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#4 THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LOS ANGELES with Francisco Jasso Magana (opens the original)
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Our final podcast episode in this series is describing an important research project at the Center for the Study of Los Angeles (StudyLA) at Loyola Marymount University, conducted by expert Research Associate Francisco Jasso Magana who received his Doctorate from the University of Caifornia at Irvine, California. His subject is Measure G, designed for major government reform and funded by the Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. At a time when the status of Democracy is being questioned,
#3 THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LOS ANGELES with Chhandosi Roy, Ph.d (opens the original)
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We are continuing with the podcast series describing several research projects which are the centerpiece of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles (StudyLA) at Loyola Marymount University. The podcast guest, Chhandosi Roy is a Co-Principal Investigator of StudyLA and has a Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Buffalo, New York. In this episode she is telling us all about the “Angeleno Poll”, a survey that has been conducted every year since 2014, and is the largest of its kind
#2 THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LOS ANGELES with Brianne Gilbert (opens the original)
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It was a quiet, peaceful time as the year 2025 began in Los Angeles, California, in the first days of January. Then, suddenly, with winds of 100 miles an hour, a fire began that roared across the City with biblical destruction in its path. The fire came to be known as the Eaton and Pacific Palisades fires for the two neighborhoods that were decimated. In truth, like disasters that cause a public trauma, it affected the very spirit of Los Angeles and its impact lingers as a two year marking point
#1 THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LOS ANGELES with Director, Fernando Guerra, Ph.d (opens the original)
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Professor Fernando Guerra has been a leader in linking the rigorous work of academic research to the community at large, empowering the voice of the people. This podcast episode is the beginning of a series highlighting the work at the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University with three subsequent conversations with expert Research Associates and their respective projects. Fernando began the Center in 1996 which is now referred to as StudyLA. It has grown in importance
USA - Hope & Hate - with Jewish Historian, David Myers (opens the original)
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As the Chair of Jewish History at the UCLA Department of History, and for the 2026 - 27 academic year, on sabbatical at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Professor David Myers walks through paths of hope and hate in his work. In this episode we begin the conversation by dissecting the phenomenon of antisemitism now and from ancient times. We end by David describing his UCLA Institute of Kindness and Compassion, pushing “the better ange
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