UCLA Luskin

U.S. Government Accountability Office Info Session
2023-03-02 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
Join Jaclyn Mullen (MPP ’09) and other representatives from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), to learn more about what the GAO does, as well as internship and job opportunities! GAO provides Congress, the heads of executive agencies, and the public with timely, fact-based, non-partisan information that can be used to improve government and save taxpayers billions of dollars. GAO plays a key role in helping Congress improve the performance of government, ensuring transparency and saving money.

'Accessibility, Social Equity, and Contemporary Policy Debates'
2023-02-28 18:00 - 19:30 | California Nanosystems Institute, UCLA Campus, 570 Westwood Plaza , Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
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Part of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Lecture Series.
Robert Cervero works in the area of sustainable transportation policy and planning. He has consulted on numerous transportation and urban planning projects worldwide, most recently advising long-range planning in Dubai and Singapore. His most recent book, Beyond Mobility, won the 2019 National Urban Design Best Book Award. Dr. Cervero was a member of Berkeley’s city and regional planning faculty from 1980 to 2016, where he twice served as Department Chair, was the inaugural holder of the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies, and directed both the University of California Transportation Center and the Institute of Urban and Regional Development. More recently he has held visiting faculty appointments at Tongji University in Shanghai and NYU-Abu Dhabi. During his doctoral studies in urban planning at UCLA, he worked under the supervision of his long-time mentor, Martin Wachs.
Martin Wachs’ seminal 1973 paper on accessibility as a social construct continues to influence urban planning policy and practice a half-century later. It also shaped a generation of research on, broadly speaking, the ‘transport-land use connection’, including my own. This talk probes a number of policy initiatives that implicitly aim to enhance physical access but for which social equity has been at best secondary and all too often an afterthought. Included here are regional jobs-housing balance initiatives, reverse-commute transit services, transit-oriented development (TOD), and formalization of public transport in a developing world context. Here I’ll revisit my own past work as well as that of others on such policy initiatives, drawing from global experiences, both empirically and inferentially. Policy reforms for advancing both physical access and social equity are reviewed and critiqued. The popularized movement toward the 15-minute city, for example, suggests a future of increased micro-mobility, creating new types of accessibility challenges, such as curb-access management. Implications of unfolding megatrends on accessibility and social equity in an increasingly resource-constrained, public-health conscientious world are discussed.

Check-in begins at 5:30pm with the discussion following at 6:00pm.
Public transportation: Big Blue Bus (Routes 2 and 17), Culver CityBus (Line 6), Metro
Ridehailing locations: Gateway Plaza, Luskin Conference Center
On-site parking available for $14 (Lot 2, Lot 8)
The Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). As a land grant institution, we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.

Beyond UCLA: Explore the Capstone Opportunities Through QIW, UCCS, and GIP
2023-02-28 14:00 - 15:30 | Room 4357 Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Are you interested in participating in Quarter in Washington, UC Center Sacramento, or the Global Internship Program? Join us at the workshop “Beyond UCLA: Exploring Capstone Opportunities Through Quarter in Washington, UC Center Sacramento, and Global Internship Program” to learn more about these programs and how they relate to your interests in Public Affairs!
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
2:00pm – 3:30pm
4357 Public Affairs Building
The workshop will include presentations from QIW, UCCS, and GIP program representatives, student panelists who will share their experience participating in these programs, and a Q&A session where you can ask questions to program representatives and student panelists.
Register here!

Exploring Different Career Paths in Urban Planning Alumni Panel
2023-02-28 12:00 - 13:15 | Room 4357 Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
We will have an alumni panel discussion exploring different career paths in Urban Planning. Our esteemed panelists will share their experience in the Urban Planning Program and how that prepared them for their current roles. The goal is for current students to connect with our alumni panelists, learn about their experiences, ask questions, and learn about the various career opportunities they can pursue.
Meet our panelists:
Emmanuel Soriano ’10, VP at Creative Space
Meg Healy MURP ’19, Senior Deputy for Housing and Planning, Council District 4 at the City of Los Angeles
Sharon Sand MURP ’20, California Public Grants Programs Manager at The Trust for Public Land

