Community Engagement in Climate Action Research (CEinCAR) Workshop Series

Overview

The Community-Engaged S/Hero Supplements provided 10 projects with $20,000 each to come together to identify best practices for engaging communities around climate risks and to provide leadership, resources, and counsel to all climate award teams on community engagement.

Outputs from this effort include a webpage providing useful community engagement resources and a series of workshops sharing best practices for community engagement in climate action research and collaborative approaches to ensure genuine multi-institutional and community/end-user engagement in climate action research across the state.

List of Workshop Series Recordings

The workshop series topics are listed below. Each title includes a link to the corresponding workshop recording.

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Disbursement of Community Grants, Contracts, & Subcontracts

Marion Kavanaugh-Lynch, MD, MPH, Director, California Breast Cancer Research Program, UC Office of the President
January 19, 2024

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Memoranda of Understanding

Senaida Fernandez Poole, PhD, Program Officer, California Breast Cancer Research Program, UC Office of the President
February 14, 2024

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Centering Decades of Community Research in Climate Action Grants

Maria Cadenas, MBA, Executive Director, Ventures
Xochitl Cortez, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Frontline Catalysts
Catalina Garzon-Galvis, MCP, Principal Practitioner, Community Research and Education in Action for True Empowerment (CREATE) Praxis
Moderator: Gregg Macey, PhD, Director, Center for Land, Environment & Natural Resources, UC Irvine
March 25, 2024

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Ways to Build Trust in Partnership

Tony Marks-Block, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies, CSU East Bay
Rosa Laucci, MS, Marine Program Manager, Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation
Natalie Herendeen, Executive Director, Center for Community Advocacy
April 25, 2024

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Community Perspective on Community-Academic Collaborations

Margarita Macedonio, MA, Principal Community Planner, Neighborhood Initiatives and Environmental Services Program, City of Santa Ana
May 23, 2024

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Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Honoring Tribal and Community Ownership and Decision-Making in Academic-Community Collaborations

Althea Walker, MTech, Director of Community Resilience, Climate Science Alliance
Megan Jennings, PhD, Co-Director, Institute for Ecological Monitoring and Management, San Diego State University
July 19, 2024

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Funding Programs

Elizabeth Grassi, Program Manager, Climate Change Research Program, California Strategic Growth Council
August 26, 2024

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Sustainable Partnerships

Ruth Dahlquist-Willard, PhD, Interim Director, UC Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
September 30, 2024

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Community-Engaged Research Strategies

Isis Pickens, Executive Director, Women of Color Breast Cancer Survivors Support Project
Dalia Magana, PhD, Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics, UC Merced
October 30, 2024

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Community-Engaged Research Metrics

Sarah Light, PhD, Farm Advisor, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Yu Meng, PhD, Youth, Family, and Community Advisor, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Kimberly Ingram, MEd, Forest Stewardship Education Coordinator,
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
November 18, 2024

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Community-Engaged Research Dissemination

George Galvis, MCP, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice
Emily Ozer, PhD, Professor of Community Health Sciences, UC Berkeley
Susan Hackwood, PhD, Professor of the Graduate Division and
Director of Science to Policy, UC Riverside
December 9, 2024

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