University-Community Partnerships for Transformative Education

Mara Welsh Mahmood is Executive Director of University-Community Links (UC Links) in the Berkeley School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley and has been involved with UC Links since its inception in 1996. She is the co-author of another book about the UC Links network: A Cultural Historical Approach to Social Displacement and University-Community Engagement: Emerging Research and Opportunities.   Marjorie Elaine (formerly Marjorie Elaine Faulstich Orellana) is Professor in the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also serves as the Associate Vice Provost of the International Institute. She directed the UC Links work at UCLA from 2009-2020. She is the author of Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces: Language, Learning and Love (a book about B-Club) and Mindful Ethnography: Mind, Heart and Activity for Transformative Social Research (drawing on UC Links teaching).    John Cano is Associate Director of University-Community Links (UC Links) in the Berkeley School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an educational technology scholar interested in how technology-mediated learning environments can enhance the learning experience of K-12 and higher education students. He also studies student engagement; online education; digital citizenship; intercultural education; and informal learning in after-school settings.