Staff
Executive Director, Center for Community Based Learning
Celestina Castillo earned her bachelor's degree in history at Pomona College and a master's in Urban Policy Analysis and Management at New School University in New York. She has also worked with a wide range of community-based organizations focused on education, community and workforce development...
Assistant Director, Center for Community Based Learning
Kelsey Sablan Martin (she/her) is a CHamoru community based learning (CBL) practitioner and administrator dedicated to cultivating educational spaces that are relational, reciprocal, and anti-colonial. Kelsey's CBL practice includes faculty capacity building, community based research development and...
Community Based Learning and Research Faculty Committee
The Community Based Learning and Research Faculty Committee focuses on enhancing curriculum-connected community engagement and community based research. It works with the Center for Community Based Learning (CCBL) to provide guidance on faculty development and support needed for faculty to implement and sustain community based learning within their courses and research, often serving as peer mentors. The committee examines and makes recommendations for policies related to community based learning to other college committees and constituencies. A member or two might also serve on the Working Group on Community Engagement.
Assistant Professor, Politics
Politics
Kai Yui Samuel Chan teaches classes on political theory, democratic theory, transnational politics.
Professor, Politics
Politics
Regina Freer’s research and teaching interests include race and politics, demographic change, urban politics, and the intersection of all three in Los Angeles.
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Religious Studies
Areas of specialization: Islamic legal studies; anthropology of Islam; histories of capitalism; comparative studies of South Asia and the Middle East.
Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy; Executive Director, Urban & Environmental Policy Institute
Martha Matsuoka ’83 is the Executive Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute and a Professor at Occidental College. She focuses her teaching and research on environmental justice, community-based regionalism, sustainable community development, and social movements. Her current...
Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
Art & Art History
Associate Professor, Sociology
Sociology
Mai Thai (pronounced "my tie") is a sociologist specializing in areas of criminal justice, education, youth, race/ethnicity, and qualitative methods.
Assistant Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy
Urban & Environmental Policy
Madeline Wander is a scholar of transportation, race, and space. Her research focuses on the ways in which urban planning produces racialized transportation disparities and how such disparities shape people’s mobility experiences and economic outcomes.
Student Staff:
Yena Jonsson '28, Studio Art
Chioma Kalu '27, Urban and Environmental Policy
Nevaeh Navarro '28, English
Yolitztli Torres '27, Studio Art and Latino/a and Latin American Studies
Qingxi Yang '28, Media Arts and Culture