Capstone talk: "An Elegant Radical: Luisa Moreno and Her Search for Social Justice"
"An Elegant Radical: Luisa Moreno and Her Search for Social Justice"
"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.
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This meeting, organized by the joint ASOC/DEB Gender and Sexuality Equity Committee (GSEC), is the first in a series of two events aimed at prioritizing transparency and collaboration in the process of improving the accessibility of health services at Oxy. All members of the Oxy community are welcome to attend!
Zinzi Clemmons is the Writer-in-Residence at Occidental College. She was raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father. Co-founder of the literary journal Apogee, she currently serves as associate editor at The Believer and as contributing editor to Literary Hub.
Wendy Cheng is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Scripps College. Her research focuses on race and ethnicity, comparative racialization, critical geography, urban and suburban studies, and diaspora. She is the author of The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and coauthor of A People’s Guide to Los Angeles (with Laura Pulido and Laura Barraclough; University of California Press, 2012).