Katherine Quinteros

University of California, Santa Cruz | UCSC · Department of Psychology

Food insecurity is a persisting problem that has negative consequences on student performance. The food insecurity literature depicts some students, like those from low-income and Latinx backgrounds, as “high-risk,” yet scarce work examines the influence of both income and race/ethnicity on experiences of food insecurity in Hispanic-serving institu...

In this first-person account, we describe the changes we made to align our graduate student-level community psychology class with a healing justice model. We undertook this intervention because the class started in March, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic stay-at-home directive in our region. We describe the facets of a healing justice mode...

Under a neoliberal regime and a pandemic crisis, social toxicity is expected (Klein, 2007). Yet, social possibility and opportunities for cohesion and collectivism can occur. We discuss how social toxicity and possibility sit side by side during the COVID-19 pandemic, with an emphasis on the glimmerings of mutual aid for those who are undocumented...