MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS: GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY IN THE L.A. REGION
- Democracy and Governance in Action: Amplifying Diverse Voices Through AI in Los Angeles
Michàlle E. Mor Barak, Ph.D., with co-investigators Shinyi Wu, Ph.D, and Eric Rice, Ph.D., School of Social Work at University of Southern California – Planning Grant – $100,000 - The UCI-OC Poll
Jon Gould, Ph.D., School of Social Ecology at University of California, Irvine – Research-to-Action Grant – $300,000 - Faith Under Fire
Richard Flory, Ph.D., and co-investigator Manuel Pastor, Ph.D., Center for Religion and Civic Culture at University of Southern California – Research-to-Action Grant – $349,785 - LA County Reform Research
Fernando Guerra, Ph.D., Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University – Research-to-Action Grant – $314,863 - Developing Performance Metrics for Los Angeles County’s Homelessness Response
Till von Wachter and co-investigator Janey Rountree, California Policy Lab at UCLA – Research-to-Action Grant – $300,000 - NEW! Elevating Eastern LA County’s Voice in Measure G Implementation
Kenneth P. Miller and co-investigator Abhi Nemani, Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College – Planning Grant – $100,000
HAYNES LINDLEY DOCTORAL DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP AWARDS ($26,000 each)
- Living with Wildfire: An Examination of Volunteer Fire Brigades in Los Angeles County
Nicholas Tinoco, University of California, Los Angeles - Arrested, Deported, and Returned: Reentry Experiences in the U.S. After Deportation
Angie Monreal, University of California, Irvine - Upzoning and Neighborhood Change: Evidence from Los Angeles
Idil Tanrisever, University of California, Irvine - Punishing the “Other”: Formerly Incarcerated Asian American Incorporation, Banishment and Organizing ($10,000)
Michael Nishimura, University of California, Santa Barbara - Shifting from State to County Control: Exploring Local Governance of Juvenile Justice Systems
Julia Lesnick, University of California, Los Angeles - Property Values, Mello-Roos Tax and Efficient Local Public-Good Provision
Renee Lee, University of California, Irvine - Public Housing, the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, and the Future of South Central Los Angeles
Richard Kirk, University of California, Los Angeles - The Journey to School in Los Angeles: Exploring Student Travel Behavior and Transportation Policy
Samuel Speroni, University of California, Los Angeles - Datafied Arenas: Stadium Surveillance and Public Safety in Los Angeles
Pratik Nyaupane, University of Southern California - Climate Shocks and Coastal Air: How Global Shipping Disruptions Impact Public Health
Phillip Lee, University of Southern California
ARCHIVAL GRANTS
- Cataloging Graphics of Dissent
Carol Wells, Center for the Study of Political Graphics – $25,000 - Griffith Observatory Archiving Project, Phase Two: Archives Room Storage Upgrades
Sarah VanderWood, Griffith Observatory Foundation – $59,422 - Nuestro Archivo: Safeguarding the Self Help Graphics Archive
Emily Goulding, Self Help Graphics & Arts, Inc. – $40,000 - Redacting the LAPD records: Prepping for community access and use
Ishmael Ross, UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies—Library & Archives – $42,774 - Shedding Light on Unsung Heroes: A History of Latina Advocacy in Los Angeles
Veronica Terriquez, Ph.D., and Xaviera Flores, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center – $50,000 - Learning from the Past: A Digital Preservation Project to Support Children and Family Services in Los Angeles County
William Dotson, USC Libraries – $28,500
FACULTY FELLOWSHIP AWARDS ($16,000 each)
- Assessing Students Leadership Interests, Experience, Barriers and Prospects (LEAD)
Obinna Oleribe, California State University, Dominguez Hills - Effect of Employment Protection on Domestic Violence in Los Angeles
Devika Hazra, California State University, Los Angeles - Urban Relocation and Political Organization of Native Americans in Los Angeles
Melissa Rogers, Claremont Graduate University - “In Defense of National Wellbeing”: Public Health and the Racialization of Disease in California
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, California State University, San Bernardino - Multisystemic Effects of the COVID-19 School Closures on Latino Adolescents and Caregivers in LA
Guadalupe Bacio, Pomona College - Supporting Frontline Innovation in Federally Qualified Health Centers in Los Angeles
Olivia Jung, University of California, Los Angeles - How does the LIHTC program shape housing affordability and neighborhood access for LA renters?
