‘I feel very lucky that I know what I care about’

Victoria Gutierrez’s senior research examines how Salton Sea residents organize to overcome poverty, environmental challenges.

The project, which is supported by the UCLA/Keck Humanistic Inquiry Undergraduate Research Program, focuses on how residents of Bombay Beach and Slab City cope with the ecological damage, extreme poverty and limited government support they face — and how they organize in an attempt to overcome those challenges.

Read the full story by Sean Brenner.