Team science has been the key method of the UCI-MPNA collaborative, and has provided an infrastructure for multiple projects to flourish at the same time. Team science is collaborative research that brings together researchers from across disciplines and community-based organizations to work together on research projects with a unifying goal. In doing so, it has […]

Background and History  Madison Park Neighborhood Association-Getting Residents Engaged in Exercise and Nutrition (MPNA-GREEN) is a local non-profit organization established in 1987.  MPNA-GREEN is a resident run, non-profit organization that supports the environmental justice movement in Santa Ana by empowering local residents.  With the support of Santa Ana residents, including the Comunidad Unidad Aire Limpio […]

In my second year as a doctoral student from the Drama department, I became a 2020-2021 Newkirk Fellow with the Research Justice Shop and took part in the COVID-19 Narrative Project. In pre-COVID times, to get from Arts to Social Ecology on UCI campus, one needs to cross an earthquake-safe bridge to pass through Humanities, […]