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Connected and Protected: Making Smart Choices in Digital Spaces

Wednesday, October 15, 2025
2pm - 5pm

at CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(There will be a ZOOM option)

*Attendees will receive credit for their attendance—meaning they will not need to complete the required annual cybersecurity training modules via Brightspace!

CCNY in conjunction with The Graduate Center and Baruch College are planning a Digital Safety event, on October 15, 2025 (as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month).

From 2-3pm, attendees can come for a live Cybersecurity training.
From 3:30-5pm, Adam Dodge, from ENDTab will be presenting on technology facilitated gender-based violence, with a focus on AI-generated harm.

Presentation Overview

In this engaging session designed for students and the broader campus community, we'll explore how to recognize and respond to emerging digital safety challenges affecting college students today. From AI-powered scams to facial recognition stalking to AI chatbot companions, we'll break down how anyone can protect themselves and support their peers when navigating online spaces and connection in the age of AI. Discussion topics include:

Undressing apps and ‘deepfake’ apps: How image-based sexual abuse continues to evolve - and ways student can protect themselves and others.
AI Relationships: The landscape of AI-powered Romance, Therapy, Friendship and Para-Social Relationships (including OnlyFans) is exploding and fundamentally changing how students connect and socialize. It is critical students understand how to use these powerfully addictive apps safely.
Image-Based Stalking: Chat GPT can tell you where a photo was taken. Facial recognition search engines can find every photo of us online. These are powerful stalking tools - but these privacy violations can be prevented if we empower students with timely guidance.
Catfishing, Romance and Financial Scams: Scammers are utilizing extremely powerful tools to deceive and defraud victims online, including the use of voice cloning, AI-generated images, live face-swapping and wingman apps. By keeping students aware of these tactics, they can better identify the red flags hiding in plain sight.

CULTIVATING COMMUNITIES OF CARE LEADERSHIP SERIES

Thursday, October 30, 2025
12pm - 2pm
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture

Led by Eric McGriff, the Cultivating Communities of Care Leadership Program is a 3-part series designed to help students develop skills and confidence to lead with purpose, empathy, and impact. Through a series of interactive sessions, reflection, and dialogue, students will learn how to embrace intersectionality, engage allies, and harness collective action to create lasting change. This program invites participants to step into their leadership with authenticity, strengthening their capacity to care for themselves and their communities, and become catalysts for transformation on campus and beyond. Session topics include Leading at the Intersections: Embracing Intersectionality, Engaging Allies, and Collective Action & Impact.

This program is co-sponsored by the Spitzer School of Architecture, Gender Resources, Office of Compliance and Diversity, and Crime Victims Treatment Center.

Please email senglish@ccny.cuny.edu with any questions.