Luskin City Hall Day
2023-02-24 08:00 - 12:00 | Los Angeles City hall, Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
UCLA LUSKIN IS GOING (BACK) TO CITY HALL!
We’re excited to announce that after a hiatus due to COVID-19, the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs will resume its annual Luskin School of Public Affairs Day at Los Angeles City Hall! Each year, a City Hall official has hosted fifteen to eighteen Luskin graduate students to study an urban social policy issue important to Los Angeles. This year, our host will be Councilmember Nithya Raman and the topic will be Homelessness Governance Reform — Service-Led Models, Building More Housing, Better County-City Collaboration.
On the day of the event, selected graduate students will attend a morning session where they will receive an overview of the issue before embarking on a series of interviews with political and civic leaders; government and nonprofit agencies; and community leaders. At the noon-time luncheon, students will report on their initial findings in an interactive debrief session. Luncheon guests include Luskin Leadership; elected City and County officials and their staff; Luskin alumni, and the students’ interviewees. Afterwards, the graduate student participants (with guidance from faculty advisor, Mike Lens) will collectively write one short memo (3-5 pages) to Councilmember Raman with their recommendations.
Timeline:
November 30-January 5 at 5pm: applications are open
January 9: selected students are notified
January 12,12:30-1:30pm: mandatory city hall day orientation
Friday, February 24 8am-12pm: City Hall Day!

Environmental Justice and Community Organizing with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
2023-02-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4357 Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
“Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) is an environmental justice organization with deep roots in California’s Asian immigrant and refugee communities. Since 1993, we’ve built a membership base of Laotian refugees in Richmond and Chinese immigrants in Oakland. Together, we’ve fought and won campaigns to make our communities healthier, just places where people can thrive. Learn more about APEN’s work and join us on February 2nd for a workshop with Luskin UCLA.”
Seng So, Los Angeles Lead Organizer: “In the 1980s Seng So’s parents fled the Khmer genocide and settled in the Bay Area. It is from this history—the struggles and sacrifices of his ancestors—that paves his path today. Seng has been a youth organizer in California’s immigrant and refugee communities for almost two decades. At the heart of his life and work are three principles: community, love, liberation.”
APEN is launching our new organizing project in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County: cities and neighborhoods like Wilmington, San Pedro, Carson and Torrance.

Serving Communities as an Assistant/Deputy City Manager
2023-02-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
In this virtual panel, hear from three assistant/deputy city managers in the Bay Area and Southern California to learn more about their career paths and how to get involved in this work. Our panelists will also touch on diversity in local government and serving diverse communities.

PJ Gagajena, MPP, MURPAssistant City ManagerCity of MoorparkPJ Gagajena serves as the Assistant City Manager for the City of Moorpark, CA. His 20-year local government career includes working for the cities of Los Angeles, New York, Indio, and Torrance. PJ holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from UCLA, where he served as Internal Vice President of the Undergraduate Students Association Council (USAC), and received Masters degrees in Public Policy and Urban Planning from Harvard University. PJ earned the distinction of becoming one of the first Accredited California Economic Developers from the California Association of Local Economic Development (CALED). PJ is an International Committee Member for the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) and serves on the board of the International Network of Asian Public Administrators (I-NAPA). He was the recipient of the 2021 Stewardship Award from the Municipal Management Association of Southern California (MMASC) and currently serves as an Adjunct Professor and Advisory Council Member for the Master of Public Policy and Administration Program at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, CA.
Trolis Niebla, P.E., MSAssistant City ManagerCity of LancasterTrolis is a professional civil engineer with more than 20 years of experience in civil engineering related to land development, grading, drainage, hydrology, geotechnical, street design, traffic engineering, project and construction management, and building & safety review. Trolis has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Master’s degree in Geotechnical Engineering, also from UCLA. He started his career working for Leroy Crandall and Associates in 2000 and then moved into the public sector in 2001. Since that time, Trolis has worked for the LA County Department of Public Works, the City of Santa Clarita, and the City of Lancaster. Previously, as the City Engineer for the City of Lancaster, he lead the Traffic Engineering and Maintenance Division and the Building & Safety Division. Some of his key accomplishments with the City of Lancaster are the creation of the North Los Angeles County Transportation Coalition Joint Powers Authority, the City’s Master Plan of Complete Streets, and the City’s Safer Streets Action Plan. In his free time Trolis loves spending time with his wife of 15 years and their 3 children. He enjoys camping, watching sports, and riding his bikes.
Jaqui Guzman, MPP ‘07Deputy City ManagerCity of SunnyvaleJaqui oversees the Communication’s Office; Equity, Access, and Inclusion Office; and manages several city-wide initiatives. She has over 15 years of experience in government, serving in a range of roles including Budget Analyst, Acting Human Resources Manager and Assistant to the City Manager. Jaqui holds a master’s degree in public policy (MPP) from UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, and a B.A. from Occidental College. Jaqui grounds herself by being very active in her community and the profession. She serves on the board of Sunnyvale Community Services and AACI Health & Wellness. Jaqui also serves on the CalCities’ Subcommittee on Diversity and is a past Chair. She is a Past President of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley and continues to be an active member.

