Kyra D. Gaunt Named Metropolitan Who's Who Honored Member in Education
Kyra D. Gaunt Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology for Baruch College, has been named Metropolitan Who's Who Honored Member Representing Education.
New York, NY, February 24, 2007 --(PR.com)-- Kyra D Gaunt, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology for Baruch College, has been named Metropolitan Who's Who Honored Member in Education. While inclusion in Metropolitan Who's Who is an honor in itself, the Metropolitan Who's Who selection committee hand picks these special Who's Who Honorees based on accomplishments, academic achievement, leadership, and service.
General Biographical Information, Kyra D. Gaunt
Type of Business: Education
Major Products and Services: Higher Education, Music Performance, Research
Marketing Area: New York
Affiliations and Awards: NARAS, Society of Ethnomusicology Grammy Foundation, NEA, Ford Foundation
Career Accomplishments: Kyra D. Gaunt was the first Tenore-Track music professor to dedicate a course to hip-hop as music in 1996 at the University of Virginia and from 2002-2006, she taught at NYU as the leading Ethnomusicologist studying the learned cultures of musical blackness, she has been designing a participatory “New Jack” pedagogy on the intersectional study of race, gender and generation through hip-hop and black girls’ musical games. Kyra is an NEH fellow and Ford Foundation Postdoctoral fellow and she has served as a consultant for PBS’s Zoom and Between The Lions, the 2006-2007 World Culture Open Africa Program www.worldcultureprogram.org. and the spirulina program, and 11 member International Treaty Organization collaborating with Russell Simmons’ Hip-Hop Summit Youth Council to end severe malnutrition and obesity amoung children in Africa and the US. She continues to serve on National Grants Panel and Fellowship Selection committees including the NEA and Ford Foundation Diversity fellowships.
About Baruch College
Baruch College is part of a tradition that dates back more than 150 years to the founding, in 1847, of the Free Academy, the very first free public institution of higher education in the nation. (Baruch’s landmark building at 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue occupies the site of the Free Academy). Established in 1919 as City College’s School of Business and Civic Administration, the school was renamed in 1953 in honor of Bernard M. Baruch—statesman, financier, and devoted alumnus. In 1968 the school became an independent senior college in The City University of New York (CUNY) system.
Today, a thriving, urban, multicultural institution and a senior college of CUNY, Baruch attracts motivated students of proven achievement who are seriously committed to making their dreams a reality. Their ability and drive, along with the superb, professional education for which Baruch is known, have established the College’s national and international reputation for excellence. In providing opportunity for these students, the College sustains the original mission of the Free Academy and the City University, adapting that mission to the needs of New York City, once a commercial hub, now a global corporate and financial powerhouse.
Baruch offers undergraduate and graduate programs of study through its three schools: the Zicklin School of Business, the largest and one of the most respected business schools in the nation; the Mildred and George Weissman School of Arts and Sciences; and the School of Public Affairs. The College also offers nondegree and certificate programs through its Division of Continuing and Professional Studies.
About Metropolitan Who's Who
The mission of Metropolitan Who's Who is to ensure that Metropolitan members receive recognition, support and credibility to advance their careers. Metropolitan Who's Who is also committed to delivering the highest quality networking resource for job recruitment, career enhancement and new business development. At their news blog see who's making news and how Metropolitan Who's Who is making a difference.
Metropolitan Who's Who members have exclusive access to the biographical information of more than 75,000 successful executives, professionals and entrepreneurs at www.Metropolitanwhoswho.com, where they use the database to share information, knowledge and services. Communication via the Metropolitan Who's Who registry travels in two directions, enabling Metropolitan Who's Who members to reach out when they have a business need or opportunity as well as receive information on exciting new ventures.
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General Biographical Information, Kyra D. Gaunt
Type of Business: Education
Major Products and Services: Higher Education, Music Performance, Research
Marketing Area: New York
Affiliations and Awards: NARAS, Society of Ethnomusicology Grammy Foundation, NEA, Ford Foundation
Career Accomplishments: Kyra D. Gaunt was the first Tenore-Track music professor to dedicate a course to hip-hop as music in 1996 at the University of Virginia and from 2002-2006, she taught at NYU as the leading Ethnomusicologist studying the learned cultures of musical blackness, she has been designing a participatory “New Jack” pedagogy on the intersectional study of race, gender and generation through hip-hop and black girls’ musical games. Kyra is an NEH fellow and Ford Foundation Postdoctoral fellow and she has served as a consultant for PBS’s Zoom and Between The Lions, the 2006-2007 World Culture Open Africa Program www.worldcultureprogram.org. and the spirulina program, and 11 member International Treaty Organization collaborating with Russell Simmons’ Hip-Hop Summit Youth Council to end severe malnutrition and obesity amoung children in Africa and the US. She continues to serve on National Grants Panel and Fellowship Selection committees including the NEA and Ford Foundation Diversity fellowships.
About Baruch College
Baruch College is part of a tradition that dates back more than 150 years to the founding, in 1847, of the Free Academy, the very first free public institution of higher education in the nation. (Baruch’s landmark building at 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue occupies the site of the Free Academy). Established in 1919 as City College’s School of Business and Civic Administration, the school was renamed in 1953 in honor of Bernard M. Baruch—statesman, financier, and devoted alumnus. In 1968 the school became an independent senior college in The City University of New York (CUNY) system.
Today, a thriving, urban, multicultural institution and a senior college of CUNY, Baruch attracts motivated students of proven achievement who are seriously committed to making their dreams a reality. Their ability and drive, along with the superb, professional education for which Baruch is known, have established the College’s national and international reputation for excellence. In providing opportunity for these students, the College sustains the original mission of the Free Academy and the City University, adapting that mission to the needs of New York City, once a commercial hub, now a global corporate and financial powerhouse.
Baruch offers undergraduate and graduate programs of study through its three schools: the Zicklin School of Business, the largest and one of the most respected business schools in the nation; the Mildred and George Weissman School of Arts and Sciences; and the School of Public Affairs. The College also offers nondegree and certificate programs through its Division of Continuing and Professional Studies.
About Metropolitan Who's Who
The mission of Metropolitan Who's Who is to ensure that Metropolitan members receive recognition, support and credibility to advance their careers. Metropolitan Who's Who is also committed to delivering the highest quality networking resource for job recruitment, career enhancement and new business development. At their news blog see who's making news and how Metropolitan Who's Who is making a difference.
Metropolitan Who's Who members have exclusive access to the biographical information of more than 75,000 successful executives, professionals and entrepreneurs at www.Metropolitanwhoswho.com, where they use the database to share information, knowledge and services. Communication via the Metropolitan Who's Who registry travels in two directions, enabling Metropolitan Who's Who members to reach out when they have a business need or opportunity as well as receive information on exciting new ventures.
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