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![Ana Luz Gonzalez-Vasquez appointed to California’s Cradle-to-Career Data System Governing Board](https://labor.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image-10.jpg)
She brings to the board over 17 years of experience in qualitative and quantitative research on workforce development, low-wage workers and informal labor markets.
![The California Endowment grants the UCLA Labor Center $500,000](https://labor.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image.png)
The funds will build the James Lawson Jr./Dolores Huerta Nonviolence Education Project, an initiative that provides a nonviolence curriculum to educators across California.
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Nearly 60 Years of Worker Justice
Established in 1964, the UCLA Labor Center advances cutting-edge research, education, and service guided by our core values: economic equity, racial and immigrant justice, and worker power and solidarity.
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Through our signature approaches and methodology that employ research justice, narrative storytelling, student and leader-to-movement pathways, and culturally and racially responsive evaluation, we partner with workers, unions, worker centers, students, and impacted communities to advance economic justice across California, the nation and globally.
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Re:Work, the UCLA Labor Center podcast
For the past decade, Re:Work has elevated stories of work to humanize and break down economic and racial justice issues.