MSW Resume Workshop
2023-02-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom

UCLA Luskin Lecture by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
2023-02-15 18:30 - 20:00 | UCLA Royce Hall – West Lobby, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, 90095
During this UCLA Luskin Lecture by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, the scholar, author, and activist will reflect on her work around Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality. Seeking to inspire attendees to think about their collective futures and refuse what Taylor has referred to as “housing under capitalism,” Cheryl I. Harris of UCLA Law and Marques Vestal of UCLA Urban Planning will join Taylor in a discussion moderated by Professor Ananya Roy, founding director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy which is co-sponsoring the event to inaugurate its Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing series. An RSVP is required and the number of seats is limited.
UCLA Luskin Lecture by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
West Lobby, Royce Hall at UCLA
Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023
6:00 p.m. Pacific time, doors open with light refreshments6:30 p.m., event begins
For more information, please contact UCLA Luskin Events at events@luskin.ucla.edu

MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is the Leon Forrest Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern and an acclaimed scholar of racism and inequality in housing policies in the United States. Her award-winning books include “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation” and “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership.” A 2020 Freedom Scholar, 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and 2021 MacArthur Fellow, she is also a contributing writer for The New Yorker.

Asian American & Pacific Islander Policy Summit
2023-02-10 08:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Meyer & Renee Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
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Hosted by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Luskin School of Public Affairs, in partnership with the California AAPI Legislative Caucus (AAPILC), the AAPI Policy Summit is taking place in-person on February 10, 2023 from 8:00am – 6:00pm at the Luskin Conference Center. The theme is “Building Solutions for an Equitable Future.”
As we climb out of the COVID-19 Pandemic, we stand at a critical moment in history to reimagine California by developing solutions that establish more equitable institutions, policies, and systems that work towards social justice for all. The AAPI Policy Summit will bring together researchers, students, community, government, corporate, and academic leaders to have in-depth conversations about topics that are timely, shed new light on issues, and have ideas and recommendations that are actionable. In particular, how to create a future that is inclusive of Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander communities.
Breakout sessions in the works include:

Combatting Anti-Asian Hate: Addressing anti-Asian hate crimes and incidents, improving reporting, and mitigating anti-Asian racism in schools.
Addressing the Gaps in Healthcare and Mental Health: Addressing mental health, increasing food justice and security, and improving access to healthcare.
Economic Recovery: Housing, Employment, Small Businesses, and Food Insecurity: Developing solutions to economic disparities in accessing benefits and relief related to employment, housing, small business, and food insecurity resources.
Developing Inclusive Immigrant Protections and Policies: Health, economic, and social implications of COVID-19 among undocumented young adults living in California, Anti-AAPI Racism in Immigration and Criminal Law.
Reimagining the Arts, Theatre, and Hollywood: Improving recovery strategies and resources for AANHPI nonprofit arts organizations and artists, as well as diverse representation in Hollywood.
Advancing AANHPI Data Equity and Disaggregation: How can we advance more equitable data collection to ensure more comprehensive demographic data for AANHPI communities, in particular smaller populations?
Challenges and Opportunities in Implementing Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies Requirements: Implementing curriculum requirements in California High Schools, CA State Universities, and Community Colleges
AAPI Leaders in Corporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Where do AAPIs fit in the DEI discussions, especially in corporate and government sectors?
Philanthropy and Corporate Giving: How do we advance equitable giving to AAPI communities?
Addressing the Health Needs of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities
Tools and Strategies for Community Power Building and Electoral Politics

