Challenge Inequality

Insurgency at the Crossroads: A Book Talk by Aisha Finch
2017-01-26 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | UCLA Anderson School of Management, A201, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, United States
In Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844, Aisha Finch traces the emergence of a dynamic resistance movement of slaves and free people of color in nineteenth-century Cuba. Drawing from the largely unexplored testimonies in the Cuban National Archive, this book focuses attention on the hundreds of enslaved people who forged a radical, alternative vision of freedom in Cuba’s plantation countryside. Demonstrating that black slave women and non-elite slaves were critical to shaping and organizing this movement, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba offers new ways to think about slave mobilizations, black political struggles, and histories of rebellion.
Respondents:
George Lipsitz, UC Santa Barbara, Department of Black Studies
Ula Taylor, UC Berkeley, Department of African American Studies
Lisa Brock, Kalamazoo College, Department of History
Co-sponsored by: The Departments of African American Studies and Gender Studies

Public Housing & Activism Series Pt. II Jordan Downs & South LA
2017-01-26 12:00 - 13:30 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2343, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
Part II: CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR JORDAN DOWNS & SOUTH LA
We will turn our attention back to Los Angeles as a follow up from the screening of the “70 Acres in Chicago” and the discussion of the destruction of the Cabrini Green development. On Thursday, January 26, the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin and the UCLA Ziman Center’s Howard and Irene Levine Program in Housing and Social Responsibility will host a discussion centering around Jordan Downs, the Los Angeles public housing development slated for transformation into an “urban village.” This years-long redevelopment effort is one of the largest public works projects in Los Angeles. Many people wonder how the 2,600 current residents will fare, particularly in Los Angeles’ housing crisis. The event will situate Jordan Downs in the cultural history and geography of Watts and South Los Angeles, identify current residents’ concerns and highlight how residents and the Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles are working to shape redevelopment.
PANELISTS:

Mike Lens, UCLA Luskin Assistant Professor of Urban Planning; and Associate Director, UCLA Lewis Center (moderator)
Douglas Guthrie, President & CEO, Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles
Thelmy Perez, Coordinator, Los Angeles Human Right to Housing Collective

PAB room 2343, 2nd Floor, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, 90024
**Lunch will be provided. Please bring your own beverage**
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Directions to UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs:
http://luskin.ucla.edu/content/visit-us
PARKING ($12.00/car) UCLA Lot 3 or Lot 2 (depending on availability):
The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs building is located in the northeast section of the UCLA campus, adjacent to the Murphy Sculpture Garden. Visitors to the Public Affairs Building should plan on entering campus at the Westholme entrance off Hilgard Avenue, then drive up to the Lot 2 kiosk and pay the attendant for parking in UCLA Lot 3 or Lot 2 (depending on availability).
View the Luskin School of Public Affairs location on the UCLA interactive campus map.
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For questions, please contact Julie Lindner at: julie.lindner@anderson.ucla.edu
Have questions about Public Housing & Activism Series Pt. II (01/26/17) Jordan Downs & South LA? Contact UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate

#J18: From the Frontlines of Justice
2017-01-18 17:00 - 19:30 | UCLA Ackerman Ballroom, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, United States
The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin invites you to join us at “From the Frontlines of Justice” at Ackerman Ballroom, UCLA, 5–7:30 p.m., on January 18, 2017.
On the evening of #J18, we will gather at UCLA to celebrate ongoing struggles for social justice and to affirm their urgent relevance in the face of this current national and global moment.
To inspire and guide us will be the following speakers and artists:
Patrisse Cullors, Co-Founder of #BLACKLIVESMATTER, Founder & Board Member of Dignity and Power Now, UCLA Alumna
Jeff Chang, Author of “We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation” and Executive Director, the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford University
Erika L. Sánchez, Author of poetry collection “Lessons on Expulsion” and the novel “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter”
Peter Sellars, Distinguished professor in World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA; opera, theater and festival director
Ilse Escobar, Migrant, muxer, and activist born in Mexico and organizer in Los Angeles
Bryonn Bain, Artist/activist, prison abolitionist professor developing UCLA’s prison education program, creator of “Lyrics From Lockdown”
Maya Jupiter, Hip-hop artist, songwriter, co-founder of Artivist Entertainment
We hope to see you at Ackerman Ballroom on the evening of January 18. We also invite you to attend other #J18 events and classrooms throughout the day or to organize one that day or on another date. If you do, please register your program here so that we may create a record of our collective efforts.
Downloadable Flyer
Check out our Facebook Event and invite friends.
Share your #J18 activity here: #J18 Event Registration
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Welcome Reception: 2017 UCLA Activist-in-Residence Fellows
2017-01-12 16:30 - 19:00 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, 3rd Floor Commons 3383, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
Funmilola Fagbamila
Lisa Hasegawa

