Political Science Now

MARCH 19, 2025

University of Houston APSA Member since 2020 Ph.D. Samantha’s dissertation focuses on the impacts of urban immigrant inclusion policies on the participation and civic engagement of immigrant and minoritized communities. I ended up becoming an APSA member about a year later, in 2020. Meet Samantha Chapa, Ph.D.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

In addition, the civic summit afforded me professional learning and the opportunity to collaborate with UGRR educational specialists. In October 2020, while networking with Chris Bacon (former UGRR Director) and Mike Broccolo (former educational specialist), we developed a mini-service learning project.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Edwards is a fellow with Rise , a national nonprofit that builds student advocacy campaigns, through which she learned how to mobilize new, diverse voters. This year is anything but usual, of course, and the pandemic’s ramifications for in-person civic engagement could make voting harder for young people than it already was.

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