People
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Gianna Tran, M.S.W.
East Bay Asian Youth Center
(510) 533-1092
Gianna Tran is deputy executive director of the East Bay Asian Youth Center (EBAYC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring and empowering young people to be lifelong builders of a just and caring multicultural society. EBAYC has a membership of more than 1,000 Asian, Latino, and African American families who live in Oakland’s Eastlake, San Antonio, and Fruitvale neighborhoods. Her work with the Center focuses on an evaluation of the Roosevelt Village Center, a multicultural youth violence prevention program created by EBAYC. Gianna, who has been with EBAYC for more than 16 years, has a master’s degree in social work from San Francisco State University.
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Nicol U, M.A.
UC Berkeley, Institute for the Study of Social Change
(510) 642-0813
Nicol U was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and raised in Oakland, California. She is currently working towards her Ph.D. in Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Nicol is a board member for Banteay Srei, an Oakland-based organization that promotes education, community building, safe sex/health education and leadership development for young Southeast Asian (SEA) women engaged in or at risk of sexual exploitation. Her research seeks to analyze the root causes of why many young SEA American women in the Bay Area are going into sex work, investigating the cultural and social factors that contribute to their popularity as sex workers, as well as the existing structural problems that have led them to sex work.
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Susan Woolley, M.A.
UC Berkeley, Institute for the Study of Social Change
(510) 642-0813
Susan Woolley is a Ph.D. student with a designated emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Language and Literacy, Society and Culture Program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from Wesleyan University and her M.A. in Education from UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on constructions and negotiations of “safe space” for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students in a public high school. She is particularly interested in how experiences of school safety for these students are complicated by dominant discourses on masculinity and normative sexuality. Susan looks at strategies engaged by youth, including peer education and empowerment through gay-straight alliances, to address issues of homophobia and transphobia in their schools.
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Franklin E. Zimring, J.D.
UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
(510) 642-0854
Franklin E. Zimring is the William G. Simon Professor of Law and chair of the Criminal Justice Research Program at UC Berkeley. He is the Center’s principal investigator. Since 2005, he has been the first Wolfen Distinguished Scholar at the School of Law (Boalt Hall). He has specialized in the empirical study of legal institutions and the assessment of the behavioral impacts of legal regulation. Educated at Wayne State University and the University of Chicago, he served on the University of Chicago faculty from 1967 to 1985 and joined the Berkeley faculty that year. His recent books include An American Travesty: Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual Offending (University of Chicago Press 2004) and American Juvenile Justice (Oxford University Press 2005).
