Faculty

On March 11, Professor of Environmental Practice Rick Frank was invited to testify before the California Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water in Sacramento. The hearing was titled “The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) at 11 Years: Progress and Challenges.”

Professor Mary Ziegler appeared on the CBS Evening News and spoke to MSNBC’s Katy Tur  about the first arrests under Texas’ near-total abortion ban.

Professor Kevin R. Johnson spoke to CalMatters for a March 19 story on how students are urging universities to prevent arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on their campuses.

The calls come in light of the Trump administration’s reversal in January of longtime U.S. policies that limited  ICE from arresting people at “sensitive locations” such as schools and churches. 

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Professor Kevin R. Johnson participated in the California State Association of Counties webinar “Immigration Basics for California Counties: Just the Facts -- Data, Patterns and Trends.”

Pew Research Center Senior Writer and Editor Jens Manuel Krogstad also presented during the webinar, which included a special introduction by Monterey County Supervisor and UC Davis Law alumnus Luis Alejo ’01, CSAC’s second vice president.

Reporter Gurajpal Sangha of Sacramento’s ABC10 news interviewed Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin on March 13 about President Donald Trump’s then-imminent

Professor Darien Shanske argues that  states and/or university systems issue taxable 100-year century bonds to support key research projects amid the Trump administration’s cuts to core projects.

Professor Kevin R. Johnson has joined the advisory committee for a forthcoming California Museum exhibit on forced deportations of Latina/o Californians. Legendary farm labor and civil rights organizer Dolores Huerta and UCLA history Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández also are advisors.

Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin wrote a legal explainer piece for The Conversation and spoke to the Christian Science Monitor about the March 5 arrest and subsequent detention of Mahmoud Khalil, the recent Colum

Bloomberg Television visited King Hall in February to interview Professor Amelia Miazad about faith-based investing. Miazad has written a paper on the topic.

In Bloomberg’s subsequent news report, Miazad discussed the long history of faith-based investing, and noted that “the Christian investor community cannot be summarized on a bumper sticker.”