PRESS (REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS & MENTIONS)
2024
Piña, Tinabeth. “March 2024 | LATiNAS,” CUNY TV, March 12, 2024.
Teng, Ya Yun and Kim, Ju Hye. “Building Memories to Advance Community Engagement: A Conversation with Cynthia Tobar,” New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program Newsletter #168, January 25, 2024.
2023
“Amplifying NYC's Bold Women,” Prattfolio: Fall 2023: Housing/Home, November 22, 2023.
Mavuram, Tishya. “5/12: Fortune Favors the Bold,” New York Review of Architecture: Issue 114, Skyline | Tending the Garden, May 19, 2023.
2022
“Episode 80: The power of sharing stories,” Indoor Voices, November 14, 2022.
Moloney, Sile. “Bronx Exhibit Celebrates “Friendship and Activism” of Puerto Rican LGBTQ+ Activist,” Norwood News, November 10, 2022.
Nguyen, Frances. “In Brooklyn, America’s Gentrification Epicenter, Building On A Model For Community Care,” Prism/Next City, November 9, 2022.
“Episode 77: BRESI grant awardees,” Indoor Voices, October 3, 2022.
Giralt, José. “Bronx Community College Celebrates In-Person the Graduates of 2020 Through 2022,” Norwood News, July 13, 2022.
“Out & About: 5-Boro Bike Tour, Bronx Week, Bronx Fashion Week, Small Business Week & More!,” Norwood News, April 29, 2022.
“Episode 70: The intersection of art and social justice,” Indoor Voices, February 24, 2022.
Robinson, Edric. “Runners hit the streets for inaugural Black History run,” NY1/Spectrum News, February 12, 2022.
2021
Valentin, Rhina. “OPEN BxRx | Community Care during COVID: Oral Histories of Mutual Aid in the Bronx,” BronxNet TV, September 24, 2021.
Sarmiento-Archer, Inés Mónica and Cambronero Varela, Carolina. “Latinos impulsan el arte y la transformación social,” Queens Latino, May 20, 2021.
“Episode 59: LaGuardia students document and create through COVID,” Indoor Voices, May 10, 2021.
2020
"Building A Diverse Historical Record Through Oral History", Queens Public Library Blog, November 30, 2020.
Valentin, Rhina. “OPEN BxRx | Women Manifesting Systems of Care” BronxNet TV, September 18, 2020.
Cohen, Jason. “BCC to Hold Event Commemorating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage” Bronx Times, September 16, 2020.
Greene, David. "NYPD: Columbus Statue gets 24-Hour Police Protection in Belmont" Norwood News, August 15, 2020.
2019
Sanchez, Chelsey. “High Rises In Bushwick? City’s Rezoning Scheme Ignores Previous Community Plans,” The Indypendent, Dec 19, 2019.
Moloney, Sile. “Talk By Bronx Community College Aims to Redefine American Greatness,” Norwood News, September 21, 2019.
“Community Science: Taconic Fellows and Youth Activists Research the Needs of a Neighborhood”, Pratt News, Critical and Visual Studies, August 28, 2019.
Bernal, Liliana. “Mi Casa no es su Casa: luchando contra la gentrificación en Brooklyn,” Univision 41 Nueva York, Univision, August 23, 2019.
“INTERNATIONAL WORK.” Oral History, vol. 47, no. 2, Oral History Society, 2019, pp. 20–27, http://www.jstor.org/stable/45214468.
Stremple, Paul. “Bushwick rezoning opponents look beyond Brooklyn for strategies,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 29, 2019.
Sanchez, Chelsey. “Oral History Preserves Bushwick One Story at a Time”, The Indypendent, May 24, 2019.
Ilesanmi, Kemi. “An Interview with Cynthia Tobar and Bridget Bartolini”, Spin Cycle Blog, Laundromat Project, February 7, 2019.
2018
“Made In NYC Celebrates 15 Years of Building Community With New York City’s Manufacturing Sector”, Made in NYC News and Events Blog, May 5, 2018.
“Counter-Storytelling Through Oral History”, Event Recap of Listening to History, NYU Center for the Humanities Blog, April 17, 2018.
Culkin, Kate. “Advocacy and Memory at the Hall of Fame For Great Americans”, The Gotham Center for New York City History Blog, March 27, 2018.
2016
“Saving CUNY's Past: Student Activism Against Cutbacks, 1980s-present (April 9, 2014 panel recording)”, American Social History Project podcast, December 21, 2016.
D’Agostino, Paul. “Gallery Rounds: Talking Nourishment”, Brooklyn Magazine, October 17, 2016.
“DAVID & SCHWEITZER Contemporary Kicks Off Bushwick Open Studios With a Coming-of-Age Story of Brooklyn Art in the Present and Future“, ArteFuse, October 12, 2016.
Lozada, Samantha. “Exciting Openings at Disclaimer Gallery and Casa Experimental: 2 Anti-Oppressive Art Spaces in Bushwick’s Silent Barn”, Urban Demos, October 4, 2016.
Ruscoe, Emilie. “This Bushwick Art Show Will Showcase Works Documenting Life in Public Housing”, Bushwick Daily, August 30, 2016.
“centering: bringing an anti-oppression lens to oral history work by Groundswell launches with an interview featuring Amy Starecheski”, Oral History Master of Arts (OHMA) Blog, January 26, 2016.
2015
“What is your white whale?”, Whitney News, December 2, 2015.
Vivona, Steve. “Relationship between Librarianship and Social Justice Outlined During Corry Lecture”. St. John’s University News and Media, November 23, 2015.
2015 Pratt Preservation Studio, Pratt Institute. (2015). Bushwick Preservation Plan: A Values-Based Approach "Bushwick You Don't Stop". Retrieved October 15, 2021.
Cardona, Herman. New York City Librarians and Archivists Meet for Social Justice/ Bibliotecarios y Archiveros de la Ciudad de Nueva York se Reúnen por la Justicia Social. Williamsburg Now, May 2015.
Grearson, Robin. “A Crucial First Step to Bringing Artists Together to Stay in New York”. Hyperallergic, June 30, 2015.