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As the ASUCR Legislative Advocacy Committee (LAC), we are committed to uplifting student voices in statewide and national policy conversations. Each quarter, students are selected to join delegations for high-impact advocacy days across California and Washington D.C. These trips center students from marginalized and historically excluded communities while maintaining an equitable, transparent selection process.
As the ASUCR Legislative Advocacy Committee (LAC), we are committed to uplifting student voices in statewide and national policy conversations. Each quarter, students are selected to join delegations for high-impact advocacy days across California and Washington D.C. These trips center students from marginalized and historically excluded communities while maintaining an equitable, transparent selection process.
What are advocacy days?
What are advocacy days?
Advocacy Days are student-led trips where UC students meet directly with legislators, staffers, and statewide leaders to champion issues such as affordability, basic needs, racial justice, public higher education funding, immigrant protections, LGBTQ+ rights, and more.
Our Legislative Advocacy Committee is grounded in a set of core values that shape how we select delegates, prepare them for policy work, and uphold equity throughout the process.
Our Legislative Advocacy Committee is grounded in a set of core values that shape how we select delegates, prepare them for policy work, and uphold equity throughout the process.
These values ensure that our Advocacy Days remain student-centered, accessible, and reflective of UC Riverside’s diverse community. Explore the pillars below to learn how we operationalize these commitments.
These values ensure that our Advocacy Days remain student-centered, accessible, and reflective of UC Riverside’s diverse community. Explore the pillars below to learn how we operationalize these commitments.
Our Advocacy Day Values
Our Advocacy Day Values
Equity-Centered Selection
Equity-Centered Selection
Prioritizing access for marginalized communities.
We uplift students whose identities, lived experiences, and community contexts align with the policy issues at hand. This approach ensures that those most impacted by legislative decisions are at the center of our advocacy efforts. Our selection criteria intentionally reduce barriers and create opportunities for historically excluded students to lead.
Diversity Framework
Diversity Framework
Grounding our work in justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Our programming and review processes are intentionally shaped by frameworks that challenge structural inequities and affirm intersectional identities. We seek to ensure that our delegation-building practices do not replicate the exclusion or gatekeeping that many marginalized students face in institutional spaces.
Leadership Development
Leadership Development
Preparing students to serve as powerful advocates.
We invest in delegates through comprehensive training including legislative briefings, advocacy workshops, storytelling coaching, and community-informed policy education. Our goal is to empower students to confidently engage with lawmakers, articulate their lived experiences, and develop long-term leadership skills.
Accountability & Transparency
Accountability & Transparency
Ensuring fairness, clarity, and trust in our process.
We uphold structured review protocols, clear communication, and defined eligibility and decision-making criteria. Students deserve insight into how selections are made, and we remain committed to sharing timelines, processes, and expectations openly. This approach strengthens trust and maintains the integrity of our advocacy program.
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