Adelene Bertha transferred to UCLA from Los Angeles City College after obtaining four AA degrees in 2022. Adelene Bertha is a first-generation student and has experienced homelessness from the age of 16 and sought services in a Skid Row shelter and Covenant House California. She was afforded a job opportunity in Los Angeles City and County nonprofit programs within Skid Row to address social determinants of health, while simultaneously pursuing a bachelor’s degree in psychology at UCLA. Adelene has worked within the Skid Row community for 7 years now community organizing, coordinating events, assisting peers in setting their goals, supporting them in advocating for themselves to obtain effective services, and implementing the housing first model.  Accordingly, her Skid Row Field Observation research project was brought about through one class with Professor Greenfield on Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft-adapted theoretical framework taught in Psychology 133G where she posed the hypothesis that “Skid Row is a Gemeinschaft ecology with values and behaviors that are adapted to it.” The project focuses on ethnographic field observations and natural conversations with Skid Row residents who volunteered to participate in this research venture. In the Skid Row field site, there was the course assistant, the student who posed the hypothesis, as the person tasked with having natural conversations throughout the observation. Alongside the teacher assistant were two students, one took the role of the note taker to capture what the participant did throughout his, her or their day; the other took the role of timer and recorded when specific activities were happening and the beginning and end of the observation period. The methods involved the course assistant, a familiar figure on Skid Row, informing the participant that, if at any time they felt uncomfortable, the observation would end, or the participant could request a change of topic. In addition, we communicated that the research team would respect COVID-19 social distancing to promote safety. An additional field observation was used to observe and describe the Skid Row environment – that is, the settings that are important to the residents of the Skid Row area in Downtown Los Angeles.  Moreover, within this coming year, she will be integrating the observational data into a research publication and a presentation for UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Week, as well as utilizing our observations and conclusions for presentations to Skid Row agencies and the general public. Our findings of tremendous cooperation and mutual help among Skid Row residents definitely challenge current stereotypes of unhoused people and therefore can be of use in breaking down these stereotypes in the general public.  Adelene plans to apply to Master’s and PhD programs the following year to continue forward in her Psychology degree ambitions. Adelene gives thanks to the students, who on a voluntary basis and from her course assistant effort, for choosing to participate in this project.