Wednesday, October 2, 2024 | 8am-12pm | $100

Purchase with your registration or email conference@iarslce.org to add-on.
Note: This will take place concurrently with Preconference sessions.

Tour 1: Collaborative Social and Environmental Projects: Interweaving International and Local

Join us in an immersion trip with three site visits, starting near the US-Mexico border, passing through Logan Heights, and ending in the Linda Vista community, where the University of San Diego is located. At each site, we will meet with community partners to explore how the local, regional, and international are tightly interwoven in different ways around issues including water contamination, grassroots mobilization and public art, and sustainable food systems, among others. We will begin by meeting with elected officials and community representatives from both sides of the international border at the Tijuana River Estuary. We will then have a brief visit to Chicano Park to learn about the history and struggle behind the creation of this cultural landmark as well as current challenges faced. The trip will conclude with an introduction to a network of community gardens and the long-term efforts of dedicated gardeners and teachers in our local neighborhood.

Tour 2: Experience UC Mat-koo-la-hoo-ee: (Re)casting UC San Diego from the Kumeyaay perspective

Join Dr. Theresa Ambo, Co-PI of the Indigenous Futures Institute (IFI) at UC Mat-koo-la-hoo-ee, aka UC San Diego, to learn about her projects and IFI's work channeling Indigenous knowledge through a community-based participatory model to create community-driven solutions to current issues, imagining futures grounded in collaboration, decolonization, and Indigenous resurgence.