2024 Spring Semester Small Grants Recipients

The first edition of the Small Grants Program ran during the Spring 2024 semester and paired faculty with outstanding undergraduate students across the different schools on campus. Below is the list of the ten pairs of faculty and outstanding undergraduate students and their projects who received funding last year.

Amy Andrea Martinez

LSSPI, Post-doctoral Fellow

Marisela Jimenez-Huerta, Undergraduate Research Fellow

Santa Bruta—Home of El Indio Muerto: The Colonial-Carceral City and the Criminalization of Mexican/Chicano Boys and Men

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Carolina Talavera

Post-doctoral Fellow, Anthropology Department

Jimena Romano-Silva, Undergraduate Research Fellow

Documenting Latinx Civil Movement Contributions to Health Care Access and Services

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Lorraine Torres-Colón

LSSPI, Post-doctoral Fellow

Diego Montesinos, Undegraduate Research Fellow

Wages of Coloniality: Analysis of the Labor Market Disparities among Racialized Migrants in the US, the UK, Spain, and France, using the Luxembourg Income Study

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Professor Adrian Aguilera

School of Social Welfare

Bianca Poblano, Undergraduate Research Fellow

Mapping Mental Health: A Data-Driven Approach to Understanding Well-being in Latinx Communities

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Professor Caitlin Patler

School of Public Policy
Mario Varo, Undergraduate Research Fellow

Immigration Raids and Adverse Infant Health Outcomes: A National Study

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Professor Cati de los Rios

School of Education

Christina Velazquez, Undergraduate Research Fellow

Learning from Working Latina Immigrant Grand/Mother's Involvement in Dual-Language Bilingual Education

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Professor Christian O. Paiz

Ethnic Studies Department 
Alina Zarate, Luis Renteria, Jennifer Garcia, Karena Cuevas, Undergraduate Research Fellows

The Strikers of Coachella: A Student-Taught History Project

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Professor Juan G. Berumen

Ethnic Studies Department

Hazel Coronado-Viera, Undegraduate Research Fellow

The Quiet Before the Storm: Preparing Ethnic Studies High School Teachers to Implement AB101

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Professor Kristina Lovato

School of Social Walfare
Lucia Boadas, Undergraduate Research Fellow

Crossing Borders and Crossing Ages: Understanding the Social Service Needs of Unaccompanied Latinx Immigrant Transitional Age Youth (TAY) during the Precarious Transition to Adulthood

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Professor Laurent Reyes

School of Social Welfare
Maria Miramontes, Undegraduate Research Fellow

Re-Defining Civic Participation from the lens of Latine and Black American Older Adults

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