UCLA School of Education & Information Studies

Winter Webinar Series: Unlocking the High Quality IEP Toolkit: Essential Resources for Special Educators
2026-02-26 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Looking for a comprehensive resource to support the development of high‑quality Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)? The High Quality IEP Toolkit for Special Educators offers practical, free tools to strengthen every phase of the IEP process. In this session, participants will take a guided tour of the toolkit and learn how to apply its supports to key components of a strong IEP, including assessment, present levels, measurable goals, and aligned services. Educators will leave with actionable strategies to create meaningful, individualized, student‑centered IEPs—whether they are new to the process or looking to refine their practice.

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Kenneth Karmiole Lecture in Archival Studies with Dr. Amelia Acker
2026-03-03 16:30 - 18:00 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms

Our world is filled with data we create but cannot access. We generate massive digital archives with every click, swipe, and search—but corporations, not individuals or institutions, control where this data lives and who can use it. When did archiving become something that machines do automatically, rather than a deliberate act of preservation for the public good? And how did we arrive at this arrangement with platforms?

Archiving Machines chronicles the hidden history of how data came to be structured and stored, before it could be streamed and automatically saved to the cloud. This lecture will examine how data archiving, the computational processes of storage, exchange, and transmission, have transformed memory practices and created new regimes of asymmetric access. Drawing on archival fieldwork with historic computing machines, I trace how “archive” became a verb in computing cultures, and how this shift has enabled corporate platforms to assert functional sovereignty over access to collective memory. By examining moments of access in the history of data management, this work offers both a critical genealogy of our current condition and grounds for imagining alternative futures for digital cultural memory.

Amelia Acker is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her research on data management and digital preservation has been supported with funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the ACM History and Archiving Fellowship. Acker’s projects address the representation and loss of digital traces, the history of data management, and the transmission of information through time. She investigates how infrastructure and organizational practices shape the preservation, accessibility, and governance of data, with a particular focus on the impact of platforms, software, and AI on archives and digital memory. Acker is the author of Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms (MIT, 2025).

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UCLA CART Distinguished Lecture Series-Early Communication In Autism: Moving the Needle on Data-Driven Decision Making in Practice
2026-03-06 09:00 - 10:00 | Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, California, 90095
The UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment (CART) invites you to the next presentation in the CART Distinguished Lecture Series. All are welcome— faculty, clinicians, trainees, students, staff, and community members interested in the latest research on autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Overview:

Communication challenges remain one of the earliest concerns of parents whose children eventually receive an autism diagnosis. Many existing measures in autism only characterize communication differences but are not designed to monitor improvement over time or support clinical decision making. This presentation will describe a new tool, the Early Communication Indicator for Autism (ECI-A), which is based on an existing norm-referenced, validated measure, and can be easily used within clinical practice.

Speaker: Brian Boyd, Ph.D. (William C. Friday Distinguished Professor in Education; Director, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

This is a hybrid event, with options to join in-person and virtually.

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Being in Community: A Personal and Professional Discussion
2026-03-12 14:00 - 16:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Reading Room, 3340, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
In early 2025 the Special Issue Introduction article, “Community will always matter,” was released. The article also marked a turning point in mindset in the way Dr. Tony Dunbar approaches all aspects of his life. This interactive engagement will unfold in two parts. First, he will offer how over the past year he has made community organizing and building the focal point of his life and career. In the second half of the engagement, Dr. Dunbar will lead a what, why, and how interactive discussion. More specifically, what can community centered strategies offer to information professional, pedagogical, and scholarly discourses. Why in this current moment community as people and process matters more than ever. Then turning to how we all can lean into community centered approaches.

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Winter Webinar Series: Strengthening IEP Collaboration: Administrative Designee and General Educator Toolkits
2026-03-26 15:30 - 16:30
This session introduces two free resources designed to support effective IEP teamwork: the Administrative Designee Toolkit and the General Educator Toolkit. Participants will explore key tools that enhance preparation, collaboration, and decision-making throughout the IEP process. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to support compliant, student‑centered meetings and meaningful general education input—empowering all team members to contribute confidently and effectively.

