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Dr. Susan Lares-Nakaoka

@susnakaoka.bsky.social

Social Welfare/Urban Planning/Asian American Studies writer, researcher and teacher. Currently, UCLA Social Welfare Director of Practicum. Always, social justice worker. Co-founder and Co-Director of the Critical Race Scholars in Social Work community.

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Congratulations to the 2025 UCLA Social Welfare graduates! I started at UCLA with this cohort, so they will always be a special bunch to me. Looking forward to the positive change they will create in the world.

18.06.2025 20:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside downโ€”the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

23.02.2025 18:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 96243    ๐Ÿ” 21015    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1014    ๐Ÿ“Œ 939

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as โ€œtransgender,โ€ โ€œimmigrant,โ€ โ€œL.G.B.T.โ€ or โ€œpregnant people.โ€

02.02.2025 01:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5829    ๐Ÿ” 1551    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 166    ๐Ÿ“Œ 119
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Great-grandson of the man who established birthright citizenship slams Trumpโ€™s new executive order โ€œHeโ€™s feeding off the American mindset, and itโ€™s not a healthy one,โ€ said the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark, whose 1898 Supreme Court case helped guarantee birthright citizenship.

Exclusive: The great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark โ€” whose landmark 1898 Supreme Court case helped establish a birthright citizenship for all children of immigrants โ€” blasted President Trumpโ€™s new executive order seeking to revoke the long-standing right.

21.01.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1077    ๐Ÿ” 293    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 40    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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โ€œWe are coming to get our check.โ€ - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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