Contact Zones are social spaces of engagement. Join us for this speaker series from the Library Diversity Committee that will bring together community leaders and experts to help navigate issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Learn from the experiences and projects of UCLA’s Activists-in-Residence. Hear their tips and advice on how to create a more diverse and inclusive environment at UCLA.
Manuel Criollo is the Activist-In-Residence at the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin and has served as lead organizer on a wide range of local, regional and statewide campaigns, including solidarity work with social movements in Chiapas, Mexico, El Salvador and Venezuela. He received his BA from University of California, Santa Barbara, where he organized youth and students against anti-immigrant and anti-affirmative action ballot initiatives in California.
Yvonne Yen Liu
Yvonne Yen Liu is the Activist-in-Residence at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the co-founder and research director of Solidarity Research Center, a worker self-directed nonprofit that cultivates solidarity economies through data science, story-based strategy, and direct action. She is based in Los Angeles, California, where the sun smiles on her every day. She has a BA in cultural anthropology from Columbia University and a MA degree in sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center, where she pursued a PhD.
RSVP preferred. This is a free event open to all audiences. Questions: diversity@library.ucla.edu