With a shared commitment to advance democracy through research and alliances with civil rights organizations and progressive social movements, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin have partnered to pilot a UCLA Activist-in-Residence Program. We are pleased to announce that Funmilola Fagbamila and Lisa Hasegawa are the inaugural 2017 Activist Fellows. They will be in residence on the UCLA campus during Winter Quarter: January 4–March 31, 2017.
A welcome reception for the two activist fellows will be held on January 12, 2017, at the Luskin Commons. Please RSVP at: Eventbrite
Read the Luskin story: An Academic Space for Activists
Check out the photos from the reception: here

Lánzate
2016-12-02 10:00 - 2016-12-04 15:00 | Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, San Juan,, Av. Juan Ponce de León, esquina Ave. Roberto H. Todd, Parada 18, San Juan, 00910, Puerto Rico
Lánzate is a national convening organized by Mijente, a digital and grassroots hub for Latinx and Chicanx organizing and movement building. The convening brings together Latinx and Chicanx identified change-makers who seek to build social movement and community that is pro-Black, pro-LGBTQ, pro-worker, pro-immigrant, pro-planet rooted in self determination. The gathering features workshops and strategy sessions across issue and geography, art, music, connection and exchange. This year the conference will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico this year to create a bridge for solidarity amongst Latinx people and galvanize support to address the ongoing crisis on the island.

“In this charged moment of backlash matched with movement resurgence, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. One key way we can recharge and center ourselves is precisely in the places where people have drawn a line in the sand. There are many of those places, right now. And San Juan is one of them.”
*Registration covers attendance to the conference.
It does not include housing, travel, or all meals.

Resistance Against Violence through Education (RAVE)
2016-11-30 17:00 - 19:00 | Moore Hall Room 100, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, United States
Please join us for the first post-election teaching rave organized by the faculty group, RAVE (Resistance Against Violence Through Education), and co-sponsored by LGBTQ Studies, the Center for the Study of Women, and the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin.

Please click uc-csu-ccc-daca-letter-final-11-29-16-00000002 to read the letter sent by Janet Napolitano (President, University of California), Timothy White (Chancellor, California State University), and Eloy Ortiz Oakley (Chancellor-Designate, California Community College) to President-Elect Donald Trump on November 29, 2016. And here is the latest New York Times op-ed piece from Janet Napolitano on immigrant and DACA students.

Professor Ananya Roy published the following article in Society & Space.

Professor Laure Murat published the following article in the French newspaper Libération to reflect, among other things, on RAVE’s resistance against a Trump regime. For the English translation, please click i-join-the-resistance.

“As educators, we affirm UCLA’s commitment to fostering an environment that is inclusive and respectful of diversity in all its forms – in our classrooms, our offices, on campus and beyond. We are prepared to defend and support our campus community as we protect our democracy.” Read the petition here.

Slamming Hunger
2016-11-30 16:00 - 19:00 | Glorya Kaufman Hall, Amber Dance Studio, 120 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, United States
A slam-style evening of storytelling on the theme of “slamming hunger.” Performed by members of Professor Dan Froot’s course dedicated to decreasing the stigma of food insecurity on campus.
Kaufman Hall is located in North Campus off of Sunset Boulevard.
Parking is available in lot 4.

28th Annual Students of Color Conference
2016-11-19 08:00 - 2016-11-20 17:00 | UC Irvine, A-311 W Peltason Dr, (Must apply through GSA to get fees waived), Irvine, CA, 92697, United States
The Students of Color Conference (SOCC) is UCSA’s oldest and largest conference and provides a safe space for students of color and their allies to strategize around statewide and campus-based actions. The event is free to all UCLA graduates accepted, as the logistics will be covered by the UCLA Graduate Student Association. This year SOCC will be hosted at UC Irvine from November 19-20. Applications for this conference are due November 4th at midnight.

The UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group Meeting
2016-11-18 14:00 - 15:30 | Haines Hall 279 Room, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
We, the UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group, are an intellectual community of graduate students and scholars who share interests on the intersecting issues of Global South socioeconomic development and underdevelopment, political and social movements, labor, and state-society relations. Focusing on the developing world is a central element for us. We worry that much of the claims made in the name of ‘general sociology’ reflect instead the rather local experiences of the Western developed world. This group has been conceived upon the conviction that studying the multiple realities of the developing world can bring new insights into different areas of sociology. The meanings, dynamics and analysis of “politics,” “development” or “collective agency” in the Global South require us to rethink many taken for granted paradigms and concepts.
This working group is open to all regardless of enrollment status.
Our meetings take place every other Friday in Haines 279, between 14:00-15:30 –unless otherwise specified.
November 18th: Steven McKay, Professor of Sociology UCSC

"70 Acres in Chicago" Lecture
2016-11-16 12:30 - 14:00 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2355, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East,, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
For 70 years, there stood a Chicago public housing community known as Cabrini Green.
Home to thousands, misunderstood by millions, Cabrini Green once towered over Chicago’s most valuable neighborhoods. A looming reminder of inequality and poverty, Cabrini’s high-rises were demolished and an African-American community cleared to make room for another social experiment: mixed-income neighborhoods.
Shot over the course of 20-years, 70 Acres in Chicago documents this upheaval, from the razing of the first buildings in 1995, to the clashes in the mixed-income neighborhoods a decade later.
70 Acres in Chicago tells the volatile story of this hotly contested patch of land, while looking unflinchingly at race, class, and who has the right to live in the city.

