Liza Grandia, associate professor in the Department of Native American Studies and internationally acclaimed public scholar, was barely drinking age when she stopped the World Bank and an international oil company from building a pipeline through the rural regions of Guatemala.
Associate Professor Liza Grandia and Professor Keith David Watenpaugh have been honored by the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) for research and partnerships with a tangible impact on the daily lives of people in countries such as Guatemala and Syria.
A new community-engaged learning course is teaching UC Davis students about intergenerational learning and communication and helping combat age segregation and digital exclusion among older adults.
Professor Gabriel "Jack" Chin works with law students on cases that involve reducing sentences which were too long, setting aside convictions where there is doubt about guilt or an unfair trial and expunging criminal records.
I became one of the inaugural Community Engaged Learning Faculty Fellows (CELFFs) at the end of 2019. The turmoil of the last two years and my experienced losses have challenged me in ways I still find hard to put in words. But it also helped me gain new insight and further shaped my identity as a public scholar.
