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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.
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).
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:
- Sociology Student Research and Community Action Program
- El Leñador
- The Studio School
- Dance Guest Artist
- The Theatre Arts Program
- Solitary Garden (Project Rebound)
- KRFH Student-Run Radio
- Journalism and Mass Communication
- Humboldt International Film Festival
- Environmental Studies Program
- Ballet Folklorico de Humboldt Club
- Cinema Club
- Career Pathway in Archaeology
- Politics Club
- Music Department Scholarship
- Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab
Please take a moment to share some of these funds with your contacts, and consider giving. Everyone's contrinution makes a difference!
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.
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.
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.
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.
CouRaGeouS Cuentos Volume 8 Launch
On March 7 at the Goodwin Forum, CRGS celebrated their volume 8 publication launch with a retrospective exhibition, open mic, performances and celebration.
Stephanie Murillo and Mónica Elivier Sánchez González
Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Stephanie Murillo was selected from a group of undergraduate students to participate in the Summer Research Immersion Program at the University of Guanajuato in summer of 2025. The program provided academic training, professional development, and mentorship in scientific and social research while simultaneously adapting cultural immersion. The objectives of this program were to advance research skills by conducting an eight-week project, produce scholarly work, engage in international collaboration, develop cultural and social insight, and integrate research into career goals. This published work is the result of Stephanie Murillo's time abroad and we are happy to share her published work with the University.
Captive Bodies: Overmedication as Structural Violence Against Women by Stephanie Murillo
Josh Meisel
Sociology
Dr. Josh Meisel co-authored, "Global cannabis cultivation as a gendered activity: Findings from the 2020 International Cannabis Cultivation Questionnaire" in the International Journal of Drug Policy. With co-authors from the Global Cannabis Cultivation Research Consortium they examined the extent to which women's participation in cannabis cultivation may have changed across varied global legal contexts. They found that policy shifts towards legalization are related to further reducing overall gender disparities in cannabis cultivation, yet differences remain in earnings, motivations for growing, and experiences with the criminal justice system.
Nicolette Amann and Jessica Citti
English
Nicolette Amann (English Department Faculty & Redwood Writing Project Director) and Jessica Citti (Writing Specialist & Writing Studio Coordinator in the Learning Center) co-led a session called “When Outsourcing Writing is Outsourcing Learning: The Impact of GenAI on Writing Development" at the Humboldt County Office of Education Day of Learning on October 27, 2025. This AI-themed professional development conference was attended by over 150 Humboldt County K–12 teachers, instructional staff, and administrators.