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Redrawing Borders in Education: Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Crisis of the Common School
2026-03-26 17:00 - 18:30 | Moore Hall Room 2016, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095
Join us for a public lecture hosted by the Paulo Freire Institute at UCLA School of Education and Information Studies:

Redrawing Borders in Education: Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Crisis of the Common SchoolSpeaker: Régis Malet, University of Bordeaux, FranceDate: Thursday, March 26Time: 5:00–6:30 PMLocation: Moore Hall 2016, UCLA Ed & ISFree and open to the public

Participants are welcome to join in person or online via the QR code below or on the attached poster.

This lecture examines one of the most urgent questions of our time: who controls what schools teach, and to what ends? Professor Malet will explore how global educational agendas are increasingly shaped by geopolitical rivalry, international policy frameworks, and digital platforms, and what this means for democratic schooling and the future of the common school.

Régis Malet is Professor of Education at the University of Bordeaux and Honorary Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is a leading scholar in comparative education and international educational policy and serves as adviser to the European Commission, the European Parliament, and UNESCO.

We hope you will join us for this important conversation.

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Spring Quarter Instruction Begins
2026-03-30 00:00 - 23:59

AERA 2026: UCLA Conference Schedule
2026-04-07 08:00 - 2026-04-12 17:00
Explore UCLA School of Education and Information Studies (Ed&IS) participation at the 2026 AERA Annual Meeting through this Google Sheet. This sheet provides a comprehensive overview of sessions, presentations, and events featuring Ed&IS faculty, students, and research centers. Use it to identify when and where our community is contributing, discover topics of interest, and plan your schedule for the conference.

By UCLA Ed&IS Faculty Member

Tuesday, April 7th (Pre-Conference sessions)

Wednesday, April 8th

Thursday, April 9th

Friday, April 10th

Saturday, April 11th

Sunday, April 12th

Colliding Worlds: Restoring Orie Medicinebull's 1980 UCLA Student Film
2026-04-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
On April 9th, AMIA-UCLA is honored to invite filmmaker, North Fork Mono Rancheria tribal citizen, and UCLA alum Orie Medicinebull for a Zoom conversation on the restoration of her UCLA student film, Colliding Worlds (1980). The event will take place April 9th at 11am on Zoom (link below). Orie was part of the L.A. Rebellion film movement at UCLA. In addition to her filmmaking, she is an educator and community organizer. Her student film Colliding Worlds (1980) emerged from the L.A. Rebellion and this conversation will center around its making, loss, rediscovery, and restoration. Also joining the conversation will be Krista Riggs, the director of Madera County Library, and Willow Germs, the conservation archivist at the California State Archives, a filmmaker, and a California Revealed Advisory Board Member.

Colliding Worlds: Restoring Orie Medicinebull’s 1980 UCLA Student Film

Apr 9, 2026 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Meeting ID: 998 4245 3844

Zoom Link

For some information about the project history see below.

In 2020, Madera County Library participated in the Digitization and Preservation Assistance program at California Revealed, submitting films that had been stored in a wooden shed in a fire-prone area. While performing quality control on the digitized files, Willow Germs was struck by one film in particular: a short, independent documentary that centers on four generations of women’s relationships to their traditions and popular culture, including acorn gathering, powwows, rock ‘n’ roll music, and hand games. This faded 16mm print was Colliding Worlds (1980), a film made by Orie Medicinebull, an educator, community organizer, filmmaker, and tribal citizen of the North Fork Mono Rancheria.

The film documents the “People Who Live Where the Cedar Trees Start to Grow” (Wah-up-weh-tuhneum), also known as the Mono or Western Monache people, and their attempts to maintain cultural traditions such as acorn collecting, food preparation, music, dance, powwows, and games. Filmmaker Orie Medicinebull was the first woman of the Mono tribe to earn an MFA in Motion Pictures and Television Production from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Motion Pictures and Television Production, and the first Native American woman to make a film about the Native American people of California.

