One Union’s Role in the Fight Against Authoritarianism in NYC |
A Conversation with Andrea Vásquez
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
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A UC San Diego course | A free event open to the public
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Andrea Vásquez is a principal officer of the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, the labor union representing 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York (CUNY). Since January 2025 she has led the union’s Immigrant Solidarity Working Group that has engaged hundreds of members in resisting federal attacks on non-citizen / international students, and undocumented community members. In coalition with other organizations, PSC continues to engage in courtwatch where ICE is abducting neighbors, mass demonstrations, civil disobedience, and local organizing.
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Designing Just Migrations |
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About the faculty host: Megan Ybarra |
Megan Ybarra (she/her/hers) is a human geographer who studies radical placemaking in organizing for environmental justice and abolition. Her research has included archival research of community records and planning documents, surveys, participant observation and institutional ethnography to explore the workings of power relations and promise of liberation. Her book, Green Wars (University of California Press, 2017) / Guerras Verdes (AVANCSO, 2020), exposed the role of international conservation NGOs in criminalizing Indigenous land defenders and called for land repatriation from Guatemalan protected areas to Q'eqchi' Maya Indigenous peoples. She serves on the editorial boards of The Professional Geographer; Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography; and Environment & Planning D: Society & Space.
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A course. An event. A community service. |
The Design@Large speaker series highlights a different central theme within design during each fall, winter, and spring quarters to inspire attendees and showcase the brightest minds tackling issues impacting humanity. Design@Large is a course at UC San Diego and is also open to the public as a way of sharing cutting-edge research an innovative insights with a wider audience. General registration opens two weeks before each event on our Eventbrite page.
Design@Large: from the Design Lab, of course.
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