Media Coverage

The complex story of how the pandemic impacted the Asian American diaspora; Julian Chun-Chung Chow in UC Berkeley News

April 2, 2025
Julian Chun-Chung Chow

"Community members see researchers come and go, and they disappear after data collection, leaving nothing meaningful."

Their work exemplifies a growing brand of research known as community-engaged scholarship. This approach emphasizes collaboration with the groups being studied to ensure alignment with a community’s values, instead of extractive scenarios in which researchers might parachute in without much buy-in from or knowledge of the community and neglect follow-up once...

https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/03/21/the-complex-story-of-how-the-pandemic-impac…

As safe spaces shrink, immigrant youth find solace in “the beautiful game”; Kristina Lovato in El Timpano

May 7, 2025
Kristina Lovato

[Soccer is] such a friendly way that immigrants can connect to one another, and for an hour and a half on the field, let go of the mental stress that is burdening their day.

— Kristina Lovato, Assistant Professor and Director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare Initiative, in El Timpano: As safe spaces shrink, immigrant youth find solace in “the beautiful game”

https://www.eltimpano.org/reporting/as-safe-spaces-shrink-immigrant-youth-find-s…

Soaring Housing Costs Make Life Even More Challenging for Oakland’s Unaccompanied Minors; Kristina Lovato in KQED

March 28, 2025
Kristina Lovato

The mental health needs of unaccompanied minors are severely impacted upon resettlement in the U.S.... They’ve dreamed of being in the U.S. for the ability to go to college, the ability to send money back home, but once they arrive here, there’s a different reality and they realize that they have to go to work immediately.

— Kristina Lovato, Assistant Professor and director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare Initiative, quoted in KQED,...

https://www.kqed.org/news/12033293/soaring-housing-costs-make-life-even-more-cha…

How hardline anti-immigrant policies are threatening the right to education; Kristina Lovato in the The Guardian

April 2, 2025
Kristina Lovato

Restricting access to education would also deepen social divisions and negatively affect the entire American economy by exacerbating marginalization and impoverishment...

— Kristina Lovato, Assistant Professor and director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare Initiative, quoted in The Guardian, "How hardline anti-immigrant policies are threatening the right to education"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/right-to-education-mass-deportat…

ICE, Schools and Children: What Families Should Know; Kristina Lovato in KQED

February 13, 2025
Kristina Lovato

It’s “really important” for every family who could be affected by immigration enforcement to have what agencies and organizations call “a family preparedness plan” in case of an emergency.

— Kristina Lovato, Assistant Professor and Director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare Initiative, in KQED: "ICE, Schools and Children: What Families Should Know"

https://www.kqed.org/news/12026817/ice-schools-and-children-what-families-should…

San José Adopts Controversial Plan to Bus Homeless People Out of the City; Jamie Chang in KQED article

February 26, 2025
Jamie Chang

It’s not the inability to get a ticket to go home that’s the issue. For most people who are homeless, it’s actually having a safe place to go home to begin with, as well as having the adequate services to treat trauma, and mental health, and access to quality substance use treatment.

— Jamie Chang, Associate Professor, quoted in KQED's article, "San José Adopts Controversial Plan to Bus Homeless People Out of the City"

https://www.kqed.org/news/12028615/san-jose-adopts-controversial-plan-to-bus-hom…