{"id":65110,"date":"2021-04-28T18:25:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/?page_id=65110"},"modified":"2024-03-30T19:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T19:35:39","slug":"local-santacruz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/nodes\/local-santacruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Cruz-CA"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"65110\" class=\"elementor elementor-65110\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1992e72 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1992e72\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6aeb2d1\" data-id=\"6aeb2d1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-00da86e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"00da86e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 07-02-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Santa Cruz<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c136c15 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c136c15\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">LOCAL NODE<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3b762ca4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3b762ca4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-172895c4\" data-id=\"172895c4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8a4b11c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8a4b11c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 07-02-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Santa Cruz, CA node is centered within the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/transform.ucsc.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Institute for Social Transformation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/transform.ucsc.edu\/work\/campus-community\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Campus + Community<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and builds on the University of California Office of the President multi-campus research initiative (2009-2015), the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ccrec.ucsc.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We have an extensive history of collaborative research with community organizations and agencies in multiple fields, including education, labor, health, and immigration. The Santa Cruz node uses a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177%2F0092055X19875794\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Community Initiated Student Engaged Research (CISER) model <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that immerses first-generation, BIPOC, and\/or low-income undergraduate students in equity-oriented community-based research in ways that both serve the community and provide meaningful experiences and skills to enhance students\u2019 educational experience.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Engaged scholars in the Santa Cruz node draw on a variety of social science and humanities disciplines, as well as the physical and biological sciences, computer engineering, data science and other inter- and cross-disciplinary approaches to solving the \u2018wicked\u2019 problems that plague the least advantaged communities and undermine possibilities for a just and democratic society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d352cab elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d352cab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Research and Action <\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-60633b1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"60633b1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-32b1658\" data-id=\"32b1658\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ae5abc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6ae5abc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5><strong>Youth and Undergraduate Transformation to Harness Community Change<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The University of California, Santa Cruz and United Way of Santa Cruz County were awarded a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/wtgrantfoundation.org\/three-new-institutional-challenge-grants-to-encourage-partnerships-spur-community-engaged-research-and-reduce-inequality\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">William T. Grant Foundation Institutional Challenge Grant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for their project Youth and Undergraduate <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transformation to Harness Community Change (YOUTH-C2). Working closely with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ucsc.edu\/2021\/04\/institutional-challenge-grant.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UCSC faculty and undergraduates, local youth will conduct youth participatory action research<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and share findings with policymakers to improve their communities. This project works in close alignment with United Way\u2019s Youth Action Network, which is supporting youth and adult allies to enhance youth leadership and voice countywide. The funds will also support the creation of UCSC\u2019s first community-engaged research center, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/transform.ucsc.edu\/work\/campus-community\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Campus + Community<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Rebecca London (grant PI) will be the inaugural center faculty director. Other faculty involved include Regina Langhout (co-PI and research fellow), Steve McKay (research fellow), Saskias Casanova (research fellow), and Jessica Taft (research fellow).<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6b0639 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c6b0639\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>No Place Like Home<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculty members Steve McKay and Miriam Greenberg engage with community partners and UC Santa Cruz students through CISER projects such as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/noplacelikehome.ucsc.edu\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Place Like Home: the Affordable Housing Crisis Study of Santa Cruz County<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 The project, conducted over 3 years, involved teaching six courses across the social sciences and humanities linked by the theme of affordable housing, and training over 250 undergraduates, many of whom were native Spanish speakers and first-generation college students. We collaborated with 3 of the largest local anti-poverty organizations to develop and collect nearly 2,000 valid surveys and 80 in-depth interviews with local renters about living conditions and the difficulties they faced.