RSCA in Five: Faculty Short Talks on Community-Engaged Research and Learning

SJSU and the surrounding community have always had strong ties through engagement, service, and equity activities. SJSU learns from and serves the community through activities that enrich SJSU students' experiential opportunities. Join the discussion on SJSU’s impact on the local and global community. 

When: Thursday, November 14, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Where: MLK Library Room 225
Format: One-hour program with lunch and networking thereafter

Register for the event on our RSVP form.

SJSU welcomes the following individuals who will be presenting their research.

Ellen MiddaughEllen Middaugh (Opening Speaker)

Dr. Ellen Middaugh is the Interim Associate Dean at the Lurie College of Education. Her research is guided by the question, “How do youth become effective advocates for themselves and their communities in the digital age?” She is interested in how the internet and participatory media enable and constrain civic participation. Dr. Middaugh conducts research on how youth use social media to express public voice and build community, youth practices as they encounter misinformation and hostility online, and educational interventions designed to help support informed, ethical and empowered civic engagement. Her research focuses on youth broadly but with special interest in the experiences of those who may be excluded or misrepresented by powerful civic institutions.

Research

Areas of Interest/Keywords

  • Adolescent
  • Civic education
  • Civic engagement, youth
  • Community
  • Critical Consciousness
  • Digital Media
  • Participatory Media
  • Social Media

Liliana E. Castrellón HeadshotLiliana E. Castrellón 

Talk Title: Ella nos metió como la courage (She gave us the courage): Community Organizations as Spaces of Empowerment, Trust, and Leadership

Department: Educational Leadership, College of Education

Liliana E. Castrellón (she/her/ella), PhD, is a first-generation college student/graduate and proud daughter and granddaughter of immigrants. Liliana is an assistant professor at San José State University and the co-coordinator of the Higher Education Leadership Masters Program (HELM) in the Educational Leadership Department. Drawing from anti-racist and policy enactment frameworks, her research seeks to understand how educational leaders across pk-20 systems translate policy text into action, in particular she hones in on policy that targets the educational experiences of undocumented students (such as in-state tuition policies). Indeed, her research unpacks the social practice of policy, from bureaucratic text to everyday implementation in communities, schools, and higher education institutions. She takes a critical focus on policy practice to understand the manifestations of systemic racism and racist nativism across pk-20 educational systems. 

Education

  • PhD in Educational Leadership & Policy from University of Utah

Research

Areas of Interest/Keywords

  • Immigration & Education
  • Education Policy
  • Anti-Racist Education
  • Social Justice Leadership

Recent Publications:

Castrellón, L.E., Roebuck Sakho, J., Whitaker, R., McCown, R.  (2024). We Make the Road by Walking*: A Story of Reciprocal Mentorship. IMPACT of the Scholarly Practitioner Doctorate: Exercising Socially Just Leadership and Making Equitable Change. Eds. Stephanie Smith Budhai & Deanna Hill.

Moctezuma Garcia headshotMoctezuma Garcia

Talk Title: Project COMPA: Latino communities offering more agreeable prevention services.

Department: School of Social Work, College of Health and Human Sciences

Moctezuma Garcia, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the SJSU School of Social Work. Dr. Garcia’s research explores the implications of health inequities based on social stratification and the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender for historically excluded racial and highly marginalized populations. He currently received an external grant from the University of California HIV/AIDS Research Program for a two-year mixed methods implementation research study exploring the implications of racism and HIV among the Latino community in the Bay Area. Dr. Garcia’s overall goal is to enhance implementation science frameworks promoting community-based approaches in developing culturally responsive HIV interventions for diverse racial/ethnic sexual and gender minorities.

Education

  • PhD, Graduate Center at The City University of New York
  • MSSW, Columbia University

Research

Areas of Interest/Keywords

  • Health and Racial Equity
  • Intersectionality
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Sexual and Gender Minorities

Keywords Relating to Research

Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR)

Recent Publications:

Garcia, M. (2024). Intersectional Microaggressions and Implications for Health Inequities and HIV Among Latino/x Sexual Minority Males in Puerto Rico. J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 

Garcia, M. (2021). This Is America: Systemic Racism and Health Inequities Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic. Social Work in Public Health, 37(2), 105–121.

Estella Inda HeadshotEstella Inda

Talk Title: TBA

Estella Inda is a Senior Assistant Librarian at the University Library at SJSU. 

Education

  • MLIS, Library and Information Science at SJSU

Wayne Jopanda headshotWayne Silao Jopanda

Talk Title: Lesson Plans for Justice: Narratives of Filipino Trafficked Teachers in the U.S.

Wayne Jopanda is an Asian American Studies Assistant Professor at San Jose State University and received his PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of California, Davis, researching Filipinx student experiences with burn out, trafficked Filipinx teachers, and the education’s commodification of Filipinos’ labor. Wayne is a co-founder and served as Associate Director of the Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies. Wayne is also co-founder of the Brokada Filipinx Men’s Healing Circle and is an organizing member of the Critical Filipinx Studies Collective. Wayne has taught at Antioch University Seattle, St. Mary’s College, and De Anza College. Committed to community engaged scholarship, Wayne’s work aims to support and uplift Critical Ethnic Studies through his community organizing and academic work.

Education

  • PhD, Cultural Studies at UC Davis
  • B.A. Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley

Research

Areas of Interest/Keywords

  • Critical Filipino Studies
  • Critical University Studies
  • Students of Color in Higher Education
  • Burn Out
  • Migrant Labor
  • Community Organizing

Keywords Relating to Research

Filipino Studies, Migrant Workers, Labor Trafficking, Community Care, Community Engaged Scholarship