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Transit Equity Under Attack

In this week’s blog, Kendra Ma ’21, graduate student in the Master of Arts of Urban and Public Affairs program shares her experience as an intern at Alameda County Transit and her new understanding of the importance of transit equity as influenced by Black Lives Matter and COVID-19.  As a graduate student at the University…

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Equity Through Electric Bicycles

In this week’s blog, we hear from Jackson Nutt-Beers ’21, graduate student in the MA Urban and Public Affairs program (UPA), who reflects on his summer internship at the San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo), researching regulations for ride hailing and food delivery companies, while keeping in mind the realities of this year, from…

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Living Out Our Constitution

Constitution Day commemorates the September 17, 1787 signing of the United States Constitution. As we mark Constitution Day, the importance of the Constitution as a living document hold true today. With an election, a pandemic and a reckoning on the disparities against Black bodies, a conversation of how these all intersect is vital. Check out…

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My Unexpected Journey

This week’s blog comes to us from the McCarthy Center’s new Americorps VISTA, Thea Karakalos! We’re excited for what her skill set and personal experience will bring to the position as she completes her Master of Arts in Higher Education and Student Affairs here at USF! My name is Thea Karakalos, and I am the…

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100 years since the 19th Ammendment

Earlier this week, on August 18, we celebrated the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which granted women the right to vote in the United States. Our road to women’s suffrage was hard-won, but also complicated and deeply flawed. As White women like Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton marched the streets with banners…

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‘Ellis Act’ Evictions and the Mission

Part of the graduating class of the MA Urban and Public Affairs program, Zachary James ’20 completed his capstone on the issue of Ellis Act evictions. In this week’s blog he explains his premise for his research and his wider interest in housing issues in the Bay Area. During my time in the Urban and…

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Securing the Common Good

Securing the Common Good, Not for One but for All Ayah Mouhktar ‘18 shares some advice for incoming students and reflects in this week’s blog on what it means to serve the San Francisco community and work with youth who are raised in similar conditions as herself. Ayah is an alumnus of the McCarthy Center’s…

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Our Commitment to an Anti-Racist Center

To our students, community partners, and colleagues We have been grieving and feeling outrage at the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Rayshard Brooks, Elijah McClain, members in our local community: Alex Nieto, Mario Woods, Jessica Williams, Kenneth Harding, and Sean Monterrosa, and those named and unnamed, who are victims of anti-Blackness and…

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