Announcing the 2025–2026 Annual Report

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Cover of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center 2025–2026 Annual Report, covering July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026. Lists Jessica Cattelino, Director, and Nina Eidsheim, Associate Director. The UCLA College Social Sciences and CSW Barbra Streisand Center logos appear at the top.

The UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center is proud to share our 2025–2026 Annual Report, highlighting a year of new research directions, community-building, and scholarship in service of social justice feminism. This year marks Jessica Cattelino’s first as Director. In her message, she describes the center as “a refuge, a community, and a place for deep intellectual inquiry,” and looks ahead to what we, as a community, want to create together.

Highlights from 2025–2026 include:

  • Two new research streams launched. Feminist Environmental Futures explores how ecologies and environments are shaped by sex, gender, and sexuality. Feminist Critical University Studies turns a feminist lens on higher education, with workshops on UCLA’s finances and on feminist co-authorship and collaboration.
  • The annual UCLA Barbra Streisand Lecture featured historian Timothy Snyder on October 23, 2025, presenting “The Truth about Freedom: How Lies Oppress and How Facts Liberate.”
  • Survivors + Allies conducted a statewide study with over 1,600 survey responses and 16 in-depth interviews, released the report Dreaming Together, and partnered with Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan on AB2212, the HEAR Survivors Act, which passed the Assembly in April 2026.
  • The UC Sentencing Project entered the final year of its Mellon Foundation grant and published volume 3 of the Freedom Collective zine with writers at the California Institution for Women.
  • The Gender and Water project published its research on gender and residential water use in Los Angeles in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, with open access supported by the center.
  • Thinking Gender 2026, the 36th annual graduate student conference, took up the theme “Feminist and Queer Ecologies” on April 16–17, with a keynote by Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy. The conference drew 62 abstract submissions and 24 student presenters.
  • Faculty development grew under Associate Director Nina Eidsheim, with five faculty writing retreats, a two-day authors-in-residence program with Chris Feliciano Arnold and Lauren Markham, and programming that served 117 departments across UCLA.
  • The UCLA Reproductive Health & Gender Equity Network (ReGEN) was formalized as a collaboration with the Bixby Center, the Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education, and the Center on Reproductive Health, Law and Policy.
  • Black Feminism Initiative fellowships and awards supported faculty and graduate scholars working on topics from environmental geography to Brazilian plantation art.
  • Our community grew, which included room bookings by feminist campus groups rose 42.6 percent, and our mailing list reached 8,929 subscribers.

The Annual Report also includes a fiscal overview, a look at our faculty and staff, and documentation of the publications, events, and partnerships that shaped our work this year.

Read the full report here: 2025–2026 CSW|Streisand Center Annual Report (PDF)