Question: Kathleen P. King is a Professor and Director of what private, independent research university in New York City?
Context: Kathleen P. Deignan, C.N.D., (born December 17, 1947), is an Irish-American theologian, author and sacred song writer who has been engaged in the ministry of liturgical musicianship for over forty years.  She is currently composer-in-residence of Schola Ministries and is the founder and director of Iona Spirituality Institute at Iona College, New York, and previously directed the Iona Institute for Peace and Justice Studies in Ireland.  Sister Kathleen is a GreenFaith Fellow who recently completed an intensive training in religious environmental leadership.  Her work in this area focuses on the prophet legacy of Father Thomas Berry and The Great Work of our time.  She is President of the International Thomas Merton Society. The Wallace Foundation is a national philanthropy based in New York City that seeks to foster improvements in learning and enrichment for disadvantaged children and the vitality of the arts for everyone.  The foundation aims to develop knowledge about how to solve important social problems, and promote widespread solutions based on that knowledge, by funding projects to test innovative ideas, commissioning independent research to find out what works and what doesn’t, and then communicating the results to help practitioners, policymakers and leading thinkers. Joseph-Achille Mbembe, known as Achille Mbembe (born 1957), is a Cameroonian philosopher, political theorist, and public intellectual.  He was born near Otélé in French Cameroons in 1957.  He obtained his Ph.D. in history at the University of Sorbonne in Paris, France, in 1989.  He subsequently obtained a D.E.A. in political science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in the same city.  He has held appointments at Columbia University in New York, Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, Duke University and Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal.  He was Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University, New York, from 1988-1991, a Senior Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., from 1991 to 1992, Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania from 1992 to 1996, Executive Director of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Codesria) in Dakar, Senegal, from 1996 to 2000.  Achille was also a visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001, and a visiting Professor at Yale University in 2003.  He is currently a Research Professor in History and Politics at Harvard University's W.E.B. Dubois Research Institute. New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.  Founded in 1831, NYU's main campus is centered in Manhattan, located with its core in Greenwich Village, and campuses based throughout New York City. St. John's University (SJU) is a private, Roman Catholic, research university located in New York City, United States.  Founded by the Congregation of the Mission (C.M., the Vincentian Fathers) in 1870, the school was originally located in the neighborhood of Bedford–Stuyvesant in the borough of Brooklyn.  In the 1950s, the school was relocated to its current site at Utopia Parkway in Hillcrest, Queens.  St. John's also has campuses in Staten Island and Manhattan in New York City, overseas in Rome, Italy.  In addition, the university has a Long Island Graduate Center in Hauppauge, New York along with academic locations in Paris, France, and Seville, Spain.  The university is named after Saint John the Baptist. Dr. Kathleen P. King (born June 8, 1958 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American author and educator.  As of 2006 she is a Professor and Director of Fordham University's Regional Educational Technology Center (RETC), Center for Professional Development and Program Director of the graduate program in Adult Education and Human Resource Development at the Graduate School of Education. Founded in 1860, New York Medical College (known colloquially as "NYMC" or "New York Med"), a member of the Touro College and University System, is a private biomedical health sciences university based in Valhalla, New York, in Westchester County in the lower Hudson Valley region of New York state just 13 miles north of New York City.  It is the only biomedical health sciences and research university between New York City and the state capital of Albany, New York. The Boyce Thompson Institute (previously: Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research) is an independent research institute devoted to using plant sciences to improve agriculture, protect the environment, and enhance human health.  BTI is located on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States, and is fully integrated in the research infrastructure of the University.  Faculty at BTI are members of several Cornell Departments, including Plant Biology, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Molecular Biology & Genetics, as well as Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology.  BTI is governed by a Board of Directors, which is in part appointed by Cornell. Fordham University ( ) is a private, independent research university in New York City, founded by the Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841.  It is the oldest Catholic institution of higher education in the northeastern United States, and the third-oldest university in New York. Tricia Striano was born in Weymouth Massachusetts.  She obtained her BA in psychology from The College of the Holy Cross.  She obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology from Emory University in 2000, after which she became Head of the Independent Research Group on Cultural Ontogeny at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.  In 2004, Tricia Striano received the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award  of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.  She used the award to build the Neurocognition and Development Group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Leipzig.  In 2008, Dr. Striano obtained her habilitation from the University of Osnabruck in Germany.  Dr. Striano is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Hunter College, City University of New York.
Answer: Fordham University