In reflecting on how we can help make society and specifically the environmental movement more racially equitable, the Luskin Center for Innovation is increasing our support for first-generation Bruins, students of color, and other emerging leaders.

We’ve launched two new fellowships that:

Provide paid opportunities for students to collaborate with community-based organizations to advance environmental justice.

Expand opportunities in the center for students to conduct research that shapes environmental policy.

To continue to expand access to the two fellowships described below, 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.

Community partners for the 2021-22 summer and academic year include:

Better World Group
Communities for a Better Environment
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Pacoima Beautiful
Physicians for Social Responsibility-LA

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