Ann Owens, University of California, Los Angeles - Academic Help-Seeking and Belongingness among Asian and Latinx Undergraduates in Los Angeles
Mabel Hernandez, University of Southern California - Examining the Distribution of Federal Grants to Los Angeles, 2005-2024
Jeffery Jenkins, University of Southern California
2024 GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS: GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY IN THE L.A. REGION
“Preventing Election Misinformation and Election Crises in Southern California”
R. Michael Alvarez, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology – Research-to-Action Grant – $277,280
“The UCI-OC Poll”
Jon Gould, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine – Planning Grant – $100,000
“Statistical Study of Alternative Representational Systems for the LA City Council”
Sarah Cannon, Ph.D., and Evan Rosenman, Ph.D., Claremont McKenna College – Planning Grant – $100,000
“Promoting Democracy through Local Engagement: Removing Barriers to Immigrants’ Involvement in Civic Initiatives”
Susan Bibler Coutin, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine – Planning Grant – $79,483
“Examining the City of Los Angeles’s Matching Funds Program: A Comparative Analysis of the Matching Funds Program”
Mindy Romero, Ph.D., University of Southern California – Research-to-Action Grant – $175,000
HAYNES LINDLEY DOCTORAL DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP AWARDS ($26,000 each)
“Rent Relief Resurgence: Impacts of Emergency Rental Assistance on the Rental Housing Market,”
Lizhong Liu, University of Southern California
“Street Medicine: Coaching, Sorting, and Healing the Unhoused,”
Irene Del Mastro Naccarato, University of California, Los Angeles
“Shelter for Employment Growth: Responding to Housing Shortages,”
Seongmoon Cho, University of Southern California
“From Application to Agreement: Unpacking Landlord Rental Decisions with Housing Subsidy Recipients,”
Alex Sizemore, Pardee RAND Graduate School
“Building Equity: Exploring the Impact of Housing on Preterm Birth in a Warming Los Angeles,”
Hasibe Caballero-Gomez, University of California, Los Angeles
“Building Through Uncertainty: An Organizational Analysis of Low-Income Housing Development in LA,”
Katherine Smock, University of California, Los Angeles
“Equity in Policy Responses to Climate Change in Los Angeles County,”
Alexandra Ntazinda, Pardee RAND Graduate School
“Sex Work and the Regulatory Liminality of Rights: Activism in Los Angeles and Beyond,”
Alisson Rowland, University of California, Irvine
“Cannabis Legalization in California: A Critical View on Socio-Legal Change,”
Ekaterina Moiseeva, University of California, Irvine
ARCHIVAL GRANTS
“Unboxing the Grassroots Fight for Civil Rights and Redress through the JACL Pacific Southwest District Records,”
Michiko Arai, Japanese American National Museum – $35,000
“THE EBELL ARCHIVES: Women’s Social History in LA from 1870 – Present,”
Stacy Brightman, The Ebell of Los Angeles – $43,239
“Incarceration, Policing, and Crime (1970-80): KTLA Television News Preservation and Access Project,”
May Hong HaDuong, UCLA Library
“Griffith Observatory Archiving Project: Phase One of Two,”
Sarah VanderWood, Griffith Observatory Foundation
FACULTY FELLOWSHIP AWARDS ($16,000 each)
“On the Verge: Los Angeles Between Watts and Rodney King,”
Eric Avila, University of California, Los Angeles
“Estimating the Impact of Government-Appointed Counsel in Immigration Court,”
Maria (Maya) Buenaventura, Pardee RAND Graduate School
“Los Angeles Libraries as Catalysts for Change: Nurturing Community and Literacy Among the Unhoused,”
Mary Christianakis, Occidental College
“Ahead of the Game: A Community-Led Math Preparation Program in Los Angeles, CA,”
Ian Ermatinger-Salas, Pepperdine University
“Orange County’s Political Paradox: How Im/migrants of Color Are Changing US Conservatism & Race,”
Jane Hong, Occidental College
“Improving Police-Community Relationship in the Los Angeles Region: The Role of Police Communication,”
