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CC&S' Y-PLAN Initiative has been awarded the 2011-2012 Chancellor's Award for Public Service! The award honors The Center for Cities & Schools' five-year campus-community partnership wit the City of Richmond, the West Contra Costa Unified School District and LISC Bay Area to engage UC Berkeley student "mentors" and high school youth in authentic community development projects to build a healthy and sustainable Richmond. Each year, the Chancellor recognizes students, staff, faculty and community partnerships that embody UC Berkeley's proud tradition of public service and commitment to improving the local community. The CC&S' Y-PLAN Initiative will be honored with other 2011-2012 recipients at an award ceremony and reception hosted by Chancellor and Mary Catherine Birgeneau on April 30.
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CC&S's Deb McKoy presents at "GETTING IT DONE II: Building Strong Communities in a Changing World, the LISC National Institute for Comprehensive Community Development annual conference in Chicago on "Public Education and Community Development."
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CC&S's Jeff Vincent speaks on a panel at Sun, Surf, and Smart Growth: The 11th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference in San Diego on "Back to Planning School: What You Need to Know for Successful and Collaborative School Siting."
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- CC&S Webinar on Seven Steps to Align High-Quality Education with Innovations in City and Metropolitan Planning and Development Join the Center forCities & Schools, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and theUrban Institute for adiscussion of:
- Overview of Seven Steps
DEBORAH MCKOY and JEFF VINCENT, Center for Cities & Schools
Role of Education in HUD Programs
SALIN GEEVARGHESE, Senior Advisor, Sustainable Housing and Communities Program, HUD
Incorporating Education in Regional Planning
MARISA RAYA, Regional Planner, Association of Bay Area Governments
Getting Districts to the Table
TONY SMITH, Superintendent, Oakland Unified School District
Effective Joint Use Strategies
MIKE RAIBLE, Executive Director, Planning and Development, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and
JONATHAN WELLS, Program Manager, Capital Facilities, Charlotte- Mecklenburg Planning Department
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CC&S's Jeff Vincent moderates a panel at the 2011 Equality Summit in Detroit on "Education First: Schools at the Heart of Community," with
Marty Blank, President of the Institute for Educational Leadership, and Sandy Moore, President of Urban Strategies, Inc.
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CC&S's Jeff Vincent presents at the Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute's Issues and Advocates Speakers Series on "Closing the Opportunity Gap: Prioritizing Schools in Planning for Sustainable Communities" on September 21from 6:00-8:00 pm at the East Bay Community Foundation in Frank Ogawa Plaza.
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CC&S's Jeff Vincent presents with Mary Filardo of the 21st Century School Fund in the workshop: "Closing Neighborhood Public Schools: Causes and Effects," at the 3rd Safe Routes to School National Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
- Y-PLAN (Youth- Plan, Learn, Act, Now!) hosts National Professional Development Institute: School-Community Partnerships for College and Career Readiness
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- CC&S presents at the White House Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative Conference in Washington, DC. The conference includes a series of workshops that explore alternate federal funding streams for local neighborhood revitalization initiatives, implementation issues, and local examples. July 21-22, 2011.
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- CC&S's Jeffrey Vincent invited by the HUD/EPA/DOT Partnership for Sustainable Communities Leadership Team to present on the intersection of school siting and sustainable communities and how federal agencies can facilitate this type of work. The Leadership Team is interested in the new report, "Opportunity-Rich Schools and Sustainable Communities: Seven Steps to Align High-Quality Education and Innovations in City and Metropolitan Planning and Development" and the on-going work the state of California has undertaken to align school construction investments and planning priorities. The meeting will be held July 20, from 4 - 5:30 PM at EPA Headquarters in Washington, DC.
- Download Report here
Sustainable Communities Homepage
- YPLAN In the News: "High School Students Help Shape Community Plan for Neglected Greenway" from California Watch
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- CC&S's Deborah McKoy and Jeff Vincent present on creating "Opportunity-Rich Schools and Sustainable Communities" to the City of Edmonton's mayor's task force on community sustainability . The task force is working on strategies to revive 100 neighbourhoods built before 1971, many of which have seen sharp declines in the number of households with children. As a result, Edmonton's two school districts have looked to close schools serving these neighborhoods. Last fall, the public school board put a two-year moratorium on school closures and this year voted to delay new school construction, while community leaders in the task force investigate options to ensure neighborhood and school quality amidst community change.
