Funding Opportunities for Undergraduate Students

Amount

Two $750 awards.

Criteria

Upper-division students (with a GPA of 3.0 or higher) who demonstrate an active commitment to both working-class and feminist issues and involvement in community activities for social change.

To apply

The application must contain the following materials in hard copy only:

Three copies of each:

• Constance Coiner Undergraduate Award Cover Sheet
• Personal Essay (see Cover Sheet for essay guidelines)
• Curriculum Vitae

One copy of:

• Letters of recommendation from two faculty members (one letter for academic/teaching work,
  and one letter for community work). The letters should be sealed in an envelope
  with the recommender’s signature across the back flap.

Deadline

5:30 PM
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Asmara Carbado

Asmara Carbado is a third-year transfer student majoring in the Department of History, with a minor in Civic Engagement.  A McNair scholar, she is working on a research project entitled “Intersectionality: An Intellectual History of an Idea.”  She is deeply interested in how social movements related to race and gender relate to the lives of women of color. Carbado is interning at Justice Corps where she assists litigants, many of whom are poor women of color, with completing and filing documents for cases regarding family law issues. Through her academic, artistic, and volunteer work, Asmara’s goal is to promote legal, public policy, and academic approaches to gender that reflect the multiple identities of women. Carbado plans to obtain a Ph.D in history and a J.D. and hopes to teach women and the law and critical race theory.

Cailin Crockett

Cailin Crockett is a third-year double major in Spanish and Political Science, with a concentration in Political Theory.  Inspired by her grandmother, mother, and sister, she has been engaged in community activism and feminist issues from an early age. On campus, she has played a leadership role in Bruin Feminists for Equality, coordinating International Women’s Day festivities and initiating an annual clothing drive at the Downtown Women’s Center to spread awareness of women’s homelessness as a result of sexual violence. This year, she has helped to start Vox, an on-campus advocacy group for Planned Parenthood, facilitating Teen Success support groups for teen moms at a clinic in Inglewood and recently lobbied California assemblypersons in Sacramento in support of lowering healthcare costs for individuals below the poverty line. While studying abroad in Spain during Fall quarter, she volunteered as a part of the mobile clinic team for APRAMP, a nonprofit group whose mission is to empower female sex workers and provide them with safe contraceptives and gynecological care. After graduation, Cailin hopes to return to Spain to continue working with APRAMP and to conduct research in the field of Spanish political philosophy. She also intends to pursue a joint J.D./Ph.D. program in political theory and public interest law.                                 

Kunti Dudakia

Kunti Dudakia is an undergraduate at UCLA with a double major in Communications Studies and Women’s Studies. Her pledge to women’s issues in the law was spurred by her internship at the California Women’s Law Center where she worked on the Habeus Project. She also produced a critical media literacy documentary entitled, “Are You Black Enuf? The Politics of the Black Female Identity.”

Jing-Chiou Liou