We’ll share more session details in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!
AGENDA
8:00 am-5:00 pm | Registration
8:00 am-9:00 am | Coffee and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am-9:35am | Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:45 am-11:20 am | Session 1
11:30am-1:00 pm | Keynote Address & Networking Lunch
1:10pm-2:45 pm | Session 2
2:45 pm-3:00 pm | Refreshments Break
3:00 pm-4:30 pm | Session 3
4:30 pm-6:00 pm | Closing & Networking Reception
REGISTRATION
Students: $10, Non-Students: $50
Includes a lunch and reception. Non-refundable, but transferable.
PARKING
A coupon code for Lot 8 will be sent to registrants a week prior to the event. If you have not received this code by then, please email events@luskin.ucla.edu. Here are the coupon code instructions for day-of use: https://bit.ly/aapipolicysummitparking.

For more information, please visit the AAPI Policy Summit 2022 page HERE or contact events@aasc.ucla.edu.

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). As a land grant institution, we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.

Cafecito con Luskin
2023-02-08 09:00 - 10:30 | 300 S Broadway, Los Angeles CA 90013
Cafecito con Luskin is a monthly networking event for UCLA Luskin School Public Affairs Alumni living in the Los Angeles area. Please join us if you are in town; all alumni, faculty, staff, and current students are welcome! ¡Nos vemos en el Cafecito con Luskin! Your cafecito is on us! Please note: Outdoor seating will be available when possible, which will also be an excellent opportunity to practice conversational Spanish.

Biking while Black - Documentary Screening and Discussion
2023-02-07 18:30 - 20:30 | James Bridges Theater, UCLA, 235 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
James Bridges Theater
RSVP Link
In a 30-minute documentary, BIKING WHILE BLACK: CONTINUING TO RIDE THROUGH DECRIMINALIZATION, DISENFRANCHISEMENT AND GENTRIFICATION incorporates narratives to dig deeper into solution-based storytelling and features the actions being taken by some of our leading Black bicyclists and BIPOC community-based organizations. Cast members are paving new roads to tackle the myths, the community safety conditions in Los Angeles, and celebrating Black joy on two wheels. Black and BIPOC lives continue to have an unseen connection to the realms of hope and resilience. Some of the key revelations that were spoken of during our interviews were on uplifting and educating our youth to become leaders and navigators in bicycling education and mechanics, safety education, and engagement, paired with mobility justice advocacy. The film connects these perspectives to transportation planning through speaking with agencies on the need to acknowledge, hire, and collaborate with community leaders who have been doing the work to help keep their multi-generational community members safe and informed. This second episode expands on the nine-minute short film, BIKING WHILE BLACK: HOW SAFE ARE BLACK LIVES BICYCLING?
Post-screening discussion with director and activist Yolanda Davis-Overstreet, moderated by UCLA ITS Equity Research Manager Adonia Lugo.
More information: https://www.bikingwhileblack.com/
Panelists
Yolanda Davis-Overstreet
Yolanda Davis-Overstreet is a graduate of the Urban Sustainability Master’s Program at Antioch University. Her community service and consulting work revolve around community organizing and mobility justice, with a focus on pedestrian safety in communities of color. She is the founder of Ride in Living Color, a bicycling and mobility justice advocacy initiative that was started in 2011. Yolanda is a proud woman of color, mother, activist, and emerging social-justice filmmaker.

