Supporting creative grassroots interventions for meaningful social change
A few models for engagement with culture and emotion – useful for courses but also as a start for grappling with the question of how to intervene in culture: Organizing: Community Coalition of South LA Digital manipulation: Google Ads for Social Engineering Inclusive entrepreneurship: JornARTleros (scroll down for English si lo quiere) Movies: Charles D. King […]
This spring, 14 community organizations partnered with students at Cal State LA in a course called Social Change. These partners put in heroic efforts, grappling with theory and history to understand the factors driving change, using GIS tech to map problems and resources to fuel meaningful interventions, co-designing an initiative, and even writing funding proposals […]
A few models for engagement with inequalities of race, class, and gender – useful for courses but also as a start for grappling with the question of how to make lasting change: Housing: Choose any page from the policy toolkit Worker Empowerment: Co-determination Gender & corporate power: Board equity College Access: Free tuition for all K-12 Education: Community […]
Professor Dmitri Seals will be launching the Rooted Innovation Lab in the spring of 2019. Exploring the theory and practice of Social Change, this course seeks to create meaningful partnerships with social impact organizations that allow them to leverage the best of our student’s social innovation talents as well as provide students with substantive learning […]
A few models for engagement with inequalities of class – useful for courses but also as a start for grappling with the question of how to make lasting change: Housing: Choose one from the policy toolkit Worker Empowerment: Co-determination Health Care: Community Health Councils College Access: Free tuition for all Economic Development: College volunteer corps K-12 Education: Community Schools […]