You imagine your
life, your world, as it would be if you had been born thousands of miles away.
In a small Liberian village, perhaps, where everything you take for granted is
absent. Soap is a luxury; food a rare commodity.
Several UCLA Luskin School alumni were on ballots around the country this election year, and now that the results are in, some campaigns are celebrating.
Social welfare field faculty member Michelle Talley has worked with some of the victims of human trafficking and in September put on the first of three forums at the Luskin School on human trafficking.
The UCLA Luskin
School of Public Affairs and the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and
Employment jointly hosted an event on Thursday entitled “Death and Taxes,” the
purpose of which was to more fully inform California voters, who bear momentous
responsibility in determining the state’s future.
By Ruby Bolaria, Urban Planning 2014
Today I met my senior fellow who will mentor me for this
academic year. To what end remains to be seen but I was filled with excitement,
anxiety and anticipation nonetheless. The UCLA Luskin School’s unique Senior
Fellows program was established to “connect the world of political and policy action to education for the
public interest.”
Four UCLA Luskin School alumni are running for office in the upcoming Nov. 6 election.Public policy graduates Rusty Bailey (1999), Mike Stajura (2005) and Manan Trivedi (2007) and urban planning grad Raul Bocanegra (1997) are all involved in election campaigns as the election date nears.Bailey is running for Mayor in Riverside, Calif. which is his home city. Bailey, whose website is available here, works as a teacher at Riverside Poly High and served in the Army.
Part of the attraction of the UCLA Luskin School of Public
Affairs is the ability to take classes that cross three continuums – public
policy, social welfare and urban planning.
Being able to put into practice what was learned spanning
those focuses is part of the idea behind the School's vision.
But being able to put that into practice in bringing one of
the biggest attractions to Los Angeles is exactly what Maria Mehranian did.
The first Luskin Lecture Series of the 2012-13 school year took place on Wednesday night at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles."Sea Change or More of the Same?" featured four political experts speaking about the upcoming presidential election and more.With UCLA Luskin dean Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. leading a panel discussion that had writers Adam Nagourney from the New York Times, Mark Barabak from the Los Angeles Times and Val Zavala from KCET, along with politics expert Dan Schnur from USC, the event drew a large audience and rave reviews.
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Dean, Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., is organizing a UCLA Luskin team for the United Way’s Annual “HomeWalk”, a 5K Walk/Run to End Homelessness, on the morning of Saturday, November 17, 2012 at Exposition Park. Joining Dean Gilliam in leading the team are: Erica Quintana, MPP ’13, Brad Rowe, MPP ’13, Ian Bohannon, MSW ’13 and Jacki Murdock, MURP ’13.
