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Adam Vogel
Student Managing Editor
Adam Vogel is a managing editor for the Harlem View. He is a BA/MA Student at The City College of New York pursuing a major in History with minors in Music and Journalism. He was named to the Dean’s List in the Humanities for the past five consecutive semesters and is a member of the Phi Alpha Theta Historical Honor Society.
Vogel is from Brooklyn, New York, and went to high school in Lower Manhattan. A lifelong musician, he was awarded special honors upon graduation from high school for his work with the school’s Jazz Combo Club and is currently recording his second solo album. In the past, he worked for several local political campaigns as both a canvasser and a training specialist. Currently, he works as one of three producers on The Marketing Stir, a podcast that discusses marketing strategies in the digital world, broadcast to nearly 80,000 listeners.
Natalie Moreno
Student Managing Editor
Natalie Moreno is a managing editor for Harlem View. She is an undergraduate student at The City College of New York pursuing a a double major degree in Journalism and Latin American Studies with a minor in English. She has written for the HIPE e-zine promoting high impact practices and engagement for students and faculty across CUNY campuses and is now working as a writer for the RICC where she writes about research and innovation happening at City College.
Natalie is a Puerto Rican and Dominican who was born and raised in New York, spending most of her time between Washington Heights and the Bronx. While at CCNY, she has found her voice through storytelling; primarily enjoying writing articles about local happenings, lifestyle/society, and pop culture as well as creative essays about her life experiences with community at the center.
Barbara Nevins Taylor
Distinguished Lecturer, Journalism Program Director & Advisor to HarlemView
Barbara Nevins Taylor teaches Introduction to Journalism and TV Reporting and advises students.
Her investigative reporting at TV stations in New York, Atlanta, Kentucky and Alabama earned 22 Emmy Awards and more than 50 journalism awards and honors. Nevins Taylor graduated from The City College (1970) and loves sharing what she learned as a journalist with students.
During her TV career, Nevins Taylor pursued stories that made a difference in the lives of individuals and the community. Her reports earned praise, generated government action and helped send wrongdoers to prison. Long before the most recent financial crisis, Barbara exposed flaws in the mortgage lending and banking systems that led poor people into financial ruin.
On ConsumerMojo.com, which she founded in 2012, Nevins Taylor uses the latest digital storytelling techniques to serve a growing audience that needs reliable information about complicated issues.
Nevins Taylor has contributed to The New York Times Op-Ed page, writing about criminal justice, foster care and young people in New York City. Her writing has also focused on concerns of parents and women and has appeared in national magazines. Her book Beautiful Skin of Color, with doctors Jeanine Downie and Fran Cook-Bolden, published by ReganBooks, evolved from her television reports.
CCNY Alumni awarded her the prestigious Townsend Harris medal for career achievement and she is also in the Communications Alumni Group’s Hall of Fame. She wants her students to get there, too.
Linda Villarosa
Journalism Professor And Website Founder
Linda Villarosa founded HarlemFocus, which became Harlem View. She is the former journalism program director, a valued journalism professor, a journalist-in-residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. Her most recent story in 2020, “Pollution is Killing Black Americans. This Community Fought Back,” links decades of environmental pollution and neglect to deadly health conditions of Black Americans. She also wrote, “Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death-Crisis?” It ran on the cover of the Magazine in April 2018. It examines the effects of race, racism and health-care inequality on infant and maternal mortality and was nominated for a National Magazine Award.
Her cover story “America’s Hidden HIV Epidemic,” about HIV/AIDS among black gay and bisexual men in the South, ran in June 2017. That article was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award and was honored by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists’ Association for excellence in journalism.
Formerly, Linda was the health editor of The New York Times and executive editor of Essence Magazine. She has written dozens of articles for the Times, including three award-winning stories published on the newspaper’s front page. In Essence, her article “Coming Out,” written with her mother, remains one of the most responded-to in the history of the magazine, and her 2013 profile of New York City’s first lady Chirlane McCray was picked up by 50 other media outlets. Her Essence story “Pride & Prejudice,” about LGBTQ activism in Africa, was nominated for a 2016 GLAAD Media Award.
Linda is the chair of the board of the Feminist Press and has written or co-written a number of books. She is the author of “Body & Soul: The Black Women’s Guide to Physical Health and Emotional Well-Being,” and her novel “Passing for Black” was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. She is working on a new book, “Under the Skin: Race, Inequality and the Health of a Nation,” to be published by Doubleday.
A graduate of the University of Colorado and the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, Linda spent a year at the Harvard School of Public Health as a journalism fellow.
Karen Loew
Helped Create HarlemView.
Karen Loew is a journalist and urbanist in New York City. While teaching journalism classes to undergraduates at City College of CUNY, she and the CCNY Journalism Program brought HarlemView to life. She was the Associate Editor at The Forward and the Editor-in-Chief at CityLimits.org. Her writing and reporting have been published in Citylab, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Next City and elsewhere.
Rich Prior
Website Creator
Designer Rich Prior and his team (City College Alumni, BFA in Electronic Design and Multimedia) created the Harlem View site and launched it in Spring 2019.