Original Op-Ed Post PUBLISHED: January 13, 2017 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 11, 2018 at 12:00 am Have you read the public mission of the University of California? You should. It is an inspiring missive about our responsibility to California residents to teach, research and provide public service. All three of those responsibilities are being met Jan. 18 and 20 at two teach-ins open to all at UC Santa Cruz, as well as to… Continue Reading “Meeting the challenge of our UC mission,” Santa Cruz Sentinel

Original Post on Conditionally Accepted Blog Too many academics of color, and recent Ph.D.s in particular, are getting the misguided advice to accept the initial terms of a job offer, argues Sylvanna Falcón. Over the past few years, I have started mentoring junior scholars, primarily women of color, about how to negotiate tenure-track job offers. This kind of mentoring came about rather organically, as I do not pitch myself as some kind of expert negotiator.… Continue Reading “You Deserve Better,” Inside Higher Education

Original Post October 24 is United Nations (UN) Day. In this guest post, Sylvanna Falcón—author of Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations—weighs in on the recent election of António Guterres to Secretary-General-Designate of the UN. Struggles over representation, power, and voice occurred during the first United Nations (UN) conference in 1945 where delegates discussed the structure of this new multilateral institution, including the formation of the Security Council and the drafting… Continue Reading What Would Bertha Lutz Say? Making Sense of the United Nations Secretary-General Election

Original Post March 8 is International Women’s Day (#IWD2016)—a global day celebrating the significant achievements of women and a reminder that urgent action is still needed to accelerate gender parity. This International Women’s Day, we are taking the opportunity to highlight a new book on transnational feminist and antiracist activism from our Decolonizing Feminisms series. In Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations, Sylvanna M. Falcón redirects the conversation about UN-based feminist… Continue Reading International Women’s Day Interview by University of Washington Press with Sylvanna M. Falcón