How ENST Shaped My Way Of Thinking and Why I Chose To Be a Healthcare Professional Instead

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

This project focuses on the healthcare industry and how the healthcare industrial complex can quickly be co-opted as a business interest.

How Human Migration Responds to Climate Change in 2030

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Using data showing a two degree rise in global temperatures by 2030, this project combines projections of food sustainability, damage assessments of flood-prone areas, and global water level rises to locate human migratory routes with critically altered rates of human migration in relation to estimates maintaining current global temperatures.

How is China's influence growing in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa?

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

How China's influence has expanded in both Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa- through state ran investment. Comparing the US's economic influence and involvement to China's in both of these regions. A brief history of Chinese investment abroad, and revealing some of the negative and positive externalities of Chinese investors in recipient states.

How the Refugee Crisis Is Challenging Dominant Institutions

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Can the EU and UN survive a challenge to their legitimacy in regards to how each are handling the current refugee crisis. This poster will ask and answer the questions, is the UN effective and democratic, how is the UN handling this crises and how does the security council play a role in this ongoing human rights violation. The next questions are about the EU and how effective is it, is it democratic, how is it handling the crises and what is the comparison between the eastern EU countries and the western EU countries and their viewpoints on refugees. How does the EU and UN compare and contrast and the concluding question, can these dominant institutions survive?

HSU Radical Leadership Development Project (RLDP)

College of Professional Studies

The Radical Leadership Developed is a research and curriculum project aimed to assist these, and other groups, in adopting a leadership program based the interview of 23 HSU students leaders during the academic year 2016-2017. Based on in-depth, face-to-face interview, the researchers developed a 12 week leadership program aimed at students . The purpose of the project was two-fold: (1)t o learn from students leaders which leadership skills and knowledge helped the most while participating in social, cultural and political activities while attending HSU; and (2) to develop a 12-week curriculum to develop the next generation of students leaders.

Humboldt County Sanctuary Initiative

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Centro Del Pueblo was created in response to the wave of anti immigration rhetoric and the increase of ICE raids in Humboldt County. The organization advocates for immigrant rights, organizing rallies, marches and most recently pushing its own initiative for sanctuary in Humboldt County. The initiative itself wont violate SB54 in anyway or violate the U.S. Constitution, what it will do is add extra layers of protection for the undocumented community from being persecuted by ICE, and promoting a safer community between the county and the immigrant community.

Humboldt County's Opiod Epidemic

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

I will be using the information I have gathered through my internship with California Senator Mike McGuire. Specifically, the Senator has an ongoing project having to do with the opioid crisis taking place in Humboldt County. Humboldt County has more opioid prescriptions than residents. With 156,444 prescriptions in 2016, the rate was nearly 1,145 prescriptions per 1,000 residents. Senator Mike McGuire has hosted two town hall forums to bring awareness to the community and to discuss solutions in order to fix this epidemic that is affecting so many lives in the community we reside in.

In My Neighborhood: Local News Coverage of David Josiah Lawson's Murder

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

This content analysis examines racial discourse in local online news coverage pertaining to the murder of David Josiah Lawson and subsequent, related events. This research utilizes a grounded methods approach to find common racial frameworks and patterns in coverage.

Incorporating Cultural Activities Within A Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facility in Humboldt County, California

College of Professional Studies

Humboldt County, California is comprised of Indigenous tribal lands. The county has no residential substance use treatment program to meet the needs of the Indigenous Community. The purpose of this project is to implement Indigenous practices within the residential substance use treatment program. The following healing activities will be incorporated into the treatment program, both on and off-site. Red Roads will be offered to individuals once a week on site. Gender appropriate talking circles while beading will be offered on-site weekly. Individuals will have the opportunity to sweat twice a month, off-site.

Instilling Text and Subtext

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Costume designs by Isabella “Izzy” Ceja for the dance piece choreographed by Lisa Drew: Instilling text and Subtext. The dance was inspired by media bias and the distorted reality it creates, as well as the media propaganda that had occurred during WWII.