“70 Acres in Chicago” Info Sheet

During the lecture, we will hear from the following:
Filmmaker: Ronit Bezalel
Featured Resident & Producer: Mark Pratt
Featured Resident: Raymond J McDonald

"70 Acres in Chicago" Screening
2016-11-15 18:00 - 19:30 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2355, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East,, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
For 70 years, there stood a Chicago public housing community known as Cabrini Green.
Home to thousands, misunderstood by millions, Cabrini Green once towered over Chicago’s most valuable neighborhoods. A looming reminder of inequality and poverty, Cabrini’s high-rises were demolished and an African-American community cleared to make room for another social experiment: mixed-income neighborhoods.
Shot over the course of 20 years, 70 Acres in Chicago documents this upheaval, from the razing of the first buildings in 1995, to the clashes in the mixed-income neighborhoods a decade later.
70 Acres in Chicago tells the volatile story of this hotly contested patch of land, while looking unflinchingly at race, class, and who has the right to live in the city.

Filmmaker: Ronit Bezalel
Featured Resident & Producer: Mark Pratt
Featured Resident: Raymond J McDonald
will be present during the screening.

UCLA's Second Annual Warrior Games
2016-11-10 11:30 - 13:30 | Wilson Plaza, 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
UCLA’s Second Annual Warrior Games — (Following the UCLA Veterans Day Ceremony, Wilson Plaza.) The Warrior Games is a way for the student veteran population at UCLA to give thanks to the Bruin Community for the many benefits of being a UCLA Bruin.
Parking is $6 at pay-by-space for two hours or $12 all day in Structure 4. For more information, contact Veteran’s Resource Office 310.206.6915.

UCLA's Veterans Day Ceremony
2016-11-10 10:30 - 11:30 | UCLA Wilson Plaza, 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
To recognize those who have sacrificed so selflessly to defend our lives and our country, please join UCLA’s annual Veterans Day ceremony and information fair in Wilson Plaza at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, November 10, 2016.
On the 10th, Chancellor Block will join with campus ROTC units to recognize United States veterans and to hear remarks from Johnnie Ashe, the brother of Arthur Ashe, who so bravely went to war in place of his brother to enable him to pursue his tennis career. We will also hear from Army veteran and UCLA MFA graduate student Mitchell LaFortune. Please RSVP for the ceremony by emailing uclarsvp@support.ucla.edu or calling (310) 794-6241.
Following the ceremony, you can take part in the Warrior Games. This series of social and recreational activities, organized by the Veterans Resource Office, is an opportunity to meet student veterans in a casual setting.
The UCLA Veterans Day ceremony organized by ROTC and the activities led by our Veterans Resource Office are just a couple examples of the time, effort, and resources UCLA puts into honoring and caring for our veterans. For more information on UCLA’s commitment to veterans and a recent agreement that will strengthen UCLA’s academic affiliation with the West LA VA campus, please visit www.veterans.ucla.edu

The UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group Meeting
2016-11-04 14:00 - 15:30 | Haines Hall 279 Room, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
We, the UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group, are an intellectual community of graduate students and scholars who share interests on the intersecting issues of Global South socioeconomic development and underdevelopment, political and social movements, labor, and state-society relations. Focusing on the developing world is a central element for us. We worry that much of the claims made in the name of ‘general sociology’ reflect instead the rather local experiences of the Western developed world. This group has been conceived upon the conviction that studying the multiple realities of the developing world can bring new insights into different areas of sociology. The meanings, dynamics and analysis of “politics,” “development” or “collective agency” in the Global South require us to rethink many taken for granted paradigms and concepts.
This working group is open to all regardless of enrollment status.
Our meetings take place every other Friday in Haines 279, between 14:00-15:30 –unless otherwise specified.
November 4th: William Robinson, Professor of Sociology UCSB

A Celebration of Volunteers in Prisons and Jails
2016-11-03 17:00 - 19:00 | Room 5391, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles , 90024, United States
The Voluntary Sector in Prisons- Print PDF Flyer

