About
Ellyn Kaschak, Ph.D. is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning psychologist, author and teacher. She is well-known as a speaker, workshop leader, human rights advocate and a public intellectual.
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Sight Unseen
Sight Unseen reveals the cultural and biological realities of race, gender, and sexual orientation from the perspective of the blind. Through ten case studies and dozens of interviews, Ellyn Kaschak taps directly into the phenomenology of race, gender, and sexual orientation among blind individuals, along with the everyday epistemology of vision.
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Seeing Is Believing or Is Believing Seeing | Ellyn Kaschak ’65 | TEDxBinghamtonUniversity
I will describe my intensive 10 years of work with individuals who are all blind since birth. Since they have had no opportunity to visually observe the cues the sighted use to code gender, race and sexual orientation, their ideas and the ways they learned them reveal how these constructs are just that and are not based in biology at all. Instead, they are constructed by and for the sighted. Using many examples, I will show unerringly the blindness of the sighted.
Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls
Binghamton University’s Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls Annual Report 2022-2023
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Ellyn Kaschak Institute Photo Contest for International Women's Day Divya Gottiparthy holds her first place photo, "Peeling a Paper Chrysalis," after the photo was named the winner of The Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls first photo contest, in recognition of International Women's Day, March 8, 2023.
Kaschak Institute supports climate change on a global stage “We’re trying to invest in new generations by fostering high-impact learning opportunities, bringing together researchers across campus and the world, and connecting our research expertise to communities locally and globally,” said institute Executive Director Lorena Aguilar.
Director of Kaschak Institute named Lorena Aguilar, a former vice-minister of foreign affairs for Costa Rica and pioneer in the relationship between sustainable development and international women’s rights, has been appointed director of the Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls.
Ellyn Kaschak helps establish research institute for women at Binghamton University Donation made by Ellyn Uram Kaschak, '65, to support student, faculty research
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