Inquiry with impact
// by Andrea Limas
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 …
On-Demand and on-the-edge: Ride-hailing and Delivery Workers in San FranciscoRead More
// by Andrea Limas
By: Hillary Angelo (UC Santa Cruz), Key MacFarlane (UC Santa Cruz), and James Sirigotis (UC Santa Cruz) April 2020 In the face of intensifying environmental crisis, and the apparent failure of national politics to address it, municipal planning has become the leading frontier of climate …
The Challenge of Equity in California’s Municipal Climate Action PlansRead More
// by Andrea Limas
By: Chris Benner, Manuel Pastor March 23, 2020 In the long term, not just in the current emergency, mutuality matters—not only morally but economically, too. An ethos of mutual caring and support not only leads to better health outcomes, but also helps to generate a more vibrant and …
Solidarity Economics—for the Coronavirus Crisis and BeyondRead More
// by Andrea Limas
By: Chris Benner July 25, 2019 Silicon Valley was once seen as the harbinger of a new information economy that would help spread prosperity. Dr. Chris Benner, Director of the Institute for Social Transformation, explores the growing public animosity towards Silicon Valley–based technology …
Beyond the Techlash: Silicon Valley and structures of inequalityRead More
// by Evin Knight
Racial Reconciliation and the Future of Race in America A Conversation with Alondra Nelson & Herman Gray - Moderated by Jenny Reardon January 22, 2020 Event Recap The community joined us for a vibrant, stimulating, and challenging conversation on race in America with Alondra Nelson …
Racial Reconciliation and the Future of Race in AmericaRead More
// by Andrea Limas
The conference was held on September 12th and 13th, 2019. Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to the 13th Annual All-California Labor Economics Conference in September held in UC Santa Cruz with 100 attendees from 18 different universities and organizations. The …
13th Annual All-California Labor Economics Conference at UC Santa CruzRead More
// by Andrea Limas
About the CERI Interested in learning how to do community-engaged research with experienced faculty in the gorgeous California coast? Please join the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation and UC Santa Cruz’s Everett Program, the Center for Collaborative Research for an …
Community Engaged Research Institute June 24-27, 2019Read More
// by Andrea Limas
By: Rosalyn Allison-Jacobs December 2018 Author Rosalyn Allison-Jacobs from the Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy organization at the University of Pennsylvania has released a new report. The IDS Case Study Report is an expansion of an overview of the Silicon Valley …
// by Andrea Limas
By: Manuel Pastor, Chris Benner October 2018 As California faces off against the federal government on everything from immigration to climate change, the state has the opportunity to do something radically different: transform our infrastructure, education, workforce development, housing, …
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