Willow was not able to find contact information for Orie at first, but momentum built after sharing an excerpt of the film during AMIA’s Archival Screening Night in 2022. In January 2023, Willow and Orie finally connected, and in collaboration with Krista Riggs, director of the Madera County Library, they began to apply for grants to reintroduce Orie’s film to the public. Over the next two years, they received two grants: a Basic Preservation Grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to restore Colliding Worlds, and a “Humanities for All” grant from California Humanities to support the premiere of the restoration, set for October 2026. The premiere will be in Madera County and will focus on living culture, creating bridges across multiple generations and multiple tribes.

Disabled Desires for Reimagining Archives: Past Experiences toward Future Possibilities
2026-04-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
The UCLA Department of Information Studies invites faculty, staff, and students to its Information Studies Colloquia.

Presented, Researched, and Written by Dr. Gracen Brilmyer, McGill University

Through historic records that document disabled people in ways that can reinforce ableist, sanist, or medicalized stereotypes to outright absence from other types of records, disabled people can feel erased in history through archives. Alternatively, community-based archives have been shown to offset historical imbalances through communities representing themselves on their own terms. This talk addresses preliminary findings from a new project by the Disability Archives Lab that focuses on the ways that disabled people imagine archives differently. This project— conducted by, with, and for disabled people—uses community-based methods to identify current issues in archives as well as alternative approaches to archiving. Centering the powerful words of disabled people, this research not only aims to understand the needs and desires of disabled people who have worked with archival materials but also demonstrates the critical role of disabled people in building and designing the scaffolding for a new disability digital community archive.

To attend, email striola@g.ucla.edu for the Zoom link.

AERA Reception in Los Angeles
2026-04-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Pez Cantina, 401 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, California, 90071
Join us for our 2026 UCLA Ed&IS AERA Reception in Los Angeles! Don’t miss the perfect opportunity to connect and network with fellow UCLA Alumni, Faculty, Students, and Staff.

Hosted by UCLA Dean Christina Christie and Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, Chair, UCLA Department of Education

For more information, please contact Amy Lassere at alassere@support.ucla.edu or 310.206.0375.

Please note, our reception is being hosted for AERA Conference attendees, Ed&IS Alumni, and Ed&IS Faculty & Staff. All guests must be 21 yrs and over.

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View the UCLA Ed&IS at AERA schedule here.

UCLA Mann Community School Centennial Celebration
2026-04-10 15:00 - 18:00 | Horace Mann UCLA Community School, 7001 S. St. Andrews Place, Los Angeles, California, 90047
Join the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA Center for Community Schooling, & Mann UCLA Community School faculty and students to celebrate Mann’s Centennial and Mural Festival.

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3:00PM:     Registration opens

3:30PM:     Welcome – Opening Remarks

3:40PM:     Student Alumni Panel

4:00PM:     Celebrating LAUSD, Community, and Mann UCLA-CS milestones with UCLA and LAUSD Leadership

4:10PM:     The Power of Community Partnerships: Unveiling of UCLA Banner

4:20PM:     Mural Project Reveal from Branded Arts

4:30-6:00PM: Student Performances, Mural Gallery and tours

About the Mural Project:

In collaboration with Branded Arts, during the week of April 6, Mann UCLA Community School campus will be transformed into a vibrant hub of creativity as twelve new murals are created through deep collaboration between students and internationally recognized and Los Angeles–based artists. Rather than simply observing, students will work alongside artists—sharing ideas, contributing to designs, and participating in the painting process—turning the campus into an active site of learning, expression, and co-creation.

At the heart of the celebration is the powerful role students play in shaping the work itself. Through workshops, conversations, and hands-on experiences, they will gain firsthand insight into the creative process while seeing their identities, cultures, and perspectives reflected in the murals. A student-centered symposium will further connect them with leaders across art, technology, and civic life, opening pathways to future opportunities. Rooted in themes of unity, identity, mental health, and representation, the festival not only honors the school’s 100-year legacy—it elevates student voice, ownership, and imagination as central to its future.

