Emanuel Preciado Manny is a 2nd year Ph.D. student in Urban Planning and Policy focused on community-driven planning, urban sociology, social movements, and community-based research. As an urban planner, he is most interested in the spatial politics of low-income communities of color. Currently, Manny explores how urban gardens can revitalize communities and their [...]
Navjyot (Navi) Gill Navjyot Gill is a second-year PhD student in the Criminology, Law and Society department at UC Irvine and a Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with Honors and received her B.A. in History and Ethnic Studies. Her research examines neighborhood change, social and economic inequalities [...]
Escondido: Roots of a Community Planner by Emanuel Preciado, MA, PhD student. UCI Community Resilience summer fellow. September 2018. I am from Central Escondido, California – a place with similar demographics as Central Santa Ana but half the size in terms of total population. It’s a predominantly working-class Latinx city, with very little to no political [...]
2018-19 Community Resilience Fellows Please join us in welcoming the 2018-19 Community Resilience Student Fellows. Navjyot (Navi) Gill Navjyot Gill is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Criminology, Law and Society department at UC Irvine and a Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow. She graduated from UC Berkeley with Honors and received her [...]
Words of Wild Survival: Wombs, Wounds, Wastelands, Water Words of Wild Survival: Wombs, Wounds, Wastelands, Water took place on Friday, September 14, 2018, from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. The public conference convened in UCI's Humanities Gateway, Room 1010, and featured creative writing about African, African American, Latinx, and Native American responses to ecological [...]
SISL 18: A Glimpse into the Next Generation of Sustainability Leaders By Isabelle and Yasmine. Sep 6, 2018. Within a weekend during summer break, incoming UCI freshman and transfer students from diverse backgrounds came together to share their experience as well as better understand the interrelation between community resilience and sustainability. A cohort of [...]
November 2018 UC Food and Climate Fellows Leadership Training ABOUT THE PROGRAM This training is offered to select 2018-19 student fellows of the UC President’s Carbon Neutrality (CNI) and Global Food (GFI) Initiatives by UC Irvine Community Resilience Projects and the UCOP Office of Sustainability. All 2018-19 CNI engagement fellows and GFI ambassadors are eligible [...]
A Student Perspective on the Strike “¡La gente unida jamas sera vencida!” By Esmeralda Hic, UCI Student. May 29, 2018. Three days. 72 hours. UC on strike. UC Irvine workers belonging to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 (AFSCME) went on strike from Monday, May 7, through [...]
Open Fellowship Applications for Students UCI Community Resilience Projects presents two student fellowship opportunities open to graduate and undergraduate students. The summer fellowship takes place this coming summer (2018). The year-long fellowship takes place next academic year (2018-19) and is part of the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellows Program. Continuing students from all [...]
The North Pole Show Recap Community Resilience Fellows hosting the North Pole event and describing their fellowship projects. By Tope Aladetimi, Community Resilience Student Fellow. May 10, 2018. On Wednesday, May 9, we hosted a viewing, discussion, and workshop about the North Pole Show at our Cross-Cultural Center as part of the Center’s [...]