David Price
David Price serves as the current Director of Racial Equity for the Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department within the City of Los Angeles. In this role, he leads the Empowerment and Equity team, Peace & Healing Centers, Reparations Advisory Commission, and employs a policy equity analysis across City programs and policies. Prior to joining LA Civil Rights, David worked under Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, overseeing the Mayor’s Interfaith Collective and Mayor’s Youth Council, as well as organizing and delivering resources to hard-to-reach communities. David was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles.
Rev. Patricia Strong-Fargas
Rev. Patricia Strong-Fargas was born in Jacksonville, Texas, and is a proud mother of two and grandmother of four. She is a graduate of California State Dominguez Hills, and went on to complete her master’s degree in Biblical Studies at Bible Believers College & Seminary. Currently, Patricia serves as a pastor and community activist. She is a founder of Mother’s Against Hazing and an active member of PUSH (Parents United to Stop Hazing), Faith for Safer Streets, and many other impactful local organizations. Across all of her work, she brings a passion for serving others and fighting for equality and social justice.
Adonia Lugo (moderator)
Cultural anthropologist Adonia E. Lugo was born and raised in traditional and unceded Acjachemen territory and now lives and works in traditional and unceded Tongva territory in Los Angeles. Adonia began investigating transportation, race, and space during her graduate studies at UC Irvine, when she co-created the Los Angeles open street event CicLAvia and the organization today known as People for Mobility Justice. Since receiving her doctorate in 2013, Adonia has applied her research on “human infrastructure” in sustainable mobility advocacy and helped to define the concept of “mobility justice.” Currently, Adonia is the Equity Research Manager at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, a core organizer of The Untokening, and a recent appointee to the California Transportation Commission.

Fulbright Programs Information Session
2023-02-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
SPEAKER: Dr. Ross Fenimore is the project director for the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program and works with the Office of Fellowships and Financial Services in the Division of Graduate Education. He will also cover information about the Fulbright US Student Program.

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers fellowships for U.S. graduating college seniors, graduate students, young professionals and artists to study, conduct research, and/or teach English abroad. In addition, Critical Language Enhancement Awards are available to grantees for study of critical need foreign languages before or during their grant period.

The 2024-25 application cycle is predicted to open in April 2023. It is highly recommended that you attend an information session in order to become familiar with the Fulbright US Student Program and the campus application procedure.

The Fulbright-Hays DDRA Program, sponsored by the Department of Education, provides grants to fund individual doctoral students who conduct research abroad, in modern foreign languages and area studies, for periods of 6 to 12 months. Projects exclusive to Western Europe will not be considered. Eligibility is open to most fields including competitive preference points for projects with a thematic focus in the areas of STEM, computer science, public health, education, international development, political science, and economics. A modern foreign language must facilitate the project. The grant period is expected to run from January 2024 to March 2025 (students propose a project within that timeframe). Students do not need to be advanced to candidacy to apply; however, should a student be awarded, they must advance prior to activating the grant. The grant includes generous funding for legal dependents to travel with the fellow during the research period.

2023 APPLICATION: Students must apply through the UCLA Division of Graduate Education. Students may complete this survey (https://forms.gle/ZApeYuXQFCSwR1Vm9) to indicate their interest.

Cultural Reparation: The Last-Mile Solution to Our Climate Crisis
2023-02-02 18:00 - 19:30 | UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095
A real climate breakthrough requires nothing short of a radical imagination and a profound cultural shift. In this University of California Regents’ Lecture, nationally recognized sustainable development practitioner Denise Fairchild will introduce her new Climate Breakthrough project, funded by a $3 million award aimed at advancing transformative solutions to the climate crisis. Fairchild calls for addressing the cultural dimensions at the root of the crisis in a revolution grounded in optimism and possibility, as opposed to sacrifice and despair.Fairchild, who earned her doctorate in urban planning from UCLA in 1987, has spent 40 years working at the intersection of climate, economics and equity. She is president emeritus of Emerald Cities Collaborative, a nonprofit aimed at creating local economies that are sustainable, just and inclusive, and co-author of the book “Energy Democracy, Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions.”

Luskin Aperitivo
2023-02-02 17:00 - 19:00 | 428 S Hewitt Street
Luskin Aperitivo is a quarterly networking event for alumni in the greater Los Angeles area. Current students, staff, and faculty are invited to attend. As a token of appreciation, we will provide appetizers and a ticket for one drink. Please Note: We will arrange for outdoor seating when possible.