Danyao Li, University of Southern California
“Huelga! In the Land of Norma Rae: How Strikes Impact Political and Economic Resources in LA County,”
Christian Phillips, University of Southern California
“Public Policies and Gentrification: Housing, Race, and Civic Activism in South Los Angeles,”
Leland Saito, University of Southern California
“To Hire or Not? Inland Empire Employers’ Decisions to Hire Applicants with Criminal Records,”
Sharon Oselin, University of California, Riverside
2023 GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
HAYNES LINDLEY DOCTORAL DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP AWARDS
Thursday, April 6, 2023
At its Spring 2023 meeting, the Foundation’s Board of Trustees selected the following dissertations for receipt of fellowships in the amount of $26,000 each:
“From Input to Influence: How policy gets developed and implemented within a policing context,”
Danelia (Alex) Aguirre, University of California, Irvine
“Roadblocks to Justice: Estimating the Effect of Travel on Evictions,”
Matthew Estes, California Institute of Technology
“High School Ethnic Studies: A Mixed Methods Study of Critical Consciousness and Civic Engagement,”
Edward Flores, Claremont Graduate University
“Board and Care Homes in Crisis: Examining Mandated Housing for L.A. County’s Seriously Mentally Ill,”
Maxwell Hellman, University of California, Los Angeles
“Troubled Waters: A Post-1930 Environmental History of the Owens Valley,”
Lauren Kelly, University of Southern California
“Vehicular Homelessness in Los Angeles: A Comparative Ethnography of Informal Vehicle Camps and Safe Parking Programs,”
Sam Lutzker, University of California, Los Angeles
“Black Flourishing in Los Angeles,”
Demetrius Murphy, University of Southern California
“Central American Migrant Garment Workers in Los Angeles,”
Iris Ramirez, University of California, Los Angeles
“Far Right, Authoritarian Politics in Southern California’s Inland Empire,”
Alexander Scott, University of California, Riverside
“Trigger Points: Assessing the Causes of Gun Desirability in America,”
Justin Sola, University of California, Irvine
“Contesting Chinatown: Community Ownership in Urban Growth Politics,”
Victoria Tran, University of California, Los Angeles
ARCHIVAL GRANTS
Monday, February 20, 2023
At its Winter 2023 meeting, the Foundation’s Board of Trustees selected the following projects for receipt of an Archival Grant:
“Amplifying Unheard Voices from the Inland Empire,”
Eric Milenkiewicz, California State University, San Bernardino –$32,640
“Preserving and Presenting the Archival Collections of the Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles Heritage Committee,”
Christina Rice, Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles –$60,000
“Learning from COVID,”
Zachary Rutland, Los Angeles Poverty Department – $21,350
“Preserving the Community-Based Legacy of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra: An Audio Preservation Project,”
Virginia Steel, University of California, Los Angeles – $41,827
FACULTY FELLOWSHIP AWARDS
Friday, February 10, 2023
At its Winter 2023 meeting, the Foundation’s Board of Trustees awarded fellowships of $16,000 each for the following faculty projects:
“Can Social Service Workers Increase Financial Capability and Asset Building in East LA Communities?,”
Joanna Doran, California State University, Los Angeles
“When and How Much Do SoCal Firms Pass On Costs To Consumers: Learning From Local Minimum Wage Increases,”
Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, Pomona College
“Education Equity: Understanding Hispanic Children’s Attention to Support Learning,”
Megumi Kuwabara, California State University, Dominguez Hills
“Entrepreneurship and the Reinvention of the Los Angeles Economy,”
Fernando Lozano, Pomona College
2022 GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
HAYNES LINDLEY DOCTORAL DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP AWARDS
Thursday, April 7, 2022
At its Spring 2022 meeting, the Foundation’s Board of Trustees selected the following dissertations for receipt of fellowships in the amount of $26,000 each:
