On Monday, I presented at the UC Symposium on Digital Investigations along with my co-researchers in the Human Rights Lab (housed in the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas) at UCSC. Anushka Shah and I spoke about some of the challenges and lessons learned in regards to resiliency and the ethics of bearing witness to violence as human rights researchers. We had our colleagues from UCLA’s Promise Institute for Human Rights and UCB’s Human Rights Center join us on campus for the conference. It was truly a gift to get to meet with our fellow researchers and hear about the amazing work being done in […]
Another housing protest at UCSC
In a protest that drew nearly 200 students Friday afternoon at UC Santa Cruz, the Student Housing Coalition and its supporters marched to Clark Kerr Hall and taped a list of demands to the locked doors. They included more transparency in the housing assignment process, building more housing, and a four-year guarantee of housing for all students. The protest comes after students signed up for on-campus housing this week, and many were left perplexed when, despite being on the priority list, their preferred housing type was not available — and many believed they would not get the on-campus housing that […]
“Good trouble” at UCSC’s dedication of John R. Lewis College
Hillary Ojeda, education correspondent for Lookout Santa Cruz, and I covered the celebration of the renaming of College 10 as John R. Lewis College yesterday in the Quarry Amphitheater. We had got a tip that there was “someone in the audience” that we would need to get a photo of and that we should get front-row seats. As it turned out, it wasn’t a someone, but a something. When Cynthia Larive, chancellor of the university, took the stage, approximately fifty students in the audience quietly stood and held up signs reading “We can see your greed UC.” They remained standing […]