7th Annual Festival For All Skid Row Artists
2016-10-23 13:00 - 17:00, 2016-10-22 13:00 - 17:00 | Gladys Park, 808 E 6th St, Los Angeles , CA, 90021, United States
The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) presents the 7th annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists on Saturday and Sunday, October 22 and 23, from 1–5pm each day. The Festival for All Skid Row Artists is a two-day festival of performing and visual art with plenty of music, showcasing the diverse range of talents among Skid Row residents. Taking place in Gladys Park (corner of 6th Street and Gladys Avenue) in L.A.’s Skid Row, the festival has become one of the most anticipated grassroots cultural events in the area. At last year’s festival over 100 Skid Row Artists performed or displayed their artwork to enthusiastic audiences. Many will be back and are preparing their acts and works of art and a select number of artists from outside Skid Row will perform and lead workshops again as well.
Festival attendees are invited to participate in the workshops and creativity stations facilitated by the artists. There will be creative stations for writing and painting, a Paper Mache bowl making workshop, guided meditation and sitting yoga workshops. Poet Jen Hofer will write letters and poems on demand and visual artist Clayton Campbell will invite the people to participate in his exhibit ‘Words we learned after 9/11’ which is currently on view at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive on 440 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013. LAPD’s Festival for All Skid Row Artists gives audiences a chance to hear what you usually don’t hear about Skid Row: that it is a community rich with talent!
Performers, Poets, Musicians, Visual Artists – sign up now to participate with: Austin Hines: austin@lapovertydept.org / 213-361-4644
Volunteers are needed!
For more information please write to Henriëtte Brouwers: info@lapovertydept.org
Los Angeles Poverty Department celebrates and preserves the rich artistic heritage of Skid Row and since 2009 has kept a registry of Skid Row artists, which now numbers more than 500. LAPD is a theater company comprised primarily of low income and homeless people living in Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Founded in 1985, LAPD creates performances and multidisciplinary artworks that connect the experience of people living in poverty to the social forces that shape their lives and communities. LAPD’s works express the realities, hopes, dreams and rights of people who live and work in L.A.’s Skid Row.
Festival for All Skid Row Artists is produced by Los Angeles Poverty Department with partners United Coalition East Prevention Project (UCEPP) and Lamp Community’s Arts Program. This year’s festival is made possible with the support of the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City Los Angeles, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, The California Arts Council’s Local Impact grant, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council and the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.

Festival For All Skid Row Artists, 2015 – Garry Brown performing in the shirt he designed, picture by Austin Hines.

The UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group Meeting
2016-10-21 14:00 - 15:30 | Haines Hall 279 Room, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
We, the UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group, are an intellectual community of graduate students and scholars who share interests on the intersecting issues of Global South socioeconomic development and underdevelopment, political and social movements, labor, and state-society relations. Focusing on the developing world is a central element for us. We worry that much of the claims made in the name of ‘general sociology’ reflect instead the rather local experiences of the Western developed world. This group has been conceived upon the conviction that studying the multiple realities of the developing world can bring new insights into different areas of sociology. The meanings, dynamics and analysis of “politics,” “development” or “collective agency” in the Global South require us to rethink many taken for granted paradigms and concepts.
This working group is open to all regardless of enrollment status.
Our meetings take place every other Friday in Haines 279, between 14:00-15:30 –unless otherwise specified.
October 21st: Student Paper Presentation:
Leydy Diossa (UCLA, Sociology)
Emma Colven (UCLA, Geography)

Deadline Extended! The UCLA Center for the Study of Women invites proposals for Thinking Gender 2017
2016-10-17 | CA
Star cluster image courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Call for Submissions:
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women invites submissions of paper, poetry, spoken word, film, photography, performance, and poster proposals for their 27th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference.
This year’s conference theme, Imagining Reparations,engages contemporary social, scholarly, and literary movements that push to reimagine and retheorize what freedom, justice, health, and care can look like. Historically, reparations have taken financial form with governments recognizing victims of perceived injustice by awarding them money. Such practices have depended on and have defined the law and dominant ideas of justice within states and empires. By contrast, marginalized groups today are reframing reparations as capable of addressing historical and ongoing abuses, evident in law itself and manifest in biological, environmental, educational, technological, institutionalized, political, and diplomatic violence. The daring to imagine new forms of reparative justice emerges from raced, gendered, and sexualized subjectivities, which inform movements that devastate the binary between theory and practice in their struggle to be whole. A broad and intersectional investment in reparations challenges the assigning of rights and privileges in the past, and it is an important tool in recasting the structures that impact our daily lives.
Thinking Gender 2017, Imagining Reparations, takes a cue from movements that conceive of violence and reparative justice intersectionally with consequences that shape and are shaped by gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, etc. We invite presentations of work from across disciplines that embody this intersectional ethos and envision reparations through the lens of gender and sexuality. Conference sessions will include ample time for discussion of work, emphasizing dialogue discussion, writing as important modes of conference participation, and exploring their potential as feminist, decolonial tools for learning and action. Imagining Reparations aims to create cohesion among a broad range of disciplinary engagements, theoretical stances, and practical applications by providing space for thinking together about the role of the academy in theorizing tools for collective liberation from gendered and racialized violence.
Registered graduate students from any institution are eligible to submit presentation proposals for all Thinking Gender sessions, including the panels, plenary session, multimedia salon, and poster session. Registered undergraduate students from any institution are eligible to submit proposals for poster presentations and participation in the multimedia salon only.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Panel Presentations
Panels will consist of graduate student paper presenters and a UCLA faculty moderator who will read and provide detailed feedback and questions on each paper.
To apply, submit:

Paper proposal
Works cited
CV

Plenary Session
A number of exceptional papers will be selected from among those submitted for Panel Presen-tations and awarded the Think-ing Gender Plenary Prize. Those selected will present their papers on the Plenary Session, and their work will be responded to by a distinguished guest scholar.
To apply:

Complete Panel Presentation application requirements by October 10th deadline
Submit a draft of your paper by Monday, December 12.

