Building TRUST
(Translational Research for Understanding, Solidarity, and Transformative Impact)
Summit
Guiying (Angel) Zhong (she/they)
NationSwell Fellows Pitch Day
June 14, 2024
The Problem:
The Problem:
The Problem:
“EVIDENCE”
POLICY
PRACTICE
Focus is usually here.
Missing from the “evidence” = missing from the policy;
How can we incorporate more community voices here?
Let’s build TRUST by bringing together scholar-activists and community organizers.
The Solution:
Incorporating Community Feedback:
Held 3 Listening Sessions with Community-Based Organizations:
Incorporating Community Feedback:
Key Ideas from the Community:
They want to be more connected with institutions of higher education throughout the region.
They want to know what data is already out there/already being collected and the ability to access/inform it.
There are many ways scholar-activists could be integrated into organizational initiatives.
It can be empowering just knowing there are value-aligned people to partner with out there, and the summit would be a great start to creating that network long-term.
Place-Based Impact: CA’s Central Valley
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Fresno
Merced
Sacramento
San Joaquin
“The Central Valley is one of the fastest growing regions of California.”
“Central Valley residents are ethnically diverse”
“Most regions of the valley have high poverty rates. Education levels are lower in the valley than in the rest of the state.”
Contextualizing the Region:
Source: “California’s Central Valley” by the CA Public Policy Institute
Schedule of
Building TRUST Summit
Opening | Learning Circle on Restorative Justice by Local Holistic Healer |
Keynote Speaker/Workshop on Scholar-Activism | Dr. Robyn Rodriguez Professor Emeritus, Asian American Studies, UC Davis; Founder, Reimagination Lab |
Community Agreements for Engagement | Let’s Practice the Principles of Co-Design by Collectively Creating Community Agreements for the Rest of the Summit |
Building TRUST Hackathon | Break into Predetermined Small Groups, Choose One of Two Tracks: 1) Good Data Track (Establishing Best Practices for Data Collection, Data Sharing, and Data Reporting); 2) Hacking Policy Track (Creating Innovative Community-Led, Research-Informed Policy Solutions for Local Issues) |
Group Share-Out | Identifying Common Themes Across Group Deliverables |
Group Reflection | How was your experience? How do you plan to continue the work started here today? How can we build TRUST sustainably? |
“TRUST is the currency of community.”