What it Will Take to Prevent the Next Big One: Pandemics, Planetary Health and Our Global Future
Please join us for an evening with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and UC Santa Cruz alumna Laurie Garrett (Merrill 75). Named by the New York Times “Cassandra” for predicting the COVID-19 pandemic and other outbreaks, Garrett will discuss what it will take to prevent the next pandemic, and protect both the health of our planet and the future of global health. UCSC faculty Alicia Riley, assistant professor of sociology, core faculty in global and community health, and Valerie Cortez, assistant professor of molecular cell, and developmental biology will join her in the conversation.
This event is sponsored by the Global and Community Health Program at UC Santa Cruz.
All-In Conference Plenary 1: Critical Community Engagement Scholarship
Highlighting the “Santa Cruz model” of Critical Community Engagement Scholarship with panelists: Rebecca London,
Steve McKay, Valentin Lopez, Keisha Browder, MariaElena de la Garza, and spoken word by Patrice Hill and Denisha “Coco” Bland, Sacramento Area Youth Speas (SAYS).
All-In Conference Plenary 2: Renewing and Growing Our Community
Urban Research Action Network 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.
All-In Conference Plenary 3: Universities and Community-Engaged Research
Join Nancy Cantor, Chacellor of Rutgers University-Newark, and Cynthia Larive, Chancellor of UC Santa Cruz, as they discuss how their Universities and Communities are engaging in social justice.
All-In Conference Plenary 4: Lived Experience and Learning Together
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.
All-In Conference Plenary 5: Scaling the Impact of Community – Engaged Research in California
Join guest speakers Christina Livingston, Ana Padilla, Kathrick Ramakrishnan, Manuel Pastor, and Chris Benner in their discussion about Community-Engaged Research in California.
All-In Conference Panel: Promotion & Tenure
This session will explore how community-engaged scholarship can be recognized in the review process. It will also explore ways that institutions of higher education can create policies that acknowledge and uplift these efforts through policy and practice.
All-In Conference Panel on Building Partnerships for a More Inclusive Economy
The Salinas Inclusive Economic Development Initiative (SIEDI) aims to transform our economy in the Salinas Region. This multi-year effort is fostering new relationships so that economic development decisions in the Salinas Valley will produce a more equitable economy. In this session, we’ll review and discuss with conference participants our progress in year one pulling nine diverse community organizations together to create the potential for transformational power shifts in the way our economy is developed.
Solidarity Economics
Join Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor’s discussion about Solidarity Economics and their approach to address widening income inequality, rising economic insecurities, and growing social and racial fragmentation while also promoting innovation and economic growth where businesses can thrive.
Living with the Pandemic, Lessons Learned
Moderated by UCSC Chancellor Cynthia K. Larive, join Pete Delgado, Rosa Vivian Fernández, and DeAndre James as they discuss what they have been doing in the health space for the past two years and how they grapple with our new normal.
RCA 30th Anniversary Celebration: Sharing Futures, Speaking Truths
Join us as we celebrate the renaming of the Research Center for the Americas in honor of civil rights & feminist icon Dolores Huerta. Huerta, the distinguished honoree, will appear alongside keynote speaker Cristina Jiménez, community organizer and co-founder of United We Dream, as part of the center’s 30th anniversary event.
Building Belonging Student Flash Talks 2022
The Institute for Social Transformation hosted an end-of-year celebration and student flash talk event to honor the work that has been accomplished in the Building Belonging program. Students who have been involved in the program in 2021-2022 share their research with the community.
John R Lewis College Presents: Pathways to Thriving Communities
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the inextricable relationships between environmental degradation, economic precarity, racism, social deprivation, food insecurity, and unsafe working and living conditions. Health disparities reflect and exacerbate a multitude of inequities; inequities that John Lewis challenged throughout his life. In this event, presenters addressed how we can build and sustain thriving communities. We broadly discussed community health from multiple perspectives and cultural frames, situated in racial, economic and environmental justice.
Featured Speakers: Linnea Beckett, Alicia Riley, Nancy N. Chen, James Doucet-Battle, Cristina Gamboa.
John R Lewis College Presents: Students as Agents of Transformative Change
More than simply an institution of higher education, UC Santa Cruz has been a site of powerful student organizing and transformative engagement with the world, including struggles that have challenged the structural racism and neoliberalism of the institution itself. Running as a through-line in student organizing at UC Santa Cruz has been an insistence on political education as essential to the imagination and enactment of racial justice and social change. This event puts the spotlight on student organizers who catalyzed transformation in both the classroom and beyond.
Featured Speakers: Xavier Livermon, Elias Solorio, Ileana Waddy, Ivan Vega, Mak Aruta Konefał, Chris Cuadrado.
John R Lewis College Presents: Social Movements for a Just Society
This event featured leaders and scholars rooted in these movements for civic engagement, revitalized democracy, and a just society. Their work helps highlight inspiring examples of people coming together, speaking truth to power, confronting injustice and transforming adversity into opportunity. Panelists will discuss lessons they’ve learned from their work, highlight promising movements for democracy and justice in contemporary society, and explore paths forward to address the most pressing challenges in the U.S. and world today.
Featured Speakers: Shirley Nash Weber, Katharyne Mitchell, Elizabeth Beaumont, Hiroshi Fukurai, Rekia Jibrin
WeChooseNow: Climate Justice From the Southern Frontlines
This event features leaders and scholars rooted in these movements for civic engagement, revitalized democracy, and a just society. Their work helps highlight inspiring examples of people coming together, speaking truth to power, confronting injustice and transforming adversity into opportunity. Panelists will discuss lessons they’ve learned from their work, highlight promising movements for democracy and justice in contemporary society, and explore paths forward to address the most pressing challenges in the U.S. and world today.
Featured Speakers: Colette Pichon Battle, Flora Lu, and Chris Lang.
John R Lewis College Presents: Solidarities for Justice
Ready for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the Division of Social Sciences, Colleges Nine and Ten, the Institute for Social Transformation, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis.
Featured Speakers: John Brown Childs, Daniel “Nane” Alejandrez, Sylvanna M. Falcón, Christine Hong, Chisato Hughes, Steve McKay
War in Ukraine: Background, Context, Prospects and Implications
On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded its neighbor Ukraine, a former republic of the USSR and today an independent, democratic country. Join a panel of UC Santa Cruz faculty, PhD students, and alumni who will discuss the historical and political context for Russia’s war in and on Ukraine, tension with NATO, broader Russian efforts at territorial expansion and destabilization, and responses by Ukrainians and the global community.
Topics include the geopolitical history of the region, Russian media politics, the legacy of Soviet ideals of multinationalism and “brotherhood,” shifting registers of “Europeanness,” and responses by the European Union, other formerly Soviet republics, and China. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation, The Humanities Institute, and the Arts Research Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
John R Lewis College Presents: Black Liberation and Pedagogies
Ready for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the Division of Social Sciences, Colleges Nine and Ten, the Institute for Social Transformation, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis.
Featured Speakers: Savannah Shange, David Henry Anthony III, Cat Brooks, Andrea del Carmen Vázquez
BET Her Presents: Becoming: Michelle Obama in Conversation
Former First Lady Michelle Obama sits down with Yara Shahidi and a coterie of college students to discuss her book “Becoming,” and answer questions about race, politics and making an impact. UCSC Legal Studies student Aissata Ba was among the students who participated a conversation last year with Michelle Obama. Watch >>