Performance and Poetry
We invite submissions of poetry, spoken word, short film, photography, musical, and other kinds of performance for a multimedia salon.
To apply, submit:

Description of your work and its relationship to the conference theme
CV or Resume
A short work sample
Description of any technology needs

Posters
Graduate students, undergraduate students, activists, and community organizations will present visually compelling re-search posters, the presentation of which will be integrated into the Multimedia Salon. Posters will remain on display through-out the conference.
To apply, submit:

Poster proposal
CV or Resume

CSW Call for Submissions
Deadline Extemded: October 17, 2016
Submit online: www.csw.ucla.edu/TG2017

Student Debt and Nonprofit Workforce Forum
2016-10-07 08:30 - 13:00 | The California Endowment, Los Angeles, 1000 N. Alameda Street, Los Angeles , CA, 90012, United States
The Forum on Student Debt and the Nonprofit Workforce is hosted in partnership with StudentDebtCrisis.org. The Forum will be a blend of practical trainings and tools that can be used by nonprofit employers and employees to manage student debt. It will also be a call to action, offering an opportunity to discuss what’s happening nationally and locally on this issue and how the nonprofit sector can engage in the debate. Join us for a day of learning, discussion and action on a crucial issue. Register now!
SCHEDULE
8:30 AM: Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM: The View From D.C. and the California Perspective
Student debt is a personal issue and a national crisis. So what are our representatives in Washington, D.C. doing about it? Congressman Eric Swalwell (CA-15) is a national champion on the issue. We are fortunate to have him with us to share what it feels like to be a Congressman with student debt, how it informs his position, and what he thinks Congress will do to alleviate the student debt crisis in the future. He will also discuss his recently introduced legislation (“Know Your Repayment Options Act” and “Strengthening Forgiveness for Public Servants Act“), and ways we can work to get better debt relief programs implemented quickly.
Following Congressman Swalwell’s national overview, CalNonprofits Program Director Diana Dunker will discuss the California perspective. This year CalNonprofits conducted a detailed survey of nonprofit employees and employers – and got nearly 1,000 responses! What did we learn about student debt from employees? What solutions did we find in the data? Diana will briefly discuss the results of our survey, including a look at how California’s nonprofit sector both converges and diverges from national trends in student debt.
10:30 AM: WORKSHOPS (Choose One)

Debt Relief Options Workshop for Nonprofit Employees
Public Service Loan Forgiveness is the best loan forgiveness program available to anyone working for a nonprofit. Natalia Abrams, Executive Director of Student Debt Crisis, will present this workshop full of useful tools for individuals with student loans. Learn about the different types of student loans, the available debt repayment plans, ways to avoid default, and how to take advantage of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
Nonprofit Employer Toolkit for Combating Student Debt
In this workshop, CalNonprofits Program Director Diana Dunker will unveil the newly developed employer toolkit full of useful, free and low-cost opportunities for nonprofits as employers to support employees with student debt. Learn how to attract and retain talented employees using the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, simple steps for improving employee loyalty, and why the economics of student debt are driving staff turnover. This workshop is designed for Executive Directors, Human Resources staff, and supervisors.
12:00 PM: Nonprofit Student Debt Task Force Meeting (invitation only)
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM: One-on-one consultations with Student Debt Crisis staff members Natalia Abrams and Cody Hounanian (limit 22)

FREE for Members / $30 for not-yet-members
Note: Continental breakfast included, lunch is not provided

Co-Sponsors
This Forum and the Nonprofit Student Debt Project are made possible by the Trustees’ Philanthropy Fund at Fidelity Charitable, foundations who provide unrestricted support to CalNonprofits including the California Wellness Foundation, the David & Lucile Packard Foundation and the Weingart Foundation, and the thousands of nonprofit organizations that are members of CalNonprofits.

The Forum is co-sponsored by the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network-LA, the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin, San Francisco Human Services Network, Community Partners, Valley Nonprofit Resources, the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State LA, the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, and Antioch University Los Angeles Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management Program.

