Kendra Sullivan

Kendra Sullivan is a poet, a public artist, and an activist scholar. She is the director of the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, co-director of the NYC Climate Justice Hub, publisher of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and a co-editorial director of Women’s Studies Quarterly. She led the Andrew W. Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research from 2014 to 2024. Sullivan has produced public art addressing water access and equity issues in cities around the world and has published her writing on art, environment, and engagement widely—her most recent op-ed in City Limits calls on civic leaders to help make CUNY the climate justice university of New York. She is the co-founder of the Sunview Luncheonette, a cooperative arts venue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; and a member of Mare Liberum, an eco-art collective. Her books include Zero Point Dream Poems (Doublecross Press, 2023) and Reps (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024).