Profile: Serena Renner

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Serena Renner

South Bay

member since May 2, 2009
Serena has shown interest in Race & Demographics, Employment Issues, Wealth & Poverty, Cultural Diversity, Environment

Work Samples

Diving into the Triton Melting Pot An exploration into international student culture at UC San Diego. Face to Face A research and training program at UC San Diego takes a personal approach to discover the true impacts of migration -- on both sides of the border. Price Center at Heart of Speech Debate New Price Center policy silences nonaffiliates while campuswide committee advocates speech rights Learning from Tijuana In an age of monotonous suburbs, gated communities and artificial borders, UC San Diego visual arts professor and architect Teddy Cruz mines Tijuana shantytowns for creative inspiration. He uses what lies beyond the 10-foot steel wall to propose new options for affordable housing in the United States.

Work History

Resident Blogger I work as a blogger for Spot.us, a project of the Center for Media Change, pioneering community-funded journalism in the Bay Area. I interview local activists, bloggers and our own reporters about investigative stories. I write blogs for http://blog.spot.us/ and run an online radio show to educate the community about Bay Area issues.

What is Spot.us?

Spot.Us is an open source project to pioneer "community powered reporting." Through Spot.Us the public can commission and participate with journalists to do reporting on important and perhaps overlooked topics. Contributions are tax deductible and we partner with news organizations to distribute content under appropriate licenses.