From Code Work to Place Work: Digital Nomads, Infrastructural Others, and the Grammar of Proximate Elsewheres
2026-04-16 14:00 - 15:50 | Zoom
The UCLA Department of Information Studies invites faculty, staff, and students to its Information Studies Colloquia.

Presented, Researched, and Written by Dr. Héctor Beltrán, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico City and San Juan, Dr. Héctor Beltrán will examine how U.S. tech workers construct proximate elsewheres, locations close enough for convenience, yet foreign enough to sustain the nomadic calculus. The talk engages anthropology of technology, platform studies, and relational racialization frameworks to ask: who counts as infrastructure, whose knowledge gets indexed, and what refusal looks like from inside a system that wasn’t built to accommodate it.

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California Early Wealth Account System (CEWAS) Summit: Building Economic Prosperity for Every Child
2026-04-17 08:00 - 17:00 | UCLA University Club, 480 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, California, 90095
Be part of a growing movement to close the wealth gap and expand economic mobility for California’s children and families.

The Second Annual California Early Wealth Account System (CEWAS) Summit brings together leaders from across California and the nation to explore how early wealth accounts are transforming opportunities for families and strengthening pathways to post-secondary education and long-term financial security.

At this year’s Summit, participants will examine the evolution of Child Savings Accounts (CSAs) and Child Development Accounts (CDAs), including the expansion of CalKIDS, HOPE Accounts, and other early wealth-building initiatives. Through new research, real-world case studies, and cross-sector dialogue, attendees will gain practical insights into how these programs can be strengthened, scaled, and sustained statewide.

The Summit convenes leaders from public agencies, education, philanthropy, elected officials, and community organizations to reflect on progress, share lessons from the field, and identify next steps for building a more equitable early wealth infrastructure in California.

Conference highlights include:

New research on the impact of early wealth-building initiatives

Perspectives from leaders implementing CSA and CDA programs

National developments in early wealth-building, including 530A Accounts, also known as Trump Accounts

Strategies to expand access, advance equity, and increase long-term economic mobility

Opportunities to connect with cross-sector partners committed to building prosperity for every child

All registrants are invited to showcase their work in the Summit’s poster gallery, creating space for peer learning and collaboration across programs and regions.

The full Summit agenda, including detailed session descriptions and featured discussions, is now live on Eventbrite.

Early bird registration is encouraged by February 28. Final registration closes March 31.

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Thinking Gender 2026: Feminist and Queer Ecologies
2026-04-17 09:00 - 18:00 | James West Alumni Center, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
The UCLA Department of Information Studies is proud to be co-sponsoring Thinking Gender 2026: Feminist and Queer Ecologies

“Feminist and Queer Ecologies,” explores how environments and ecologies are shaped, understood, and contested through relations of sex, gender, and sexuality. The theme also considers how feminist and queer theorists, artists, and organizers have drawn on ecological processes and environmental knowledge to build new insights, movements, and practices.

Join us for graduate student presentations highlighting innovative research at the intersections of gender, sexuality, environment, and justice. The conference will feature keynote speaker Cutcha Risling Baldy (Cal Poly Humboldt; NAS Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute), whose work centers Indigenous feminisms, land relations, and food sovereignty.

Gendered and colonial ideas of wilderness, domesticity, and reproduction have historically shaped landscapes and environmental policy. At the same time, feminist and queer methodologies—from place-based storytelling to multimodal practice—offer critical tools for climate resilience, environmental justice, and community well-being. Around the world, social movements resisting environmental injustice—from Standing Rock to Flint, from the Everglades to rural India—have been led by women and gender-expansive people. Climate change and climate justice continue to affect communities differentially along lines of gender, sexuality, race, and class, revealing how struggles for ecological flourishing are inseparable from feminist and queer justice.

Feminist and queer ecologies demand multidisciplinary collaboration. This year’s theme invites environmental scientists, humanists, social scientists, artists, organizers, and practitioners to come together across methods, disciplines, temporalities, species, and geographies. It encourages experimentation with scientific inquiry, ethnography, storytelling, political theory, environmental history, modeling, and other forms of knowledge-making and truth-telling.