Luskin Learning Series: In Conversation with Policy Makers on Housing and Homelessness
2023-01-31 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
For the 2022-2023 academic year UCLA Luskin is hosting a series of events to promote connection to and discussion with leaders in the affordable housing and homelessness space. A primary goal of this program is to center the conversations around racial and social justice as it relates to the housing, homelessness and government topic. We are excited to host all current Luskin students and alumni for what will be the beginning of a great series of engaging conversations.
We are pleased to have 4 distinguished panelists:

Jason Pu (Regional Administrator for HUD Region IX)
Ann Sewill (GM of the City of Los Angeles’ Housing Department)
Eric Shaw (Director of the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development)
Sasha Hauswald (Assistant Deputy Director of our Division of State Financial Assistance)

This event is moderated by Luskin’s own, Michael Lens (Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Policy, and Associate Faculty Director of the Lewis Center for Regional policy Studies) .

UCLA Activist-in-Residence Welcome Reception
2023-01-31 16:00 - 18:00 | Perloff Hall, DeCafe, 1302 Perloff Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
With a shared commitment to “turn the university inside out” and invite artists, community organizers, and movement leaders to undertake power-shifting scholarship and pedagogy focused on social change, the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and cityLAB-UCLA are pleased to announce Steve Diaz, Melissa Acedera, Josiah Edwards, and Marlené Nancy Lopez as the 2023 UCLA Activists-in-Residence.
Learn more about each of the UCLA Activists-in-Residence here and please join us in warmly welcoming our activists to the UCLA community at this year’s welcome reception.
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Parking information: The nearest parking lot is Parking Structure 5 (340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095). Pay by space parking is available on level 6 of Parking Structure 5. Use Parking Structure 3 as an alternate, located on the corner of Sunset Blvd. and Hilgard Avenue. Pay by space parking is located on level 1 of Parking Structure 3.
Only cash and credit cards may be used at campus payment stations/kiosks. Pay stations accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express for your convenience. Pay stations only accept $1, $5, and $10 bills and do not give change in the form of cash or credit. Park in an unmarked space and place permit on your car dashboard so it is visible.

Harvard Government Performance Lab Fellowship Info Session
2023-01-31 12:30 - 13:30 | CA
The Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab (GPL), based in the School’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government, supports state and local governments across the country in designing and implementing solutions to pressing social problems.
Policy analysts and community organizers, management consultants and social workers — GPL team members put their skills to work helping governments tackle their hardest problems. Whether working to solve chronic homelessness, connect nurses and low-income mothers, or break the cycle of incarceration, GPL team members support innovative government leaders in creating solutions to serious social challenges and improving the way government works.
Fellows work directly with state and local governments and are the backbone of the Lab’s model for providing high-quality pro bono technical assistance to governments. Fellows typically come to the GPL within a few years of completing a graduate degree in public policy, public administration, business administration, law, or related fields. Throughout the course of their fellowship, Fellows guide significant performance improvement projects forward, usually based on-site in the government, and receive training in skills including data analysis and project management. Previous fellows have led projects to reform city procurement, expand re-entry services to individuals released on parole, and improve the delivery of services provided to families interacting with the child welfare system.

Preparing for the 2nd Year MSW Placement Fair
2023-01-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
This workshop will focus on how to present your best self at the MSW 2nd Year Placement Fair. I will be sharing tips and tricks, including attire, elevator speeches, and interviewing in person vs over Zoom!

Office of Child Protection Fellowship Information Session
2023-01-26 12:30 - 13:30 | 2355 Public Affairs, 337 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Attend this information session to learn more about the Los Angeles County Office of Child Protection staff fellowship. The fellowship will run from 2023-2024. The Fellow will completes 10 weeks of full-time (40 hours/week) over summer and 20 hours/week during the academic year.

Bohnett Fellowship Information Session & Alumni Panel
2023-01-24 12:00 - 13:30 | CA
The David Bohnett Fellowship Program was established as a hands-on experience in the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Office for exceptionally promising public policy, social welfare, and urban planning students. Bohnett Fellows’ supervisors are executives in the Mayor’s Office and offer students a high level fellowship experience city government. This is a yearlong fellowship; the total compensation is $40,000.
Attend this workshop to learn more about the fellowship, the application and selection process, and to hear from Bohnett Fellow alumni who completed the program in past years.
For more information about this Fellowship, visit: https://luskin.ucla.edu/student-affairs/career-services/fellowships

