Volunteers with Eureka's Westside Community Improvement Association transformed what was once Jefferson Elementary school, into the now Jefferson Community Center. The building itself is used as a place to hold meetings and recreational activities. Moreover, the center is dedicated to helping youth in the community by providing a safe, reliable place to learn and explore. Two projects that we have been volunteering for as Child Development students are the SEEDs project, and the Imagination playground. These projects provide the children with access to: homework help, a community garden, cooking classes, nutritious meals, educational exploration, and lots of FUN!

My project describes the work put into nominating the Arcata Plaza to the National Register of Historic Places. This is a research based project which highlights the cultural importance of Plaza as it has hosted many large events over the course of its history.

Mapping the Sierra Nevada HSU advanced geospatial students map a variety of topics to accompany text in a forthcoming book about Environmental Issues in the Sierra Nevada.

Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous peoples has been a successful 501(3)(c) organization for the past forty years. In the past years they have organized Mother Earth Day events, in order to raise the unity and interconnectedness of human lives with our planet earth. This years organized Mother Earth Day celebration will be a call to action through music to ‘wake up’ and‘ warrior through self-awareness and self-empowerment. The headliner to this event is Nataanii Means along with other indigenous hip hop artists that focus their lyrical art on self determination, resilience, indigenous rights, water, and liberation from systems of oppression.

nth Generation Fund for Indigenous peoples has been a successful 501(3)(c) organization for the past forty years. In the past years they have organized Mother Earth Day events, in order to raise the unity and interconnectedness of human lives with our planet earth. This years Mother Earth Day celebration will be a call to action through music to ‘wake up’ and ‘warrior up' through self-awareness and self-empowerment. The headliner to this event is Nataanii Means along with other indigenous hip hop artists that focus their lyrical art on self determination, resilience, indigenous rights, water, and liberation from systems of oppression.

Food Justice offers a reactionary approach to empower a person and communities’ rights to fresh and healthy affordable food. The Potawot Community Garden not only embraces this approach, but goes further through decolonial practices. In addition, the process of growing an cultivating one’s own food is shown to help heal certain varieties of trauma. Potawot offers its community a unique opportunity by providing fresh, local, and organic produce to local tribes in the greater Humboldt area. Furthermore, Potawot displays a primary example of promoting food justice by promoting justice for indigenous and native peoples by providing access to education and growing one's own food.

As a bilingual Environmental Studies student, I am committed to applying my education to address environmental issues and advance environmental justice in Spanish speaking communities. Through my service learning position with the local non-profit, Redwood Community Action Agency, I will utilize my Spanish speaking ability to the RCAA's community outreach efforts aimed at the Latino/a community of Humboldt County.

For our project we want to focus on bridging divides between students of color and the community. To address this need, we are designing a media campaign called "We Are Your Community." This media campaign will consist of posters in business windows, short videos on social media and a website, and a community building event where students and community members can interact. The media campaign will highlight the stories of students of color and the nuances of their positive and negative experiences in Humboldt County.

This project promotes freedom of expression in today’s world by demonstrating advocates in a hostile society creating a movement to show women can be just as competent as men. It is important to acknowledge women are still fighting to receive the benefits of equality in other countries. Women in all parts of the world should be able to engage and contribute within any given community to enhance the quality of society. I find it amazing that women advocates in Saudi Arabia risked their lives, ruined their reputation, and even lost their jobs in order to support the movement by demonstrating their freedom of expression.

The focus on my project will be in education in Native American schools. I will research about the structure of the schools such as Albuquerque Indian School, Chemawa Indian School and Carlisle Indian School and then talk about what happened in the past and forward each of the schools. Reason(s) why the topic being researched: The reason why I am planning to do research on education in Native American schools is because my family is mixed racially and I want to learn more about what occurred at the following Native American schools.