Supporting creative grassroots interventions for meaningful social change
CaSIG is a coalition of CSULA faculty, students, staff, and community partners who steward students in making positive social change with purpose and creativity. Founded in 2017 by professors Marla A. Parker and Dmitri Seals, the Group now engages dozens of community partners and reaches over 200 students per semester across a wide variety of […]
The Civic and Social Innovation Group (CaSIG) is a group of faculty, staff, and students on CSU-LA’s campus stewarding the next generation of change makers. The Civic and Social Innovation Summit (CaSIS) is our signature event featuring the work of our students who have been working very hard for the entire semester to develop ideas […]
This year’s CaSES was a packed week of events bringing together over 200 students, families, local residents, practitioners, and researchers to discuss innovative proposals to advance social justice. The presentations below come from Political Science events where students engaged local government and policy advocacy alongside community-based civic entrepreneurs to address wicked problems in their communities. […]
This semester approximately 200 students from political science, sociology and teacher education are preparing for the second Civic and Social Entrepreneurship Summit (CaSES) to be held in May 2018. They build on the success of the 120 students who shared their ideas for helping communities improve in December (check out the projects here). To make […]
CaSES: Civic and Social Entrepreneurship Summit California State University, Los Angeles Dec 7-8, 2017 At the first ever CaSES event at Cal State LA, over 100 students presented innovative solutions to wicked problems in their communities. Working with Professor Marla Parker in Political Science and Professor Dmitri Seals in Sociology, students first conducted research in […]