JSC Morrison Lounge

Join us as Dr. Hanna Garth speaks on food access in South LA, and the history of the Food Justice Movement in Los Angeles.

Oliver Wang is a professor of sociology at CSU-Long Beach and the author of Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews of the San Francisco Bay Area. He contributes to NPR's All Things Considered, KCET’s Artbound, KPCC’s Take Two, the Los Angeles Review of Books and other outlets.

Focusing on Tahrir Sqaure in Egypt during the "so-called" Arab Spring that began in 2011, Sherine Hafez, Profesor and Chair of Gender and Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside, an anthropoligist specializing in the Middle East, will explore the ways gender, space, and social movements are relationally produced.

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Eunice Roberts from BADA, the British American Drama Academy, will be here on Friday, October 25 from 12:50 to 1:45 in JSC Morrison Lounge. Anyone interested in studying theater abroad at BADA in London is welcome to attend.

Alumni include Janet Nami McIntyre '96, VP of Programs and Training at Executive Service Corps; Dr. Chet Chetty '96, Dentist; and Judy Lam '87, attorney, mediator, arbitrator Maynard Cooper and Gale. 

Networking at 6 and Panel at 6:30.

2pm  Introductory Remarks

2:10pm  Recognition of Sociology Seniors

2:20pm  Comps Presentations

• Alejandra Arroyo, The Filipino Food Movement: Forging the Path Toward Culinary Acceptance

• Claudia Oppermann, “Be sort of revealing, but not too revealing”: Gender Performance, Authenticity, and Rituals on Dating Apps

"An Elegant Radical: Luisa Moreno and Her Search for Social Justice"

Bianca D.M. Wilson is a Rabbi Barbara Zacky Senior Scholar of Public Policy of the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. She is also an Affiliate Faculty member of the California Center for Population research at UCLA. She was previously Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach.

Alisa Hartz is a staff attorney at Public Counsel, the nation’s largest pro bono law firm.  She is part of the Opportunity Under Law project, which uses impact litigation and community organizing to advance civil rights and economic justice in California and nationally.  Her cases have focused on the right to literacy under the California Constitution (Ella T. v. State of California), the right to appropriate services for mentally disabled homeless people being released from jail (Powers v.