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AUDIOVISUAL EVIDENCE MANAGEMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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Frame 371 of the footage captured by Abraham Zapruder of the assassination of JFK.
BY SNOWDEN BECKER, Ph.D. AND
JEAN-FRANÇOIS BLANCHETTE, Ph.D.
A CROWD FORMS IN DALLAS In Dallas, Texas, crowds of people from all over the country gather as spectators and supporters, to be part of something memorable, even historic. At a time when racial tensions are peaking nationwide, it is important for these people to be here together on this day. Thousands of them line the downtown streets. Then, without warning, a sniper fires his weapon from above; chaos, confusion, anger, and grief quickly follow. Federal, state and local law enforcement reach out immediately, along with the media, to those who witness the event in an effort to establish just what happened and why. This description applies not only to the events of July 7, 2016, when a gunman targeted Dallas police during a public demonstration, but also to November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Then, as now, people captured the events of the day on camera—the moments before and after shots are fired, the times when citizens encounter the state in violent and lethal ways. People create records that become evidence, evidence that becomes history. Captured footage can take on an iconic meaning far removed from its original context. It is highly likely that video files now regarded as ephemeral or disposable will have a much longer useful life than anticipated, along with dynamic needs for secure management, storage, and ethical use. In short, the challenges in audiovisual evidence management are not new, but venerable. Among those challenges are material and mechanical ones: What are the critical affordances of our recording technologies, their capabilities and limitations? What
falls beyond the frame; what gets redacted or corrupted? Four frames of the original Zapruder film were, famously, damaged by LIFE magazine photo technicians during copying. Two other frames appeared out of sequence in the original printed version of the Warren Commission Report. In every frame of the 8mm original, there is exposed image area between the sprockets which captures important information about the scene as it unfolded, but which is not visible during regular projection. In a climate of suspicion and distrust, any missing, hidden, or altered data quickly becomes fodder for conspiracy theories. It is impossible to restore integrity to a broken chain of custody, or authenticity to an altered original. Other challenges are informational and access-related: What right do the people and the press have to see and circulate images of significant events? What ethical guidelines govern the use of these images in news, in entertainment, in the social sphere? We continue to struggle now with discussions of what images we may see and what images we might not want to see—and with the morality of sharing those images, or profiting from violent death as spectacle. Finally, these records pose custodial and curatorial challenges: Who takes responsibility for the preservation of these recordings? What happens to their material forms and social meaning over time? How do the acts of classification and designation dictate these records’ disposition, and what kinds of value do we ascribe to them? The U.S. government effectively asserted eminent domain over the original Zapruder film, designating it an “assassination record” under the 1992 John F. Kennedy Records Collection Act. In the case of the Zapruder film and its contemporaries, the original materials are stored by archives and museums—but what about the records we are all generating today of the stories that dominate our headlines? How do we secure their survival for the next fifty-three years? Records retention policies and the legal “duty to preserve” extend only to what we must keep; they do little to address what we should keep, or how to move beyond basic compliance and toward responsible stewardship. What’s more, the widening gap of trust between our communities—especially communities of color—and those empowered by the social contract to wield force in the cause
Governor of Texas John Connally (1917–1993) examines frames from Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the assassination of President Kennedy. Photo: Donald Uhrbrock
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systems, and resources—the full extent of which are still unknown for BWCs. In Los Angeles alone, the LAPD has estimated that 122 new staff positions will be needed to manage increased workload associated with deploying 7,000 cameras. This prediction has raised concerns in local government and delayed city approval of BWC program plans (Mather, 2016). NYPD figures put the costs of reviewing and redacting BWC footage prior to public release at $120 per hour (Kravets, 2016). Each instance raises fundamental questions about who will manage the large quantities of video data generated under BWC programs, what their roles and responsibilities will be, what tools they will use, and how they will interact with existing criminal justice systems and infrastructure. Timely intervention, inclusion of diverse voices, and advocacy on the part of information professionals for long-term planning at this critical time will significantly shape the future management
On March 3, 1991, four police officers were filmed beating taxi driver Rodney King after a pursuit through the streets of Los Angeles. It was one of the first police brutality videos of its kind, and forever changed the conversation about police and race in America.
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of keeping the peace has made it difficult to find common ground. Whatever echoes there may be between the past and the present, 2016 is not 1963. We are now working in a media and technology environment that is incredibly swift-moving, and unprecedentedly powerful. It is a hard time to take on complex problems for which solutions may be a long time coming. It is a hard time to be making and collecting records that are written with invisible electrons in machine languages that will be forgotten by next year. It can be difficult, as well, to confront the succession of news events and the lengthening list of names of the fallen that are connected to these issues, and that continually redefine the boundaries of this topic.
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LAW ENFORCEMENT AND DATA-POOR ENVIRONMENTS Law enforcement agencies are increasingly information centered and data driven
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bodies (President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, 2015). They have been among the first institutions to encounter and grapple with the implications of large-scale deployment of new recording technologies—whether ubiquitous surveillance cameras continuously recording public and private spaces, bystanders to incidents uploading smartphone-generated videos to YouTube, or, increasingly, police officers documenting their every interaction with citizens with the help of body-worn cameras. Body worn camera (BWC) initiatives are still, for the most part, in their infancy, but there is increasing pressure for their adoption as a means of increasing transparency and accountability, especially with respect to minority populations adversely and disproportionately affected by interaction with police in the U.S. Yet, as Lum, Koper, et al. (2015) note, police agencies nationwide are deploying BWCs in a data-poor environment. Adoption of new technologies creates new costs, and demands new skills,
and preservation practices of these documents. To date, no degree programs or professional organizations have comprehensively identified, let alone addressed, the emergent core-skills training and continuing education needs of information professionals who will be working with evidentiary recordings over the long term. Indeed, while archivists and audiovisual preservationists are focused on the organization and long-term access to recordings with evidentiary value, they have not been strongly connected with legal evidence practitioners. And despite the clearly delineated duty to preserve legal evidence for statutory retention periods that may range from just a few months to perpetuity (in the case of capital crimes), those working in the fields of law enforcement and criminal justice have likewise had little engagement to date with the archives and preservation community. When this interaction occurs, it has
A protester points a cell phone at a police officer after an unlawful assembly is declared near the site where an unarmed black man, Alfred Olango, 38, had been shot by police on September 29, 2016 in El Cajon, California. Photo: Donald Uhrbrock
We are now working in a media and technology environment that is incredibly swiftmoving, and unprecedentedly powerful. It is a hard time to be making and collecting records that are written with invisible electrons in machine languages that will be forgotten by next year.
