The Luskin Center for Innovation supports about 50 first-generation Bruins, students of color, and other emerging leaders each year. Our student opportunities include:

Paid fellowships for students to collaborate with community-based organizations to advance environmental justice.
Paid research positions in the Luskin Center for Innovation on projects that shape environmental policy and other solutions for more livable communities and a healthy planet.

Grant awards to support student-driven research on impactful environmental policy and planning projects in collaboration with civic partners.

To continue to our support for students and engage them in climate solutions, we need your financial support. Your gift is an investment in a new generation of activists, policymakers, and planners shaping a more environmentally sustainable and equitable future.

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Are you a student interested in applying to these opportunities? Learn more on our student resources page.

Field Fellowship for Environmental Justice

Our Field Fellowship for Environmental Justice provides mentorship opportunities and financial support for UCLA students working with environmental justice organizations and civic leaders. Through these real-world projects, students are learning from and collaborating with minority and low-income communities to realize their goals for a cleaner and more equitable, prosperous, and livable environment.

Current and recent community partners:

Better World Group
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice
Communities for a Better Environment
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justic
Greenlining Institute
Pacoima Beautiful
People’s Collective for Environmental Justice
Physicians for Social Responsibility-LA
Sierra Club

If your organization advances environmental justice and is interested in hosting a fellow/intern, contact Colleen at ccallahan@luskin.ucla.edu for more details about criteria and expectations for hosting a fellow.

The inaugural class of fellows for the 2020-21 year include:

Research Fellowship for Environmental Justice

We are also expanding the number of research fellowships that we provide to UCLA graduate students, also with a focus on first-generation Bruins, students of color, and other underrepresented groups. Fellows receive guaranteed employment at LCI conducting research to inform environmental policy.

Current fellows include:

Graduate Research Grant Recipients

Each year LCI provides financial support for students’ capstone projects, allowing them to expand their applied environmental justice or sustainability projects.

Examples of students and their projects from 2020:

Graduate Student Researchers

The Luskin Center’s student researchers play a critical role in shaping environmental policy and programs to be effective, equitable and innovative. After graduating, many of these students go on to work for government agencies, environmental organizations, and other civic partners. But we are also delighted when others transition into positions at LCI and elsewhere at UCLA.

Congratulations to the following graduate student researchers on their new positions at UCLA:

Please help us increase support for the emerging environmental leaders shaping a more environmentally sustainable and equitable future.

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To discuss these opportunities, please contact Colleen Callahan, deputy director, at ccallahan@luskin.ucla.edu.

Field Fellowship for Environmental Justice

Aeden Keffelew | Lights, Camera, Green

Monika Shankar | Green Zones for Environmental Justice

Tayler Ward | Environmental Health in Black Communities

Research Fellowship for Environmental Justice

Richard Diaz | Bringing Data Skills to Support the Clean Transportation Transition

Elena Hernandez | Supporting Transformative Climate Communities

Samantha Nuno | Fighting Fire with Research

Graduate Research Grant Recipients

Daniel Coffee

Maggie Faigen

Jinny Lee Milani

Candice Richardson

Anabelle Teresa Rosser

Sharon Sand

Meagan Wang

Graduate Student Researchers

Silvia González

Bo Liu

Daniel Coffee

Deja Thomas