Sixth Annual UCLA Luskin Open House
2016-09-22 18:00 - 20:30 | Dickson Court North (just south of Perloff Hall), 365 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, United States
Connect with UCLA Luskin at the 2016 Open House

http://gallery.kikibooth.com/UCLA-Luskin-Event/
5:30 pm Registration Begins
6:00 pm Open House

Please help us welcome the incoming students from all departments and reconnect with faculty and alumni at a reception in the scenic Dickson Court North (just south of Perloff Hall).
You can:

Meet new UCLA Luskin students and alumni
Trade ideas with faculty and research scholars
Learn about exciting developments at UCLA Luskin
Enjoy the flavors of LA with a variety of food booths and stations
Get connected to opportunities, organizations, and events through UCLA Luskin

Food and beverages will be provided. Complimentary parking will be available for UCLA Luskin alumni with RSVP by Monday 9/19.
We hope to see you there!
*One registration per attendee. All duplicates will be deleted.

Race, Racism, and American Law: Re-visioning for the 21st Century
2016-09-22 18:00 - 20:00 | UCLA School of Law, Room 1457, 385 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, United States
Derrick Bell’s seminal textbook, Race, Racism, and American Law, first issued in 1972 was a groundbreaking intervention that challenged the dominant view of legal pedagogy as a race-neutral process and product. The co-authors of the seventh edition, Professors Cheryl Harris and Justin Hansford, will lead a panel discussion on the significance and legacy of Bell’s text, and will be joined by experts in the field of race, racism, and American Law who are a part of the project of revisioning the text for the 21st Century.
Organized by Critical Race Studies and Institute of American Cultures. AASC co-sponsored with Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, Office of the Special Assistant for Diversity, St. Louis University, St. Louis University School of Law.

UCLA Luskin New Student Orientation
2016-09-20 08:30 - 17:00 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs/ CSW Faculty Center, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles , CA, 90024, United States
Incoming students from the departments of Public Policy, Social Welfare and Urban Planning get to know all about the resources at Luskin and throughout campus.

Southern California Grantmakers: 2016 Annual Conference
2016-09-19 08:00 - 17:00 | Loews Hollywood Hotel, 1755 Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90028, United States
How can we as philanthropists “be the change” we wish to see in the world? By acting locally and having a global impact on the issues we care about most passionately.
As a sector, region, and global community, we are facing major inequities around People (health, gender, social, racial inequities), Planet (climate change and the environment), and Prosperity (economics and education).
SCG members are eager to take the next step toward solving these complex challenges, many of which, until recently, have been considered “too big” to take on by any one sector. We know that these interconnected issues require a combination of deep community knowledge and engagement. They also require an understanding of global context and impact, such as the framework provided by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
At this year’s Annual Conference, join hundreds of SCG members who are committed and energized, eager to create positive change in communities here in Southern California and far beyond our borders.

Conference Highlights

Interactive Breakout Sessions on taking local action with global impacts
Special Spoken Word/Musical Performance by Bryonn Bain, Artist and Activist, UCLA Department of African American Studies
Sneak preview of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA presented by the Getty Foundation

AGENDA

8:00 a.m.

8:30 – 9:45 a.m. Check-in Opens

9:45 – 10:00 a.m. Breakfast Breakout Sessions
Social Innovation to Catalyze Impact
How Data Can Influence Your Grantmaking
The Millennials Are Here: Engaging a New Generation
Placing Equity at the Center of Education Reform
Real Costs + Real Relationships: Learnings from the Full Cost Pilot

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Networking Break

10:15 – 11:30 a.m.Welcoming Remarks
Christine Essel, President and CEO, SCG and
Wendy Garen, Chair, SCG Board of Directors and President and CEO, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation

11:30 – 12:00 p.m. Morning Plenary: Champions of Change

12:00 – 1:45 p.m. Morning Keynote: Building Bridges to Prosperity in Southern California
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti

1:45 – 2:00 p.m. Lunchtime Breakout Sessions
Please eat lunch in the room of the breakout you plan to attend. Presentations begin promptly at 12:30.
From Transactional to Transformational: Prioritizing Grantee Inclusion
Grantmaking with an Equity Lens: The Nuts and Bolts
Health, Social Equity, and Climate Change
The Impact of Building Grassroots Movements
Outcomes-Oriented Funding: Breaking Down the Myths and Opportunities

2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Networking Break

2:30 – 3:00 p.m. State of SCG and Members Meeting
Christine Essel, President and CEO, SCG and
Wendy Garen, Chair, SCG Board of Directors and President and CEO, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation

3:00 – 3:45 p.m. Afternoon Keynote: Peace, Justice, and Inclusive Societies
Forest Whitaker, Artist, Social Activist, Philanthropist, and UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation

3:45 – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Plenary: Improving Prosperity for Our Families: The Case for Gender Equity
Surina Khan, Chief Executive Officer, Women’s Foundation of California; Ananya Roy, Director, The Institute on Inequality & Democracy, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA; Carmen Rojas, Chief Executive Officer,The Workers Lab; and Jordan Brooks, Deputy Executive Director, White House Council on Women and Girls
Women are often the agents of change in their communities, homes, and schools. But most low-income women who balance jobs and families face many obstacles that restrict their path to prosperity: limited education and job training opportunities, minimal access to well-paid, stable employment with benefits, and a lack of affordable, quality child care. The case for change is clear and momentum is building to address these issues through a gender equity lens. For example, in 2015, California instituted the California Fair Pay Act, mandating that employees cannot be paid less than those of the opposite sex for “substantially similar work,” even if their titles are different or they work at different sites. In this session, panelists will share the latest on cross-sector collaborations and opportunities, research, and the possibilities for foundations, government agencies, and corporations to lift up women and girls, and in turn, their entire communities.

