Tom Boellstorff

Member, Board of Directors, the Institute for Community Health Outreach (an HIV prevention education nonprofit organization based in San Francisco) (2002–2004); participant in Global Connect, UC Irvine, 2004-present; have offered courses in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes, 2005, 2006. Interviewed by Katie Butler of the New York Times for an article on homosexuality and marriage (February 2006). Pro bono consulting for the asylum cases of gay Indonesian men for the following law firms: Anne Penarczyk, New York (August 2005), Lori B. Schoenberg, Pasadena (January, February, and March 2006), Sarah Sohn, New York (February 2006), Russell Perdew, Chicago (February and March 2006); Pro bono expert testimony via teleconference for the asylum case of a gay Indonesian man for the following law firm: Masliah and Soloway (August 26, 2003); Pro bono consulting for the asylum cases of gay Indonesian men for the following law firms: Albert C. Lum, Attorney at Law (May 2004), Kari Glynes Elliot, Immigrant and Refugee Board, Ontario, Canada (May 2004), Smith and Hughes (May 2003), Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld (July 2003), Davidson and Shiller (May 2003), Paul O’Dwyer (April 2003), Urban Justice Center (November 2002), McVey, Mullery and Dulberg (October 2002); Pro bono consulting concerning sexuality and culture in Indonesia, for Cynthia Loyst, Producer, SexTV (Toronto, Canada), March 2005. Pro bono translation work for the HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment non-governmental organization Yayasan Gaya Celebes (based in Makassar, Indonesia), February 2006.

Leo Chavez

2004 Mitigation testimony on death penalty case, San Diego Alternative Public Defenders Office; Chavez, Leo R., “U.S. Citizenship: Americans by Birth.” The Miami Herald, Monday, March 14, 2005. Opinion-Commentary; April 7, 2003, Interviewed in studio at Dallas Public Radio station, theme: immigration; Presentation, Orange County in 2005: A report card on the growing inequality.” University of California, Irvine. The Changing Face of Orange County Speaker Series, 2004-2005; Presentation at the conference: Representing Mexican Nationals in Capital Cases: Challenges, Resources, and Strategies anta Monica, California, November 30, 2005. Organized by the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program; Presentation for MEDELLAS, an Asian American community organization. Topic: Who is an American? March 18, 2005, Irvine, California. Interviewed (a) by The Orange County Register, (b) on the Lou Dobbs Show, CNN, March 30, 2005, (c) by The Los Angeles Times, and (d) by Los Angeles Times Magazine.

Robert Garfias

Acta grants panel - California Folk Artists Apprenticeship Program Review panel; Philadelphia Music Project grants panel. (This is a grants review panel for all music programs in the greater Philadelphia area. I have been asked to serve on this panel, alternate years for about eight years now); Los Angeles Disney Hall public lecture with Frank Gehry, to introduce performance of Reigakusha Gagaku; Japanese Museum of ethnology music design group residence; Pennsylvania Arts Touring panel. (This is a review panel for all the Mid Atlantic states.); NY Carnegie Hall lecture.“ Olivier Messaien’s use of Japanese Gagaku. “

Karen Leonard

"American Muslims before and after 9/11," for Network of Culture and Media, Japan American Museum Theatre, Los Angeles, March 12, 2004; "Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians in the US after 9/11," Harvard
Educators for Social Responsibility outreach workshop, UCB June 14, 2004;   "American Muslims before and after 9/11," National Newswriters Conference, Wash. DC, Sept. 11, 2004. "American Muslims, for Institute on Islam and Muslims in America," workshop sponsored by the SSRC, New York Times Company Foundation, and the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at UC B Graduate School of Journalism, New York, Sept. 27-28, 2004. Worked with California Legislative Latino Caucus on exhibit in Sacramento, Mexican and East Indian Experience in California, 2002. Chair/Introducer of panel organized and sponsored by the Muslim Public Affairs Council and the UCI Religion, Ethics, and Security Program and the UCI Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, on The Global Image of the United States, April 14, UCI, 2003. Speaker on Islamic Identities in America for NPR Odyssey program, Chicago, July 6, 2004.

Bill Maurer

Chicago Public Radio, Odyssey program, March 31, 2005 on money and alternatives to money. That’s Capital! Podcast, www.thatscapital.net. Several Osher Lifelong Learning Institute courses. Negotiated Intel gift to the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Ethnography. More information available at www.anthro.uci.edu.

Michael Montoya

Participatory Action Research Projects: (a) Community Empowerment and Diabetes: Latina Promotores and Blood Glucose Control, (b) Alternative Cluster Analyses: Community Based Leukemia Etiologies in a Latino Urban Neighborhood, (c) Environmental Justice in South East Los Angeles: Ethnographic Methods for "Asthmatown" Institutional Change Activities: (a) Research Director, Office of Community Health Research Partnerships, a project of the General Clinical Research Center, School of Medicine to transform clinical research through community partnership development.(b) Faculty Steering Committee Member, Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community, School of Medicine initiative to increase underrepresented in medical schools and transform medical education to respond to community needs of the medically underserved Latino population of Southern California. (c) Founding Faculty Steering Committee Member, Research Initiative in Inequality and Social Justice, a campus wide initiative designed to promote public partnerships with academic research into social inequality.

Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute course on "Biocapitalism", November 2005.

 

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