Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good

Celebrating the McCarthy Center Family

Just one week ago, at the McCarthy Awards, we celebrated the many friends of the McCarthy Center who made us and our programs successful for another year! Thanks to all our winners and thank you for the work you do that does so much for the people of San Francisco!

McCarthy Award for Public Service

Congrats to Reyna Brown ’19, graduate, and this year’s Awardee of the McCarthy Award for Public Service. Check out her acceptance speech given at the Center’s Year-end Celebration in this week’s blog. Reyna graduates this week with a BA in Performing Arts & Social Justice and in Peace and Justice Studies. Continue to make us…

Our Graduating MA Urban and Public Affairs cohort are ready to shine! Join us this Monday 5/13 @ 12pm at Lone Mountain 100 for their Capstone Presentations – OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Get familiar with them and their topics in this week’s blog.

Yacub Elmi - Community Engagement Advocate

Community: Engaged Advocacy

Yacub Elmi, Sociology; Public Service and Community Engagement ’20 To be in the inaugural cohort of the Leo T. McCarthy Center’s Community Engagement Advocate (CEA) program has been an honor and quite honestly exciting. As a CEA, the focus on community advocacy and community-engaged learning has been heavily emphasized in our curriculum. The CEA program…

First Year in San Francisco

Justin Pearson ’20 is completing his first year in the MA Urban and Public Affairs program My path to the University of San Francisco began with loving the Bay Area on prior visits from my home in Jamaica. I have had the privilege from prior work and study in International Relations and Government to contemplate my own…

Our New Literacy Manager

The McCarthy Center recently gained a new staff member, and so we wanted to get to know her and her position a little better. Welcome, Lauren! Tell us a little about yourself I was born and raised in a community just outside of Dayton, OH called Jefferson Township. Jefferson was a little more rural than…

Tenant’s Rights — a Just Cause

Kiana Martinez, Community Empowerment Activist, Sociology ’20 During the 2018-2019 academic year at USF, I have had the opportunity to work with, Causa Justa Just Cause (CJJC), a Bay Area grassroots organization based in the SoMa district that works to build community leadership in the fight for housing and racial justice. Working at the CJJC…

Community Partnership Innovation Fund Recipients

Celebrating Innovative Partnerships

The McCarthy Center and Engage San Francisco will be celebrating the 2019 Community Partnership Innovation Fund (CPIF) recipients on April 4, 5:30 -7:30 p.m. at the African American Art & Culture Complex! Members of the wider McCarthy Center Community are invited to join us in commemoration. This evening will be an opportunity for USF faculty, staff,…