4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Sneak Preview of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA presented by the Getty Foundation

Closing Reception

Box of Hope
2016-09-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Ford Theatres, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood, CA, 90068, United States
Versa-Style Dance Company

Versa-Style Dance Company will present a multidisciplinary exploration of the social and political climate of today through LA street dance culture, spoken word and live music. By choosing to perform to Motown music, in addition to hip-hop and R&B, this 15-member ensemble made up of dancers from all over LA, will fuse vintage sounds with contemporary hip-hop moves.

Race + Justice = An Atlantic Summit
2016-09-15 10:00 - 17:00 | Hudson Loft, 1200 South Hope Street, Fourth Floor, Los Angeles , CA, 90015, United States
Los Angeles is one of the most diverse cities in the country. How does that affect how Angelenos perceive race and experience justice?
In this second annual event exploring what race and justice mean today, The Atlantic will convene educators, artists, activists, civic leaders, policy makers and journalists to explore how racial disparities in criminal justice, neighborhood change, movie portrayals and more relate to each other in Los Angeles. How does race shape the city and the prospects of its people? As a snapshot of the new majority minority America, what does Los Angeles have to say today about the country’s future?
#RaceJusticeLA
Registration has closed for the morning session of Race + Justice.
RSVP below or contact Carly Spraggins at cspraggins@theatlantic.com to register for our afternoon session to begin at 2:00 pm PT.

Real Talk/ Real Action: Restorative Dialogue
2016-09-01 17:30 - 19:00 | UCLA School of Law, Room 1457, 385 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, United States
UCLA Law’s Student Bar Association, Office of Student Affairs, Learning Environment and Diversity Committee, and David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy present “Real Talk/ Real Action: Restorative Dialogue”
Come together to discuss recent challenging events that generated a range of emotions and raise many questions. What can we do to support members of our community who are healing? How can we engage in meaningful conversation? What is your part to do?

Interactive discussion
Light reception to follow

Black Politics and the Neoliberal Racial Order
2016-06-02 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 135, Los Angeles , 90095, United States
Professor Michael C. Dawson will be speaking about Black Politics and Neoliberal Racial Order.

Racialized State Violence in Global Perspective 5/25–5/26
2016-05-26 09:00 - 17:30 | Royce Hall 314, 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles , 90095, United States
Conference schedule now available! Download here or view online!
Organized by Hannah Appel, Jessica Cattelino, Norma Mendoza-Denton, and Jemima Pierre, this two-day conference will feature:

