Preparing for Even Wilder Wildfires
Preparing for Even Wilder Wildfires
Luskin Summit 2021 continues with an exploration of innovative tactics to increase resiliency to the threat of wildfire, especially for our most vulnerable populations.
Luskin Summit 2021 continues with an exploration of innovative tactics to increase resiliency to the threat of wildfire, especially for our most vulnerable populations.
The Los Angeles Education Research Institute hosts a presentation and conversation about ensuring the success of a Community Schools model in Los Angeles.
Alumni career panel for Luskin graduate students about transportation policy and planning
This Luskin Summit session will focus on an immediate response to the worsening housing crisis by rethinking housing policies in California.
Regan Patterson of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation will highlight transportation challenges in the Black community and discuss prospects for equity from emerging technologies.
The Winter 2021 application for the Public Affairs major opens in March. Join us at one of our information sessions to learn more about the program and how to apply to the major! Open to pre-majors and anyone interested in the program.
The Social Welfare Department is hosting biweekly open forums for PhD students, facilitated by Doctoral Program Chair, Ian Holloway. The third session for Winter Quarter will be held February 12th from 2 –3:30 PM via Zoom. These sessions are opportunities for students to ask questions about any topic related to the Social Welfare Doctoral Program. […]
This Luskin Summit conversation focuses on increasing park equity in Los Angeles and beyond to improve the physical, mental and environmental health of communities.
Webinar will explore how to live a long and healthy life, with a focus on artificial intelligence and psychosocial care methods to help empower older adults.
What role can bicycling play in healing the intersecting harms of racial and climate injustice?
As part of the Sawyer Seminar Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism, this convening will reflect on strategies of disturbance and resistance in place to assist border crossers.
This panel from Luskin's 2021 Summit shines light upon the negative effect of COVID-19 on usage of public transit systems, and how agencies are struggling to recover.
Justin Harty, a University of Chicago doctoral candidate and licensed clinical social worker, will speak about historical efforts to address anti-Blackness and racism in the profession of social work.
Panel discussion on the implementation and investment in home-based testing and telemedicine to provide the remote delivery of sexual healthcare services, especially during the pandemic.
Florida has long been a state with a nuanced and complex political landscape, and the most recent elections underscore its contradictions. In 2018, voters elected a Republican governor and senator, while enfranchising voters with felony records. In 2020, voters increased the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour, while giving the state to Trump. With […]
While cyclists and pedestrians are vulnerable road users and face significant safety threats, environmental conditions in historically marginalized communities compound such vulnerability for people of color.
The Social Welfare Department is hosting biweekly open forums for PhD students, facilitated by Doctoral Program Chair, Ian Holloway. The fourth session for Winter Quarter will be held February 26th from 2 –3:30 PM via Zoom. These sessions are opportunities for students to ask questions about any topic related to the Social Welfare Doctoral Program. […]
A showcase of art and poetry from youth activists across the United States.
“Policing the Open Road” is a thought-provoking look at how the automobile fundamentally changed the nature of police work, and thus the conception of freedom and mobility, in the United States.
Social work has a complex history of upholding White supremacy alongside a goal to achieve racial justice. Moreover, our profession simultaneously practices within racist systems and works to dismantle them. In the wake of a fervent #BlackLivesMatter movement and persistent racial disparities in key social welfare institutions, these paradoxes have come to the forefront of […]
Social work has a complex history of upholding White supremacy alongside a goal to achieve racial justice. Moreover, our profession simultaneously practices within racist systems and works to dismantle them. In the wake of a fervent #BlackLivesMatter movement and persistent racial disparities in key social welfare institutions, these paradoxes have come to the forefront of […]