Welfare Rights Collaboration Project

Awardee: Colleen Wessel-McCoy, Ph.D., School of PublicAffairs (SPA).

Award: $1,600 Grant awarded to compensate create a professorship.

Photo Caption: Flyer advertising the research partnership.

1Advocacy Expert

Carolyn Baker brought experience, knowledge, and commitment to questions of advocacy for systemic change that are relevant to nearly every area of study within Watts

“This partnership that was rooted in both the community and community organizing space and academic and research space… In our minds, it was just as much about sharing how we work together as it was sharing about this history that needs to be better documented and better known.”

– Colleen Wessel-McCoy, Ph.D., School of Public Affairs

1New Professorship

Anew a visiting professorship aimed at sharing the history of marginalized and oppressed women of color leading the nation successfully to policy changes in social service provision.