2020-2021 Fall/Winter/Spring/Summer
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PROJECT: Building Environmental Belonging: Racial Inclusion and Diversity among Undergraduates at UCSC
FACULTY MENTOR: Flora Lu, Environmental Studies Department
Kimie Dare
Environmental Studies Major & Education Minor
Jianjia Gettinger
Environmental Studies and Psychology
PROJECT: Chimpanzee Video Coding Team
FACULTY MENTOR: Vicky Oelze, Anthropology Department
Lauryn Hobbs
Anthropology and Psychology Double Major
Payton Sime
Anthropology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Major
PROJECT: Educational Justice across Digital Divides: Building and Sustaining a Community Partnership during COVID-19
FACULTY MENTOR: Cynthia Lewis, Education Department
Jesica Garcia
Sociology Major
PROJECT: Faculty Diversity in California Environmental Studies and Sciences Departments: Implications for Student Learning and the Growth of the Field
FACULTY MENTOR: Sikina Jinnah, Environmental Studies Department
Amani Taylor
Environmental Studies Major
Arien Hernandez
Legal Studies Major
PROJECT: Incorporating Cultural and Family Strengths to Build an Inclusive Campus Climate for Undocumented Community College Students
FACULTY MENTOR: Saskias Casanova, Psychology Department
Arley Aguilar Luna
Psychology and Latin American and Latinx Studies
PROJECT: Narratives of Political Participation Among Peruvian Women’s Right Activists: Archive Project
FACULTY MENTOR: Sylvana Falcón, Latin American and Latino/a Studies Department & Shelly Grabe, Psychology Department
Nicole Herrera-Moro
Latin American and Latinx Studies and Spanish Studies
Lizbeth Garcia Bermudez
Psychology and Latin American and Latinx Studies
Karely Valdez
Psychology and Spanish Studies Double Major
María Govea Mendoza
PROJECT: Phenology Observers on Social Media
FACULTY MENTOR: Kai Zhu, Environmental Studies Department
Caitlin Schilt
Environmental Studies Major
Jade Guzman
Environmental Studies and Legal Studies Major
PROJECT: Turning the Tide: Shifting Access, Equity, and Vulnerability in Coastal California
FACULTY MENTOR: Katherine Seto, Environmental Studies Department and Juan Pedroza, Sociology Department
Leslie Lazo
Biology EEB Major
Joseph Lee
Marine Biology Major
PROJECT: Profiling First-Generation Faculty: On Making Sense of Racial/Ethnic Identity in First-Generation Visibility Campaigns Nationwide
FACULTY MENTOR: Rebecca Covarrubias, Psychology Department
Kimberlie Hatch
Cognitive Science Major
PROJECT: Youth Participatory Action Research, Cultural Knowledge & Resilience for (Im)migrant High School Students
FACULTY MENTOR: Saskias Casanova, Psychology Department
Alicia Alvarez
Psychology and Latin American & Latinx Studies
PROJECT: Suddenly Distant: Teachers’ Work in the Context of COVID
FACULTY MENTOR: Lora Bartlett, Education Department
PUBLICATIONS: What We Learned About Teachers During the Pandemic: A Series and Suddenly Distant Findings from the Field Report
Lila Harte
Literature & Education Major
PROJECT: We Belong: Collaboration for Community-Engaged Research and Immigrant Justice
FACULTY MENTOR: Steve McKay, Sociology Department
Jonathan Sanchez
Sociology Major
Eddie Resendiz
Cristina Gonzalez
Ashley Gutierrez
PROJECT: Barriers to Adopting Healthful Diets Across Cultural and Socio-Economic Groups
FACULTY MENTOR: Galina Hale, Economics Department
Dmitrius Rodriguez
Environmental & Economics Major
Yang Li
Business Management Economics Major
PROJECT: Two Pandemics in the Ring of Fire: COVID-19, Diabetes, and Infernal Change
FACULTY MENTOR: James Doucet-Battle, Sociology Department
Tamar Sasson
Sociology and Economics Major
Andrea Asher
Sociology and Human Biology Major
PROJECT: Who Saves Whom? Compassionate Economies of Care in Animal Rescue
FACULTY MENTOR: Lissa Caldwell, Anthropology Department
Samuel Bass
Anthropology major
Jazmin Gonzalez
Economics Major
Erendira Blanco Castano
Anthropology Major
Alyssa Cabral
Dee Cappelli
Anthropology Major
PROJECT: Vulnerability and Positionality in Fieldwork on Law
FACULTY MENTOR: Mark Fathi Massoud, Politics Department
Anushka Shah
Legal Studies and Intensive Psychology Major
PROJECT: SEMILLA Teach Project
FACULTY MENTOR: Samuel Severance, Education Department
Karina Ibeth Rosales
Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Major
Noemi Avenido
Science Education Major
PROJECT: Ecosystem Services and Shade Management in coffee Agroecosystems: Ecology and Application
FACULTY MENTOR: Stacy Philpott, Environmental Studies Department
