Inquiry with impact
// by Maggie Ann Desphy
A partnership of Alianza Coachella Valley; the Assembly Committee on Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy; the UCR Center for Social Innovation; and the Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz March 2023 The Our Salton Sea initiative launched in 2021 to provide a more …
Our Salton Sea: Investing in People for a Thriving RegionRead More
// by Karina Diaz Alvarez
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, …
// by Maggie Ann Desphy
By Madeleine Fairbairn (UCSC), Elsa Calderon (UCSC), and Jordan Treakle (NFFC) February 2023 The financial industry is in the market for farmland. Over the past decade and a half, major financial institutions have increasingly added farmland to their investment portfolios, and investment …
Selling Out the Delta: Farmland Investment and Small Farmer Land Access in MississippiRead More
// by Maggie Ann Desphy
Q&A with Rekia Jibrin UCSC professor building collaborations to shape future minds through ethnic studies Originally published at UCSC News Center by Elisa Smith Many believe we are at a pivotal moment in this country regarding anti-racist reforms, police abolition, and restorative …
// by Maggie Ann Desphy
Prepared by: Brent M. Haddad Ph.D. (UC Santa Cruz) Independent Review Panel: Rominder Suri, Ph.D.; Philip Burgi, P.E.; Robert Glennon, J.D., Ph.D.; Sharon D. Kenny, PMP; Julie Lockwood, Ph.D.; Adina Paytan, Ph.D.; Robert Raucher, Ph.D. September …
// by Karina Diaz Alvarez
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, …
// by Karina Diaz Alvarez
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 …
// by Evin Knight
October 26-28, 2022 Conference Video Library Photo Gallery …
// by Hannah Mccafferty
By: Nate Edenhofer (UC Santa Cruz) & Alejandro Artiga-Purcell (UC Santa Cruz) April 2022 In the face of increasing development opportunities in the Salton Sea region, this report analyzes the opportunities and challenges for ensuring that any future local development projects foster an …
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