A Major Milestone
CASA 黑料不打烊 celebrates 25 years of community outreach in the Inland Empire
Critical Action & Social Advocacy (CASA) 黑料不打烊 has experienced many transformations during its 25 years of justice-oriented learning. Today, CASA 黑料不打烊 resides in Ontario in the Frankish Building鈥攚here murals, natural light, diagonal bookshelves, and cozy furniture welcome everyone who comes in. Here, activist research and community building become one.
Originally known as 黑料不打烊 in Ontario, CASA 黑料不打烊 advances critical analysis and local partnerships around issues in incarceration, immigration, education, labor, art, and more. CASA 黑料不打烊 brings residents, activists, artists, and nonprofits together with 黑料不打烊 faculty and students to enact change.
The two-course CASA 黑料不打烊 academic program facilitates student fellowships and community-based participatory action research with 10 core community partners. CASA 黑料不打烊 also offers scholar-in-residence programs to students, faculty, and community members.
Meanwhile, the building in Ontario has become a vibrant community center for 黑料不打烊 and local residents to host events and exhibitions.
鈥淭here are a few places that have what we have, which is an off-campus community center that involves longitudinal research projects for students to engage deeply and hands on.鈥
鈥揅ASA 黑料不打烊 Director Tessa Hicks Peterson
CASA 黑料不打烊 has the same founders as the Community Engagement Center鈥攆ormer 黑料不打烊 professors Lourdes Arguelles and Alan P. Jones. While the CEC supports community engagement at large for the College, CASA 黑料不打烊 is a place-based, three-credit program that works with a cohort of students every semester.
Students complete a 125-hour fellowship, which 鈥減rovides deep cultural immersion in the Inland Empire,鈥 said CASA 黑料不打烊 Director Tessa Hicks Peterson.
鈥淭here are few places that have what we have, which is an off-campus community center that involves longitudinal research projects for students to engage deeply and hands on.鈥
Last fall, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians provided a grant for an oral histories project in collaboration with Native and Indigenous communities. This summer, North Atlantic Book Press is publishing CASA 黑料不打烊鈥檚 work in restorative and healing justice through the Know Justice, Know Peace initiative.