Estefania Ponti

Estefania Ponti is Brooklyn College’s Assistant Director of Advising Assessment and Student Success and serves as a member of the Brooklyn College’s Veteran Task Force. Additionally, Dr. Ponti serves as an adjunct lecturer in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island. As a higher education administrator at the City University of New York, Dr. Ponti works with military veterans, first-year students, as well as low-income, underrepresented, and first-generation college students to academically thrive and graduate as well as attain employment and pursue graduate school.

Dr. Ponti has engaged in national policy research, serving as the Policy Research Associate for Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN), a non-profit human rights organization dedicated to improving the welfare of U.S. service women and women veterans. Through her research efforts, Dr. Ponti was able to provide the data necessary to lobby Congress and the Department of Defense to reform their policies on sexual assault, combat exclusion, and reproductive rights as well as inclusion for women and LGBTQI service members and veterans. Dr. Ponti’s doctoral research also focused on military veterans, asking how the current militarization of the U.S. in the Post-9/11 era has redefined and reshaped notions of citizenship during the War on Terror. 

Dr. Ponti received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology (2008) from the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College (CUNY), Masters of Philosophy degree in Anthropology (2013) from The Graduate Center (CUNY), and Doctor of Philosophy degree in Anthropology (2018) from The Graduate Center (CUNY).