Student Civic Engagement Is Vital to Our Survival
August 30, 2021 | Elise Wildman | UC Davis I am a political science major at UC Davis; this summer, I was an organizer with Un-PAC, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to democracy reform and mobilizing students and young people to get the For the People Act passed. The fight to pass S1, the For the […]
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Panel Speakers – Our Future: Moving on from the Triple Pandemics of COVID-19, Racial Injustice, and the Student Debt Crises
Alexis Atsilvsgi Zaragoza is the 2020-21 Student Regent-designate and the 2021-22 Student Regent. She is an undergraduate transfer student at the University of California, Berkeley in the department of Geography. Ms. Zaragoza is a McNair Scholar studying the rural spatial imagination for students of color in access to higher education and plans on pursuing Ph.D. […]
Workshop Speakers – CA Housing Justice Campaigns During COVID
Francisco Dueñas is the Executive Director for Housing Now!, a California statewide housing justice advocacy coalition. He was previously the Director of Housing Campaigns for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), a position which had him serving as the leading coordinator of Housing Now! for the last two years. Prior to joining ACCE, […]
Workshop Speakers – The Evolving Affordability Landscape in California
As California Affordability Program Director at The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS), Laura Szabo-Kubitz works to eliminate equity gaps and enable all Californians to attend and succeed in college by identifying and addressing college affordability challenges across the state. Along with research, policy analysis, and advocacy, Laura leads Californians for College Affordability, a […]
Workshop Speakers – Redistricting 101
A civil rights attorney and long-time democracy reform advocate, Jonathan Mehta Stein is the Executive Director of California Common Cause. Previously, Jonathan spent four years as the head of the Voting Rights & Census Program at Asian Law Caucus, where he worked to increase access to California’s democracy for historically disenfranchised communities. Jonathan also worked […]