\u00a0 Students also disseminated \u201cKnow Your Rights as Renters\u201d information (in English and Spanish), reaching over 5,000 people\u2014on their porches; in their homes; in public plazas; and at local events. To make the findings accessible, we developed the bi-lingual <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/noplacelikehome.ucsc.edu\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Place Like Home<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> website, and organized a series of small neighborhood and large public events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d145d0b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d145d0b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><strong>Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ronald David Glass, an historico-cultural-political-psychoanalyst and Professor of Philosophy of Education, directed a system-wide research initiative of the University of California, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ccrec.ucsc.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (CCREC) from 2009-2015, and he has served in the national leadership of URBAN since its early days. CCREC seeded multiple equity-oriented collaborative community-based <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ccrec.ucsc.edu\/history\/projects\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">projects<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and convened community leaders and activist scholars to articulate the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ccrec.ucsc.edu\/history\/projects\/conferences\/digital-media-conference\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">possibilities and limits of digital technologies in research for justice<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as well as to identify the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ccrec.ucsc.edu\/history\/projects\/conferences\/unsettling-research-ethics-conference\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> full range and depth of issues in the ethics of research<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Professor Glass\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ccrec.ucsc.edu\/ethics-of-research\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">leadership of the study of ethical issues in research<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> helped shape the the first three URBAN national conferences and the collaborative production of multiple videos (e.g., this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YdQbsmN_wfc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dialogue about a visualization of the discussion of ethics at the second national conference<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and journal special issues, including an issue of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Urban Education<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> entitled, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/toc\/uex\/53\/4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research Confronts Equity and Social Justice-Building the Emerging Field of Collaborative, Community Engaged Education Research<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and an issue of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Education Policy Analysis Archives<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/epaa.asu.edu\/ojs\/index.php\/epaa\/article\/view\/4470\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collaborative Research for Justice and Multi-Issue Movement Building<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18e4527 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"18e4527\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Working for Dignity<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The Center for Labor Studies has been a primary sponsor of community-engaged research and action. Directed by Prof. Steve McKay, the Center has been involved in multiple projects, including the original CISER study, Working for Dignity: The Low-Wage Worker Study of Santa Cruz County. The project was initiated by our community partner, California Rural Legal Assistance, which noticed a shift of county workers from agriculture into low-wage services but found no reliable data on the trend and nothing on the experiences of workers. The goal was to conduct a \u201ccensus of the invisible\u201d \u2013 or a survey of low-wage workers across the county about work and workplace issues. We trained over 100 undergraduates, a majority native Spanish speakers, to collect over 1200 surveys and open-ended interviews. With a grant from the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the project was extended to include a \u201cpublic humanities\u201d component \u2013 the Working for Dignity website \u2013 that showcases the survey data and final report, the narratives and images of low wage workers, and provides resources for community members, organizations, scholars and policy makers interested in the issues facing low wage workers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-c2ed8b2\" data-id=\"c2ed8b2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61d2033 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"61d2033\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>The Everett Program<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/everettprogram.ucsc.edu\/\">The Everett Program for Technology and Social Change at UCSC<\/a>, directed by faculty member Chris Benner, develops young leaders who use the technical, educational, and research resources of the university to work directly with communities, empowering people to develop practical solutions to persistent problems. The program empowers undergraduate students to use the technical, educational, and research resources of the university to work directly with communities, helping people to design practical solutions to persistent problems. Its aim is to pursue social change through proactive solutions that make an immediate and enduring impact.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34f0fb8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"34f0fb8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5><strong>Rethinking Recess<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculty member Rebecca London has worked for more than a decade with the national non-profit organization <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.playworks.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Playworks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which aims to support safe, inclusive and healthy recess for low-income elementary students nationwide. Through long-term partnership development and multiple research projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the community-engaged research has led to pivotal changes in Playworks\u2019 theory of change as well as contributed to the scholarship on recess through London\u2019s recently published book <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hepg.org\/hep-home\/books\/rethinking-recess\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rethinking Recess: Creating Safe and Inclusive Recess for All Children in School<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. London expanded this work with a community-engaged research project involving local school districts focused on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com\/sites.ucsc.edu\/dist\/a\/409\/files\/2017\/07\/MSBT-Report-8.28.18-19gf2qp.