Media Coverage

A recent article in Mission Local on federal immigration enforcement in San Francisco includes commentary from Assistant Professor Kristina Lovato.

The story reports on the detention and deportation of a San Francisco father and considers the implications of enforcement actions within a sanctuary-city context. Drawing on her research on immigration policy and child and family well-being, Lovato situates the case within a broader body of scholarship documenting the psychological, social, and economic effects of...

Health disparities leave women — particularly women of color, immigrants and other historically marginalized populations — with shorter lifespans than their white male counterparts.

Watch the 101 in 101 video, Health Disparities explained in 101 seconds to learn more about Associate Professor...

Because we work together — that’s the definition of engaged research — there’s more impact.

— Susan Stone, Dean, UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare, quoted in UC Berkeley News, "With high schoolers’ help, UC Berkeley researchers investigate why so many students are chronically absent".

It is vital to partner with students in solving the...

"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...