We plan to use the reserve for a writing workshop where the participants, all graduate students at UCI, will work on individual and collaborative writing projects. The writing projects are primarily related to preparing dissertation grant proposals and manuscripts for submission to leading education and political science journals. One of us is working on a grant proposal to examine the growth of Ethnic Studies course availability, the Ethnic Studies educator workforce, and its impact on students across California high schools. During my time at the reserve I plan to develop the proposal and simultaneously work on a manuscript that analyzes data on Ethnic Studies from one of the California school districts. Another participant is working on a project that examines how international organizations and global actors shape development agendas around artificial intelligence (AI) in ways that (re)produce structural inequalities in the Global South. This project constitutes the major theme of my dissertation.

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