“Deregulated Home: Belonging in the Neoliberal Landscape of the East San Fernando Valley,”
Julia Brown-Bernstein, University of Southern California
“Working on the Inside: Labor, Race, and Political Economy in California’s Carceral State after World War II,”
Michael Dean, University of California, Los Angeles
“Characterizing Decisions of the Los Angeles Poor,”
Marcos Nazareth Gallo, California Institute of Technology
“How the enforcement of quality-of-life ordinances affects everyday life for the unhoused in Los Angeles’ public spaces,”
Christopher Giamarino, University of California, Los Angeles
“Home / Language / Loss: Newcomer Schooling in Los Angeles,”
Kyle Halle Erby, University of California, Los Angeles
“Coordinating college-for-all and career-technical pathways: Public high school authorities’ logics of students’ futures,”
Mary Ippolito, University of Southern California
“The Spillover Effects of Medicare’s Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Model: Evidence from Los Angeles,”
Narae Kim, University of Southern California
“The Role of Multimedia Tools in Environmental Policy Framing,”
Jaime Lopez, University of Southern California
“Mayan Civic Engagement in Riverside County,”
Julio Orellana, University of California, Riverside
“The History of the Driver’s License and Suspension Policy in California,”
Miriam Pinski, University of California, Los Angeles
“The Stadium and the Community: Tenants’ Perspectives on Stadium-Centered Development,”
Cerianne Robertson, University of Southern California
“Are Transit-Oriented Developments Equitable? Examining TOD Policies and Their Impact on Location Affordability in Los Angeles,”
Qi Song, University of California, Irvine
ARCHIVAL GRANTS
Saturday, February 12, 2022
At its Winter 2022 meeting, the Foundation’s Board of Trustees selected the following projects for receipt of an Archival Grant:
“Visual Communications’ Photographic Archives: Collections Cataloging and Rehousing for Long-Term Access and Discoverability,”
Abraham Ferrer, Visual Communications Media – $25,000
“Diverse Communities of Los Angeles (1970-1980) Television News Preservation and Access Project,”
Virginia Steel, University of California, Los Angeles – $26,235
“Los Angeles Free Press Preservation and Access History Project,”
Gregory Williams, California State University, Dominguez Hills – $40,000
FACULTY FELLOWSHIP AWARDS
Thursday, February 3, 2022
At its Winter 2022 meeting, the Foundation’s Board of Trustees awarded fellowships of $16,000 each for the following faculty projects:
“Engagement with Racial Equity Work Among Student Affairs Professionals in Southern California,”
Adriana Ruiz Alvarado, University of Redlands
“Local government agency obstacles and opportunities for neighborhood resilience hubs,”
Brian Cole, University of California, Los Angeles
“Creating the Southern California Coast: An Environmental History of Coastal Engineering and Transformation,”
Joanna Dyl, Pomona College
“Predicting Asian American Elderly Help-seeking During Covid-19: A theory of planned behavior approach,”
Sharon Goto, Pomona College
“Crime in the face of Gentrification in Los Angeles,”
Devika Hazra, California State University, Los Angeles
“Debt Collection Cases in Los Angeles County Courts,”
Eric Helland, Claremont McKenna College
“Building teacher capacity to design and enact science teaching for equity and justice,”
Jarod Kawasaki, California State University, Dominguez Hills
“Local Control Accountability Plans and Los Angeles Charter School Community Engagement in the COVID Era,”
David Menefee-Libey, Pomona College
“Latina/o/x Resistance and Activism across Generations in the San Gabriel Valley,”
Gilda Ochoa, Pomona College
“Assessing the role of housing affordability in characterizing COVID-19 spread among vulnerable populations in the LA region,”
Avipsa Roy, University of California, Irvine
“Unhappy Compromises: Feminist Activism in a Fractured Welfare State,”
Benjamin Weiss, Occidental College