Q&A with Building Belonging Fellows Learning about the student experience within the Building Belonging Program By Karina Diaz Alvarez, CUIP Intern for the Institute for Social Transformation As the Chancellor's Undergraduate Internship Project (CUIP) for the Institute for Social …
Playing for Keeps: A Long-Term Community-Engaged Research Partnership to Support Safe and Healthy Elementary School Recess
An article published in Sociological Forum and co-authored by Rebecca A. London (UCSC) and Jennette Claassen (Playworks) May 2023 The field of community-engaged research emphasizes the importance of creating long-lasting, mutually beneficial, and reciprocal collaborations. However, many issues …
Architects of Abundance: Indigenous Regenerative Food Systems and the Excavation of Hidden History
Conversations on Climate Justice March 13, 2023 Wildfires. Flooding. Drought. The nation has faced these climate issues for centuries. Yet, there’s still a lot that can be learned from pre-colonial Indigenous food and land management techniques to combat our current climate problems, …
Q&A with MR Macgill and Ho Nam
Q&A with MR Macgill and Ho Nam Donors for the Transforming Futures Program Originally published at UCSC News Center by Joop Rubens Transforming Futures—a pilot program launched by UC Santa Cruz’s Institute for Social Transformation—awarded seven first generation, underrepresented, …
Q&A with Amanda Safi
Q&A with Amanda Safi Transforming Futures Intern Summer 2022 Originally published at UCSC News Center by Haneen Zain Third-year politics student Amanda Safi (John R. Lewis ’24, politics) spent her summer interning for the House of Representatives at the Office of Congressman Jimmy …
Q&A with Aissata Ba
Q&A with Aissata Ba Second-year UCSC student in Legal Studies Originally published at UCSC News Center by Robert Ham When Aissata Ba decided to put her name in the running for a chance to meet former First Lady Michelle Obama at a special event last year, the second-year legal studies …
