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I am pleased to announce that Ruth Goldman, associate professor in the Communication Department, has accepted appointment as the interim faculty coordinator for the Center for Social Justice at Buffalo State. Dr. Goldman will assume the role in June 2023 and will focus her work on integrating social justice learning into the curricula across campus. Following curricular goals articulated in the Center for Social Justice Recommendations Report (PDF, 1.8 MB), the interim faculty coordinator will focus on issues of social justice at each academic level and across academic disciplines.

Dr. Goldman is an associate professor of media production and coordinator of the women and gender studies interdisciplinary minor. The 2018 recipient of the Dr. Muriel A. Howard Presidential Award for Equity and Campus Diversity at Buffalo State, Dr. Goldman is an award-winning, internationally exhibited filmmaker, educator, community activist, film programmer, and media scholar who combines these passions whenever possible. Her scholarly and artistic interests include humanitarian storytelling, social justice, media activism, and community media. She co-founded and co-curates Buffalo State’s award-winning film screening and discussion series Beyond Boundaries, currently in its ninth season. Dr. Goldman is a longtime member of the President’s Council on Equity and Campus Diversity and currently serves on the Anti-Racism Subcommittee. She is a founding member of the national movement EDIT Media (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Teaching Media) and a founding member and current co-chair of the University Film and Video Association (UFVA) Diversity and Inclusion Caucus. She is on the steering committee for Birds on the Niagara, a binational winter birding festival promoting the intersections between birds, conservation, and social justice. Dr. Goldman holds a Ph.D. in American studies and an M.F.A. in media study from the University at Buffalo, an M.A. in American studies from the University of New Mexico, and a B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  

I thank the members of the search committee for facilitating this process.