Angela M.
Elbanna

I am a Lecturer in the Speech, Communications, and Theatre Arts Department at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), where I teach public speaking and communication across in-person, hybrid, and fully online formats. My teaching centers on helping students — many of whom are multilingual, first-generation, or returning to education — find confidence in their own voices.

As editor and contributing author of the department's open educational resource textbook Start Here, Speak Anywhere! Empowering Our Voices for a Global Audience (2nd ed.), I have contributed to accessible, cost-free resources used across BMCC and beyond. I developed and led the college's first CIEE faculty-led study abroad program to Morocco in Summer 2025, with a second program in Singapore launching Summer 2026.

I am currently working on my Ph.D. in Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center, where my research engages questions of communication, equity, and power in educational institutions. Specifically, I am focused on scholasticide in Palestine — the deliberate destruction of educational infrastructure, intellectual life, and cultural institutions as a strategy of settler-colonial domination. I have a forthcoming article on this research in Theory, Research & Action in Urban Education (TRAUE).