- View the article in the Edmonton Journal here
- View the article in the Edmonton Sun here
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- CC&S Deputy Director Jeff Vincent presents on "Quality Schools and Complete Communities" at the Council Chambers in Palo Alto,
CA.
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- CC&S presents at the Building Healthy Communities Through a Focus on Young Men and Boys of Color Symposium, in Los Angeles. Convened by the Warren Institute in collaboration with The California Endowment, the event is the nation's first research and policy symposium focused on the well-being of boys and young men of color and features leading researchers, policy advocates and activists focused on policy strategies for improving the health, educational, social, and economic outcomes for boys and young men of color.
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- CC&S Deputy Director Jeff Vincent presents "Joint Use Schools:
Policies & Tools for Effective Partnerships" at the Council for
Educational Facility Planners International World Conference in San
Jose, CA.
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- Healthy Living in Bay Area Public Housing Communities convening scheduled for Monday, September 20, 2010 at the California Endowment. CC&S is a proud partner on the Healthy Living in Bay Area Public Housing Communities convening scheduled for Monday, September 20, 2010 at the California Endowment. For the past 8 months, Program Director Ariel Bierbaum has sat on the steering committee to plan this innovative convening inspired by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. This multi-agency partnership envisions excellent health for Bay Area residents who participate in public and subsidized housing; safe, healthy public housing neighborhoods and communities; and collaborations among the network of public and private organizations who provide services to these residents, in order to improve their overall individual and community health. The goals of the convening are to:
- Bring together Bay Area stakeholders to discuss opportunities and innovative approaches to meet the health needs of public housing residents. Health needs include:
- Physical and mental health;
- Financial health: affordable, healthy food; improvements in nutrition leading to increased employability; improved mechanisms for bring affordable, healthy food establishments to subsidized housing communities;
- Social well-being
- Build on best practices, locally and nationwide, in providing health care and healthy living options for public housing residents.
Executive Director Deborah McKoy will speak on the opening panel, "Understanding Community & Environmental Health Factors."
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- CC&S welcomes Pablo Montero Souto, a visiting scholar from the University of Santiago de Compostela, in the northwest of Spain. Pablo's research focuses on time and distance traveled by young people to reach educational opportunities, and the implications for educational achievment. Pablo's research and 6 month visit to UC Berkeley is sponsored by the Spanish High Education centers by Ministry of Science and Innovation. While here, Pablo will participate in CC&S' institutes and convenings, take full advantage of the faculty and students across campus, and support ongoing research of CC&S.
- CC&S partners with the California Strategic Growth Council, California Department of Education, and other state agencies on the invited roundtable, Smart Schools for Sustainable Communities: Aligning Sustainable Communities Planning and Public Education in California. The event brought local and state leaders together to discuss promising strategies for linking schools to the creation of healthy, sustainable communities. Topics included, integrating schools into regional Sustainable Communities Strategies and local planning activities, school siting and design, and green construction. Participants worked together to identify policy opportunities for improving educational experiences and realizing sustainable communities.
- Download Roundtable Overview (PDF)
- Download Agenda (PDF)
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- CC&S partners with the international non-profit AYUSA International to bring Y-PLAN to nearly 100 youth from the US and around the globe to study sustainability and social change.
- CC&S Deputy Director Jeff Vincent contributes to ESRI's discussion on how technology advances the creation of efficient, well-planned (or smart) communities. Read the blog.
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- The Green Schools Initiative and the UC Berkeley Center for Cities & Schools are awarded a UC Berkeley Chancellor's Community Partnership Fund grant to pilot the new model Green Star Schools certification program in Berkeley and engage elementary school students in a service-learning program to "green" their school by reducing waste, pollution, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. The Chancellor's Community Partnership Fund supports partnerships between local community members and University of California, Berkeley, students, faculty and staff to improve public safety, work to close the achievement gap, and help protect the environment in the city of Berkeley.
