ABOUT The SNU in the World Program Director
Doogab Yi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Science Studies at Seoul National University and Director of The SNU in the World Program with SJRC at UCSC on Innovation, Science and Justice (Winter 2023, 2024, 2025). His broad research interests lay in the intersection between science and capitalism in the 20th and 21th centuries, and he is currently working on several projects related to the development of science and technology within the context of capitalism, such as the history of biotechnology, the relationship between science and the law, and the emergence of the technologies of the 24/7 self. He teaches courses in the history of modern science, science and the law, and environmental history. Learn more at: https://doogab.wixsite.com/doogabyi
ABOUT UCSC PARTICIPANTS (in alphabetical order)
CHRIS BENNER is a Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies and the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship at UC Santa Cruz. He currently directs the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change and the Institute for Social Transformation. His research examines the relationships between technological change, regional development, and the structure of economic opportunity, focusing on regional labor markets and the transformation of work and employment. He has authored or co-authored seven books (most recently Solidarity Economics, 2021, Polity Press) and more that 75 journal articles, chapters and research reports. He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.
SARAH BIRD is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on trees to investigate relationships among humans and the plant world. She is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz in Film and Digital Media where she is a Fellow of the Climate Action Lab. Her dissertation, titled “Strategies for Arboreal-Human Flourishing in the Anthropocene” focuses on tree relationality for an entangled, restorative future to our ecological crisis. Her work is featured in Giants Rising (dir. Lisa Landers, 2024), a film about redwoods and their human champions, and her photographs were the inspiration for the 2023 show “Shallow Roots” at Upstart Modern in Sausalito, CA. She has a forthcoming installation, Entangled Arboreality, in Gießen, Germany and a public art project in downtown San Francisco titled Being:Tree. Sarah’s exhibitions include the 2016 Venice Biennale, commissions for Photo+Synthesis in Hudson, New York, and a solo exhibition at The Block Island Historical Society called Long-Term Residents: Trees of Block Island which explored the role of the island’s trees role nature-culture entanglements. In 2018, her 320-foot crime scene outline of a redwood tree at the UN Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco spoke to our need to address climate destruction in its true scale. She has a BA from Amherst College and an MFA from California College of the Arts. She is based in Mill Valley, CA and Wellfleet, MA.
JAMES DOUCET-BATTLE is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Science & Justice Research Center at UC Santa Cruz. James is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley/University San Francisco Joint Medical Anthropology Program. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of science, technology and society studies, development studies and anthropological approaches to health and medicine.
GONZALO GALETTO is a Ph.D. Student, Film and Digital Media, University of California Santa Cruz.
ANNA FRIZ is an Associate Professor of Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. Anna creates media art, sound and transmission art, working across platforms to present installations, broadcasts, films and performances. Her works reflect upon media ecologies, land use, infrastructures, time perception, and critical fictions.
LINDSAY HINCK is a Professor of Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology at UC Santa Cruz. The Hinck lab is interested in understanding how epithelial cells assemble into organs during development, and how the reverse process occurs during cancer when cells disassemble and metastasize to inappropriate locations. Recently, we have been focusing our studies on a family of positional cues, called Slits, which were originally identified in the nervous system where they direct the construction of elaborate networks of neuronal connections. Currently, the laboratory has projects in three areas: building an organ; stem cells and self-renewal; and loss of growth control and cancer.
JENNY REARDON is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research draws into focus questions about identity, justice and democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices, particularly in modern genomic research. Her training spans molecular biology, the history of biology, science studies, feminist and critical race studies, and the sociology of science, technology and medicine. She is the author of Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics (Princeton University Press, 2005) and The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, Knowledge After the Genome (Chicago University Press, Fall 2017). She has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from, among others, the National Science Foundation, the Max Planck Institute, the Humboldt Foundation, the London School of Economics, the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, and the United States Congressional Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Recently, she started a project to bike over one thousand miles through her home state of Kansas to learn from farmers, ranchers and other denizens of the high plains about how best to know and care for the prairie.
DOROTHY R. SANTOS is a Filipino American writer, artist, and media scholar. She earned her Ph.D. in Film and Digital Media with a designated emphasis in Computational Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Art Department and Principal Faculty for the Creative Technologies program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
COLLEEN STONE manages all public relations and administrative aspects of the Science & Justice Research Center, its projects and grants, curriculum, training and visitor programs. Additionally, Colleen is the department assistant for Sociology, supporting faculty and student driven research, and helps coordinate The Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies (CUES) and its Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Research for Resilience project.
