Derek Fordjour
Hunter College graduate Derek Fordjour was born in 1974 in Memphis, Tennessee, to parents of Ghanaian heritage. He earned a BA at Morehouse College before receiving an MEd in Arts Education at Harvard University. After a circuitous path to art making, Fordjour enrolled in the MFA program at Hunter College, graduating in 2016.
Henning Rübsam
Henning Rübsam is a choreographer, dancer, writer, and educator. He received his MFA in Dance Education from Hunter College in 2016. Already an accomplished dancer and choreographer when he began his studies at Hunter, Rübsam trained in classical ballet at John Neumeier’s Hamburg Opera Ballet School before emigrating to New York from Germany, then earned his BFA from the Juilliard School and eventually formed his own dance company, SENSEDANCE, in 1992.
Betty Yu
Socially engaged multimedia artist Betty Yu’s artistic practice integrates documentary film and new media platforms with community-infused activism and education. Born and raised in New York City to Chinese Immigrant parents, Yu co-founded Chinatown Art Brigade in 2015, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-gentrification organizing.