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Immigration—More than a Section in a Textbook

Read as Kemelyn Alvarado ’24, Politics, shares her journey of diving into the intricacies of immigration law and civic engagement as a McCarthy Fellow in San Francisco. Follow as she shares how life had its own lessons to teach beyond the textbooks. As a McCarthy Fellow in San Francisco I interned at the Office of…

Designing for Community Empowerment Activists

In this week’s blog, Sofia Criswell ’25 reflects on their journey creating the new Community Empowerment Activists (CEA) logo. With collaboration and creativity, Sofia was able to blend various components of diversity, community, Mother Earth, color, and joy in their artwork. Keep reading to learn about the artistic process and what the logo portrays. Reflecting…

Promoting Effective Community Engagement

Our 2022 cohort of Community Partner Co-Educator Fellows (CPCE) completed their fellowships this spring, connecting with community peers to share expertise, and to build an understanding of how to work with USF students! In this week’s blog post, CPCE Hattie Wyatt discusses the important work her organization, Young Community Developers (YCD) is doing in the…

The Legacy Of Art Agnos

The Foghorn‘s editor-in-chief, Ali DeFazio, a McCarthy alumnae who participated in the the USF in DC program, recently interviewed former Mayor Art Agnos, who is the recipient of the inaugural Leo T. McCarthy Center award for Public Service. He is being honored at this week’s McCarthy Center’s 15th anniversary on November 9th. His former colleague,…

Why Cities Matter

Tim Redmond is editor of 48 Hills, the official publication of the San Francisco Progressive Media Center and a faculty member of the Urban and Public Affairs MA program Rebecca Solint, the author of Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas and Nonstop Metropolis: A New York Atlas, notes that if you take a map of…

Beginning a Literacy Partnership with Dr. William L. Cobb Elementary School

Dr. Mary Murray Autry, Associate Director Engage San Francisco Literacy Programs When first visiting Dr. William L. Cobb Elementary School (Cobb) in October 2016, with hopes of beginning a literacy partnership, I vividly remember entering the office area and being pleasantly surprised to see a wall covered with banners. These were not just any…

Traveling with the Esther Madriz Diversity Scholars to NYC

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX9Ei8AU0tw&w=560&h=315] Janelle Nunez (’19) is a participant of the Esther Madriz Diversity Scholars cohort that went to New York this January. Here she shares her reflections on this transformative trip. During the University of San Francisco’s winter intercession, the Esther Madriz Diversity Scholars (EMDS) got the incredible opportunity to spend a week in…

Profiles in Community Engaged Learning- Nicola McClung

Nicola was asked, what inspires you to integrate service-learning or community-engaged pedagogies into your courses? Nicola McClung Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco- School of Education Excerpt from the August 2016 Profiles in Community Engaged Learning. Professor McClung teaches Early Literacy. I was first inspired to integrate community-engaged pedagogy into my course when looking for books…