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">middle school breaktime<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, engaging in a CISER project that trained 25 undergraduates and a high school intern to conduct field observations at schools and code and analyze observational data.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f7b5110 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f7b5110\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Youth Participatory Action Research<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculty member Regina Day Langhout partnered with a local elementary school and community center for a\u00a0 12 year-long youth participatory action research (yPAR) after-school program. The yPAR program, run by Langhout, her graduate students and undergraduates, enabled 9-14 year old youth to develop a focus area of interest to them, collect systematic information about that focus area, develop and take a social action to address the focus area, and evaluate the action they had taken to create change. Youth focused on collecting community stories to design and paint <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cprat.sites.ucsc.edu\/2015\/06\/14\/change-4-good\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">murals<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the school grounds in order to ensure students and their families felt represented at the school, as well as creating traveling artwork and a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d4cXWOOXZ8A&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">documentary<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to change the narrative about immigration raids that happened in their community.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eac2e0f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"eac2e0f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>We Belong<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webelongproject.sites.ucsc.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We Belong: Collaboration for Community Engaged Research and Immigrant Justice<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the third CISER project, led by Dr. Leslie L<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00f3<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pez and Prof. Steve McKay.\u00a0 We Belong connects a broad coalition of local community activist and social service agencies\u2014the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrivingimmigrantscollaborative.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thriving Immigrants Collaborative<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with university researchers and students to conduct a qualitative study of immigrant and mixed-status families to document their experiences, their contributions, and the obstacles they face. The goal of the project is to elevate immigrant voices, strengthen local community coalitions, and generate actionable knowledge to improve social services and inform policies to ensure ALL community members belong and thrive. The project has trained over 100 undergraduate students\u2014many of whom are themselves members of immigrant and mixed-status families\u2014who worked directly with a group of a local community youth connected with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedwaysc.org\/jovenes-sanos\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jovenes SANOS<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> program.\u00a0 Together, UCSC students and local youth conducted 100 in-depth interviews with families, facilitated focus groups with immigrant service providers, and participated in community mapping and photo-voice projects. The project will hold several bi-lingual community report-back events involving students, researchers, local youth, and local immigrant service providers.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b9aecd3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b9aecd3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>(H) ACER<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webelongproject.sites.ucsc.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Colleges at UCSC are a place of active community engagement. Dr. Linnea Beckett is Co-Founder and Director of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/collegeten.ucsc.edu\/hacer\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(H)ACER<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Apprenticeship in Community Engaged Research program, in College 10 at UCSC. The (H)ACER program provides academic and experiential learning for undergraduate students to grapple with the politics of knowledge production and ethics of community-engagement. Dr. Beckett is the Co-PI on a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.t2sgroundwater.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transformations to Groundwater Sustainability<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> International NSF funded study and PI on a Spencer Small Grants Funded research project designed to study <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ucsc.edu\/2021\/06\/calabasas-garden.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">STEM learning in a School-Based Community Garden<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Beckett brings both undergraduate and graduate students into these two feminist-oriented community-engaged research projects through (H)ACER\u2019s research methods classes and internships to study at the intersections of educational equity and environmental justice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/oakescara.ucsc.edu\/about\/\">Community-based Action Research and Advocacy (CARA) Program<\/a> in Oakes College undergraduate students a variety of opportunities to engage with the communities and social justice issues that matter most to them, through experiential learning in fields like education, legal aid, and assisting organizations with outreach and community-development work through their courses. Dr. Leslie L\u00f3pez has focused her CARA work on regional networks for immigrant justice through the <a href=\"https:\/\/oakescara.ucsc.edu\/puentes\/\">Puentes Program<\/a> for Legal Aid.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Cruz LOCAL NODE The Santa Cruz, CA node is centered within the Institute for Social Transformation and Campus + Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and builds on the University of California Office of the President multi-campus research initiative (2009-2015), the Center for Collaborative Research for an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7508,"featured_media":0,"parent":3280,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7HMh0-gWa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65110"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66111,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65110\/revisions\/66111"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}