- Deborah Moore, executive director of the Green Schools Initiative, said, “This grant supports our partnership with students, faculty and staff at the UC Berkeley Center for Cities & Schools that will help us pilot test a new model Green Star Schools 'certification program' in Berkeley schools, which will ultimately be replicated across Bay Area schools. We so appreciate this seed funding that will help us grow a self-sustaining program to engage students in improving the health and sustainability of their school environment.”
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- CC&S is funded by the HUD What Works Collaborative: Building Knowledge and Sharing Solutions for Housing and Urban Policy to examine the role of education in new federal programs.
- CC&S participates in four events at the TOWARDS A JUST METROPOLIS: From Crisis to Possibilities Conference
- Deputy Director Jeff Vincent and Program Director Ariel Bierbaum facilitate discussions on schools and regional planning at the Association of Bay Area Governments' "A Regional Dialogue on Community Planning: Reflections and New Agendas" (Jun 17th, 6-9pm, Oakland MetroCenter)
- Ariel Bierbaum presents at the mobile workshop on the Nystrom Urban Revitalization Project in Richmond
- CC&S joins the HOPE SF Youth Leadership Academy Works-in-Progress visions for change presentations (Jun 19, 3:30-5:30pm, Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley)
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- CC&S Deputy Director Jeff Vincent presents "Mechanics of City-School
Initiatives: Innovative Policy Strategies to Align Public Education and Neighborhood Transformation" as part of the "Community Engagement and Community Revitalization - The Nystrom Story" plenary session at the Northern California Summit on Children and Youth. Richmond, CA.
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- CC&S Executive Director Deborah McKoy presents "Y-PLAN: Project-Based Learning, Community Collaboration, and Authentic Engagement of Bay Area Youth in City Planning" at the Northern California Summit on Children and Youth. Richmond, CA.
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- "Visions for Community in Nystrom Village" at the Richmond Civic Center in Richmond, CA as part of the Y-PLAN 2010 Final Presentations.
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- "Visions for Community in Nystrom Village" at the Richmond Civic Center in Richmond, CA as part of the Y-PLAN 2010 Final Presentations.
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- "Connecting Cities & Schools: The Role of Public Education in Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities" at Northeastern University.
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- Community Centered Schools workshop for the 2010 New Partners for Smart Growth Conference.
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- at the Joint Informational Hearing for the California Senate Committee on Housing and Transportation and the Senate Select Committee on State School Facilities: "Schools as Centers of Sustainable Communities: A Vision for Future School Facility Construction."
- Download Testimony (PDF)
- Watch the Hearing
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- Visiting Scholar Paulo Pisco, MBA, Urban and Territorial Management, joins the CC&S team. He is presently working towards his PhD in Territorial Engineering with his thesis on School Urbanism in Portugal, which tries to put urban and school systems into new perspectives.
- "The Complex and Multi-Faceted Nature of School Construction Costs: Factors Affecting California," to the California State Allocation Board.
- View the report here
- Watch the presentation here
- at the California Senate Select Committee on State School Facilities' Hearing, K-12 School Facility Construction: Developing a Vision for California's Infrastructure Investment.
- View agenda here
- View Jeff's presentation here
- Watch the hearing here
- its 10th anniversary with a series of local and regional presentations
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- 'Learning, Schools, and the Out-of-School Context' as part of the MIT-MLK Seminar Series.
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- the 2009 Chancellor's Faculty Service-Learning Leadership Award for Y-PLAN! Visit the Chancellor's Public Service Awards website for more information.
- in the national long-range school facility planning database pilot workshop held by Innovation Partnership's Center for Innovative School Facilities, Oregon Association of Education Service Districts, and the 21st Century School Fund.
- For more info visit Innovation Partnership
- in support of California Assembly Bill 346 (Torlakson, 2009), "Joint-Use Education Facilities," to the California State Assembly Committee on Education.
- with 2009 Outstanding Service Awards from California's Coalition for Adequate School Housing (CASH). Visit CASH.
- Learn more about Y-PLAN!
- in Albuquerque, NM. CC&S develops the first-ever "Schools Track" and organizes two sessions for the 8th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference.
