2015 SUMMER
FACULTY
Flora Lu, Environmental Studies | A Community Garden Green Kitchen: Diversifying Family Income Sources in Watsonville
Miriam Greenberg & Steve McKay, Sociology |
Give Me Shelter: Experiencing the Housing Crisis in Santa Cruz County
Annapurna Pandey, Anthropology |
Dry Toilet: A solution to sanitation crisis In India
GRADUATES
Joor Baruah, Film + Digital Media |
Adi : At the Confluence
Kristine Lawson, Anthropology |
Acoustic Interactions : Emerging sounds of dissent in İstanbul‘s Yedikule bostans
Israel Dawson, Film and Digital Media |
Nowhere to Go
Jeffrey Jenkins, Environmental Studies |
Rare earth at Bear Lodge: Assessing community perspectives on economic development and access to multiple use lands through the participatory governance process of the environmental impact statement
Daniel Rudin, Film & Digital Media |
Labor Rights are Human Rights: Alleviating poverty through documentary and contract enforcement
Erin McElroy, Feminist Studies |
Narratives of Displacement Oral History Project: Narratives of Displacement
UNDERGRADUATES
Jasmin Aleman, Merrill College |
The Price for Fighting for Your Country: homeless veterans in the Santa Cruz County
Jessica Crosby, College Nine |
Computer Workshops and Website Management for the Kenneth Gardens Community in Umbilo South Africa
Adriana Murguia, Oakes College |
Sowing our Seeds: traditional and mitigation seed saving strategies in San Ramon Nicaragua
Ryan Shook, Kresge College |
The E-Waste Team
Victoria Pozos Bernal, College 8 |
Field Study with PASO Internacional
Yesenia Torres; Monica Gutierrez; Amelia Curry; Joanna Cortez |
Youth Empowerment Institute 2015
2016 SUMMER
GRADUATES
Rachel Voss, Environmental Studies |
Cultivating community innovation: participatory farmer trials to boost yields through improved soil and water management in Senegal
Katherine Ennis & Hamutahl Cohen, Environmental Studies |
Evaluating and contextualizing the factors contributing to food-insecurity for UCSC and Santa Cruz County
Daniel Rudin, Film and Digital Media |
Labor rights are human rights: Improving workplaces through documentary and “labor beat” reporting
Stephanie Webb, Environmental Studies |
Tilapia value chains for the poor: testing sustainable practices to meet ‘bottom of the pyramid’ demand in Egypt
Rebecca Feinberg, Anthropology |
Between the Vines: Refugee resettlement and foreign labor in Italian wine production
Monika Egerer, Environmental Studies |
No Place to Grow: A documentary and transmediaproject on urban agroecology, food sovereignty, and a community fight for land security
Darrell Ruppell, DANM |
Rideables
UNDERGRADUATES
Michael Needle, Anna Vandergriff & Kimberly Balmorez |
Everett Program “Youth Empowerment Institute”
Alma E. Villa, College Nine |
Housing Insecurity: A Challenge for the Mexican and Central American Communities in Los Angeles, CA
Charlotte O’Brien, Rachel Carson College |
Rosedale Freedom Project Internship
2017 SUMMER
GRADUATES
Eilin Francis, Economics |
Repayment Contracts, and Savings Constraints: An Experiment in Malawi
Dahyeon Jeong, Economics |
Creating Labor Markets in Rural Tanzania: Information Frictions and Credit Constraints
Halie Kampman, Environmental Studies |
Homegrown nutrition: exploring the potential for women’s community gardens to reduce undernutrition in The Gambia
Yi-Chen Liu, Sociology |
Read Our Stories, Understand Your Society: The Exhibit Project of Showing Immigrant Workers in Taiwan (2016 award)
Monica Mikhail, Anthropology |
Belonging and Care: Faith-Based Humanitarian Aid in Postmulticultural Bolivia
Uriel Serrano, Sociology |
Empowering Black and Latino Young Men Though Transformative Programming
UNDERGRADUATES
Jessica Chuidian-Ingersoll, Merrill College |
Community Studies Field Study 2017 – Tenants Together
Aria Critchfield, College Ten |
Initiating Justice During the New Jim Crow
Evelyn Drake, College Ten |
Nothing about us without us: Empowered student-centered research leading changes to the DRC
Ines Galmiche, Rachel Carson College |
Abuja Summer Institute
Wilfrido Hernandez Flores, Rachel Carson College |
The Digital NEST and Academic Achievement
Noa Mills, Rachel Carson College |
