In a July 2023 opinion piece in the New York Post, Raab reflected on the ways in which public education impacted her life both as a student and, later, as President of Hunter.
[6] Raab served for seven years as chairwoman of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
[8] She was head of the Landmarks Preservation Commission when it unanimously approved Norman Foster's plans for Hearst Tower in fall 2001.
Previously, Raab worked for several years as a litigator at the law firms Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
She was also special projects manager for the South Bronx Development Organization and director of public affairs for the New York City Planning Commission.
She is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of directors of The After School Corporation and on the Steering Committee of the Association for a Better New York.
Hunter has won new levels of government awards, private grants and philanthropic contributions and launched the first capital campaign in its history.
[14] Raab has been credited with transforming Hunter College from an open-admissions institution to a selective, highly ranked college with a highly diverse student population that comprises one of America's largest cohorts of immigrant and first-generation students, including the most selective Macaulay Honors program in the City University system.
[20] Other major changes include the renovation and reopening of the historic Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt House, which is now the Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, and the construction of a $131 million home on Third Avenue and East 119 Street in East Harlem for Hunter's renowned Silberman School of Social Work that also housed the new CUNY School of Public Health.
"[27] Raab presided over the 2011 completion of a $131 million eight-story facility in East Harlem, which is now home to Hunter's Silberman School of Social Work.
The School of Social Work was originally housed on East 79th Street, but was moved uptown in order to match the College's vision for the 21st century.
[29] In January 2012, it was announced Hunter College's graduate art school program will be moving to 95,000 square feet at 205 Hudson Sreet.
"[30] At a news conference on September 10, 2012, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Hunter's new nursing, science, and health professions building to be built at 73rd Street and the East River in partnership with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,[31] which is now under construction.
[36][37] Raab has had several opinion pieces published in the New York Daily News including op-eds on the need for increasing diversity in donor cell sources, Frances Perkins, legal challenges facing people with disabilities, and the importance of summer schooling .
[48] In 2016, Crain's New York Business included Raab and her husband Michael Goodwin on its inaugural Power Couples list.
[49] In 2022, Raab received the Gold Honor Medal from the National Institute of Social Sciences[50] for distinguished service to society and humanity.
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