Daily Bruin: UCLA’s Activist-in-Residence program selects five new members
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The UCLA Activist-in-Residence program selected five new residents for its 2024 cycle, which spans from January to May.
The program is committed to providing opportunities for a diverse group of Los Angeles activists to strengthen their work in generating social, racial, spatial and gender justice, according to the program’s website. It also allows activists to engage with the UCLA community by connecting with university staff, faculty and students. The program was founded in 2016 by Ananya Roy, the director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy.
“We wanted to accompany movement organizations and think about knowledge-making partnerships between UCLA and movement organizations,” said Roy, who is also a professor of geography, social welfare and urban planning. “It brings movement leaders to the university as our teachers, as our guides, and (stimulates) wonderful informal interactions with students, activists and residents.”
Roy added that both the Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy and the Activist-In-Residence program have similar commitments to collaborating with communities that have been directly impacted by displacement and dispossession.
In addition to the Luskin Institute, other UCLA centers have also joined the program, including the Asian American Studies Center, cityLAB at UCLA and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