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mong other things, Ellen Pearlstein, a professor in the UCLA Department of Information Studies, studies bird feathers. Or more precisely, the conservation and curation of featherwork from Central and South America. She is an expert in the conservation of materials, and a scholar in the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials. Her colleague, Sarah T. Roberts, an assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Information Studies, studies online content, plumbing the practices of Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms. Her work has brought to light the commercial content practices of major media companies in the Internet age and their impacts on workers in the industry. On the surface, there would seem to be little connection between their scholarship. But if you scratch that surface, dig a little deeper, look a little closer, the connections begin to become apparent. “The reality is that their work is tied to the same piece of string,” says Jonathan Furner, chair of the UCLA Department of Information Studies. “They are both information scientists studying the ways in which people collect, preserve and provide access to sources of information.” Pearlstein and Roberts are just two of the faculty members in the UCLA Department of Information Studies, who together with graduate students and staff make up what may be one of the least understood academic departments on campus, and perhaps one of the most important. “Our work is about understanding what gets kept, and who gets access to it, and how, and why,” says Furner. “We want to find out whether people have fair, equitable and just access to all the kinds of information that they need. And we want our students to ask the same kinds of questions when they graduate as professionally qualified librarians and archivists, as data curators and information managers—when they’re designing information services and systems, and when they’re making information policies, that have social as well as economic value.” The UCLA Department of Information Studies was founded in 1958 as the School of Library Service. The first Dean was university librarian Lawrence Clark Powell, for whom UCLA’s main undergraduate library is named. The School initially offered a master’s degree in Library Science, adding in 1965 a Master of Science in Information Science (Documentation) that was discontinued in 1972. The School was renamed the Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 1975,
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and a Ph.D. program was launched in 1979. In 1994, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science merged with the Graduate School of Education to form the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. The Master of Library Science degree was renamed Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) in the same year, and the Department of Library and Information Science became the Department of Information Studies in 1999. Today, the UCLA Department of Information Studies is known as one of the top information schools in the world. In 2018, it was ranked number 10 globally by QS World University Rankings. Its programs provide students with a blend of conceptual and theoretical knowledge and practical experience. Students acquire a solid foundation in contemporary library, archival, and information management theory, information seeking and retrieval skills, and information technology expertise. The department trains dozens of graduate students each year who go on to work in the vast field of information science, joining entertainment companies like Disney, social media platforms such as Google and Facebook, government and academia, and yes, libraries. “Our graduates get great jobs. But we are also very focused on diversity, equity and social justice,” Furner says. “We want our graduates not only to be extremely knowledgeable and highly skilled, but to share in and promote those values.” The work of faculty and scholars in the department is broad and deep, ranging from the preservation of ancient documents, rare books and images, to the collection and preservation of records about migrants and refugees and data about climate change. Scholars are deeply engaged in the analysis of systems of access to information ranging from the study of classification systems that determine library content, privacy and access, the exploration and use of archives, the content moderation practices of social media platforms and the impact of policy issues such as net neutrality.
“We’re interested in such an amazing array of topics and issues. What they have in common is not that the content or format of the resources is similar, it’s not that the technologies being used are similar—it’s more that they all involve important questions about how resources get selected, how they get appraised, and how they get organized,” Furner says. “We’re interested less in the information itself, and more in what people do with it and to it. And questions of fairness, access and opportunity run all the way through the work.”
We’re interested less in the information itself, and more in what people do with it and to it. And questions of fairness, access and opportunity run all the way through the work. JONATHAN FURNER Chair, UCLA Department of Information Studies
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THE ARCHIVE “Archivists, wherever they work and however they are positioned, are subject to the call of and for justice. For the archive can never be a quiet retreat for professionals and scholars and craftspersons. It is a crucible of human experience, a battleground for meaning and significance …” Verne Harris “The Archival Sliver: Power, Memory and Archives in South Africa”
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It’s important to understand that every element of archival practice is political and every decision we make is influenced by our own political context, our own bias and position. And that shapes what stories get told and whose stories get told, who gets to speak for the record and who doesn’t, who gets left out.
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n the UCLA Department of Information Studies, the research and work reaches far beyond the library doors. From the collection and preservation of rare documents to the creation, gathering and safekeeping of digital data and sound and visual materials, students and faculty are learning and striving to preserve evidence and ensure access to it. In the process they are engaged in a wide spectrum of archival studies and the practices and values that guide a rapidly changing and expanding field. Archival studies is first and foremost about records. Not the kind you play, but records that reveal and document activity across space and time. A record does not have to be a paper-based document, or photograph or even physical material. A record can be a dance, a song, the telling of a story. It can be a cassette tape or a digital file or even a phonographic record. What is key is that it is created, and that it persists as evidence of an activity that happened. Archivists are fundamentally interested in records as evidence. Archival studies are also about context, about how, why and by whom records were generated, kept and gathered, and how they were and will be used. At UCLA, archivists are not only interested in how records can be used to preserve the past or inform the future, but also about how they can be used now and what they may mean to people whose lives may be touched by them. “It’s important to preserve records with legal adjudication in mind, and for future research, to be used by journalists and government officials. But we should also develop archival sensitivity about access, description, and context when
those records are being viewed,” says Michelle Caswell, an associate professor in the UCLA Department of Information Studies. “It’s not just about the stuff. There are a lot of political and ethical issues to consider that add a new layer of meaning to the work. We have to ask, is someone going to use these materials to cause harm, to incite violence against someone? We need to focus on people and relationships and the larger issues of power and how we show our care for people and communities.” At UCLA, students specializing in archival studies learn the practical skills of collecting and preserving “the stuff” and making it accessible. Students and faculty explore the full spectrum of archival materials including paper and
electronic records, manuscripts, still and moving images, oral history and other forms of records. They study the theories and ethics that underlie recordkeeping, archival policy development, and memory-making. And they examine the historical roles that recordkeeping, archives, and documentary evidence play in an increasingly diverse and global society. Advanced seminars and internship opportunities prepare students to play leadership roles in archival fields. But they are also deeply engaged in an exploration of a conceptual understanding of the issues and challenges that confront the field. “I think theory is everything. Every practical act, every act of practice, has a whole host of theories behind it,” Caswell says. “It’s something we embrace as a department. We are always thinking and encouraging our students to think critically about what is unjust, what is wrong with the current state of practice, and how can we do it better.” “We want our students to get practical skills and get jobs, but we are preparing them to be thinkers and leaders in the field,” Caswell says. “We really want them to think critically about the practices, the histories and ideologies of the practices they are learning, and to identify where those practices may not be adequate and may not serve marginalized or vulnerable people. And we want them
to be able to think and develop practices that are more just.” “To me that means it’s important to understand that every element of archival practice is political and every decision we make is influenced by our own political context, our own bias and position. And that shapes what stories get told and whose stories get told, who gets to speak for the record and who doesn’t, who gets left out. Those are central questions for me.” The Archival Studies specialization at UCLA is not just about preserving the past or informing the future, but also has applications for the challenges of today. One of the clearest examples of this can be seen in the work of the Center for Information as Evidence, which is led by Anne J. Gilliland, professor in the UCLA Department of Information Studies and director of the Archival Studies specialization. The center addresses the ways in which records and archives and other information objects and systems are created, used, and preserved as legal, administrative, scientific, social, cultural and historical evidence. The Center emphasizes the preservation and use of recorded evidence and archives in support of human rights, social justice and community empowerment. Given the millions of displaced persons around the world today, not to mention the thousands of children
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CATASTROPHIC Migrations MARCELO M. SUÁREZ-OROZCO
EXCERPTS FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF “Humanitarianism and Mass Migration: Confronting the World Crisis”
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n the first two decades of this century, millions of people have been forced to escape from their homes into the unknown. Humanitarianism and Mass Migration examines the uncharted contours of this mass migration. The volume’s interdisciplinary and comparative approach showcases new research that reveals how current structures of health, mental health, and education are anachronistic and out of touch with the new cartographies of mass migrations. Envisioning a hopeful and realistic future, this book provides clear and concrete recommendations for what must be done to mine the inherent agency, cultural resources, resilience, and capacity for self-healing that will help forcefully displaced populations. Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco is the Wasserman Dean and Distinguished Professor of Education at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. His previous edited volumes include Latinos: Remaking America; Writing Immigration: Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue; Learning in the Global Era: International Perspectives on Globalization and Education; and Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium. This volume contains contributions from Jacqueline Bhabha, Richard Mollica, Irina Bokova, Pedro Noguera, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, James A. Banks, Mary Waters, and many others.
