Research & Resources

Learn more about issues we work to address through the internally and externally produced resources below.

Authored / Co-Authored Works

  • The Path to Justice Runs Through Equity: Ending Anti-Black Racism in Los Angeles
  • Inglewood and Lennox Greening Plan
  • Policy Memo: Implementing a Healthy Beverage Ordinance in Long Beach
  • Policy Memo: Implementing a Healthy Beverage Ordinance in Hawthorne
  • White Paper: Facilitating Change in the Food Justice Movement
  • Participatory Action Research and City Youth: Methodological Insights from the Council of Youth Research
  • It should just be education – Critical pedagogy normalized as academic excellence
  • Educating for a Critical Democracy-Civic Participation Reimagined in the Council of Youth Research

Student-Produced Research

  • YPAR 2019: Perception of Chavez Continuation Students
  • YPAR 2019: Investing in a Positive School Climate
  • YPAR 2019: How Does the Built Environment Contribute to Food Disparities

Resources

  • Nonprofit Finance Fund’s 2022 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey Results
  • SJLI 2008-2020 Impact Report: Building People, Creating Justice & Transforming Communities
  • Creating Pathways to Success: Strengthening College Persistence for Young Men of Color
  • Leaders in Equity to Advance Prevention in the Centinela Valley – Landscape Analysis Report, June 2017
  • How to Become a Student Activist
  • Economic Perspective on Incarceration and the Criminal Just System 
  • Yes We Can: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males 2010 
  • The victimization of children and youth: A comprehensive, national survey.
  • Parsing the Achievement Gap: Baselines for Tracking Progress. Policy Information Report.