- See Flyer (PDF)
- Robert Cervero (UCB DCRP), Pedro Noguera (NYU), and Lisa Villarreal (San Francisco Foundation).
- of the Advancement Project submit a policy recommendation memo on federal investment in public school facilities to President Barack Obama.
- Download Memorandum (PDF)
- For more information, visit the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR's) website
- See Announcement (PDF)
- a presentation to the California School Boards Association in San Diego, CA.
- host a roundtable discussion, "Re-Visioning School Facility Planning and Design for the 21st Century: Creating Optimal Learning Environments."
- For more information on the Roundtable, visit CDE's website.
- Download Proceedings Report (PDF) coming soon!
- 'Community-Oriented School Facilities for Vibrant Communities: Development Partnerships, Green Design, and Joint Use.'
- on the relationship between residential segregation and school segregation at the national Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity in Chicago.
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- Emeryville City Hall, Emeryville, CA
- See Announcement
- MLK Community Center, Richmond, CA
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- See Press Release
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Connecting Cities and Schools, Learners and Leaders: Tools for City-School Collaboration.
- from around the country at the Academy of Urban Planning, Brooklyn, NY.
- "Linking School Construction Investments to Equity, Smart Growth, and Healthy Communities" at the Florida State University Spring 2008 Critical Issues Symposium on School Siting and Healthy Communities. Tallahassee, FL. Click here for more on the symposium.
- facilitates a workshop called "Urban Planning and Service Learning" at the 2008 California Service-Learning Leadership Institute sponsored by Youth Service California, San Jose, CA.
- - Fellows Luncheon, 12:00 noon - 2 PM, Berkeley City College.
- at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice’s Gathering of Civil Rights Activists and Scholars, San Francisco.
- : Building Schools, Building Communities: The Role of State Policy in California
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- : Planning for Families: The Housing and Education Nexus
- 9 AM – 3 PM, UC Berkeley.
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- co-host an invited dinner on developing Social Enterprises for Learning (SEfL) in the district’s schools.
- Read about Y-PLAN in Emeryville in the Emeryville Connection, published by the Emeryville Chamber of Commerce. http://www.emeryvilleconnection.com/news/
october-2007/city-school-project-is-honored
- (SPA YEP) summer interns present their final recommendations to the West Contra Costa County Transportation Advisory Committee (WCCCTAC) in San Pablo, California.
- in the 2007 California Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools, Civic Education Awards. The awards go to schools promoting democratic thinking and civic responsibility.
- Download the press release (PDF)
- California Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools: http://www.cms-ca.org
- , Summer Institute
- The PLUS Summer Institute was an invitation-only event that brought together key Bay Area leaders dedicated to improving public schools and the communities they serve. PLUS teams (comprised of city, county, CBO and school stakeholders) showcased selected ongoing projects and best practices from cities in the Bay Area region: Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland, Richmond, San Francisco, and San Pablo. Additionally, national leaders gave presentations on innovative best practices and inspiring models of collaborative work.
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- Sponsored by Center for Cities & Schools, American Architectural Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and California Center for Physical Activity. Women’s Faculty Club, UC Berkeley.
- Download Forum Report (PDF)
- , Designing Complete Communities: Linking Housing and Schools to Build a Competitive Workforce Symposium.
- . Emery Secondary School Final Student Presentation. Emeryville City Hall, 1333 Park Avenue, 5:45-7:30 pm
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- Sponsored by: Center for Cities & Schools, Chief Justice Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity, School of Law, and Graduate School of Education. Boalt Hall, Room 100, 6pm
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- Bruce Fuller, Professor of Education and Director, Policy Analysis for California Education
- Greg Hodge, Oakland Unified School District, School Board Member (Invited)
- Andrew Barlow, Visiting Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley
- Hodari B. Davis, Arts in Education Director, Youth Speaks, (Invited)
- Kimi Sakashita, Director of Health Policy, City of Berkeley Alex Brisco, Alameda Dept. of Education
- Stephanie Forbes, Local Initiative Support Corporation, Bay Area Executive Director
- Josh Simon, East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation, Director - Real Estate
- Norton Grubb, UC Berkeley Professor of Education
- Jerome Wiggins, Transportation and Education Advocate and Policymaker
- Kathleen Moore, Director, School Facilities Planning Division, California Dept of Education
- Kelvin Lee, Superintendent, Dry Creek Elementary School District
- Jeff Vincent, Co-founder, Center for Cities & Schools
- Jim Dyck, School architect, The Architectural Partnership
- . CC&S was invited to "Making It Happen: A New Orleans Rebuilding Resource Festival" to meet with residents and city leaders to share our work and insights on connecting cities and schools. We were honored to participate.