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Evidence, Expertise, and Automation in Forensic Reconstruction
2026-04-23 14:00 - 15:50 | UCLA Moore Hall, Reading Room, 3340, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
The UCLA Department of Information Studies invites faculty, staff, and students to its Information Studies Colloquia.

Presented, Researched, and Written by Dr. Stacy Wood, UCLA

3D laser scanning technology has been used in forensic analysis and virtual crime scene reconstruction for at least a decade. While rendering a reconstruction involves a combination of automated tools and expert intervention, the reconstruction collapses and stands in for myriad forms of forensic science, many of which do not represent robust scientific consensus despite their relative ubiquity across the criminal legal system. The models produced shift both the theoretical and practical forms of expertise within the courtroom and present challenges for the long-term ability to revisit evidence. This talk uses this technology as a jumping off point to think about complex media objects that simultaneously function as legal evidence, media spectacle and public record.

Fighting Flames: Information Infrastructures in Trying Times
2026-04-30 14:00 - 15:50 | UCLA Moore Hall, Reading Room, 3340, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
The UCLA Department of Information Studies invites faculty, staff, and students to its Information Studies Colloquia.

Presented, Researched, and Written by Dr. Emily Drabinski, Queens College, City University of New York

Since 2021, efforts to censor materials and programming have compounded ongoing disinvestment in public institutions, leaving libraries struggling to fulfill their missions. As protesters disrupted storytimes and library board meetings, library workers, patrons, supporters, and advocates have organized to fight these assaults on the right to read. This talk asks what gets lost when resources are wholly directed at the fire in front of us, and what our responsibilities are to build boring things at the end of the world.

No RSVP is needed to attend.

Free Webinar: Open Access
2026-05-08 12:00 - 13:30
Join the State of California Resource Lead, Open Access, for an interactive session on Inclusive Instructional Practices, exploring evidence-based strategies and accessible resources designed to support all learners in inclusive environments.

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OJEDI 2026 Academic Symposia for the Scholarship for the Research on Black Life
2026-05-14 09:30 - 12:00 | Zoom
Please join OJEDI for its annual research symposium, where recipients of the Scholarship for Research on Black Life present their research. This scholarship is open to all Ed&IS undergraduate and graduate students and highlights individuals whose demonstrated service and research are related to Black life.

Each of the 2025-2026 Scholars will have a research presentation followed by a Q&A. OJEDI will also announce the 2026-2027 scholarship recipients.

This is a virtual event. Register below for the Zoom link.

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"Playing With Blackness" and the Limits of Generative A.I.
2026-05-14 14:00 - 16:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Reading Room, 3340, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
The UCLA Department of Information Studies invites faculty, staff, and students to its Information Studies Colloquia.

Presented, Researched, and Written by Dr. Kishonna Gray, University of Michigan.

Use of generative A.I. is often reference in terms of “Play” to offset the harms that these machines could do. When Black Media and Games Scholar Kishonna Gray noticed her likeness was taken by Midjourney and severely misrepresented, she innocently suggested “no harm, no foul.” It wasn’t until her mentees, including Drs. Kevin Winstead and William Frey suggested this distortion is actually erasure and this represents a particular kind of harm to Black women in the academy.

No RSVP is needed to attend.

Cancelled: Breslauer Lecture: Indigenous Knowledge and the Limits of Translation: Mexican Manuscripts in Early Modern Collections
2026-05-14 16:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Luskin Conference Center, Illumination Room, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90024
This event has been cancelled. We are working to reschedule the lecture for the fall and will share updated details as soon as they are confirmed.

Join the UCLA Department of Information Studies for its Breslauer Lecture: Indigenous Knowledge and the Limits of Translation: Mexican Manuscripts in Early Modern Collections

Date: Thursday, May 14, 2026

Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM

The lecture will begin at 4:00 pm and will be followed by a reception at 5:00 pm. Please join us and stay for beverages and hors d’oeuvres!

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OJEDI End-of-Year Luncheon
2026-05-15 13:00 - 14:30 | James West Alumni Center, Founders Room, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095
Join us to celebrate the end of the academic year! OJEDI appreciates the Ed&IS community for participating in our programs and workshops this year. Enjoy some small bites and desserts with us!

