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CSUSB students honor Jordyn Rivera in Run Like a Mother 5KInland Empire Community NewsOct. 25, 2017

More than 200 people ran or walked in the second annual Run Like A Mother 5K at Cal State San Bernardino on Saturday, Oct. 21, which this year was held in memory of slain student Jordyn Rivera.

The race/walk was hosted by the CSUSB chapter of Eta Sigma Gamma National Health Education Honorary Society, of which Rivera had served as president and treasurer, and students of Health Science 404: Women’s Health, said chapter faculty adviser Angie Denisse Verissimo, who works alongside Nicole Henley, who serves as the other faculty co-adviser. Both are assistant professors in the university’s Department of Health Sciences and Human Ecology and faculty coordinators of the 5K.

“They should be praised for their efforts,” said Henley, who credited the students for their hard work and dedication in planning and staging the event.

The annual race is “public health in action,” said Verissimo. “It is a prime example of bringing community members and our CSUSB community together all while raising consciousness on the pressing concerns that our communities face and celebrating those community organizations that strive to address these concerns.”

Read the complete article at “Cal State students honor slain student in Run Like a Mother 5K.”

CSUSB professor interviewed for profile on former white supremacistAngelusOct. 25, 2017

The newspaper for the Los Angeles Catholic diocese quoted Brian Levin, director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, for its article on Timothy Zaal, who went from “a misfit lonely adolescent to a punk rocker, then skinhead and white supremacist, and, finally, antiracist advocate,” the article said.

Levin knows Timothy Zaal’s story very well, especially how easy it is to become engulfed in a bubble of hate. Since 1999, the founding director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism has collected and closely monitored hate-crime statistics. But his interest goes back years before, when he filed amicus briefs for anti-hate organizations whose cases went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Plus, the New York City and Long Island native kicked off his career in criminal justice by joining the New York Police Department (NYPD) at 21.

For nearly two decades, the center, under Levin’s direction, has been widely known for analyzing data and releasing yearly reports on hate crimes and extremist groups in America and, especially, here in California and Los Angeles.

Read the complete article at “Hate, racism and white supremacists in America.”

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