Gallatin’s Foley Recognized by NYC Literacy Nonprofit

June Foley, director of the Writing Program at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, has been named a Literacy Recognition Award winner by the Literacy Assistance Center, a non-profit organization that supports and promotes adult literacy services in New York City.

      Foley was recognized for her work on Gallatin’s Literacy Review, an annual book of writing by adults in Basic Education, GED, and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) programs throughout New York City. Now in its sixth year, the Literacy Review, which Foley founded and supervises, is compiled, edited, designed, and photographed by Gallatin undergraduates.

      The publication has grown from an inaugural volume of 76 pages by 36 writers from 16 adult literacy sites in 2003 to 120 pages by 63 writers from 31 sites this year. Contributors to volume six of the Literacy Review, which was published this spring, include authors who emigrated from 50 different countries as well as native New Yorkers.

      Foley, one of six to receive a Literacy Recognition Award this year, will be honored on June 19 at a ceremony held in Scholastic, Inc.’s SoHo headquarters.

—James Devitt