Experience the powerful firsthand accounts of formerly unhoused college students and young adults aging out of foster care.

When teens age out of the foster care system, the combined challenges of independent living can be overwhelming. Join us as we explore solutions that allow them to thrive and the transformative impact of community support on their lives.

Hear from housing innovator Sam Prater (founder of Los Angeles Room & Board) and acclaimed author David Ambroz, recognized as an American Champion of Change by President Obama. Guiding us through the evening is the talented actor, producer, director, and activist Shanola Hampton.

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The Barbra Streisand Center was established in 2021 and made possible by the vision and generosity of artist and activist Barbra Streisand. The Streisand Center, housed at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW), will become the future Barbra Streisand Institute at UCLA, a forward-thinking institute dedicated to finding solutions to the most vital social issues. Streisand’s transformative gift helps to expand our combined centers’ reach beyond UCLA and Los Angeles, fund faculty and students, and support research and programming that seek to address critical issues facing people of all genders.

The UCLA Barbra Streisand Center invites you to the inaugural public lecture on the topic of Truth in the Public Sphere

The Center for Truth in the Public Sphere will be the first area of study and advocacy and will focus on truth in the public sphere, which Streisand is especially passionate about. Speakers and research will delve into urgent and existential threats to democracy, and examine how lies and the proliferation of disinformation can destroy a civic sense of decency, as well as entire countries.

Featuring

André Brock, Frances Haugen, Stuart Stevens

Moderated by

Safiya Noble

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Join Next City on April 6, 2022 from 1-2pm (Eastern time) for a virtual discussion with Tiasia O’Brien of co:census regarding how technology can be best used to amplify the voices and needs of overlooked community members.

It’s 2022 and the cities are concerned with IOT, smart cars, and micro-mobility. With all of this technology and enough innovation, we still have yet to figure out how we can empower and lift up the voice of community members to solve local urban issues.

Why? One theory is because we have such a limited understanding of the lived experience.

In this talk & conversation aimed at engaging Urban Planners, Designers & Consultants, the Founder of Seam Social Labs shares the history of human communication & storytelling, our common threads, and how we can transform the future of cities by caring about human narrative and the civic experience using technology.

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