D-Lab's workshops and consulting services are paused for the summer. Our core staff will be focusing on special projects and other endeavors. We look forward to seeing you in the fall and hope you have a great summer.
I am a current doctoral student in the School of Social Welfare. My research interests are in exploring the impact of neoliberal policies and privatization of education and healthcare on the quality of life and well-being of working-class BIPOC families. As a first-generation, Mexican graduate student, I am shaped by the experience of growing up in Salinas, CA to, then, immigrant, farm-working parents. However, my experience also exposed me to the realities of obtaining upward social and economic mobility in this country, and who these opportunities are, or are not, afford to. These...
I am a fifth-year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics with an areal interest in the Wintuan languages, traditionally spoken in the northern Sacramento Valley and now undergoing revitalization. My primary research interests are in leveraging archival recordings for the phonetic analysis of these under-documented languages, as well as designing tools to assist in their revitalization. I have worked as a linguistic consultant for the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians since 2020 and the Wintu Tribe of Northern California since 2022. I received my MA in linguistics from UC...
I'm passionate about promoting the crucial role of reading in learning a second/foreign language. I hope to bridge the gap between research and the language learning industry by translating research-based best practices to curriculum design and content development. I’m also interested in using my skills in experimental design, quantitative data analysis, and psychometrics to evaluate and improve education technology.
My research as a PhD student in the Geography Graduate Group with Emphasis in Computational Social Science at the University of California, Davis applies a multi-evidence-based approach that combines qualitative and quantitative techniques to study social ecological systems. Using the case of Cannabis production in one of the largest cannabis-producing regions in the United States, I explore the (de)criminalization of the cannabis industry in remote rural social ecological systems, often situated in infrastructure-poor places where access to sanitation, energy, water,...