Student Written Blog
CooperAcción: A Curriculum on Co-ops
By Ambereen Siddiqui, October 30, 2019. What comes to mind when you hear the word "economy"? I cycle between corruption, exploitation, and can we actually eat the rich? However, last week at CooperAcción Santa Ana, a cooperative business development program, we...
Friends of the Earth
From Small Town Girl to Big Green and Back Again By Esmeralda Hic, September 17, 2019. By every definition, I am a small town girl. I was born and raised in the Coachella Valley, a rural desert community located in southern California. I am the daughter of an...
Encuentro: The Possibility of Togetherness
by Esmeralda Hic, September 2019 In November 2018 I had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Wisconsin to join organizers from Santa Ana, Madison, Wisconsin, and the Menominee Nation at an encuentro. This encuentro was an opportunity for all of us to connect in our...
Encuentro
Encuentro 2018 by Emanuel Preciado, June 2019. On a trip last November to the Menominee Nation's reservation, I had the honor to stay on the reservation as a guest who traveled with others from southern California for an encuentro. We arrived with open minds and open...
Encuentro 2018
By Karen Valladares. June 6, 2019. Last fall, I had the honor of being able to attend the encuentro between Santa Ana and the Menominee Nation in Wisconsin. I never imagined how life-changing the experience would be. As I headed back home, so much of me wanted to stay...
CRECE: Community in Resistance
by Emanuel Preciado, MA, PhD student, UCI Community Resilience summer fellow, October 2018. I got involved with CRECE the summer of 2016 as an urban planning masters student at UC Irvine, at the time the group that ran la granjita was not yet called CRECE. I was an...
Escondido: Roots of a Community Planner
by Emanuel Preciado, MA, PhD student. UCI Community Resilience summer fellow. September 2018. 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...
2018 New Student Fellows
Please join us in welcoming the 2018-19 Community Resilience Student Fellows. Navi Kaur Navi Kaur 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...
SISL 18: A Glimpse into the Next Generation of Sustainability Leaders
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...
A Student Perspective on the Strike
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 Wednesday, May 9. The...
About the Student Blog
This student-written blog reflects 2018-19 writing by UC students from their own perspectives regarding issues related to building community resilience. It does not reflect the position of the University.