That same year, David Duncan, a UC Santa Cruz PhD Candidate of History, received a grant from The Humanities Institute to create a photo essay book about the current unification effort, as well as a digital exhibit that will continue to capture desegregation experiences into the future. The working title Something Just Happened, seeks to mirror the 1968 book as well as highlight the social justice-centered unification in 2021.
State Attorney General Xavier Becerra announces a historic settlement with the Sausalito Marin City School District that will lead to desegregation within five years Friday at Bayside Martin Luther King Jr. Academy in Marin City. (Jeremy Portje - Marin Independent Journal)
David Duncan is a PhD Candidate of History at UC Santa Cruz. Right out of high school David became an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) and spent 8 years working on ambulances, hospitals, as a disaster preparedness instructor, and a reserve firefighter.
David decided to pursue a career as a historian after many shifts daydreaming about teaching and conducting research projects. At UC Santa Cruz he was introduced to oral history, the methodology of interviewing people who lived through historical moments, to be remarkably similar to the relationship building and community work he loved in the medical field. Throughout his time at UC Santa Cruz he has presented his research on desegregation to conferences and community venues, as well as worked with UCSC's Regional History Project to create an oral history book on COVID-19 and its effects on the Santa Cruz community.
2017- B.A. US History, California State University East Bay
2020- M.A US History, University of California Santa Cruz
TBD- PhD US History, University of California Santa Cruz