Mpox and HIV as Viruses of Ongoing Colonial Violence
2023-01-19 18:30 - 20:00 | California Nanosystems Institute, UCLA Campus, 570 Westwood Plaza , Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
This event has been postponed.
HIV emerged in humans around 1900 in what was then the Belgian Congo. Researchers first described mpox (MPV), often referred to as monkeypox, in humans in 1970 in The Democratic Republic of the Congo. Both of these viruses emerged in a global and local political context that cannot be removed from their biomedical history. The first half of this talk details this history and considers the causes of these catastrophes to better understand how to prevent them. This work uses molecular epidemiology and a historical analysis including oral histories, co-authored with a Congolese human rights lawyer, Ngofeen Mputubwele. In the second half of this UCLA Luskin Lecture, Osmundson will detail his work with New York City to provide MPV vaccines on site at commercial sex venues. The causes of epidemics are global, and their solutions local; however, MPV vaccines are still not globally available, restricting global communities’ ability to protect themselves.
Joseph Osmundson is a scientist, writer, and activist. He has a PhD in Molecular Biophysics from The Rockefeller University, where he studied bacteriophage viruses, was an American Cancer Society postdoc in bioinformatics at NYU, and is now a Clinical Assistant Professor of Biology at NYU. His writing has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere, and his book VIROLOGY came out in June. As a science advocate, he’s worked on equitable access to biomedicine and research to fill gaps in knowledge, particularly that affect the pre-existing viral underclass.

RSVP required for admittance.
Admission is free, but registration is required for each attendee.
Parking
Public transportation: Big Blue Bus (Routes 2 and 17), Culver CityBus (Line 6), Metro
Ridehailing locations: Gateway Plaza, Luskin Conference Center
On-site parking available for $14 (Lot 2, Lot 8)

CA Department of Finance Info Session
2023-01-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
General information session going over what DOF does (many people don’t know) as well as the various jobs to apply for. It will focus mostly on Budget Analyst positions since the other positions require more specialized degrees.

Cafecito con Luskin
2023-01-18 08:00 - 09:30 | 801 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046
Cafecito con Luskin is a monthly networking event for UCLA Luskin School Public Affairs Alumni living in the Los Angeles area. Please join us if you are in town; all alumni, faculty, staff, and current students are welcome! ¡Nos vemos en el Cafecito con Luskin! Your cafecito is on us! Please note: Outdoor seating will be available when possible.

Right to Housing
2023-01-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom
At a time of mass homelessness, deepening tenant precarity, and the criminalization of poverty, housing justice movements are pushing for a right to housing in California. In this convening, current and former UN Special Rapporteurs on Adequate Housing provide insight and guidance on key elements of such a right, how such a right can be informed by an international human rights framework, and how such a right can become an actionable government obligation. In conversation with prominent housing justice leaders, they will take up questions such as: What does the right to housing mean for those without a right to recognized housing, notably unhoused communities? How can the right to housing address the effects of global financialization on housing markets and housing systems? Is there a vision of social housing that can be a core part of such a right? How might the right to housing remake highly unequal relations of property and land?
Featuring UN Special Rapporteurs on the Right to Adequate Housing:
Leilani Farha, 2014 – 2020
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, 2020 – 2026
Raquel Rolnik, 2008 – 2014
With commentary by:
Gary Blasi, Tenant Power Toolkit
Clarissa Woo Hermosillo, ACLU Southern California
Christina Livingston, ACCE
Pete White, Los Angeles Community Action Network
Chaired by:
Ananya Roy, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy

Welcome Back Luskin Students!
2023-01-12 09:00 - 10:30, 2023-01-11 09:00 - 10:30 | 3rd Floor Commons, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, 3383 Public Affairs, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Hello, Luskin students. Please join me on tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday for coffee and pasteries to begin a new quarter and year! I look forward to connecting and catching up with you all.

Classes Begin
2023-01-09 | CA
First day of instruction for Winter quarter.

Campus Closure
2022-12-23 - 2023-01-02 | CA
The UCLA campus will observe a holiday closure from Dec. 23, 2022, through Jan. 2, 2023.
Campus will reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023.

Cafecito con Luskin
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