Amazon Crude Visibility Campaign
Jaleel Plummer, Merrill College |
Resilience and Health of African American Women Living in East Oakland, California
2018 SUMMER
GRADUATES
James Alejandro Artiga-Purcell |
Mobilizing a Mining Ban: A Political Ecology of El Salvador’s Anti-Mining Movement
Roxy Davis |
Jail / Care: Amplifying Santa Cruz Community Voices on Health & Incarceration
Jacob Moe |
Radio Saracura
Christine Rosales |
Exploring the Hidden Worlds of Resistance Enacted by Latina Women
Randy Villegas |
Voices from the Valley of Vulnerability: The Effects of Mixed Status Family Households on Young People’s Civic Engagement
Roxanna Villalobos |
Grassroots Feminism in the Farmlands: Exploring Women’s Rural Activism and Leadership in California’s Central Valley
UNDERGRADUATES
Fabiana De Lima |
Addressing Low College Attrition for Latinx First-Generation Students from Downtown College Preparatory
Lyubov Kaplanskaya |
Self-Care Habits and Public Health Concerns of the Skid Row Population
Hermes Padilla |
A Tale of Two Cities: A Comparative Analysis of On and Off Campus Housing Experiences of Students at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Alejandra Zeiger |
The Entanglements of Poverty: Quality of Life and Mental Health in the Ecuadorian Amazon
2019 SUMMER
GRADUATES
Kyle Baker, Film & Digital Media |
The Eighth Province
Carlos Campos, Film & Digital Media |
Open to the Public
Dominique de Wit, Politics |
Power over Power: Community Choice for More Equitable Low-Carbon Economies
Veronica Hamilton, Psychology |
Objectification of Fast Food Workers
Theresa Hice Johnson, Sociology |
Black Abroad: Community-based travel organization youth participants reconstruct Blackness
Mali’o Kodis, Coastal Science and Policy |
Regenerating Working Landscapes for Communities and Climate: The Cascade Ranch Partnership
Brian Myers, Film & Digital Media |
Youth & Parent Political Socialization and Engagement in Urban Refugee Communities: Karen From Burma in San Diego
Lachlan Summers, Anthropology |
Sometimes in September: Temporalities of Disaster in Mexico City
David Sungho Park, Economics |
Reducing Intimate Partner Violence of Disadvantaged Women in Monrovia: An Experiment with Red Cross’s Women Training and Integration Program
Brian Walter, Anthropology |
Climate Dispossession: Flooding and Environmental Racism in the South Carolina Lowcountry
UNDERGRADUATES
Louis W Garcia, Stevenson College |
Oakland, California’s points of Nutritional Hope and their fight against food insecurity
Regina “G” Grayson , Oakes College |
Ripple Effect Initiative Project
Luna Hernandez Ramirez, Kresge College |
From Watsonville, California to Cuba and Back Again: Sharing Knowledges of Equitable Food Systems and Sustainable Agroecological Practices
Miles Klieman, Stevenson College |
Redistricting for Representation and Participatory Governance
2020 SUMMER
GRADUATES
Ibette Valle, Psychology |
Learning Together: A researcher-practitioner approach to improving college transition support for low-income first-generation college students.
Lucia Vitale, Political Science |
Health Systems Strengthening in times of Pandemic: The Case of an INGO in Costa Rica
Alyssa Serrano, Community Studies |
Underneath Silicon Valley- Organizing for a Just Community in San José
Karina Ruiz, Latinx American and Latinx Studies |
Citizen Children and Mixed-Status Family Affective Landscapes
Tashina Vavuris, Environmental Studies |
Youth Leadership for Environmental Justice in Low-Income, Latinx Communities in CA
Michelina Johnson, Environmental Studies |
Participatory Governance, Groundwater Sustainability, and Agricultural Livelihoods in the Pajaro Valley, California
Emilia Valenzuela Vergara, Latinx American and Latinx Studies |
Inclusion of immigrant kids through theater in Chilean schools
Tom Collinson, Coastal Science and Policy |
Sea cucumber data collection and capacity building mission
Vivian Underhill, Feminist Studies |
Developing Capacity through Community- Based Art and Science in California’s Central Valley
Amanda Daria Stoltz, Environmental Studies |
Left to Fish for Themselves: Inequities in the COVID-19 Seafood Industry Stimulus Package