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UEP Senior Comprehensive Projects, "Comps" as they are more commonly referred to, often stretch beyond the classroom to interact, impact and evaluate public policy issues at the local, national and even global level.

2025 UEP Senior Comprehensive Projects

Toward Climate-Ready Schools: Advancing Environmental Justice Through Strategic Investment Within the Los Angeles Unified School District
by Maia Adams

Assessing LA’s Response to Extreme Heat and Its Effects on Unhoused Communities 
by Sophia Baker

Behind the Seams: Los Angeles’ Sustainable Fashion Brands and Textile Waste Diversion
by Francis Briones

The Impacts and Barriers to Youth Outdoor Education in the Los Angeles Region 
by Jodhan Fine

Weighing Health and Wealth: How Stakeholders Shape Development in the Inland Empire 
by Bella Flad

The Kids Are All Fighting... For Power Through Undergrad Labor Unions: Student Labor, Democracy, and the Political Future of Higher Education
by Emma Galbraith

Equitable Afforestation in Urban Environments: A Canopy Cover Analysis of the Beijing Plain Afforestation Program 
by Ethan Kerman 

Organizing for a Living Wage in Los Angeles: A Case Study on Community-Labor Cooperation
by Gabriel Morton

Beyond the Ivory Tower: Gentrification and Displacement in South Central Los Angeles
by Lesly Nonoal 

From Allocation to Action: How Changes in Title I Funding Transform Community Decision-Making; A Case Study of the Campbell Union High School District
by Kate Reinhard

Handing the Reins to Nature: Perceptions of Green Infrastructure in Los Angeles
by Emerson Staley

Flesh and Freedom: Applying a Care Politics Framework to Home Care and Domestic Worker Organizing 
by Izzy Wang

Residing Without Representation: Housing Development in the Face of Federal Control and Influence in Washington, D.C.
by Noah Weitzner

Perceptions of Sidewalk Transit Environments: Two Sites in Pasadena, California
by Sloan Wittliff 

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