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Professor Bolden speaking to the 2026 California Journalism Philanthropy Summit in Los Angeles.

Michael D. Bolden

School of Journalism

community-engaged journalism, media transformation, press freedom, equity in journalism, local news reporting

Jennifer Anne LaFleur

School of Journalism

data journalism, investigative journalism, disability, inequality, criminal justice

Shereen Marisol Meraji speaking at a journalism event on the UC Berkeley campus.

Shereen Marisol Meraji

School of Journalism

audio journalism, podcasting, Race and Ethnicity in the United States

School of Journalism

incarceration, race, Haiti, imprisonment, prisons and policing, prisons, mental illness, mental health, juvenile delinquency

David Broockman

David Broockman

Dept of Political Science

political representation, elections, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships

image of Geeta Anand in outside setting, black and white

Geeta Anand

School of Journalism

journalism, health care, equity, social justice, politics, ethics, media, disinformation, India, international affairs

Edward Wasserman

Edward Wasserman

School of Journalism

media ethics, economics and politics of news, professional standards, media history, journalism, press

Amy Lerman

Dept of Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy

American government, public opinion, civic engagement, criminal justice, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship, research practice partnership

Catherine Albiston

Catherine Albiston

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Dept of Sociology

inequality, social change, law, employment, legal profession, public interest law, community-engaged research / scholarship, gender, work and family issues

School of Education

resilience, risk, culture, teacher wellness, school climate, school violence and school climate, children and adolescents, mental health, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

School of Social Welfare

poverty and inequality, Social Safety Net Programs, Unemployment and Labor Studies, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship, research practice partnership, social justice research

photo of Susan Hyde

Susan Hyde

Dept of Political Science

election fraud, democracy promotion, elections, election violence, international norms, field experiments, foreign aid, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship, research practice partnership

Tim Tangherlini in outdoor setting

Timothy Tangherlini

Dept of Scandinavian

School of Information

folklore, Danish culture, Danish cinema, Danish literature, 19th and 20th Century Scandinavian literature, digital humanities, culture analysis, machine learning, networks, Korean culture, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship

Dept of City & Regional Planning

Affordable housing, homelessness, access to credit, community development, the Community Reinvestment Act, neighborhood change, homeownership and mortgage finance (with a focus on low-income and minority households)

David Montejano

David Montejano

Dept of Ethnic Studies

social change, historical sociology, political sociology, community studies, race & ethnic relations

Susan Stone smiling in office setting

Susan Irene Stone

School of Social Welfare

school-based psycho-social services, school-effects, archival data analysis, community development, organizational development, policy development

Cassondra Marshall

Cassondra Marshall

School of Public Health

contraceptive care, reproductive health, maternal health, implementation science, Mixed methods research, community engagement, doula care

Dr. Reyes in front of book shelves in the library

School of Social Welfare

civic participation, community based research, visual methods, aging, immigration, Latinx older adults, Black older adults, intersectional life course perspective, systems of oppression, access to healthcare

Dept of City & Regional Planning

environmental planning, climate planning, sustainability and resilience, environmental and climate justice, geographic and spatial analysis, urban policy and political economy, global environmental governance, community engagement

Deniz Göktürk

German literature, German cinema, transnational cinemas, Turkish studies, performance and spectatorship and reception, intertextuality and intermediality and translation, politics and poetics of migration and globalization, urban imaginaries and mediations of place, theories of diversity and nationalism, comedy, comedy and community, modern rituals of regulating identity and authority and mobility

Jennifer Redfearn

Jennifer Redfearn

School of Journalism

documentary filmmaking

Portrait of Danielle Rivera

Danielle Rivera

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

environmental justice, environmental and climate justice, urban planning, urban design, Puerto Rico, Borderlands, California, adaptation to flooding, disaster recovery, participatory research, participatory planning

Calvin Morrill smiling

sociology of law, organizational theory, ethnography, social movements, youth culture and conflict, sociology of culture, entrepreneurship

Kristina Lovato in outside environment

Kristina Lovato

School of Social Welfare

immigration policy, child welfare, Latinx populations, culturally responsive service delivery

Miryam Sas in outdoor environment

Miryam Sas

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Dept of Film and Media

20th century avant-gardes, Japanese literature, film, theater and dance, East Asia, media theory, contemporary art, critical theory, gender theory, memory studies