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In the twenty-first century, mass migration is the human face of globalization—the sounds, colors, and aromas of a miniaturized, interconnected, and ever-fragile world.
ince the dawn of the new millennium, the world has been witnessing a rapid rise in the numbers of migrants in a wide array of categories— voluntary and involuntary, internal and international, authorized and unauthorized, and environmental—as well as victims of human trafficking. All continents are involved in the massive movement of people as areas of immigration, emigration, transit, and return—and often as all four at once. Yet migration is as old as mankind. Migrations elude simple mechanistic models of causality because they unfold in complex ecologies involving demographic factors, economic variables, political processes, cultural models, social practices, historical relationships, the environment itself, and multiple combinations thereof. In the twenty-first century, mass migration is the human face of globalization—the sounds, colors, and aromas of a miniaturized, interconnected, and everfragile world. Today “migration is a shared condition of all humanity.” While there are as many motivations and pathways for migration as there are migrant families, large-scale migration is not random. It is ignited and then gathers momentum along predictable corridors. At the proximate level, migration is a strategy of the household. Distinct patterns of kinship, household, and social organization carve the pathways for worldwide migratory journeys. The fundamental unit of migration is the family—variously defined and structured by distinct, culturally coded legislative, economic, reproductive, and symbolic forms. At the distal level, immigration is multiply determined by labor markets, wage differentials, demographic imbalances, technological change, and environmental factors. However, up close it is the family that makes migration work. Immigration typically starts with the family, and family bonds sustain it. Immigration profoundly changes families. “Love and work,” Freud’s eternal words on the well-lived life, are useful to think about migration as an adaptation both of and for the family.
A NEW MAP Migration is increasingly defined by the slow-motion disintegration of failing states with feeble institutions, war and terror, demographic imbalances, unchecked climate change, and cataclysmic environmental disruptions. Symbiotically, these forces are the drivers of what I will call the catastrophic migrations of the twenty-first century. Catastrophic migrations are placing millions of human beings at grave risk. In the first quarter of the twenty-first century, the world witnessed the 10 UCLA Ed&IS SPRING 2019
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largest number of forcibly displaced human beings in history: while precise numbers are both elusive and changing, UN data report that more than sixty-eight million people—the equivalent of every man, woman, and child in Lagos, São Paulo, Seoul, London, Lima, New York, and Guadalajara—are escaping home into the unknown (UNHCR 2019). The majority of those seeking shelter are internally displaced persons (IDPs), not formal refugees across international borders. In addition, approximately nine in ten international asylum seekers remain in a neighboring country—Asians stay in Asia, Africans in Africa, Americans in the Americas. While migration is a shared condition of humanity, it is increasingly catastrophic: “The majority of new displacements in 2016 took place in environments characterized by a high exposure to natural and human-made hazards, high levels of socioeconomic vulnerability, and low coping capacity of both institutions and infrastructure.” By the end of 2016, there were 31.1 million new internal displacements due to conflict and violence (6.9 million) and disasters (24.1 million), “the equivalent of one person forced to flee every second” (IDMC 2017).
WAR AND TERROR War and terror are pushing millions of human beings from home. Millions of people linger in perpetual limbo in camps far away from the wealthy cities of Asia,
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Europe, North America, and Australia. The world is experiencing what Sánchez Terán (2017) calls the “forced confinement crisis” of the twenty-first century. Millions have been internally displaced, millions are awaiting asylum, and millions more are living in the shadow of the law as irregular or unauthorized immigrants. The United States, the country with the largest number of immigrants in the world, has an estimated 11.3 million undocumented immigrants and approximately five million children with at least one undocumented immigrant parent. In 2017, just three countries—Syria, Iraq, and Yemen—accounted for more than half of all internally displaced persons. Likewise, in 2017, more than half of all international refugees under UNHCR mandate originated in four states: Syria (approximately 5.5 million), Afghanistan (2.5 million), South Sudan (1.4 million), and Somalia (900,000). The conflicts in these countries are disparate and incommensurable in nature. Yet they share a chronic, protracted quality. These conflicts have endured longer than World War I and World War II combined. In each case, environmental dystopia and extreme weather patterns antecede and accentuate the catastrophic movement of people. Syria continues to represent “the world’s largest refugee crisis.” While Syrians are escaping interminable war and terror, in its collapse, Syria also embodies the noxious synergies among the
environment, war and terror, and mass human displacement. In the Americas, a new migration map is also taking form. First, by 2015, Mexican migration to the United States, the largest flow of international migration in U.S. history, was at its lowest in over a quarter of a century. Second, for the first time in recent history, more Mexicans were returning (voluntarily and involuntarily) to their country than were migrating to the United States. According to data analyzed by the Pew Hispanic Center, “… more Mexican immigrants have returned to Mexico from the U.S. than have migrated here since the end of the Great Recession … The same data sources also show the overall flow of Mexican immigrants between the two countries is at its smallest since the 1990s, mostly due to a drop in the number of Mexican immigrants coming to the U.S. From 2009 to 2014, one million Mexicans and their families (including U.S.-born children) left the U.S. for Mexico, according to data from the 2014 Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics. (ENADID 2014).” As Mexican migration decreases, uncontrolled criminality, terror, climate change, and environmental dystopia put Central Americans at the center of the new map. Indeed, the Americas gave the new immigration map a new contour: mass unauthorized immigration,
unaccompanied minors, children forcibly separated from their parents at the border, and mass deportations. The sources of the forced movements of people in Central America have disparate and complex histories, finding their distal origins in the Cold War, inequality, and uncontrolled criminality.
CHILDREN ARE A SIGN “[Children] are a sign of hope, a sign of life, but also a ‘diagnostic’ sign, a marker indicating the health of families, society and the entire world. Wherever children are accepted, loved, cared for and protected, the family is healthy, society is more healthy and the world is more human” (Pope Francis 2014). Crying children are the face of the catastrophic migrations of the twenty-first century. Worldwide, one in every two hundred children is a refugee, almost twice the number of a decade ago. According to UN data, in 2016 there were twenty-eight million children forcibly displaced. Another twenty million children were international migrants. Their total number is now larger than the populations of Canada and Sweden combined. Millions of children are internal migrants. In China alone there were an estimated thirty-five million migrant children in 2010 and a staggering sixtyone million children who were left behind in the countryside as their parents migrated to the coastal cities.
War and terror are pushing millions of human beings from home. Millions of people linger in perpetual limbo in camps far away from the wealthy cities of Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia. The world is experiencing what Sánchez Terán (2017) calls the ‘forced confinement crisis’ of the twenty-first century. UCLA Ed&IS SPRING 2019 13
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hen Benjamin Campbell, MD, a medical student graduating from Baylor College of Medicine in 2015, was exploring the nation’s schools to find the best choice for his res idency in ophthalmology, UCLA popped to the top of his list because of the training provided by pre eminent ophthalmologists, extensive patient contact, and advanced surgical opportunities. But for Dr. Campbell, now a thirdyear resident, the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology offered a standout opportunity unlike any other residency program.
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As a key element of UCLA’s threeyear program to train doctors to become comprehensive ophthalmologists, every resident partic ipates in clinical rotations at the Stein Eye Institute visionscience campus in Westwood, the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and UCLAaffiliated teaching hospitals: HarborUCLA Medical Cen ter in Torrance, Olive ViewUCLA Medical Center in Sylmar, and the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System hospitals in West Los Angeles and North Hills. Each teaching hospital in the rotation serves diverse communities of Southern California and provides patient care for vastly different populations with a broad range of ocular issues. “We believe our residency delivers the widest range of experiences of any program in the country,” says Stacy L. Pineles, MD, Jerome and Joan Snyder Chair in Ophthalmology and residency program director for the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology. “The opportunities for training, patient contact, and community service offered by rotations at UCLAaffiliated hospitals are unique among residency programs, and are important for medical students who are training to become practicing ophthalmologists ready to treat any ocular issue or patient situation that comes in the door.”
