Day of Caring provided me with an awesome opportunity to practice leadership in working for social change and serving the community around us. I was able to work to provide opportunities for a large number of students to give a Saturday in September to working in one of 16 different local organizations that are working hard to serve the Humboldt Community. Every year students provide wonderful feedback about their experience and it was one more opportunity to put what we learn about communities and service into action.

My presentation is regarding the 1st Amendment, in which a student expressed her frustration on social media off campus regarding the selection of the varsity cheer team. She sued the school after the coach suspended her from the team for a year due to her post on social media. Case brief regarding the extend of the 1st amendment and regulation a school may do.

Project Rebound is a resource we are working to implement on HSU's campus for students who have been/are currently incarcerated. We have been networking with other campuses and organizations to create this center. Included will be research conducted about students re-entering to society and education. This will hopefully officially begin next semester, but we want to spread awareness of our program and connect with others who may be interested.

My community project is based on the need for a cohesive resource guide for pregnant and new parents attending Humboldt State University. The research was conducted on the resources and references for pregnant and new parents attending Humboldt State University. The project is a compilation of data addressing resources available for students experiencing pregnancy/parenthood while attending HSU. The aim of connecting students with resources is to help with retention as well as supporting their growing families.

There were many different ideas that popped into my head when I first heard the idea of Ideafest, the idea that made me the most excited was the Benefits of Smiling and Laughing. I believe that this is a good Ideafest contribution for two reasons, one being that we are two years into a worldwide pandemic, where we have had to cover out beautiful smiles, and it has removed the normalization of smiling with one another, and secondly we are all adults and college students who tend be stressed out and forget to take a second for ourselves. There were many articles that I used to do the research for my poster and the pictures I used were to make me people smile while they are reading my poster.

As the campus population grows at Humboldt State University, so does the number of students who do not fit the male and female dichotomy. These folks who do not fit into this dichotomy are referred to as gender nonconforming. This is a small population on the HSU campus, and there is very little information on this particular group. In an effort to fill the gaps of what is unknown we propose to use three methods: a random survey of 900 HSU students, as well as semi-structures qualitative interviews, and a small number of oral histories from students who are gender nonconforming.

This research project utilizes Intergroup Threat Theory to examine how positive and negative contact with African-Americans relate to feelings toward Black Lives Matter, the Confederate Flag, Joe Biden, and Donald Trump. It also examines how this relationship between contact and feelings is mediated by perceptions of realistic and symbolic threat from African-Americans. This project has implications for understanding how having diverse social experiences may influence our political beliefs. This research also shows that Intergroup Threat Theory goes beyond just examining evaluations of groups, and extends to political figures, movements, and symbols as well.

Using social media to conduct human ethological research, this study seeks to replicate previous findings that online shoplifting displays are motivated by reproductive strategies to increase mate value. It involves the analysis of 150 Tumblr posts showcasing stolen items, which together feature 1,744 identifiable items. Items with the intended use of improving attraction by enhancing physical appearance, scent, or sexual allure include: personal care items, makeup, cosmetic applicators, and jewelry were categorized as mating relevant. The results of this study replicate previous work by showing a significant difference between mating relevant and non-mating relevant items.

This poster was created for the Humboldt International Film Festival. Working as a team, the HIFF crew were able to come up with an idea, and then follow through with creating and perfecting the poster. It's designed to catch the eye, draw the audience in, and deliver the information in a pseudo-minimalistic way. Its primary focuses were to be readability, text hierarchy backed by an eye-catching illustration.

The HSU Social Work Department is interested in better integrating the AS students into the existing two-year MSW program by considering instructor knowledge and awareness of the introduction of AS students, the importance and development of interpersonal relationships between the two cohorts, how AS students adjust to graduate-level work and how prepared AS students are for graduate-level work. The purpose of this project was to evaluate what changes have been made since the initial report by Assistant Professor César Abarca, MSW, Ph.D. conducted in 2014 and what recommendations could be made from the experience of the 2016-2017 on-campus advanced year cohort and existing instructors.