All-In Conference Agenda - UCSC Institute for Social Transformation

Conference Program

The All-In Conference will take place over 3 days on October 26-28, 2022 at several venues in Santa Cruz. Below is an overview of the conference schedule and program, including plenary sessions, special events, and meals. Please also see the breakout session schedule for details of concurrent sessions. For details on venues, parking, shuttles, COVID protocols, and other travel information please see our logistics page.

DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2022

We will be at multiple locations in downtown Santa Cruz including Hotel Paradox at 611 Ocean Street and the Resource Center for Non-Violence at 612 Ocean Street (located directly across the street from each other) with a reception at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) at 705 Front Street.

8:00-8:45 AM — Registration (light breakfast and coffee/tea)

Location: Resource Center for Non-Violence (RCNV). Parking information is available on our logistics page.

9:00-10:30 AM — Welcome Plenary: Highlighting the “Santa Cruz model” of Critical Community Engagement Scholarship

Location: Resource Center for Non-Violence (RCNV)

Panelists:

Spoken word by Patrice Hill and Denisha “Coco” Bland, Sacramento Area Youth Speas (SAYS)

10:30-11:00 AM — Coffee Break

Location: Hotel Paradox

11:00-12:30 PM — Breakout Sessions

View the breakout session schedule for details and room locations.

12:30-1:30 PM — Conference Lunch

Location: Hotel Paradox Pool Deck (outdoors)

1:30-3:00 PM — Breakout Sessions

View the breakout session schedule for details and room locations.

3:00-3:30 PM — Coffee Break

Location: Hotel Paradox

3:30-5:00 PM — Plenary: URBAN Network: Renewing and Growing Our Community

Location: Resource Center for Non-Violence (RCNV)

Panelists: Ana Antunes (University of Utah), Paige Bray (University of Hartford), Tim Eatman (Rutgers), and other members of the URBAN Network

Description: URBAN has established a national coalition of publicly engaged scholars dedicated to the purposes of ameliorating research focused on urban communities and youth. As we look towards the future and then next phase of development through our geographic and disciplinary nodes, we call together the community to hone plans for moving the work forward. This is an open opportunity for anyone who sees themselves as aligned to the network and willing to contribute to the coalition.

5:00-5:30 PM — Transportation to the Reception

Shuttle buses will be provided to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). More information is available on the logistics page.

5:30-7:30 PM — Reception, Cultural Performances, and Museum Exhibits

Reception and exhibits at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Appetizers and beverages provided.

Cultural performances from 6:00-6:45 PM with:

Daniel Summerhill, Monterey County Poet Laureate 2022-2023
Senderos Centeotl Danza y Baile folkloric dance group

Museum exhibits incldue:

The Land of Milk and Honey. A traveling multidisciplinary arts and culture program focused on the ideological concept of agriculture in the regions of California and Mexico.

7:30-8:00 PM — Transportation back to the hotel

Shuttle buses will pick up at the MAH and take guests back to Hotel Paradox.

DAY 2: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2022

We will be at multiple locations on the UC Santa Cruz campus including the Stevenson Event Center, with breakout rooms in the Humanities buildings. The poster session and reception will be at the UCSC Historic Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. Shuttles will be provided from Hotel Paradox to campus in the morning and will return in the evening.

7:30-8:30 AM — Buses from Hotel Paradox to UC Santa Cruz campus

Shuttle buses will pick up at the Hotel Paradox departing at 7:30am and 8:15am to take attendees to the UCSC Stevenson Event Center. Additional information about parking is available on our logistics page.

8:00-9:00 AM — Networking Breakfast

Location: Stevenson Event Center Courtyard (outdoors)

9:00-10:00 AM — Plenary: Universities and Community-Engaged Research

Location: Stevenson Event Center

Panelists:

10:00-10:30 AM — Coffee Break

Location: Stevenson Event Center

10:30-12:00 PM — Breakout Sessions

View the breakout session schedule for details and room locations.