ABOUT UCSC Programs and Research Initiatives (in alphabetical order)
The Everett Program for Technology and Social Change (video) develops young leaders who use the technical, educational, and research resources of the university to work directly with communities, empowering people to develop practical solutions to persistent problems. Everett’s educational philosophy is rooted in a holistic approach that engages students in linking theory, practice and personal development. Students are supported in making these connections through hands-on work contributing to social justice and environmental sustainability with community partners. Students work towards obtaining a major concentration or minor in Global Information and Social Enterprise Studies (GISES) administered through the Department of Sociology. Meet the Fellows.
The Stem Cell Journal Club is hosted by The Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells (IBSC) at UC Santa Cruz which aims to support and advance stem cell research by promoting interdisciplinary discoveries in biology, engineering, and information science. More information is here about the Stem cell agency (CIRM) that funds research training programs at UC Santa Cruz with IBSC and SJRC.
The UCSC SUSTAINABILITY OFFICE strives to foster a culture of diverse, equitable and inclusive sustainability at UC Santa Cruz. They actively engage students, staff, faculty and community members through education, leadership development, institutional change and behavioral transformation. They build partnerships with students and community members to improve UCSC’s environmental performance, seeking to model the way for how large institutions can work collaboratively to solve some of the world’s biggest environmental and social justice challenges. Students also work to advance inclusive sustainability and are leading our efforts at advancing education around the intersectionality between social and environmental justice. Read more about the effort toward the full decarbonization and electrification of the campus in this campus news article.
ABOUT NonUCSC PARTICIPANTS (in alphabetical order)
SARA ACKERMAN is Associate Professor, School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco.
DENNIS BROWE is a graduate of the Department of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz and works with SJRC on the Third St Just Biomedicine Project. Dennis’ work lies at the intersections of medical sociology, science & technology studies (STS), public health, sexuality and gender studies, and feminist theory.
MILDRED CHO is a Research Professor of Pediatrics at the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford University.
JULIE HARRIS-WAI is Associate Professor, Institute for Health & Aging in the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Harris-Wai’s research focuses on examining the social and ethical factors influencing how and why genomic technologies are translated from the research setting into clinical care and the impact these technologies have on health disparities and underserved communities. The goal of her work is to identify methods for incorporating community and stakeholder perspectives into policy decision-making to improve the appropriate translation of research into clinical and public health programs. Dr. Harris-Wai is the Associate Director of the Kaiser Permanente/UCSF Center for Excellence in Research on Translational Genomics and Ethics (CT2G). She is currently working on an R21 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to use deliberative community engagement methods to inform policy decisions about the future of California’s Newborn Screening Program.
GALEN JOSEPH is a Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also a member of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Affiliate Faculty with the Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. Her research examines the socio-cultural and institutional dimensions of inequities in cancer care and translational genomics. As an anthropologist, she specializes in ethnographic approaches, and use a range of mixed qualitative and quantitative methods and community engaged research approaches. Her research program has primarily focused on: (1) Genetic Counseling Communication across Language, Literacy, and Culture; (2) Ethical, Legal, Social Issues (ELSI) Research in Clinical Adoption of Genomic Discoveries; and (3) Recruitment of Medically Underserved Populations into Cancer Clinical Trials. A new area of research examines the impact of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision on prenatal genetic counseling and training of genetic counselors in the post-Roe era. This research includes foci on the experience of genetic counselors facing moral distress due to abortion bans and restrictions; changing medical documentation practices to protect patients and providers; and the evolving training of prenatal genetic counseling students in states restricting abortion.
Dr. PAUL TANG is Adjunct Professor at the Clinical Excellence Research Center at Stanford University and a practicing internist at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. Most recently, he was Vice President, Chief Health Transformation.
TIFFANY WISE-WEST is the Sustainability and Climate Action Manager for The City of Santa Cruz and a founding graduate fellow of the Science & Justice Training Program at UC Santa Cruz. Tiffany is a licensed professional civil engineer with nearly 20 years of experience in municipal infrastructure planning, design and project management. Tiffany received her BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Purdue University and specialized in water, wastewater and solid waste systems for the first half of her career. In the second half of her career, after a stint teaching mathematics and environmental education to secondary students, Tiffany earned her MA and PhD in Environmental Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz where she focused her academic research on the techno-economic and policy elements of sustainability, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and issues at the water and energy nexus. Tiffany specializes in negotiating and managing public-private-academic partnership projects aimed at advancing green infrastructure, policy and programming. She leads the award-winning Santa Cruz GreenWharf initiative and currently works on state and regional climate and energy issues in her roles as Senior Environmental Engineer at EcoShift Consulting, the City of Santa Cruz’s Climate Action Outreach Coordinator, and the District 2 Commissioner on the Santa Cruz County Commission on the Environment.