Charlene Bryant

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Room: M-Building, M-204
Phone: (718) 482-5940
naturalsci@lagcc.cuny.edu

Monday- Thursday  9 a.m.- 5 p.m.

Education

  • J.D., Georgetown University
  • B.A., New York University
  • Certificate in Mediation and Arbitration, Columbia University

Areas of Expertise or Research

  • HIV/AIDS
  • Constitutional law
  • Criminal law/process
  • Entertainment law
  • Law and urban studies
  • Domestic violence
  • Domestic terrorism

About

Reverend Charlene Bryant is a native New Yorker. She received her bachelor of arts at New York University (NYU). During her tenure at NYU she also studied British Literature at the University of London for two semesters. After college, Professor Bryant received her juris doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center. She also studied European Union Law for a semester at the University of Spain at Madrid. Professor Bryant also served as a narcotics prosecutor with the Kings County District Attorney’s office. She also served as the lead assistant district attorney for the Kings County Drug Treatment Alternative Program.

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As a certified mediator, Professor Bryant served as the director of the NYC Commission on Human Rights’ Peer Mediation program. Professor Bryant also worked as an alternative to incarceration counselor at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. She also worked in the Community Partnerships Unit as an education coordinator. Professor Bryant served as a business management consultant in the entertainment and urban clothing markets for several independent clothing companies, artists, and music labels.

Currently Professor Bryant is exploring constitutional violations experienced by HIV/AIDS-infected incarcerated Black Americans. She is also researching issues regarding the 10th Amendment as a means of state sovereignty. She is also interested in issues of state terrorism and its relationship to oppression and American power structures.

Professor Bryant was a recipient of the CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program in fall 2023.

Recently, Professor Bryant has been nominated for a Carnegie Fellowship where she will be exploring political divisiveness and social cohesion.

Select publications by Professor Bryant include:

  • “The Hypocrisy of the American Oath: January 6th Raid on The Capital,” Tuskegee Journal of Healthcare, Science and the Humanities – February 2021
  • “Issues of Susceptibility and Constitutional Violations: The Proliferation of HIV/AIDS in the Black America” – Spring 2025

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