SPEAKERS: Thursday, May 26, 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Royce 314
Melina Abdullah, professor and chair, Pan-African Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, is a womanist scholar-activist – recognizing that the role that she plays in the academy is intrinsically linked to broader struggles for the liberation of oppressed people. Her research interests include activism and movement building and Critical Race Theory.
Mohan Ambikaipaker, assistant professor, Communications, Tulane University School of Liberal Arts, is a social anthropologist and cultural studies scholar who studies the dynamics of multiracial societies.
Aisha Beliso-de Jesus, associate professor, African American Religions, Harvard Divinity School, is a cultural and social anthropologist. She has conducted ethnographic research with Santería practitioners in Cuba and the United States since 2003.
Maurice Magaña, lecturer, Chicano/a Studies, UCLA, researches youth activism and social movements in Mexico and the United States.
Ana Muñiz, Criminology, Law, and Society, UC Irvine
Hector Perla, assistant professor, Latin American & Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz, does research on revolutionary movements, social movements, and US public support/opposition to military intervention.
Christen Smith, assistant professor, Anthropology; African & African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin, does research in the areas of performance, race, gender, violence and the black body in the Americas with a particular emphasis on transnational black liberation struggles and racial formation.
Laurence Ralph, associate professor, African & African American Studies and Anthropology, Harvard University, is the author of Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago (University of Chicago Press).
Rinaldo Walcott, associate professor, Sociology & Equity Studies, University of Toronto, conducts research Black Diaspora Cultural Studies with an emphasis on queer sexualities, masculinity, and cultural politics, as well as multicultural and transnational debates with an emphasis on nation, citizenship and coloniality.
Audra Simpson is associate professor, Anthropology, Columbia University. Her research is energized by the problem of recognition, by its passage beyond (and below) the aegis of the state into the grounded field of political self-designation, self-description, and subjectivity.
RESPONDENTS
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, assistant professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA,
Saree Makdisi, professor, Department of English, UCLA, does research at the crossroads of several different fields, including British Romanticism, imperial culture, colonial and postcolonial theory and criticism, and the cultures of urban modernity, particularly the revision and contestation of charged urban spaces, including London, Beirut and Jerusalem
Sarah Haley, assistant professor Gender Studies, UCLA
Cosponsored by Alessandro Duranti, Dean, UCLA Division of Social Sciences; David Schaberg, Dean, UCLA Division of Humanities; UCLA Center for the Study of Women; Institute on Inequality and Democracy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs; Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History; Eric Avila, Associate Dean, UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; UCLA African Studies Center; UCLA American Indian Studies Center; Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA; UCLA Department of Gender Studies; Disability Studies at UCLA; UCLA International Institute; and UCLA Postcolonial Theory & Literary Studies.
Photo credits: Black Lives Matter march, Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 31, 2015, Fibonacci Blue, https://www.flickr.com/photos/fibonacciblue/; Photo of E. Dandicat courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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Racialized State Violence in Global Perspective 5/25–5/26
2016-05-25 18:00 - 20:00 | UCLA Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum, 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles , 90024, United States
Conference schedule now available! Download here or view online!
Organized by Hannah Appel, Jessica Cattelino, Norma Mendoza-Denton, and Jemima Pierre, this two-day conference will feature:
KEYNOTE: Wednesday, May 25, 6 p.m., Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum
Edwidge Danticat (left) is an award-winning author of short stories and novels that often engage with the history of her native Haiti in. She also writes about the immigrant experience—what she calls “dyaspora”—and the reality of life in Haiti today. Her works include Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994); Krik? Krak! (1996); Claire of the Sea Light (2013);Mama’s Nightingale (2015); and Untwine (2015). She wrote and narrated the film Girl Rising (Haiti) in 2013. In 2007, she received a National Book Award nomination for Brother, I’m Dying. She was shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for Claire of the Sea Light in 2014.
SPEAKERS: Thursday, May 26, 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Royce 314
Melina Abdullah, professor and chair, Pan-African Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, is a womanist scholar-activist – recognizing that the role that she plays in the academy is intrinsically linked to broader struggles for the liberation of oppressed people. Her research interests include activism and movement building and Critical Race Theory.
Mohan Ambikaipaker, assistant professor, Communications, Tulane University School of Liberal Arts, is a social anthropologist and cultural studies scholar who studies the dynamics of multiracial societies.
Aisha Beliso-de Jesus, associate professor, African American Religions, Harvard Divinity School, is a cultural and social anthropologist. She has conducted ethnographic research with Santería practitioners in Cuba and the United States since 2003.
Maurice Magaña, lecturer, Chicano/a Studies, UCLA, researches youth activism and social movements in Mexico and the United States.
Ana Muñiz, Criminology, Law, and Society, UC Irvine
Hector Perla, assistant professor, Latin American & Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz, does research on revolutionary movements, social movements, and US public support/opposition to military intervention.
Christen Smith, assistant professor, Anthropology; African & African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin, does research in the areas of performance, race, gender, violence and the black body in the Americas with a particular emphasis on transnational black liberation struggles and racial formation.
Laurence Ralph, associate professor, African & African American Studies and Anthropology, Harvard University, is the author of Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago (University of Chicago Press).
Rinaldo Walcott, associate professor, Sociology & Equity Studies, University of Toronto, conducts research Black Diaspora Cultural Studies with an emphasis on queer sexualities, masculinity, and cultural politics, as well as multicultural and transnational debates with an emphasis on nation, citizenship and coloniality.
Audra Simpson is associate professor, Anthropology, Columbia University. Her research is energized by the problem of recognition, by its passage beyond (and below) the aegis of the state into the grounded field of political self-designation, self-description, and subjectivity.
RESPONDENTS
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, assistant professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA,
Saree Makdisi, professor, Department of English, UCLA, does research at the crossroads of several different fields, including British Romanticism, imperial culture, colonial and postcolonial theory and criticism, and the cultures of urban modernity, particularly the revision and contestation of charged urban spaces, including London, Beirut and Jerusalem
Sarah Haley, assistant professor Gender Studies, UCLA
Cosponsored by Alessandro Duranti, Dean, UCLA Division of Social Sciences; David Schaberg, Dean, UCLA Division of Humanities; UCLA Center for the Study of Women; Institute on Inequality and Democracy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs; Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History; Eric Avila, Associate Dean, UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; UCLA African Studies Center; UCLA American Indian Studies Center; Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA; UCLA Department of Gender Studies; Disability Studies at UCLA; UCLA International Institute; and UCLA Postcolonial Theory & Literary Studies.
Photo credits: Black Lives Matter march, Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 31, 2015, Fibonacci Blue, https://www.flickr.com/photos/fibonacciblue/; Photo of E. Dandicat courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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