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I am a New School senior pursuing a BFA in Fashion Design at Parsons and a contemporary dance minor at Eugene Lang College. My skills range from filmmaking to design and photography; I enjoy yoga, pilates, and traveling; and am open to new challenges!

“It’s exciting to co-create the MFA Textiles program, which is diverse and built on innovation, originality, and individuality.”
Gabi Asfour
Part-Time Assistant Professor

What Lang Students Are Reading

At The New School, we read widely and voraciously. Here are some titles in the book bags of New Schoolers and on the sunlight-dappled benches of the university's Lang Courtyard.

Filled with fascinating facts and observations on humankind since our origins, this book—featuring a variety of colorful illustrations—makes an array of complex topics easily digestible and will challenge your perceptions of the world.

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Oluo provides a fantastic and critical voice on white supremacy and antiracism, examining subjects ranging from police brutality and cultural appropriation to the model minority myth and intersectionality.

This New York Times bestseller by award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg examines why habits exist and how they can be changed, using cutting-edge scientific research to make the argument that understanding habit is understanding human nature and potential.

This zany, brilliantly original novel about an intimacy therapist's transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions is already in development as an HBO series.

This memoir by Sex and the City costume designer Patricia Field details not only how she landed her breakout gig but also her early life growing up in New York City and Long Island and how her early store, Pants Pub, helped to ignite a fashion revolution in the neighborhood surrounding our campus.

World-famous psychologist and winner of a Nobel Prize in Economics, Daniel Kahneman takes readers on a groundbreaking tour of the mind by explaining the two “systems” that drive the way we think.

In this richly observed, wrenching memoir, Ashley C. Ford details a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father. Battling her body and her environment, Ford embarks on a powerful journey to find the threads between who she is and the world she was born into.

Named a “Best Book of the Year” by publications including Vogue, The Washington Post and Kirkus Reviews, this provocative page-turner centers around a young Black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.

This moving and audacious novel takes place in a country on the brink of civil war in which the fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed meet, fall in love and decide to leave their homeland together amid escalating violence and unrest roiling in their city.

Set in 1942 and told from five strikingly realized points of view, Julie Otsuka conveys the complex emotional textures of her characters’ experiences as Japanese Americans forced into a dusty incarceration camp in the Utah desert.


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