Silvina (Bibi) Calderaro

Published by admin on February 7, 2025February 7, 2025

Bibi (Silvina) Calderaro is a Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Studies and the Environmental Justice and Sustainability Programs at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She specializes in urban education’s role in magnifying climate action and environmental justice through situated pedagogies. She has designed and implemented a week-long pedagogical experience for educators in the lower Hudson River estuary, gaining access to remote areas by kayak, facilitated workshops, and designed and conducted semi-formal interviews with communities across NYC about environmental issues. Her expertise, networks, and collaborative experiences as artist and educator are key for mentoring community leadership, integrating academic and non-academic knowledge generation, and building relationships across constituencies and sectors. Her recent scholarship includes “Playing with Conscientizaçao: A Collectividual Project for a World We Wish to See” in Cultural Praxis and “Walking the Land where Fountain Avenue Begins” in CSPA Quarterly. Calderaro is a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center where she has earned an MPhil and an MA; she holds an MFA from Queens College and a BA from Wesleyan University.