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In Spring 2026, with generous funding from the Campus Advisory Committee on Student Services & Fees, the American Cultures Environmental Justice Initiative launched the American Cultures Engaged Scholarship Environmental Justice Program. By partnering American Cultures courses with Bay Area social justice community organizations, ACES promotes experiential learning and deep reflective engagement, allowing students to apply classroom content to today’s most pressing social issues.
This new funding will allow us to support 10 undergraduate students as ACES fellows for the Spring 2026. Fellows play a critical role in developing a course’s community-engagement component, collaborating closely with faculty members to foster meaningful undergraduate learning experiences. They ensure that community partnerships are mutually beneficial and contribute to long-term community impact.
This opportunity could not have come at a better time, as the American Cultures Center is continuing to develop new and exciting opportunities for growing community-engaged scholarship on campus. In partnership with the Student Environmental Resource Center’s Decolonial Environmental Network, we have been diligently working to develop our newest initiative, the American Cultures Environmental Justice Initative. This initiative has already fostered exciting opportunities to develop critical, community-engaged environmental justice curricula that apply decolonial and environmental justice frameworks to real-world issues.