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Comprehensive resident training: critical in Southern California Instruction at such a diverse range of hospitals adds a specialized facet for UCLA residents, who represent some of America’s premier young ophthalmologistsintraining. “Our residents are the best of the best,” says Bartly J. Mondino, MD, chair of the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology and director of the Stein Eye Institute. “Every year, 400 graduating medical students apply for our program; we interview 60, and we take only eight. So at any given time in our threeyear program, we are training 24 doctors in a broad range of environments that the teaching hospitals provide.” EYE | UCLA STEIN EYE INSTITUTE | Spring 2019
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“We believe our residency offers the widest range of experiences of any program in the country. The opportunities for training, patient contact, and community service offered by rotations at UCLA-affiliated hospitals are unique among residency programs.” STACY L. PINELES, MD Director, Residency Program UCLA Department of Ophthalmology
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And the specialized nature of the pro gram is vital in Southern California, with fewer programs for training than in other major metropolitan areas. “In the New York City area, for example, there are more than ten ophthalmology res idency programs—in Los Angeles, there are two,” says Pradeep S. Prasad, MD, MBA, chief of the Division of Ophthalmology at HarborUCLA. “Our residents are direct beneficiaries of the opportunity to provide vital eye care services to the vast population of patients in our region.” UCLA ophthalmology residents see the advantages of working with the teaching hospitals from the perspective of how those opportunities broaden the scope of their handson experience—and their individual responsibilities. “Working at the teaching hospitals is an ideal training ground—the best of every world,” says Victoria Tseng, MD, PhD, a thirdyear resident. “When I applied for training in oph thalmology,” says Dr. Tseng, “what really stood out about UCLA’s program was the diversity of training, the number of patients in my care, and the independence I would receive as I progressed. “At the teaching hospitals, we are work ing with lowincome patients who not only have medical challenges, but who often have had only limited access to medical care—especially for their eyes,” says Dr. Tseng. “We see the spectrum of eye disease—often with opportunities
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for tremendous improvement. I routinely have patients who are nearblind one day and after treatment have 20/20 vision— that is a tremendously rewarding outcome for a resident in training.” Equally important in training new oph thalmologists at the teaching hospitals is the emphasis on selfreliance. “Some residency programs feature handholding approaches—the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology mandate is independence,” says Wayne Gui, MD, who completed his residency in the Department and is now a vitreoretinal surgery fellow at UCLA. “Learning how to be a selfsufficient ophthalmologist is especially important at the teaching hospitals, where we are expected to make individual decisions and recommendations when we consult with the attending physicians.”
“To be certified for independent surgery in some specialties requires completing a total of 20 of the procedures. Our residents routinely do that many procedures in one day.” UDAY DEVGAN, MD, FACS, FRCS Chief of Ophthalmology Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
Venues with specialized challenges Each of the affiliated hospitals presents its own set of challenges for residents and their training. At Olive View, for example, the lowincome patient load is especially heavy, with more than 25,000 patient vis its each year. “This is a ‘learn by doing’ environment,” says Uday Devgan, MD, FACS, FRCS, chief of ophthalmology at Olive View. “Here we get to train our residents in care for a population that is truly in need,” says Dr. Devgan, “treating diseases as they hone their skills along the way.”
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hange can bring opportunity, and the UCLA Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Sponsored Research (OIP-ISR) has seen a lot of change this past year, with more to come.
I am pleased to be a part of these changes and the progress we have made to enhance the entrepreneurial culture on our campus. This year’s report highlights a number of new OIP-ISR programs and activities that are helping to spur entrepreneurial activity at UCLA, as well as the new startups, product launches, licensing agreements, and industry-sponsored research agreements that have arisen from our office’s efforts. Major success stories profiled in these pages include companies that have gone on to obtain millions of dollars in private capital, expanded to large R&D spaces in the Los Angeles region, completed successful clinical trials, and launched a number of new products that will benefit both the economy and society at large. To enhance UCLA’s entrepreneurial and industry-partnering activities, the coming year will see the creation of an independent board to oversee OIP-ISR. This new oversight organization was unanimously approved by The Regents, and will include industry leaders in such fields as biopharmaceuticals, engineering, and venture capital, as well as faculty from the UCLA Academic Senate. This board will bring a new level of professional capability and real world business experience to assist our campus with decisions about patenting, licensing, University investment, risk tolerance, and industry-sponsored research contracts. I am excited to have been invited to be a part of the process to usher in this positive and forward-thinking change. In this, my first annual report for OIP-ISR, I also want to recognize the dedicated professionalism and hard work of the entire OIPISR staff who have embraced these entrepreneurial improvements and who will become the standard bearers for it. During this transition, they have maintained and continued to grow the office’s work in commercializing UCLA inventions and forging research partnerships with industry. With all the new challenges and opportunities facing OIP-ISR, these are, indeed, exciting times. We look forward to moving ahead with our new structure and establishing additional innovative partnerships with our campus and external stakeholders with whom we will continue to build a vigorous entrepreneurial ecosystem at UCLA.
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OVERVIEW Driving Innovation to Market
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OIP-ISR Overview
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OIP-ISR By The Numbers
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SUCCESSES From Research to New Companies and Products
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Industry-Supported Research and Centers
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Licensing Agreements
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Recent Startup Company Launches
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Updates on Existing UCLA Startups
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Product Pipeline and Launches
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THE FUTURE Enhancing the UCLA Ecosystem
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Building the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem at UCLA
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Forging New Connections with Industry
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Creating Educational Opportunities for the UCLA Community
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Brendan Rauw, MBA Associate Vice Chancellor and Executive Director of Entrepreneurship
OVERVIEW
Driving Innovation to Market UCLA’s mission as a public research university includes the creation, dissemination, preservation, and application of knowledge for the betterment of our global society. As such, research universities like UCLA make discoveries and create new technologies both for the sake of discovery itself, and to help solve major challenges facing our society. In this vein, a central component of our office’s mission is to build bridges between the University and industry to catalyze the development and commercialization of UCLA inventions to benefit the economy and society at large.
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OIP-ISR By The Numbers FY2011–12
Industry-Sponsored Research (ISR) awards
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$39.8M
$39.3M
New invention disclosures
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New provisional patent application filings
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New utility patent filings
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Newly-issued US patents
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Newly-signed licenses and options
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Pursuing patent and copyright protection for UCLA innovations
Startup launches
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Marketing & licensing inventions to industry
Product launches
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Licensing Revenue distributed to UCLA
$18.1M
$23.7M
Licensing Revenue distributed to UCLA inventors
$6.2M
$7.2M
CLIENT: UCLA Office of Intellectual Property and
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Our approach is to be proactive in engaging with the entire UCLA campus as we recognize that one cannot predict where the next great discovery will arise from. We aggressively file and invest in patent and copyright protection for these innovations so that we can ultimately partner these technologies with industry. On the back-end we are constantly building connections with industry at all levels from solo entrepreneurs through to mid-size companies and on to large multinationals as well as with angel investors and venture capitalists in order to identify the most qualified partners to commercialize UCLA’s innovations. Additionally we work with industry and faculty to identify opportunities for collaborative research and then structure these sponsored-research deals. The chart on the next page gives a sense of the scope of our activities over the past two years and the following pages highlight some of the new companies and products that have emerged from UCLA’s research enterprise. As part of our engagement with the entire UCLA campus we have the opportunity to work on projects from departments other than those in the sciences and engineering. In addition, since positively impacting society is at the core of what we do, we often spend time working on projects that may not yield a large dollar return to the University but that will nonetheless have a major societal impact. We highlight two such stories below along with examples of faculty research programs from across the campus that have the potential to transform patient care and industries throughout the economy. We end this year’s report with a look at new initiatives and programs that we recently launched to further grow and accelerate this “drive to market” of UCLA innovations in order to benefit the economy and society at large.
