The BMCC-Hunter AANAPISI Bridge Initiative offers BMCC workshops and student success seminars for BMCC and Hunter students that explore topics including: Asian American identities, financial literacy, mental health, navigating college, and academic skills.
Financial Literacy Workshops
Finances are one of the major stressors many BMCC Asian, Asian American and other first-gen students face. ABI’s financial literacy workshops provide skills and knowledge to help students manage their personal finances in a way that supports their academic and life goals.
Our workshops are open to all BMCC and Hunter students. They are designed to help students explore how their backgrounds may impact the way they think and feel about money, and ultimately their financial decisions. In addition to self-reflection, our workshops also offer money management strategies that students can implement in the short-term, giving them confidence to work on more long-term financial goals
Workshop topics include:
- Credit Cards 101
- Saving While Surviving
- Money Talks at the Dinner Table
- Know Your Worth: Money and Gender
- Money Archetypes
To learn more about upcoming financial literacy workshops, visit: https://huntercap.org/abi-events/ or contact: abi@bmcc.cuny.edu
Creative Writing Seminars
Have you always wanted to write about your life but didn’t know where to begin? Would you benefit from a creative writing class that would help improve your overall reading, speaking, writing, and listening skills in university courses?
Every winter and summer, the BMCC-Hunter AANAPISI Bridge Initiative offers a free series of virtual workshops that are open to all BMCC and Hunter students.
Writer Bushra Rehman (award winning author of Roses in the Mouth of a Lion, named Best Book of the year by NPR, Buzzfeed, Lambda, Chicago Review of Books, LA Times, Ms. and many others) will lead students through a series of creative writing workshops to write about their lives in New York City. Students will generate new writing, practice techniques for revision, overcome writing blocks, and celebrate their creativity. Each workshop will include a series of short readings and generative writing prompts as well as time to share their writing.
Applications for the January seminar open each November and are due each December. Applications for the January 2023 seminar are now open! Apply by 12/28/22 at 5pm ET at: bit.ly/winterwriting23
Applications for the summer seminar open around May and are due around June.
To learn more, visit: https://huntercap.org/abi-events/ or contact: abi@bmcc.cuny.edu
Online Interview Skills Seminars
Online interviewing is an increasingly common practice for jobs, internships, and admissions to graduate programs. How can you prepare for these types of interviews?
Every winter and summer, the BMCC-Hunter AANAPISI Bridge Initiative offers a free series of virtual workshops that are open to all BMCC and Hunter students.
Students will: learn and practice strategies for online interviewing, get feedback from mock interviews, explore stereotypes about Asian Americans in the workplace, network with Asian American professionals, and receive a certificate of completion.
Applications for the January seminar open each November and are due each December. Applications for the January 2023 seminar are now open! Apply by 12/27/22 at 5pm ET at: bit.ly/wininterview23
Applications for the summer seminar open around May and are due around June.
To learn more, visit: https://huntercap.org/abi-events/ or contact: abi@bmcc.cuny.edu