Advocacy Cultures Sociology 
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 6, 2020
The lack of cultural competence and consideration affects black students disproportionately — hence, the severity of racial disparities surrounding certain issues, such as the school-to-prison pipeline. Her interests include research and advocacy for children of color, children from impoverished backgrounds and children involved in athletics.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 29, 2021
When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture. When there are many of you, you get to shape the culture.” Samantha Tran, senior managing director of education policy at Children Now, a nonpartisan research, policy and advocacy organization, noticed. “I Here’s what teachers are doing about it.
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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 6, 2022
It’s about a shift in the culture,” Capp said. I probably called once a day,” said Francis, now a junior majoring in political science and sociology who plans to go to law school. Those kinds of obstacles get in the way of students everywhere, said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy organization Complete College America.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 25, 2016
Holloman, says the university’s “newness and brashness” made it easier to create a culture supportive of black students. We have a culture that supports you,’ ” said Holloman. It means I have a level of comfort here,” said Lewis, a junior sociology major. Georgia State’s dean of students, Darryl B. Photo: Terrell Clark.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Paul Public Schools, speaks with Yusanat Tway (right), a first-generation University of Minnesota student interested in attending law school but worried that work in human rights advocacy will not pay enough to justify the cost. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. It will cost $200K” to get a law degree, she said.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 2, 2024
Several weeks ago, for example, staff offices at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education and Advocacy in Boca Raton were vacant, with name plates blank and abandoned desks, plus LGBTQ+ flags, posters and pamphlets left behind. There is also mounting resistance to the laws.
Political Science Now
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Instead, lasting change likely requires sustained advocacy, legal protections, and broader cultural shifts that keep these issues visible beyond moments of crisis. Jack Wippell is a PhD Student in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University.
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