FY2012–13
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Total awarded research dollars from ISR awards
OIP-ISR’s Major Responsibilities
Assisting UCLA researchers, faculty & entrepreneurs with startup companies Engaging industry in research collaborations
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Help us remove one image to make millions of women feel welcome in tech.
Attwells, co-founder of Creatable. Panel members spoke about their experiences facing gender stereotypes and posited solutions for creating a more inclusive environment. The event was free and open to the public, with a successful turnout of nearly 100 attendees, including UCLA faculty, students and alumni.
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For UCLA math professor Deanna Needell, who was featured in the film and served on the panel, the Lena image symbolizes a stereotype that minimizes women’s potential in STEM fields. In the film she states, “The beautiful young woman in this photograph is not the woman doing the coding or writing the algorithm.” Catherine Clarke, a UCLA professor in chemistry, and Jane Margolis, a senior researcher in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies,
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joined in the discussion as part of the panel. Jane was also featured in the film. Ironically, as the film demonstrates, women played a major role in early computing and were the original computer programmers for the military and NASA. However, in the 1970s, men were deemed more suitable for this kind of work, and women were pushed out of the industry. The film is not a finger-pointing exercise, though it questions the tenets of the tech industry, considering that few have committed to retiring Lena, even in today’s more enlightened society where at least half of college students are women. In the film, Deanna ventures: “I think we have everything to lose if we don’t get more diversity. And that’s not just gender, that’s in
all the senses of the word. Without diverse ideas, we will not progress as a society in any scientific means.” The film is a visual vehicle for the campaign to retire Lena (www.losinglena.com), calling on members of tech industries, businesses, universities and other organizations to commit to this simple action and identify substitute images that can be used for image processing testing. UCLA mathematics has pledged to support retiring Lena’s image. Losing Lena has been shortlisted for PRWeek’s 2020 Purpose Awards for Best Equity and Inclusion and is currently available to view on Facebook Watch, Facebook’s video-ondemand service.
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hen the Swedish Playboy model, Lena Forsén, posed as the Miss November centerfold in 1972, she had no idea that her photograph would become the standard test image in computer science classes and be used almost exclusively for this purpose in business, industry and academia for the next 50 years. Lena’s fame began inconsequentially in the hands of a few male engineers at the University of Southern California, who in 1973 were laying the foundation for what would later become the JPEG. Bored with stock photos, which they needed to test their algorithms for converting physical photos into digital bits, they extracted the top third of Lena from the centerfold and used that image instead.
While this extracted picture of a beautiful woman is still consistently employed by the image processing community today, it is not without controversy. The practice has been relentlessly criticized for reinforcing gender stereotypes in male-dominated fields, such as math, the sciences, engineering and computer technology. Lena has become an example of the long-term and negative impact of small, seemingly innocent actions of many individuals. For those leading diversity efforts in STEM fields, specifically with regard to women, it is perceived as an obstacle. They believe that the time has come to retire the image. To explore and publicize this ubiquitous industry practice, FINCH (a film production company) in partnership with Clemenger BBDO Sydney (a marketing communications firm), both based in Australia, produced a
documentary titled Losing Lena. The project was developed for Creatable and Code Like a Girl (a program that helps prepare young women to work in technology and champions female innovation in tech fields). The filmmakers show how Lena’s photograph has become the foundation of all the images we’ve likely ever seen on websites and other digital productions. They proceed to use this historical thread to explore the challenges and biases that women have experienced in STEM fields around the world.
THE LENA IMAGE SYMBOLIZES A STEREOTYPE THAT MINIMIZES WOMEN’S POTENTIAL IN STEM FIELDS.”
As part of the film launch in 2019, the Department co-hosted a screening and discussion of the documentary, one of a number of events organized by FINCH and the PR firm, Porter Novelli. Following the screening, a panel discussion featured UCLA faculty and influential women in tech fields together with Francesca Walker from FINCH and Greg
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KRISTI INTARA Undergraduate student Financial Actuarial Mathematics
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Kristi Intara’s college days used to begin in the Sproul Cove dorms, followed by classes and study time. In the evenings, her activities might include a meeting of the Bruin Actuarial Society (BAS), her student organization, or Wushu martial arts practice, at the John Wooden Center. Her life was productive, even exhausting at times, but happy and fulfilling. When UCLA shut down at the end of the winter quarter as a response to the pandemic, Kristi’s first concern was her finals. Feeling anxious, she packed up and flew home to Daly City, California. “As it turned out, taking finals there was pretty comfortable,” she remembers. Since then, her student life has been structured around home and the computer. Following a hectic spring quarter, Kristi worked remotely through the summer as a full-time intern with Pacific Life Insurance Company. She was also deeply involved in the Bruin Actuarial Society (BAS). Kristi’s charge as incoming president was to ensure a widely accessible online portal for the club. BAS officers began reaching out electronically to the actuarial program’s incoming freshmen and transfer students, and they planned for online activities and events, including virtual résumé critiques and mock interview workshops via Zoom.
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While Covid-19 brought uncertainty to her college experience all those months ago, Kristi feels more confident moving into her senior year knowing what to expect from remote instruction. She admits that at times she feels disconnected from her peers, but she plans on enjoying the time she would normally spend with her friends on campus by making the most of what could be her last year with her family. BAS has been a bonus, giving her a way 16 WE ARE M ATHE M ATIC S
eginning in May of 2020, massive protests erupted across the country over the killing of Black Americans by police. Through its leadership, UCLA quickly and unequivocally condemned the violence as reprehensible and configured virtual spaces for the pandemic-locked UCLA community to develop responses and solutions to this overreach by law enforcement. The Department responded by attesting to the widely held judgement that these killings were unlawful and caused severe emotional pain for Black Americans in particular, and for communities of color generally.
to stay connected and make a difference in this strange, new university life.
VAN LATIMER Doctoral student Random Matrix Theory Van was living in university student housing with his wife and two small children when the pandemic hit and he learned that winter finals would be given remotely. In addition to pursing his PhD, Van was working as a teaching assistant, so his charge was twofold – a challenge in a small, crowded apartment. “With my family in the next room, it was really difficult,” he recalls. “My wife was limited in terms of where she could take the kids and how long she could stay out of the house.” After an initial struggle, he and his wife elected to move in with family, who were living in the Los Angeles area. Van was able to focus better on school and work in this larger, more supportive environment.
Teaching, in particular, was tough. “It’s hard to gauge social cues when you can’t see everybody in the virtual classroom, and a big part of my teaching job is making sure I don’t get any confused looks.” While learning and teaching at a distance are doable, Van believes that the university milieu cannot be replaced. He misses his grad school environment, which for a doctoral student, can be a determining factor in building a career. Going into his fourth year of graduate study, he is hoping to return to campus life again soon, and he is looking ahead. After completing his PhD, he plans to work in the private sector or government where he can use his research interest in computational mathematics as well as his background in probability theory.
He is appreciative of the extra time he was able to spend with his children. “My one-year-old son just learned to crawl, and my daughter celebrated her second birthday. It’s nice to be home for those important moments.” However, he believes that the downsides of distance learning outweigh the pluses.
