Shaping Equitable Futures: CSWAC Members Driving Public-Impact Research at UCLA
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CSW Advisory Committee (CSWAC) members Dr. Stephanie Pincetl and Dr. Aradhna Tripati have contribute to meaningful public-impact research at UCLA through community partnership and justice-driven innovation. Their work demonstrates how feminist frameworks can drive environmental, social, and policy transformation on regional, national, and global scales!
Stephanie Pincetl, professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and founding director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities, has spent more than a decade leading research to make California’s transition to renewable energy scientifically sound, equitable, and accessible. Her team’s groundbreaking UCLA Energy Atlas links energy use with social and geographic data. It is a a first-of-its-kind tool that helps community organizations identify structural inequities, develop fair climate policies, and plan sustainable futures.
Aradhna Tripati, climate scientist and founding director of the Center for Developing Leadership in Science, brings a justice-driven approach to environmental research. Working alongside organizations including Esperanza Community Housing, her scholarship highlights how climate change intersects with racial, economic, and health inequities in Los Angeles. Through her center, she has supported over 350 diverse fellows, developed pipelines for historically excluded scholars, and contributed to landmark climate justice victories such as ending neighborhood oil drilling in Los Angeles. Her work models community-informed science that prioritizes sovereignty and shared power.
Together, Pincetl and Tripati demonstrate how CSWAC leadership embodies the university’s public mission. Their work affirms that feminist, interdisciplinary, community-based scholarship is relevant to contemporary global challenges and essential to solving them.
