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CAHSS Newsletter - April 2025

Congratulations Cutcha Risling Baldy and Kaitlin Reed

In February, both Native American Studies professors received the 2025 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award, which recognizes innovative leaders whose breakthrough solutions to critical state challenges improve lives, create opportunity, and contribute to a better California.

The award of $350,000 was given to the Rou Dalagurr: Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute to forward their important work on campus and in the community.

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Journalism Students Win 26 College Media Awards

Cal Poly Humboldt Journalism & Mass Communication students took home 26 awards after a journalism conference and award ceremonies in Long Beach on March 8, including seven first-place state awards with the California College Media Association (CCMA) and four national awards with the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP). 

 

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Giving Day 

Cal Poly Humboldt Giving Day is a 24-hour fundraising campaign on April 2 that brings faculty, staff, alumni, donors, friends, and family together in support of our students. 

CAHSS groups participating in Giving Day include: 

Please take a moment to share some of these funds with your contacts, and consider giving. Everyone's contrinution makes a difference!

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Upcoming CAHSS Events

Featured Events

Undammed Exhibition

Presented by the Goudi’ni Native American Arts Gallery

Opening Reception April 3, 4:30-6:30pm 

The exhibition, running April 3 - May 17, highlights community members, artists, and activists’ efforts, responding to the Klamath dam removals and the power of continued community action. It features works by Annelia Hillman, Bob Benson, Lyn Risling, Julian Lang, Jackie Fawn, Jaimoe Kibby, and more. 

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Jennifer Espinoza Poetry Reading

Presented by the Department of English 

Monday April 7, 3-5pm in the Scholars Lab (LIB 302) or on Zoom: hum.link/JE2025 passcode 660563

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza is a trans woman poet. Her work has been featured in The Nation, Poetry, the American Poetry Review, Southeast Review, The Rumpus, Poem-a-day at poets.org, and elsewhere. She is the author of I’m Alive / It Hurts / I Love It (Big Lucks, 2019), THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS (The Accomplices, 2016) and I Don’t Want to Be Understood  (Alice James Books, 2024). She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of California, Riverside, and currently teaches creative writing. 

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12th Annual Hip Hop Conference: Power to the People

Presented by CRGS

April 17 & 18. Featuring keynote speaker Dre T, performances, student presentations, celebrations and more! 

Events will take place at Fulkerson Hall, Siemens Hall and the D Street Community Center. See the CRGS website for more information.

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Humboldt International Film Festival

Presented by the Film Department 

April 24 - 27 at the Minor Theatre in Arcata. Admission is free for all current students!

Over 30 short films from all over the world, plus a talk with visiting guest judges, parties and more.

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Achievements

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Esmeralda Macias, Aldina Kelecija, Peter Biren, and Viacheslav Kozlov

Philosophy

In April, Cal Poly Humboldt undergrad philosophy students were invited to Pacific University of Oregon to their 27th Philosophy Conference to discuss their authored essays. Esmeralda Macias, Aldina Kelecija, Peter Biren, and Viacheslav Kozlov discussed topics like the ethics of pornography, philosophical intuitions surrounding AI, and positivism in the Latinamerican canon.

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Samantha Ramos

Geography

Geography major Samantha Ramos won second place for student paper at the California Geographical Society annual conference for her research on the spatial patterns of migrant deaths at the Arizona border.

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Andre Oliva

Geography

Geospatial Science and Technology major Andre Oliva won first place in the digital map competition at the California Geographical Society annual conference for his research looking at the accessibility of veteran services in the state of California

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