The Latimer family
Recognizing that mathematics cannot be separated from the flows and upheavals of society, our faculty came together to address two major issues: how can we ensure inclusivity and social justice within the Department, and more broadly, how can we improve access to math education for women and communities of color? Unfortunately, the barriers to careers in in this field are particularly high for these populations. For example, only 3% of math doctorates were granted to African-American students in the U.S. over the last decade. To ensure that inclusivity and social justice are acknowledged and acted upon within the Department, an Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Committee was established in the summer. It will work toward the longterm goal of redefining and reshaping the mathematical community at UCLA. Consisting of students, postdocs, faculty and staff, the committee will examine the Department’s climate, admissions and student support, as well as its hiring and professional development processes. It will serve as the point of contact for anyone who wants to bring forward concerns or make suggestions for improvement. The committee’s first action was the appointment of faculty member Inwon Kim as an ombudsperson to serve as a mediator for any EDI-related grievances in the Department. EDI-related concerns may
be sent to ombuds@math.ucla.edu. General feedback and suggestions for the committee can be submitted anonymously via this link on the Department’s website: https://ww3.math. ucla.edu/feedback/. To help high-potential students of color in their applications to mathematics graduate programs, UCLA and local California State University (CSU) campuses collaborated on a pilot program in the summer. The CSU system has a strong mandate for accessibility to students of color and is a key source of doctoral candidates for UCLA across many fields. The Department hosted six CSU math students virtually, who successfully completed the in-depth Math Bridge Summer Program. Faculty mentors will remain available to them for advice and assistance and to help them navigate the application process for graduate study. Student feedback was positive, and in addition to feeling more prepared for their efforts to advance academically, they reported forming new and valuable peer connections for the future. To promote and nurture women faculty, grads and undergrads locally, the Department has joined Women in Mathematics in Southern California (WiMSoCal) and elected to host the 2021 WiMSoCal Symposium. This annual event is attended by over 100 women and features plenary talks, special sessions on a broad range of research in pure and applied mathematics, and poster sessions for students and new grads. It not only nurtures research collaborations for women mathematicians in academia, it provides a framework for mentoring and an exploration of issues for all women pursuing careers in math. The event will be held in early spring quarter.
Matching Gift Program in Support of EDI One of our ambitions is to create an endowment that will fund efforts to promote and expand opportunities for women and students of color within the Department. To advance this ambition and those of other UCLA departments, the Division of Physical Sciences has set up a Matching Gift Program to address social justice priorities and the critical need to increase the diversity of our faculty, staff and student body. The fund is a way for alums and other donors to increase the value of their cash gifts and pledges to new or existing endowments during the academic year ending June 30, 2021. For more information, please reach out to Joy Kruger at jkruger@support.ucla.edu to discuss details.
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Q&A Planned Parenthood Los Angeles’ Anne Matining, RN, MBA, on the importance of patient-focused care 3
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arrying backpacks filled with medical supplies, a trio of Venice Family Clinic primary care providers offers large doses of compassion along with on-thespot health screenings and services to people who have no address, no doctor and, all too often, no idea where to turn for help. La Chune F. Price, MPAS, Carrie Kowalski, MPAP, and Ebony Funches, DNP, share a passion for street medicine that provides a lifeline to people who suffer from multiple undiagnosed and untreated health challenges. Physician assistants Price and Kowalski and nurse practitioner Funches are part of a team partnering with community organizations to fight homelessness. Acutely aware of a gap in their medical education that makes it difficult to address the mental health issues faced by many who experience homelessness, these clinicians were eager to take advantage of an opportunity to supplement their training. They began a yearlong psychiatry fellowship in January. Within a couple of months, the trio was approaching outreach work with more confidence and new diagnostic tools.
Beyond the Basics Price, Kowalski and Funches are among 30 local community clinic healthcare professionals participating in the UC Irvine/UC Davis Train New Trainers Primary Care CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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uri Gonzalez Juarez and Avielle Villamater have never met, but the two 18-year-olds have a lot in common. Both Angelenos are top students and recent graduates who are bound for four-year colleges. Both grew up with families that immigrated to the United States seeking greater opportunities for their children. And both have been inspired by Cedars-Sinai mentors to pursue careers in healthcare.
ZURI GONZALEZ JUAREZ Teen Volunteer Juarez never forgets one of the first things she learned as a teen volunteer at Cedars-Sinai: “Always be ready to help people.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
CLIENT: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center—Marketing PROJECT: Embracing Our Community newsletter Complete design and production RESPONSIBILITY: creation of infographic
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Bountiful Birds
FINDING RARE & ENDANGERED SPECIES
Conservancy Biologists Begin Documenting Catalina’s Avian Fauna
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GREAT PLACES FOR BIRDWATCHING Blackjack Campground Haypress Reservoir Wrigley Memorial & Botanic Garden
CONFIRMING BIRDS’ PRESENCE ON THE ISLAND
They have used photographs taken from low-flying aircraft for researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz to determine that Caspian Terns were nesting on Ship Rock off the coast of Catalina Lion’s Head point. They have relied on birdwatchers, including one who recorded the first confirmed instance of a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher nesting on Catalina. And Dvorak, along with Harry Carter and Darrell Whitworth, researchers from the California Institute of Environmental Studies, used their climbing skills to scale the craggy sides of Ship Rock to document the Ashy Storm-Petrels nesting there. The nocturnal seabird is a “California Bird Species of Special Concern” because it is at risk of becoming threatened or endangered. Its presence had not been confirmed on Ship Rock or Catalina—although there were some early, unconfirmed reports of naturalists finding the small seabird’s eggs on Catalina in 1903 and 1937.
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eneath the stars, three wildlife biologists boarded a small Zodiac boat for a stomachchurning search for one of the world’s rarest seabirds, the Scripps’s Murrelet, off Catalina Island’s shores. The tiny black and white bird is elusive because it feeds at sea and visits its breeding islands at night for only a few months a year. Once they are on the islands, the birds nest in rugged, inaccessible, cliff-side habitats. Bouncing across the waves, the biologists used a spotlight to find the birds floating atop the dark waters by catching the Scripps’s Murrelets’ white undersides in the light’s beam. Finally, the biologists spotted a pair of the tiny birds together on the ocean alongside a rocky Catalina cliff, which was likely to be a nesting area. “We use a 14-foot Zodiac inflatable craft to find, pursue and capture the birds on the water with a dip net. We then inspect the birds and band them,” said Tyler Dvorak, Catalina Island Conservancy wildlife technician and an avid birder. “We first found an actual nest on the Island in 2012, and we have conducted two more survey seasons since then because documenting which birds are living, nesting and visiting the Island is important to the Conservancy’s mission of restoring and protecting Catalina.”
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Anna’s Hummingbird, one of five species of hummingbirds on the Island.
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eregrine Falcons, the birds of prey known as the fastest creatures in the animal kingdom, once thrived on the Channel Islands. But like the Bald Eagles, the use of the pesticide DDT caused their numbers to plummet, and they were placed on the endangered species list in 1970. Today, through restoration efforts, they have been removed from the endangered species list and returned to the Channel Islands, where Peter Sharpe, PhD, Institute of Wildlife Studies (IWS) research ecologist, said he’s spotted two breeding pairs of the raptors on Catalina Island’s western coast. But they’re not easy to find. Their gray, white and black plumage provides excellent camouflage on the cliffs where they lay their eggs on ledges in depressions in the dirt. “You can stare at a cliff for days, and you won’t see them if they don’t vocalize or move,” Dr. Sharpe said. “They’re not like the Bald Eagles, whose white heads make them easier to see.” Dr. Sharpe, who leads the Bald Eagle restoration program on Catalina, is conducting a survey of Peregrine Falcons on the Channel Islands, and says he’s finding greater numbers of the raptors on the islands than were known to exist before their precipitous decline in the 1950s and 1960s. He attributes these findings to the decreasing levels of DDE, a metabolite of DDT, in the environment since the pesticide was banned in the U.S. in 1972. He also credits a new method for finding the falcons that was developed by Joseph G. Barnes, a wildlife diversity supervising biologist at the Nevada Department of Wildlife.
