User:Alexis S
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Alexis Stephens is a senior at Barnard College. Hailing from the great city of Philadelphia, Alexis spent her formative years watching a lot of Eagles football and eating a lot of cheesesteaks. With the support of her mother and maternal grandmother, she navigated the Philadelphia education system until finding a home at Central High School.
While at Barnard, Alexis has explored Sociology, History, Music, Literature, African American Studies and Architecture all to support her major of Urban Studies. She also had the opportunity to spend a semester at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Currently, she is hard at work on her senior thesis which focuses on Columbia University's proposed expansion into the neighborhood of Manhattanville. Her thesis attempts to answer the question, what sites/buildings are historically significant in the neighborhood and how would their demolition effect the way a primarily working-class, industrial neighborhood is preserved/remembered?
Links:
Place Matters Student Coalition on Expansion and Gentrification Turntable Lab Me and Jenny's show on Barnard College Radio