Sonoma State University

2023 Symposium

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3rd Annual Social Action Student Symposium (SASSy)

Program and Schedule of Events

Location: Ballroom B

Session 1A: Advancing Well-Being across Relationships: Identities, and Social Strata
Location: Alexander Valley Room

  • “Discrimination’s Role on Sleep Outcomes and the Moderating Role of Loneliness and Social Support” Amish Patel
  • “A Longitudinal Study of Marital Satisfaction Among LatinX Couples” Ashton Walton
  • “Understanding the Invisibility of Child Abuse and Neglect in the Past through Structural Violence” Hui Ting Ko and Alexis Boutin

Faculty Discussant: Dr. Ben Smith

Session 1B: Promoting Equity and Belonging in Education: Problems and Prospects
Location: Russian River Valley Room

  • “Time to Degree: Higher Education’s Prescribed On-Time Completion and Students’ Meaning-Making Process” Ismael A. Lopez
  • “Latino/a Students Attending Predominantly White Institutions: Culturally Significant Relationships Promoting Academic Resilience” Mariana Guerrero, Shaela Alejandre, Shirley Garcia, Alexa Rayas, and Marc-Emil Sevilla
  • “Becoming a Diversity Leader in the 21st Century: The Value and Impact of Multicultural Pedagogy” Jordan David, Camille Babida, and Shirley Garcia
  • “Bringing Online Sexual Assault Bystander Intervention Training into the Twenty-First Century” Cade Campigli, Bill Thompson, Madlina Shahade, Maggie Geissinger, Nikole Baker, and Bryan Caretto

Faculty Discussant:  Dr. Andres Martinez

Session 2A: Engaging Environmental (In)Justice
Location: Alexander Valley Room

  • “Sustainable Development of Smallholder Farmers in Bahia, Brazil” Melia Zimmerman, Kyla Deocampo, and Aubree Ellison
  • “Government Regulatory Capacity of Waste Management in Bucharest, Romania” Claudia Muralles and Aidee Pressley
  • “Community-Academic Partnered Research within a Frontline Environmental Justice Community” Ignacio Garcia, Jeremiah Bazan, Casey Hemphill, Claudia Muralles, and Stephany Orellana
  • “Climate Change and California’s Housing Crisis: Housing Affordability, Climate Migration, and the Impact on Community Engagement” Audrey Hauser

Faculty Discussant: Dr. Zeke Baker

Session 2B: Interrogating Inequality
Location: Russian River Valley Room

  • “How California’s “Second Look” Resentencing Could Address the Racialized Effects of Environmental Injustice During the Dual Pandemic of COVID-19 and Racism” Hannah Dennis
  • “Myths that Cause White-Collar Crime” Pamela Cruz
  • “A Remedy for Exclusion: Parent Understandings of Camp Nunez as a Summer Learning Experience” Jessica Pesqueda Orozco

Faculty Discussant: Dr. Diana Grant

Location: Ballroom B

Session 3A: Understanding Historical Injustice and Struggle
Location: Alexander Valley Room

  • “Crown Heights 1991: Tensions between Communities” Ryan Shatkin
  • “The Forgotten Past of Persecuted Autochthonous National Minorities Throughout Austria” Gabriel Peterson
  • “Coerced Indigenous Labor at Petaluma Adobe” Grant Cubberly
  • “Forgotten Children: Cerebral Palsy and the Rural United States” Athena Weathers

Faculty Discussant: Dr. James Mestaz

Session 3B: Oxford Consortium for Human Rights: Student Perspectives on the Pursuit of Rights and Justice Today
Location: Russian River Valley Room

A panel discussion led by OCHR graduates Jared Height, Jeremiah Kitavi, Jennifer Lopez, Kai Suter, Angelina Torres, and Ignacio Garcia.

Faculty Discussant: Dr. Heather Smith

Location: Ballroom B

Please join us in Ballroom B for a catered reception and presentation of certificates to our student panelists