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Your Support Creates Real Impact
The UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement advances research, programming and dialogue on some of the most pressing issues facing higher education today. Your contribution helps sustain this work and broaden its impact across campuses nationwide.
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Testimonials
The Center team has cultivated an irreplaceable environment of inspiration and collaboration, which I am truly grateful for, especially amid the political challenges of this past year.
This year, I am serving as a Fellow with Harvard’s Democratic Knowledge Project (DKP), where I am leading a cross-ideological national convening this spring that brings together scholars and practitioners committed to advancing state-based postsecondary civic education and voter engagement. This work grew out of my Center research examining the implementation of the California Student Civic and Voter Empowerment Act (A.B. 963).
My book, The Opinionated University, grew out of the project the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement funded when I was one of its fellows in 2020-2021.
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