Everett Fellows are selected undergraduate students at UCSC who engage with the technical, educational, and research resources of the university to work directly with communities, empowering people to design practical solutions to persistent problems. The fellows operate the Everett Program and sit as owners and the board of directors. The aim of the Everett Program is to pursue social change through proactive solutions that make an immediate and enduring impact.
Institute for Social Transformation
The Institute for Social Transformation builds on the campus’s progressive values, while simultaneously serving as an incubator for new ideas and an accelerator for pathbreaking scholarship in the public interest. The institute sharpens our focus, and facilitates faculty collaboration, with a persistent determination to create positive change. The Institute for Social Transformation was founded in 2018 by Social Sciences Dean Katharyne Mitchell as part of a broader vision of the social sciences at UC Santa Cruz. It relies on divisional support and the generous contributions of donors, foundations, and grants.
The Center for Creative Ecologies
The Center for Creative Ecologies provides a place to consider the intersection of culture and environment. The aim is to develop useful interdisciplinary research tools to examine how cultural practitioners—filmmakers, new media strategists, photojournalists, architects, writers, activists, and interdisciplinary theorists—critically address and creatively negotiate environmental concerns in the local, regional, and global field. These concerns include anthropogenic climate change and global warming, and relate to factors such as habitat destruction, drought, species extinction, and environmental degradation.
