CUP’s core staff supports the organization from day to day, but CUP projects are designed and implemented by teams of artists, designers, educators, activists, and researchers.


Lashawn, Brianna, and Jacqueline, from the St. John’s Recreation Center in Crown Heights, were part of the “What the Cell?” crew.
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Sean Kelleher and Danny Aviles, from City-As-School, were part of the Water Underground crew in 2006.
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CUP and CUP teaching artist Douglas Paulson worked with students from College Now at Brooklyn College on an Urban Investigation about neighborhood financial services. Those students were: Roodlyne Vilsaint, Kimberly Saintelus, Maniza Pritila, Alyssa Lau, Cynthia Dunston, Tommi Ann Davis, Shannae Braham, Alexa Betancourt.
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Kristian Roberts, Joanna Pajuelo, Darnell Lubin, and Brian Garrido, all from City-as-School, collaborated with CUP and Helki Frantzen on “The Internet is Serious Business.”
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Students from the Academy of Urban Planning, in Aisha Haynes’ English Language Arts Class, collaborated with CUP on “Soda Census.”
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Students from the Academy for Urban Planning in Mr. Sandoval’s 9th grade US History class worked with CUP on Field Guide to Federalism
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Students from the Academy of Urban Planning, in Aisha Haynes’ English Language Arts class, collaborated with CUP and Jonathan Bogarín on “Scary, OK With It, Good.”
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Students from New Settlement’s Bronx Helpers collaborated with CUP and Jonathan Bogarín on Bodega Down Bronx.
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CUP and CUP Teaching Artist Paul Sargent worked with students from Ms. Cardarelli’s advisory class at the Urban Assembly School for Criminal Justice on a project about surveillance. Those students were: Zarminaoy Akhmedova, Susie Alvarez, Nalyn Celestine, Evelyn Cordero, Marium Dar, Ashley Desil, Melissa Dominique, Hira Ghaffar, Kiram Imtiaz, Sara Iqbal, Alyssia King, Aisha Loane, Deeba Mazhar, Kelly Mishquiri, Shanel Montreuil, Lina Mubarez, Shanella Palmer, Tayyaba Rehman, Manahil Sami, Khadija Sarwar, Iqra Tariq.
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CUP and CUP teaching artist Cassie Thornton worked with students from College Now at Brooklyn College on an Urban Investigation about what it would take to make a big change on Grand Army Plaza. Those students were: Najilah Desravines, Rebecca Leger, Stephanie Camacho, Daniel Linton, Jessie Chen, Iseult Leger, Carolyn Henry-Williams, Khalila Blake, Lynn Dominick.
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Maniza is a student at Brooklyn College Academy. She is an intern at CUP and participated in the “$ Breakdown” Urban Investigation in the fall of 2010.
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Kelvin and Leon, from the St. John’s Recreation Center in Crown Heights, were part of the “What the Cell?” crew.
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Maggie Acevedo and Edwin Rodriguez, from City-as-School, were part of the Water Underground crew in 2006.
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Students from College Now at New Design High School and the Urban Assembly Academy of Government and Law who worked on an Urban Investigation about disaster preparedness. Those students were: Christy Chavez, Oscar Fermin, Diosa Melenciano, Rosa Melenciano, Christian Ogando, Christopher Santos, Jeffrey Salazar, Tajanay Sajous, Malik Tucker; with help from Magdiel Ciego, Kymani Hanley, and Danielle Hernandez.
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Sarai Arroyo, Kharee Boyd, Lawrence Daise, Juan Garcia, Isaiah Ortiz, Dayhana Santos, Aldo Sorcia, Chun Fung (Ronex) Tse, Shadiq Williams, and Steven Mejas were all part of the Fast-Tracked Urban Investigation in 2011.
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