Many of my classes pair students with key Los Angeles community groups. These are sustained multi-year partnerships that include significant planning and collaborations in areas beyond the classroom. This ongoing work has led to a semester long class that, with a planning group including several community and campus wide partners, organized a 2-day conference bringing together executive and program directors and other partners to think strategically about how to most effectively share university resources (human, development, technological, database, media) with community based organizations in ways that serve community as well as university needs. Granted Carnegie Foundation Fellowship (with California Campus Compact, declined) and a Pericles Foundation grant to further this city-wide initiative. Initiative currently working on speaker’s bureau of local community speakers. Student Created Webpage for "Partnering for Social Change" 2-day conference. Other classes regularly include both archival research and community partnership project options. Please see "Activism and the Archive."

Related Recognition:

"For understanding that Institutes of Higher Learning have a responsibility and a role to play in the world struggles surrounding them." Honoree, 10th annual benefit event, Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes Law (FACTS), California African American Museum. February, 2009.
 

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