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.