student from rutgers university new parark. she earned her master's in education from new jersey city university in educational technology. as a sixth year public high school teacher, she promotes student directed oral history and mixed media community outreach projects and has been recognized by the national oral history association for her work. this year with the martha ross teaching award. she grew up in moscow, russia, and immigrated to the united states in 1991. her dissertation "newark remembers" is an interdisciplinary project that will be the first to examine the struggles over memory and identity in newark, new jersey. and her paper is entitled "the liberation of rutgers newark history memory and black student radicalism." >> thank you so much. good morning, everyone. on february 24th, 1969, a group of black student activists took over conklin hall for a 72-hour sit in. the illegal taking of the building was a highly contested event. student activists and supporters viewed the sit-in as a localized part of a larger pro