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GSAE Graduate and Faculty Bowling Social
2026-05-16 12:00 - 14:00 | Lucky Strike Mar Vista, 12125 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90066
We’re excited to get together with you all to celebrate the Spring Quarter! Education graduate students and Faculty, join GSAE for a Bowling Social on Saturday, May 16th at 12:00 pm.

This is a family-friendly gathering, so feel free to bring your kids and partners!

Come take a break, have some fun, and connect with our community—we’d love to see you there!

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Civic Leadership Series: Students Shaping California's Future
2026-05-20 17:00 - 18:00
From students to changemakers!

As California marks 175 years of statehood and the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, this three-part series is designed for high school and college students across the state who are ready to turn awareness and passion into action.

Through sessions focused on California’s legislative, executive, and judicial branches. You’ll learn how the government actually works and how students can engage with each branch during a critical election cycle.

The series highlights TK–16 education as a powerful entry point for civic action, illustrating how policy decisions impact learners, educators, and communities—and how your voice can help advance a more inclusive, accessible education system for all.

Hosted by the UC|CSU Collaborative, this series connects research, policy, and practice, demonstrating how civic engagement strengthens communities, supports student well-being, and expands opportunity. You won’t just learn about civic engagement, you’ll practice it!

Designed for students approximately ages 16–25, this series explores how to engage with California’s legislative, executive, and judicial branches to create meaningful change. Opening remarks will be provided by Dr. Alison Yoshimoto-Towery, member of the California State Board of Education and liaison for Civic Learning.

This webinar features Brooks Allen, who serves as the Governor’s Education Policy Advisor and Executive Director of the State Board of Education. He previously worked as the Director of Education Advocacy for the ACLU of Southern California and as a Skadden Fellow and staff attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. He also served as a Deputy City Attorney in his hometown of Santa Cruz, California. Before attending law school, Brooks was an Upward Bound program coordinator, an admissions officer with Stanford University, and a policy analyst with the U.S. Department of Education. He has a B.A. in Political Science with distinction from Stanford University and his J.D. from Yale Law School.

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LISAA Spring Dinner 2026
2026-05-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Pez Cantina, 401 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, California, 90071
Join us for the UCLA LISAA Spring Dinner! We will gather to celebrate our community and honor the next generation of library and information professionals.

This year’s event will take place on Wednesday, May 20th, at 6 p.m. at Pez Cantina, 401 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90071.

We have a wonderful program planned for the evening:

Keynote Speaker: Kelvin Watson, Executive Director of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District.

Distinguished Alumni Honoree: Skye Patrick, PhD ’26, Library Director of the Los Angeles County Library.

Celebrating the Graduating Class of 2026!

It will be an inspiring evening filled with camaraderie and celebration!

Please RSVP by May 13th, 2026, so we can finalize our headcount.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the Office of External Relations at (310) 206-0375 or via e-mail at ksantiagosnyder@support.ucla.edu.

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Building an Equitable Community-Engaged Research Agenda in IS
2026-05-21 14:00 - 16:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Reading Room, 3340, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
The UCLA Department of Information Studies invites faculty, staff, and students to its Information Studies Colloquia.

Presented, Researched, and Written by Dr. Michelle Caswell, UCLA

This workshop draws from the emerging area of community archives to present principles and protocols for ethically conducting community-engaged IS research with (rather than just about) minoritized communities. Based on a white paper collaboratively authored between community archivists and archival studies scholars, the first half of the workshop will address the current state of academic research on community archives, its impact on communities represented and served by such organizations, and ways to envision and enact more equitable relationships moving forward. The second half of the workshop will give participants a chance to apply the principles and protocols to their own research projects in IS, and brainstorm about designing more equitable community-engaged research projects in IS moving forward.

Professional Leadership and Coaching Academy
2026-05-25 00:00 - 23:59 | Zoom
Join us for a diverse hybrid academy designed to explore personal and social identities, equity, trust, conflict and trauma sensitivity through individual and systems work.

