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Adam Lubinsky

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Alex Vara

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This interview with Adam Lubinsky was conducted on July 5, 2022 remotely via Zoom. Adam called in from Northampton, MA. Adam is an urban planner and principal at WXY Studio in New York City, as well as a professor at Columbia University. In this interview, he spoke about his work with WXY architecture + urban design firm and how COVID-19 has affected the project goals of the school districts he works with. Pre-pandemic, Adam found that NYC schools were more invested in integrating schools. Since COVID-19, there has been a loss of faith in the public school system, causing a flight of families from those schools.

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Leadership
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Problem solving
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Politics
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Teachers
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DOE (Department of Education)
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Interviewer Bio:

Alex Vara was born in San Francisco but raised just north of the Golden Gate Bridge in Mill Valley, California. She is a graduate of Hampshire College and a dual MFA Creative Writing (Fiction/Nonfiction) student at The New School in New York City. She’s a public speaking teacher and host of TNS After Hours, a reading series dedicated to The New School Writing Community. She writes about family and her place within it. 

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English
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