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To find the falcons, Dr. Sharpe travels by foot or boat to the cliffs where the birds are most likely to be found. He plays a 30-second recording of a falcon’s call and waits 30 seconds to hear or see a response. If none is noted, he plays the call again and waits five minutes for a response. With this method, he’s had a 58% response rate, which is much more efficient than the previous methods of just using his eyes, ears and binoculars to find the falcons. “We counted 48 pairs of falcons on the Channel Islands in 2014,” Dr. Sharpe said. “We are going to continue to monitor them to see if DDT is still negatively affecting them.” In addition to the two breeding pairs Dr. Sharpe has documented on Catalina, birdwatchers have spotted many more migratory Peregrine Falcons visiting the Island. The Catalina Island Conservancy has provided support and partnership to IWS in its successful efforts to restore and monitor birds of prey on Catalina Island.
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PEREGRINE FALCONS Their numbers declined after DDE, a metabolite of DDT, caused THINNING OF THEIR EGGS, leading to the eggs cracking before the chicks were fully developed. Some chicks also died from dehydration due to thin shells. They can reach speeds of more than 200 MPH when diving for their prey. They are found on ALL CONTINENTS except Antarctica. Their name, peregrine, means “wanderer.” THEY CAN MIGRATE UP TO 15,000 MILES A YEAR.
“You can stare at a cliff for days, and you won’t see them if they don’t vocalize or move. They’re not like the Bald Eagles, whose white heads make them easier to see.” Peter Sharpe, PhD IWS research ecologist
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PROJECT: Conservancy Times Magazine
Dvorak said documenting the birds not only helps guide conservation decisions. It can also serve as evidence of the success of restoration and protection efforts on the Island by the Conservancy. “Birds can be excellent indicators of ecosystem health because they can choose where they wish to live, nest or visit,” he said. “We see some birds returning and some bird populations growing on Catalina and the other Channel Islands because the removal of non-native species and the elimination of predators, such as feral cats, have resulted in improved habitat.” On other Channel Islands, for instance, the removal of black rats eliminated predators that threatened the Scripps’s Murrelet. On Catalina, the Conservancy’s biologists and the California Institute of Environmental Studies are monitoring Scripps’s Murrelets’ nests and population size to determine the level of impact of multiple threats the rare seabird faces on the Island. “While much more remains to be done, the Conservancy has been able to maximize its resources and gain invaluable information about the birds on the Island through the work of our dedicated staff and in partnership with other organizations,” said Ann M. Muscat, PhD, Conservancy president and CEO. “We encourage all Catalina’s visitors to experience the wildlands to see the diversity of the bird population and the other native species that we are seeking to restore and protect.”
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In recent years, wildlife biologists from the Catalina Island Conservancy and numerous other organizations have used boats, boots and binoculars to document the birds on the Island. They’ve only begun to survey the various species, and already their work has recorded the return of such endangered and threatened species as the Peregrine Falcon (see page 4) as well as the presence of species considered to be “vulnerable” like the Scripps’s Murrelet. They have spotted such rarities as the lone Crested Caracara, which had not been seen before in the Channel Islands and rarely in California. Currently, they have evidence that there are 54 species of birds breeding on the Island, including some, such as the Caspian Tern, which had not been documented as breeding on Catalina before. They continue to track other bird species to try to get a complete picture of the avian fauna on Catalina. Dvorak and other Conservancy wildlife biologists, the Institute of Wildlife Studies, California Institute of Environmental Studies, Santa Barbara Natural History Museum, University of California, Santa Cruz and other institutions, as well as individual birdwatchers, have contributed to the nascent knowledge of the bird populations on the Island.
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They are the birds commonly used in the SPORT OF FALCONRY. Some Peregrine Falcons are used to SCARE OFF SEAGULLS. Many cities have encouraged Peregrine Falcons to nest in skyscrapers, and several can be found in downtown Los Angeles. 5
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EXPLORING CATALINA Find Your Wildlands Adventure
From a quiet stroll on a deserted beach to an exciting trip aboard a Jeep Eco Tour, Catalina Island’s 42,000 acres of wildlands offer countless adventures for visitors and residents to experience and explore nature. Under the stewardship of the Catalina Island Conservancy, the wildlands offer more than 150 miles of hiking along a road and trail system, 50 miles of bike trails and 62 miles of rugged shoreline. Established 45 years ago, the Conservancy is one of the state’s oldest and largest private land trusts. It is somewhat unique among land trusts because its mission includes nature-based recreation along with conservation and education. It is also unique in its offerings of public tours, transportation and other visitor services and programs that ensure the public has access to the land under its stewardship.
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Access to the wildlands is available through Avalon, Two Harbors, the Conservancyoperated Airport in the Sky and Catalina’s many camps and coves. The Conservancy’s road and trail system inspires day-trippers and avid backpackers to discover Catalina’s natural wonders from the Nature Center in Avalon to campsites on the Island’s West End.
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The following pages highlight the many opportunities the Conservancy offers to experience and explore Catalina.
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CAMPING Camping is a wonderful way to enjoy Catalina Island’s rugged beauty. Campers can enjoy a wide range of experiences— from the seclusion of boat-in camp sites along Catalina Island’s shores, which can only be accessed by kayak or boat, to the tent cabins at Two Harbors campground. Locations range from oceanfront Little Harbor campground, where campers can enjoy playing in the water, to Black Jack campground nestled among pine and eucalyptus trees in the Island’s interior. Mt. Orizaba, Santa Catalina Island’s highest peak, is a fairly short hike away. Conservancy members enjoy a 50% discount on camping fees at Conservancy campgrounds. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED Booking information:
JEEP ECO TOUR
310-510-TENT (8368) 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (winter) and 6:30 p.m. (summer)
Your adventure starts here! With access to over 160 miles of paved and unpaved roads, the Conservancy’s naturalist-led Jeep Eco Tours will drive you to parts of the Island no other outfitter can reach.
Groups of 20 or more: 310-510-2000 ext. 1246 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
These one-of-a-kind Jeep Eco Tours offer adventures amid the Island’s spectacular valleys, mountains and beaches. Learn more about Catalina’s rich history while exploring wildlands that most visitors never see. See some of its unique plants and wildlife. And, if you’re lucky, you may also spot the Island’s iconic bison, which were first brought to Catalina for a movie, or one of the tiny Catalina Island foxes, a subspecies of the Channel Islands fox found only on Catalina.
Book online at ReserveAmerica.com or call 877-778-1487 To receive your Conservancy Member discount, please make your reservation by telephone and provide your member number to the booking agents.
