All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference October 26-28, 2022 | Santa Cruz, CA There is an exciting resurgence in critical public scholarship: a push for universities to reach beyond their academic audiences and build stronger community-university partnerships to jointly tackle …
Publications
On-Demand and on-the-edge: Ride-hailing and Delivery Workers in San Francisco
By: Chris Benner (UC Santa Cruz) with Erin Johansson (Jobs With Justice), Kung Feng (Jobs With Justice) and Hays Witt (Drivers Seat Cooperative) May 5, 2020 A new survey of app-based ride-hailing and food and grocery-delivery workers in San Francisco underscores the financial vulnerability of …
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Q&A with Transforming Futures 2023 Interns
Testimonials from students in the Transforming Futures program By Grace Nilsen, CUIP Marketing and Communications Intern for the Institute for Social Transformation Internships are an essential component for career success, providing an important experiential learning opportunity for …
Building Belonging Student Showcase 2024
Building Belonging Student Showcase May 23, 2024 The Institute for Social Transformation hosted an end-of-year celebration and student showcase event to honor the work that has been accomplished in the Building Belonging Program. Students involved in the program in 2023-2024 presented …
Solidarity Economics Series: Public Health in the Monterey Bay Area
Co-authored by Gabriella Alvarez (UCSC) and Chris Benner (UCSC) May 2024 The Institute for Social Transformation is launching a series on how Solidarity Economics principles of mutuality and movements can be applied to help promote inclusive economic development in the Monterey Bay Region. …
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Powering Prosperity: Building an Inclusive Lithium Supply Chain in California’s Salton Sea Region
March 26, 2024 New research reveals steps California must take to capture more jobs from lithium battery boom California is capturing only 2.4% of projected jobs in planned operations in the nation’s lithium battery supply chain, with most going to states that are ranked low in terms of …
UCSC Journal of International Society and Culture: Vol. IV
Co-authored by UCSC students Winter 2024 The UCSC Journal of International Society and Culture provides a platform for UCSC students to research and write about important international issues across multiple academic disciplines. The journal seeks to inform discourse on international issues, …
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Q&A with Lizeth Peña Sanchez: Transforming Futures and Building Belonging Intern
UCSC student and two time scholarship recipient shares her transformative experiences Originally published in the UCSC News Center by Grace Nilsen, CUIP Intern for the Institute for Social Transformation Lizeth Peña Sanchez (’24, education, democracy, and justice, Latin American and Latino …
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Building an Inclusive Economy in the Monterey Bay Region: A Progress Report
Co-authored by Gabriella Alvarez (UCSC) and Chris Benner (UCSC), with undergraduate research assistance from Tamar Sasson December 2023 In this report, researchers from the Institute for Social Transformation, in partnership with the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership, aim to help community …
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Pandemic retelling: What GoFundMe posts reveal about the socioeconomic context of COVID-19 death and bereavement among Latinx and Spanish-speaking communities in the United States
Co-authored by Eileen Amador, Robin Hernández-Chincoya, Alicia R. Riley (UCSC Sociology) Contributions from Building Belonging Fellows: Eileen Amador and Robin Hernández-Chincoya November 2, 2023 COVID-19 has had an outsized impact on Latinx communities in the United States, turning …
Q&A with Leslie Salgado: Transforming Futures Intern
Donor-funded scholarship paves the way for UCSC student's impactful internship Originally published in the UCSC News Center by Haneen Zain Leslie Salgado (Kresge ’25, psychology) always knew she wanted to work with kids. So when the opportunity to work with children arose this summer, she …
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