Research & Resources

The work of the Social Justice Learning Institute is backed by solid data, research and resources. Learn more about the issues we are working to address through our internal and externally produced materials.

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.