Area business people ‘On the Move’
Christy Fischer is the new environmental compliance coordinator at Ulster BOCES, part of a team of professionals whose mission is to help school districts keep stu- dents, staff and visitors safe and healthy.
She and her colleagues on the Ulster BOCES Risk Management team currently serve eight Ulster
County school districts through the Health, Safety & Risk Management cooperative service.
A resident of Monroe, Fisher assumed her new post on Feb. 16. She comes to Ulster BOCES with more than 11 years of experience at neighboring Orange-Ulster BOCES, where she served as a health and safety technician.
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Kobena Mercer has been named the Charles P. Stevenson Chair in Art History and the Humanities at Bard College, a joint appointment between the Art History and Visual Culture Program in the undergraduate college and the Center for Curatorial Studies.
Mercer, who comes to Bard from Yale University, will assume his faculty position in fall 2021.
Mercer teaches modern and contemporary art in the Black Atlantic, examining African American, Caribbean and Black British artists with critical methods from cultural studies. His first book is titled “Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies” (1994).
His recent essay collection, “Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s” (2016), examined artists such as John Akomfrah, Renée Green and Kerry James Marshall, showing how Black artists contributed to art’s transformation in an age of globalization.
Mercer has taught at Yale University, New York University, University of California Santa Cruz and Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he earned his doctorate. Educated in Ghana and England, he is an inaugural recipient of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing, awarded by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in 2006.
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Giovana Brayman has joined the office of Weichert, Realtors, The Spiesman Group, in the town of Ulster.
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