12:00-1:00 PM — Conference Lunch

Location: Stevenson Event Center Courtyard (outdoors)

1:00-2:00 PM — Plenary: Enacting Education: Lived Experience and Learning Together at Rutgers and UCSC

Location: Stevenson Event Center

Presenters:

Tim Eatman, Dean of the Honors Living and Learning Community, Rutgers University
Linnea Beckett, Assistant Adjunct Professor and Program Director, College Nine and John R. Lewis College, UC Santa Cruz
Sarah Woodside Bury, Senior Director of College Student Life, UC Santa Cruz
Eboni Bugg, Rutgers University
Aljabri Holmes, Rutgers University
Isela Coyotecatl Ricoy, Rutgers University
Angie Ruiz, Rutgers University
Gabrielle Julienne Reynoso, College Nine and John R. Lewis College, UC Santa Cruz
Maggie Ann Desphy, College Nine and John R. Lewis College, UC Santa Cruz
Ana Montiero, Rutgers University
Anya Dillard, Rutgers University

Brief Description:

Living communities in higher education, if designed with intentionality, can provide humanizing education to cultivate publicly engaged scholars committed to social justice. This interactive panel with undergraduates from the Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC) at Rutgers University-Newark and undergraduates from Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College at UC Santa Cruz will share about their work and on their importance and power of these living/learning spaces for their own development as positive social change makers.

2:00-2:30 PM — Coffee Break

Location: Stevenson Event Center

2:30-4:00 PM — Breakout Sessions

View the breakout session schedule for details and room locations.

4:00-4:30 PM — Transportation to Poster Session

Shuttle buses will pick guests up and take them to the Hay Barn. Or it’s about a 30-minute walk down the hill with beautiful views (walking map). More information is available on the logistics page.

4:30-6:00 PM — Poster Session and Reception

Reception at the UCSC Historic Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. Appetizers and beverages provided.

Poster exhibits include:

Reimagining Student Engagement and Scholarship at CSUEB Libraries
Specters of Gentrification: A Community-led Study of Experiences of Gentrification in East Boston
Watsonville is in the Heart: Public History and Digital Archive Project
Youth Voices Art Exhibit
We Belong: Collaboration for Community-Engaged Research and Immigrant Justice
UCSC Everett Program for Technology and Social Change
Corre La Voz

View the poster session schedule here.

6:00-6:30 PM — Transportation back to the hotel

Shuttle buses will pick up at the Hay Barn and take guests back to Hotel Paradox.

6:30-8:00 PM — Dinner on your own

We recommend Abbott Square Market in downtown Santa Cruz.

8:00-10:00 PM — Film screening: Fruits of Labor

Location: Del Mar Theater, a historic art deco theater in downtown Santa Cruz at 1124 Pacific Avenue.

Fruits of Labor is an award-winning and nationally-televised film, which was filmed in Watsonville and follows Ashley, a Mexican-American teenager, who dreams of graduating high school and going to college. But when ICE raids threaten her family, Ashley is forced to become the breadwinner, working days in the strawberry fields and nights at a food processing company. The screening will include a discussion with the filmmaker, Emily Cohen Ibañez. This special event is open to conference goers and the general public.

Conference attendees should register here for free tickets >>

DAY 3: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022

We will be back at Hotel Paradox at 611 Ocean Street and the Resource Center for Non-Violence at 612 Ocean Street (located directly across the street from each other).

8:00-9:00 AM — Light Breakfast

Location: Hotel Paradox. Parking information is available on our logistics page.

9:00-10:30 AM — Breakout Sessions

View the breakout session schedule for details and room locations.

10:30-11:00 AM — Coffee Break

Location: Hotel Paradox

11:00-12:00 PM — Closing Plenary: Scaling the Impact of Community-Engaged Research in California

Location: Resource Center for Non-Violence (RCNV)

Panelists:

Spoken word by Fong Tran, Poet, Speaker, Educator