Jenny Hsu
Ecology and Evolution Major
Robyn Fowler
Environmental Studies Major
PROJECT: Lost in Translation: Language Segregation Among Hispanics in the United States
FACULTY MENTOR: Juan Manuel Pedroza, Sociology Department
Alejandra Martinez Saldivar
PROJECT: Hate Speech and Community
FACULTY MENTOR: Ryan Coonerty, Politics Department
Cassandra Mar
Legal Studies and Politics Major
Edward Estrada
PROJECT: Language, Literacy, and Academic Pathways for the ‘New Mainstream’ in Community Colleges
FACULTY MENTOR: George Bunch, Education Department
Alexis Roman
Legal Studies & Education, Democracy, and Justice
Gabriela Nunez de la Torre
Legal Studies & Spanish Major
PROJECT: Making Noncitizen Rights Real
FACULTY MENTOR: Juan Manuel Pedroza, Sociology Department
Dennise Onchi-Molina
Combined Latin American and Latino Studies Major
Melissa Garcia Carrillo
PROJECT: Optimizing Feedback to Enhance Student Learning
FACULTY MENTOR: Hannah Hausman, Psychology Department
Kaylie Kurland
Cognitive Science Major
Huda Ajaz
Intensive Psychology and Sociology Major
Sid Masuda
PROJECT: Platform Workers in the Post Prop 22 Enviroment
FACULTY MENTOR: Chris Benner, Sociology Department
Jonathan Winston
Sociology Major
Karina Diaz Alvarez
Proposed Psychology and Legal Studies
PROJECT: Socio-Environmental Conflicts in Chile’s Huasco Valley
FACULTY MENTOR: Fernando Leiva, Latin American & Latino Studies
Dalia Cervantes
Politics & LALS Major
PROJECT: Translatinx Migrant Health during COVID-19
FACULTY MENTOR: Katherine Seto, Environmental Studies Department & Juan Manuel Pedroza, Sociology Department
Melanie Renteria
Politics & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Major
PROJECT: Bodies of Evidence: Legibility, Medical Uncertainty, and the Knowledge Problem of ‘Rape Kits’
FACULTY MENTOR: Jaimie Morse, Sociology Department
Valerie Garcia
Sociology
Bridge Kennedy
Sociology & Legal Studies
Victoria Crowley
Feminist Studies & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Sophia Grewell
Feminist Studies & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
PROJECT: Civic Identity Development and Social Media Use among U.S. College students
FACULTY MENTOR: Adriana Manago, Psychology Department
Jacqueline Gonzales
PROJECT: Communicational Remembering in Social Networks
FACULTY MENTOR: Jeremy Yamashiro, Psychology Department
Hananiel Suradji
Cognitive Science
PROJECT: Enhancing Climate Change Education Through Personalized Scientific Communications on Phenology
FACULTY MENTOR: Kai Zhu, Environmental Studies Department
Jade Guzman
Environmental Studies and Legal Studies Major
Luke Hamilton
Environmental Science
PROJECT: Global Banking Capital Allocation Project
FACULTY MENTOR: Grace Weishi Gu, Economics Department
Jacob Hammersly
Economics, Environmental Studies/Earth Science
PROJECT: Interrupting Patriarchal Violence: Abolitionist Approaches to Harm in Black Communities
FACULTY MENTOR: Savannah Shange, Anthropology Department
Shaye Paysinger
PROJECT: Pandemic Politics, Structural Racism and Community Resilience
FACULTY MENTOR: Matt Sparke, Politics Department
Samantha Gonzalez
PROJECT: Political Distancing across the Carceral Divide: COVID-19, Confinement, Contagion, Containment, and County Choices in California
FACULTY MENTOR: Anjuli Verma, Politics Department
Saron Yared
Environmental Science and Legal Studies
Heather Collins
Jared Farley
Cassandra Beale
Shaye Paysinger
PROJECT: The Digital Undercommons: Documenting Abolitionist Pedagogies in Global Social Movements
FACULTY MENTOR: Roberto de Roock, Education Department
Yareli Jimenez
Psychology (minors in Education & LALS)
Sophia Partida
Psychology and Sociology
Mitzy Acevedo
Intensive Psychology
PROJECT: Uncanny Ecologies: Toward a NonSecular Understanding of Nature
FACULTY MENTOR: Mayanthi Fernando, Anthropology Department
Queenie Don
Adria Vidales
PROJECT: Moonshot or Mundane? Tracing Investment Patterns in the Bay Area Agri-food Tech Sector
FACULTY MENTOR: Julie Guthman, Community Studies Department
Tara Lamb
Tamar Sasson
Sociology and Economics Major
Bonafacio Miranda
PROJECT: Internship in the Archaeology of Slavery and the Slave Trade
FACULTY MENTOR: J. Cameron Monroe, Anthropology Department
John Berg
Lauren Castaneda
PROJECT: Uncanny Ecologies: Toward a Intergenerational Occupation Mobility and Trade Understanding of Nature
FACULTY MENTOR: Gueyon Kim, Economics Department
Manisha Magal
Crystal Fok
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