October 2020

IAS faculty member Dan Berger publishes an article in "Abolition for the People," a month-long series edited by Colin Kaepernick and appearing in Medium.  Coauthored with UC President's Postdoctoral fellow David Stein, the article examines the policy agenda of police and prison abolitionists. "Police and prisons uphold the world that is ...

IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung participated as a panelist in the Busan-SEMAPA Joint International Seminar on “Innovative Regeneration of Railway Land,” held in Busan, Korea. Jung discussed several interwoven forms of innovation in both SEMAPA’s “Paris Rive Gauche” urban regeneration project and Busan’s new urban railway land redevelopment plan and the inclusive and innovative urban transformation strategies for the City of Busan.

Elisabeth Schnebele, a senior majoring in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, could have voted in 2016, but didn’t. Learn what happened, how her mind has changed since then, and why she voted in 2020. “This year, I am voting — for myself, for Molly, the Jane Doe’s, people of color, the LGBTQ community, immigrants both documented and undocumented ... for anyone who feels like they don’t have power. I will fight for you with my vote and help write a better future for us all.”

Through IAS’s Mentor Chats program, alumni Martin Corpus and Candice Plendl connected with students in Jennifer Atkinson’s BIS 499 Capstone Portfolio course to share their career paths and experiences navigating the professional world as new graduates. ...

As a 2019-20 Environmental Justice Investigative Journalism Fellow for Seattle Globalist, M.A. in Cultural Studies alum Frances Lee (’18) examined the threats of climate change and pollution to marine subsistence harvesting. In their article “Declining Marine Health Threatens Traditional Subsistence Fishing for Tribes," published in the South Seattle Emerald, Lee discusses ...