Participants will complete the Professional Leadership and Coaching Academy with:

A refined coaching identity with developed consciousness in becoming a more effective leader to provide equitable and relationship-centered support based in systems thinking principles.

A generative coaching plan based on the participant’s development in a coaching continuum that reflects each participant’s unique strengths and systems.

A resource toolkit for personal and professional growth.

Knowledge of and application for different adult learning theories, the neuroscience of coaching, and socio-cultural theories.

Registration Deadline – May 25, 2026

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Civic Leadership Series: Students Shaping California’s Future
2026-05-27 17:00 - 18:00
From students to changemakers!

As California marks 175 years of statehood and the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, this three-part series is designed for high school and college students across the state who are ready to turn awareness and passion into action.

Through sessions focused on California’s legislative, executive, and judicial branches. You’ll learn how the government actually works and how students can engage with each branch during a critical election cycle.

The series highlights TK–16 education as a powerful entry point for civic action, illustrating how policy decisions impact learners, educators, and communities—and how your voice can help advance a more inclusive, accessible education system for all.

Hosted by the UC|CSU Collaborative, this series connects research, policy, and practice, demonstrating how civic engagement strengthens communities, supports student well-being, and expands opportunity. You won’t just learn about civic engagement, you’ll practice it!

Designed for students approximately ages 16–25, this series explores how to engage with California’s legislative, executive, and judicial branches to create meaningful change. Opening remarks will be provided by Dr. Alison Yoshimoto-Towery, member of the California State Board of Education and liaison for Civic Learning.

This webinar features Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, who has joined ADR Services, Inc. following a trailblazing career as the first Asian-Filipina American Chief Justice of California. During her 12-year tenure, she successfully guided the state’s judicial branch through the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic while championing court funding reforms, civic education, and public transparency. Currently serving as the President and CEO of the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), she is available through ADR Services, Inc. for mediations, consultations, and mock trials.

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Civic Leadership Series: Students Shaping California's Future
2026-06-03 17:00 - 18:00
From students to changemakers!

As California marks 175 years of statehood and the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, this three-part series is designed for high school and college students across the state who are ready to turn awareness and passion into action.

Through sessions focused on California’s legislative, executive, and judicial branches. You’ll learn how the government actually works and how students can engage with each branch during a critical election cycle.

The series highlights TK–16 education as a powerful entry point for civic action, illustrating how policy decisions impact learners, educators, and communities—and how your voice can help advance a more inclusive, accessible education system for all.

Hosted by the UC|CSU Collaborative, this series connects research, policy, and practice, demonstrating how civic engagement strengthens communities, supports student well-being, and expands opportunity. You won’t just learn about civic engagement, you’ll practice it!

Designed for students approximately ages 16–25, this series explores how to engage with California’s legislative, executive, and judicial branches to create meaningful change. Opening remarks will be provided by Dr. Alison Yoshimoto-Towery, member of the California State Board of Education and liaison for Civic Learning.

This webinar features Assemblymember Dr. Darshana R. Patel, who was elected in 2024 to represent California’s 76th Assembly District in northern San Diego County, including Escondido, San Marcos, parts of San Diego, and surrounding unincorporated communities. A research scientist, former school board president, and community leader, she earned a B.A. in Biochemistry from Occidental College and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of California, Irvine, before working in biotechnology research.

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Knowing as Moving vs. Moving as Knowing
2026-06-04 14:00 - 15:50 | UCLA Moore Hall, Reading Room, 3340, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
The UCLA Department of Information Studies invites faculty, staff, and students to its Information Studies Colloquia.

Presented, Researched, and Written by Dr. Susan Leigh Foster, UCLA

This presentation builds off Dr. Susan Leigh Foster’s recent book, Knowing as Moving, by assessing the difference between claims that moving is a form of knowing as distinct from the hypothesis articulated in my book that it is necessary to move in order to know. She will endeavor to review some of the literatures she used to build this theory as well as consider how such a thesis upends the colonial duality of “mind” and “body.”

No RSVP is needed to attend.
