About the chapter
Addressing issues distinct to the Los Angeles, Southern CA, and Central CA areas, Los Angeles Unified SSN draws on faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students from the institutions including but not limited to USC, UCLA, UC-Santa Barbara, Pomona College, Occidental College, Loyola, and UC-Irvine. Los Angeles Unified SSN focuses primarily on labor and migration, homelessness, urban poverty, race and racism, sexuality, and civic engagement and diversity.
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- Race & Ethnicity
- Gender & Sexuality
University of California-Santa Barbara
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Sara Sadhwani quoted on political parties not taking any community for granted and both parties needing to make more concerted efforts to broadly engage Indian American voters and Asian American voters by Marina Fang, "Indian Americans Take Pride In Kamala, But Democrats Must Not Take Them For Granted" Huffpost, December 22, 2020.
Sara Sadhwani's research on the significance of a female-majority Redistricting Commission being especially resonant on this hundredth anniversary of women’s suffrage and seeing our first female vice president.” discussed by , "Women Shatter Glass Ceiling on Redistricting Commission ," Capitol Weekly, December 16, 2020.
Guest to discuss Identifying the Reasons for Inequality: Dealing With a Legacy of Exclusion on The Path Forward, Finding Solutions, CNBC, Mehrsa Baradaran, December 5, 2020.
Guest to discuss focus on themes raised by Roberto Lovato in his recently released, critically acclaimed book on A Conversation with Alvaro Huerta, Ph.D., & Roberto Lovato on Memory, Migration and Social Movements”, Alvaro Huerta (with ), November 10, 2020.
Sara Sadhwani quoted on Indian Americans have historically identified as Democrats and have a more solidified partisan identity, "Kamala Harris Could Boost Asian American Voter Turnout, Researchers Say" NBC News, October 7, 2020.
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