The Conservancy offers two- and three-hour tours, as well as longer, customized tours. Up to six people can travel in a Jeep. Conservancy members at the Discoverer level and above receive a discount on Jeep Eco Tours. Ask the Conservancy’s Guest Services associate for details when confirming your reservation. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED Online bookings now available at CatalinaConservancy.org. Or call 310-510-2595 ext. 108 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
CLIENT: Catalina Island Conservancy PROJECT: Conservancy Times Magazine RESPONSIBILITY: design and production
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HIKING Lisa Gelker has traveled extensively and says her favorite hikes are on Catalina because of its natural beauty—whether the skies are clear or fog envelops the surrounding hills. She also enjoys the convenience of finding a trail just five minutes from the home she’s owned in Avalon for more than 25 years. “Every trail is a new experience,” says the Long Beach real estate investor and longtime Conservancy member. Catalina offers trails ranging from the relatively short and easily accessible Garden to Sky Trail beginning in Wrigley Memorial & Botanic Garden to the arduous, multi-day 4
37.2-mile Trans-Catalina Trail that spans the length of the Island. Popular trails include the Airport Loop Trail, a 2.3-mile hike that starts at the airport and takes visitors to the Soapstone Quarry, where Catalina’s original inhabitants, the Tongva, mined soapstone for bowls. It also provides great views of Mt. Orizaba and Cottonwood Canyon. Other popular hikes are the Ben Weston Trail, a relatively flat hike through a canyon to Ben Weston Beach, and the Renton Mine Trail, which starts at Wrigley Memorial & Botanic Garden and travels 6.6 miles to the interior.
Hiking maps are available for purchase at the Explore Store at the Conservancy House in Avalon. For your safety, hiking permits are required each time you hike in Catalina’s wildlands so you can be located in the event of an emergency. Hiking permits are free and can be obtained online from the Conservancy website or at the Conservancy Explore store in downtown Avalon, Wrigley Memorial & Botanic Garden, the Nature Center on Avalon Canyon Road, Airport in the Sky and Two Harbors Visitor Center.
CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY
A BREAK FROM THE SUN As you hike the many trails on Catalina, you will notice several new shade structures, which provide a point of respite during your trek. The Conservancy’s trails and facilities staff built and installed these structures, including one at Parson’s Landing and another along Airport Road, through generous contributions from the Elliott Family Foundation Fund. For more information, please call: 310-510-2595 ext. 100 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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henever Jennifer LiebiZelazny’s fourth-grade students at Alta Loma Elementary School get rambunctious, she only has to say one phrase to settle them down: “mingle, mingle.” This is the name of one of the activities Liebi-Zelazny learned during a free, daylong physical education training provided by Cedars-Sinai to help Los Angeles Unified School District elementary school teachers make fitness fun for students. “Mingle, mingle” challenges children to walk, skip or run within a contained area
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federally qualified health centers (FQHC) and FQHC lookalikes in our community benefit service area: Each has an average of 3 sites.
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82% COMMUNITY CLINICS
of those served by community clinics have incomes under
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OF TOTAL CLINIC REVENUES COME FROM
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To significantly reduce disparities in health and healthcare for those most in need in Los Angeles by strengthening the leadership and effectiveness of community clinics.
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PE Training for Teachers
hat began as a routine medical visit at the Los Angeles LGBT Center ultimately became an escape route for Maria (not her real name), a transgender woman imprisoned in an abusive relationship. “My boyfriend was very aggressive and controlling all the time,” Maria says in Spanish during an interview at the center, while her therapist, Iordana Gaytan Gamiz, translates and provides emotional support. “I was afraid. I had no money. I felt trapped,” Maria adds. She shared her story to express gratitude for the help she has received — and for the grant Cedars-Sinai awarded to support the center’s comprehensive family violence intervention services and its STOP Partner Abuse/Violence Program (STOP Abuse). Maria came to the U.S. from Guatemala about 10 years ago while in the midst of a male-to-female transition. She had no family here, and her sense of isolation in a new culture and difficulty supporting herself financially were magnified by the discrimination she faced as a transgender woman. On the day several years ago when she first saw a doctor at the LGBT Center, she said nothing about the abuse. But the bruises on her body spoke for her. The
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MILLION PATIENTS
750,000 LIVES.
Cedars-Sinai Helps LGBT Center STOP Domestic Violence
Advancing the Financial Strength of L.A.’s Clinics (Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County and Capital Link) Managing to Leading (Healthforce Center at University of California, San Francisco)
About two-thirds of the community clinics in Cedars-Sinai’s service area are participating in the Community Clinic Initiative, which represents the potential to touch more than
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Key Programs and Partners: Year 1 of Community Clinic Initiative
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❝ Community health centers face unprecedented challenges while serving more people than ever before. Programs like Managing to Leading serve as healthcare leadership accelerators. Time and again, we've seen that strong leaders create healthy communities.” Sunita Mutha, MD, Director, Healthforce Center at University of California, San Francisco
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Frank Lloyd Wright
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baskets: The bounty of human ingenuity by stephanie hashagen and Wintress odom
W
hen early humans began weaving baskets, they
in most of these early cultures, women
weren’t thinking about them as artistic statements or
were responsible for weaving baskets.
historical artifacts. They weren’t thinking about how
Women also kept the art of basket weaving
their designs would influence the way people tens of thousands of years in the
alive, passing their traditions down from
future would go about their daily lives.
generation to generation. mothers taught
The earliest baskets solved problems. They collected the bounty that
A Metro Gold line Foothill extension ConstrUCtion AUthoritY ProJeCt
nourished families and communities. They provided a secure vessel for holding daily essentials like food, tools, and money. True symbols of human ingenuity, baskets have been invented and reinvented by societies and cultures, well before modern technology helped us share knowledge and know-how.
their daughters, and in time, those daughters grew up and taught it to their daughters. each new generation of weavers improved on existing designs and used their skills to create completely new designs. baskets became art—and the women and girls
historians and researchers have found evidence that people from some of the
who created baskets became artists.
world’s oldest civilizations—from asia to africa, from central america to the
They became storytellers and historians
middle east—were creating baskets more than 10,000 years ago.
responsible for preserving their culture’s way of life. although they couldn’t have imagined it at the time, these women were also shaping modern life: Think of the metal and plastic baskets we fill with food at the supermarket. imagine the wooden baskets we tote to picnics, or the “virtual” baskets we use when shopping for goods online.
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tools and symbols of bounty and plenty. in that way, baskets weave together our past, present, and future in ways that few other objects can.
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Giving Tuesday is an opportunity for each of us to harness the power of online giving to make a positive change in our community. Your Giving Tuesday gift will help ensure that tens of thousands of people across LA will not go hungry. SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ALONE, JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE LA:
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Delivered
NUTRITIOUS FOOD
GROCERIES TO THE DOORS
Distributed
to more than
of over
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1,300
PEOPLE
home-bound older adults and people with differing abilities each month.
each month.
Distributed
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Enough for nearly
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PREPARED MEALS
to seniors this year through our Home Delivered Meals program.
CHANGING THE WORLD BEGINS HERE AT HOME. Your Giving Tuesday generosity will bring food, shelter, mental health services, wellness, community, and other essential services to thousands of families throughout Los Angeles.
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WITH YOUR SUPPORT, WE: Provide shelter for 30 adults and 59 children fleeing domestic abuse and answer nearly 800 calls per month on our domestic abuse hotline.
Provide nutritious groceries to more than 5,000 people and deliver over 30,000 meals to atrisk older adults and people with differing abilities every month.
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Provided SHELTER and SERVICES to
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95 ADULTS
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CASE MANAGEMENT HOME CARE SERVICES EMERGENCY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE and ONLINE SOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES to
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every month to hundreds of older adults.
AND
Enough for nearly
2.4 million meals.
fleeing domestic violence—there are currently 20 adults and 40 children in our shelters right now.
to our domestic violence crisis lines.
With COVID-19 cases surging once again, bringing more devastating social, economic, and health consequences, please support Jewish Family Service LA to ensure that people throughout Los Angeles have access to the services they need.
834 survivors of the Holocaust.
to over
400 PEOPLE each month. And the list goes on...
Please help us continue to provide vital services for the people of Los Angeles by making your end-of-year gift today!
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