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About the Artist
About the Artist
Cailin Lechner graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science degree in human biology and society and a concentration in bioethics and public science policy. While attending UCLA, she served as Co-Executive Director of Amigos de UCLA, an educational justice nonprofit, and conducted her senior project on a case of environmental racism and toxic exposure within a predominantly Latinx South Los Angeles community. Currently, she works as a research coordinator within UCSF's Department of Neurology supporting an NIH BRAIN Initiative funded neuroethics study aiming to amplify patient and caregiver perspectives on treatment of refractory movement and mood disorders through closed-loop neurotechnologies with the goal of improving clinical care and device design. Her combined academic, volunteer, and career experiences have shaped her interest in addressing racial health disparities and social determinants of health through policy change. She intends to gain additional ethnographic fieldwork experience prior to pursuing a law degree with a focus in public health law and bioethics.
About the Course
About the Course
Honors 140, "Dominants and Subordinates: Social Psychology of Privilege and Oppression in Public Education," was a UCLA Honors course offered to undergraduate students in the Winter 2017 quarter. The syllabus describes the course as follows: "This class will examine the ways in which dominants and subordinates, groups represented by students in this class, relate to one another and the ways in which this arrangement is encouraged, maintained and reinforced by practices in American public education, and by each of us in our beliefs and practices... The readings on education will focus on the ways in which race, gender, class, and sexual orientation tend to become permanent inequalities, establishing them as deep and semi-permanent social arrangements in American life. The theoretical underpinnings of domination and subordination will be examined in readings on race, gender, class and sexual orientation, as well as readings on public education. The practices of temporary inequality will be examined by requiring all students to spend three hours a week tutoring at a public school. In this environment, students will have the opportunity to observe how the temporary inequalities become permanently established."
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