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Welcome to Los Angeles Unified SSN

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About the chapter

Addressing issues distinct to the Los Angeles area, Los Angeles Unified SSN draws on faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students from the metropolitan region at institutions including USC, UCLA, Pomona, Occidental College, Loyola, and UC-Irvine. Los Angeles Unified SSN focuses primarily on labor and immigration, homelessness and urban poverty, and civic engagement and diversity.

Leaders

Marcus Anthony Hunter

University of California, Los Angeles

Paul Lichterman

University of Southern California

Members

University of California, Los Angeles

Phillip M. Ayoub

Occidental College

Vilna Bashi Treitler

University of California, Santa Barbara

Thomas J Billard

Thomas J Billard

University of Southern California

Catherine Bolzendahl

University of California, Irvine

University of Southern California

Abigail C. Saguy

University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Riverside

Kushan Dasgupta

University of Southern California

Occidental College

Rocío R. García

University of California, Los Angeles

Hunter Gehlbach

University of California, Santa Barbara

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University of California, Los Angeles

Benjamin A. T. Graham

University of Southern California

Matthew Gratias

University of Southern California

The Trevor Project

University of California, Los Angeles

Richard L. Hasen

University of California, Irvine

University of Southern California

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Nadia Young-na Kim

Loyola Marymount University

Charis Elizabeth Kubrin

University of California, Irvine

Lavariega Monforti

Jessica L. Lavariega Monforti

California Lutheran University

Alice Lépissier

University of California, Santa Barbara

Krystale Littlejohn

Occidental College

University of California, Irvine

Matto Mildenberger

University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara

Stanford University

University of Southern California

University of Southern California

Morgan Polikoff

University of Southern California

University of California Irvine

University of California, Riverside

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Debanjan Roychoudhury

University of California, Los Angeles

Loyola Marymount University

C. Rob Shorette II

California State University

Eric R.A.N. Smith

University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Irvine

University of California, Irvine

Occidental College

University of California, Los Angeles

Benjamin R. Weiss

University of Southern California

Anthony James Williams

University of California, Los Angeles

Sarah Yoshikawa

Loyola Marymount University

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Nancy Wang Yuen

Biola University

Chris Zepeda-Millán

University of California, Los Angeles

Latest Contributions

Hearing on California Criminal Justice Reform: Potential Lessons for the Nation in California

SSN Testimony, July 2019

How Immigrants Give American Companies a Powerful Boost Against Chinese Rivals

Benjamin A. T. Graham

SSN Commentary, July 2019

Why Domestic Violence Victim Advocates Recommend Services They Know Don’t Work

Benjamin R. Weiss

SSN Key Findings Brief, August 2019

How Racial Stereotypes in Popular Media Affect People — and What Hollywood Can Do to Become More Inclusive

Nancy Wang Yuen

SSN Key Findings Brief, June 2019

America's Politicians are Listening to the Rich

Martin Gilens

SSN Memo, June 2013

Latest in the News

"Prison Shift Raises Crucial, Unresolved Questions," Charis Elizabeth Kubrin, Orange County Register, April 22, 2013.

"Rap Lyrics on Trial," Charis Elizabeth Kubrin (with Erik Nielson), New York Times, January 13, 2014.

"A Potential Censorship or Criminalization of Rap Music," Charis Elizabeth Kubrin, New York Times, December 3, 2014.

"Is the Ferguson Effect a Myth?," Charis Elizabeth Kubrin (with Tracy Sohoni), Baltimore Sun, September 10, 2015.

"Releasing Low-Level Offenders Did not Unleash a Crime Wave in California," Charis Elizabeth Kubrin (with Carroll Seron and Joan Petersilia), Washington Post, March 17, 2016.

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