City agencies for a nine-month period starting in September 2026, engaging in policy and operational work. They will also participate in learning seminars and be exposed to public sector leaders.

A Macauley Honors student and a triple major (international studies, sociology, and political science) at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, Lu also earned an Advanced Certificate in Labor Relations from the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. A former City College Fellow, Colin Powell School Research Fellow, Moynihan Public Service Fellow, and Jeannette K. Watson Fellow, she will spend the summer months in Malaysia with Whose Knowledge?, a nonprofit organization concerned with sharing marginalized communities’ knowledge online. She will be working on two initiatives, “Decolonizing the Internet,” and “Liberatory Archives and Memory!”

Lu sees the Urban Fellows program as a way to get “a foot in the door” as she starts her career in public service by gaining experience in city government, specifically in labor issues.

Morris recently graduated from the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s “5+1” B Arch – MUP Urban Design Accelerated Master’s Degree program. As a Colin Powell Fellow in Leadership and Public Service, he interned at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Construction & Development division, and the New York City Public Advocate’s Infrastructure and Environmental Justice Unit. Working under Deputy Public Advocate Kashif Hussain, he learned about “people and neighborhoods who are not thoughtfully included in the process of deciding the destiny of their neighborhood.” That, he said, was the main driver for his applying to be an Urban Fellow.

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Syd Steinhardt
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