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 [...]
Co-lab and friends host event on race, place, and climate change Click here to download this flyer Please join the UCI Community Resilience Co-lab and friends for an afternoon exploring the relationship between your environment and your community, race and place, ‘hood stories and global climate change. The event welcomes to [...]
Southern California Youth Learn about Environmental Justice By Omar Perez-Figueroa. March 12, 2018. On February 24, 2018, UCI hosted the PUENTE 9th Grade Student Leadership Conference. For more than 30 years, the PUENTE Project has improved the college-going rate of tens of thousands of California's educationally underrepresented students.. At the annual conference, southern California [...]
Students Link Environment and Social Justice at Summit By Tope Aladetimi, Community Resilience Fellow. February 20, 2018. In February 2018, Community Resilience fellows and other student leaders came together at the Social Justice Summit. This student-led summit is for student staff within UCI Student Housing. The purpose of this summit is to introduce housing staff to [...]
A Three-Part Vision for Student Engagement in Climate and Food Action By Community Resilience Fellow and CNI Climate Ambassador Tope Aladetimi. January 31, 2018. My weekend at Asilomar Conference Center was a retreat I didn’t know I needed. The retreat was three days, but the time we spent together made the days seem to fold into one. [...]