
Mario Alberto Espinoza-Kulick
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About Mario Alberto
Espinoza-Kulick’s research focuses on health policy, immigration, race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, and social movements. Through the framework of decolonial-inspired methods, his research produces relevant scholarship in collaboration with community, highlighting evidence for equitable policy change. Overarching themes in Espinoza-Kulick’s writings include advocacy strategies that transform health policy, cross-sectoral collaboration, and unequal healthcare access among Latinx immigrants. Espinoza-Kulick serves on the Boards for Corazón del Pueblo: The Cultural and Creative Arts Center of the Santa Maria Valley, and Access Support Network.
Contributions
Guía de Promoción de Políticas
Equidad en Salud
Pushing the Boundaries: Graduate Student Research
Latinx Community Survey Evidence for California Healthcare Bills
Policy Advocacy 101 Toolkit
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Publications
Documents health disparities facing heterogenous Latinx Immigrant and Indigenous groups and analyzes immigrant health advocacy strategies.
Brings you the voices of twenty-one graduate students from across the disciplinary spectrum. Discussses what drives them to pursue their research, their personal journeys that brought them to UCSB, and what they hope their work will accomplish.
Tells the history of the Marijuana Policy Project, focusing on how issues of race and health shaped their formation and ongoing advocacy work.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the existing research on "ethnic enclaves," which has been deployed to understand concentrated areas of residential segregation and minority business ownership.
Describes the formation of a HIV/AIDS awareness, testing, and prevention program that was piloted at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. The findings demonstrate how to create an effective community-based program, and the "Know Your Status" event has been adopted annually
Describes the crisis of health facing Latinx immigrant communities on California's Central Coast, highlighting major concerns for policymakers and community stakeholders.
Analyzes interviews from the ACT UP Oral History project. Demonstrates how organizers in the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic used creative, confrontational strategies in order to raise awareness and gain resources for people living with HIV/AIDS.