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- In partnership with the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, the Center for Cities & Schools welcomed Emery Unified School District Superintendent Tony Smith and Emeryville City Manager John Flores for a discussion of the Emeryville Center of Community Life — a unique city and school collaborative redevelopment.
- Download Description of the Emeryville Center of Community Life (PDF)
- Download Forum Report (PDF)
- . The UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau has selected the Y-PLAN to be honored at the annual event recognizing the best community collaborative programs on campus!
- This is a unique initiative led by the Dean of the Graduate School of Education David Pearson, the Dean College of Environmental Design Harrison Fraker and Center Director Deborah McKoy. Funding from the Berkeley Futures Grant will allow the new Center for Cities and Schools to bring faculty together from the departments of City and Regional Planning, Environmental and Landscape Design, and Architecture located at the College of Environmental Design, together with faculty from the Graduate School of Education as well as other departments such as Public Policy, Public Health and the Haas School of Business to collaborate on research, policy, and publications.
- CC&S’s specific efforts include:
- Hold a new symposium series at UC Berkeley in 2005 – 2006 to bring together national leaders seeking to create a shared vision about the research questions and focus areas for future health of cities and public schools.
- Begin the formation of two new fields of study in both CED and GSE allowing planning and design students to specialize in education and education students to develop a specialty in planning and/or design. This will include connecting CED graduate students with GSE graduate students (including those in the Principals Leadership Institute and the Superintendent’s program) through the above mentioned symposium, creation of a future cross-listed course, and providing the Center as a forum to encourage collaborative research projects.
- Long time supporter and friend, Senior Program Officer Rhonnel Sotelo, joined the Advisory Board this May to help guide the Center’s mission and future direction.
- . McClymonds High School students presented their vision and proposals for the reuse of the historic Central Station and Plaza.
- Regional Conference
- in “Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education." 9:30am –11:00am, Wurster Auditorium, Rm 112, UC Berkeley.
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- s from their recent national study: HOPE VI Panel Study: How Are HOPE VI Families and Children Faring?
9 am–4pm, Women’s Faculty Club, Hall, UC Berkeley.
- : “Making Youth Part of the Solution,” Panel Presentation, 7:15–8:30 pm, Moscone Convention Center.
- : “Bay Region Youth Charrette” Workshop, 9 am–4 pm, at Pier One, SF.
- McClymonds High School, Oakland, CA.
- from 11am –12 Noon, 314 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley.
- : The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling, 12 Noon—1 pm brownbag, IURD Conference Room, 319 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley.
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- , “Community, Planning, and School Quality,” Center for Cities and Schools, California School Boards Association Annual Conference, San Francisco.
- , panelist, “Education and Housing,” Fannie Mae Foundation, Washington DC.
- Speakers Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution, and Arlene Ackerman, Superintendent, San Francisco Unified School District, led a superb symposium identifying key issues to be considered by the Center. Katz discussed his paper, "Neighborhoods of Choice and Connections," calling for all urban and metropolitan communities to see the vital role public education plays in creating vibrant, healthy and economically diverse neighborhoods. Superintendent Ackerman laid out specific ways the City of San Francisco supports her efforts to improve academic achievement for all students. This event marked the opening of the new Center for Cities and School. These lectures were followed by an open dialogue among the over 100 attendees.
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- “Building Healthy Communities”
- The Hope VI Youth Leadership for Change (YLC) third national summit was held at UC Berkeley, August 4-7. This summit brought together 75 youth and adult “allies” from 15 cities with HOPE VI revitalization programs to focus on building healthy communities and preparing youth as agents of change. This year’s summit maintained a focus on social enterprise and media arts and provided workshops in video, radio, and graphic arts to highlight the role of media as a tool for social change.
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