CAROLINA S. SARMIENTO 1300 Linden Dr. (4235) Madison, WI. 53706 Phone: (608)262-0322 E-Mail: csarmiento@wisc.edu Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Society and Community Studies School of Human Ecology University of Wisconsin Madison Affiliate with the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program EDUCATION B.A. 2002: University of California, Los Angeles. Bachelor of Arts in World Arts and Culture, Summa Cum Laude M.A. 2006: University of California, Los Angeles. Masters in Urban Planning. PhD 2014: University of California, Irvine. PhD in Planning, Policy and Design, School of Social Ecology Language Skills: English, fluent Spanish, Proficient in French (University of Bordeaux, France, Fall Semester 2002) RESEARCH and TEACHING INTERESTS Planning Theory and Practice Chicano/as and Latino/as in the City Community Development and Cultural Planning Transnational Cultural Movements and the Grassroots in the City Race, Immigration, and Urban Inequality Politics of Development and Urban Governance Community-Based Research Urban Ethnography and Qualitative Research Methods PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Beard, Victoria, and Carolina Sarmiento. 2014. Planning, Public Participation, and Money Politics in Santa Ana (CA). Journal of American Planning Association. 80(2): 168-181 Sarmiento, Carolina and Victoria A. Beard. 2013. Traversing the Border: Community-Based Planning and Transnational Migrants. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 33(3): 336-347. Gonzales, Erualdo, Carolina Sarmiento, Ana Siria Urzua, and Susan Luevano. 2012. The Grassroots and New Urbanism. A Case from a Southern California Latino Community. Journal of Urbanism. Beard, Victoria, A. and Carolina Sarmiento. 2010. Ties that Bind: Transnational Community-based Planning in Southern California and Oaxaca, International Development Planning Review 32:3-4. Under Review Sarmiento, Carolina and Revel Sims. Facades of Equitable Planning: The Affordable Housing Complex in Neighborhood Revitalization Journal of Planning Education and Research. Work in Progress Sarmiento, Carolina. FIRE and ICE: Immigration, Race and Strategies and Tactics of Cultural Planning Sarmiento, Carolina. Shaping a Vision of Culture, Diversity and Displacement. Sarmiento, Carolina and Victoria Beard. Let the Sunshine In: Planning for Accountability, Transparency, and Participation.
CHAPTERS Brian D. Christens, Victoria Faust, Jennifer Gaddis, Paula Tran Inzeo, Carolina S. Sarmiento, & Shannon M. Sparks Forthcoming. Action Research In L. A. Jason, & D. Glenwick (Eds.) Handbook of methodological approaches to community-based research: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. New York: Oxford University Press ACADEMIC CONFERENCE and PRESENTATIONS UNIVERSITY OF MADISON, WISCONSIN 2014: Lecture Presentation: FIRE and ICE Department of City and Regional Planning, UW-Madison CORNELL UNIVERSITY, College of Architecture, Art and Planning 2014: Lecture Presentation: Experiences of Immigrant Communities in the Creative City October, Ithaca GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 2014: Seminar Presentation: Learning Art and Inequality: Mexican Immigrants in the Creative City Department of School of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS 2014: Paper Presentation, The Politics of Space in the Migrant Metropolis, Florida 2013: Paper Presentation, Facades of Progressive Gentrification: A Case of the Affordable Housing Complex in Neighborhood Revitalization Los Angeles 2012: Paper presentation, Strategies of Fire and Ice in Cultural Planning: Power, Immigration and Race in Contested Space New York 2009: Paper Presentation, Ties That Bind: Community-Based Planning, Collective Action and Transnational Social Networks in Southern California and Oaxaca ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS OF PLANNING 2014: Paper presentation, Culture of Displacement: Development, Diversity and Racial Formation Philadelphia, PA. 2012: Paper presentation, Working Communities at the Center of Cultural Planning and Production Cincinnati, Ohio 2011: Paper presentation, Culture of Fire ICE: Immigration, Race, and Everyday Strategies and Tactics of Cultural Planning Salt Lake City, UT 2010: Paper presentation, Spaces of Possibility: Challenging the Marginalization of Immigrant Cultural Spaces 2009: Paper presentation, with Victoria Basolo, Contradistinctions of Power? Participation and Representation in the Neighborhood Governance of Los Angeles 2009: Paper presentation, Transnational Community Based Planning: Trust, Collective Action and Social Movements 2006: Paper presentation, A Study in Transnational Culture and Radical Space UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON May 2013, Comparative History of Ideas Program, Encuentro de Fandagueros del Pacific Northwest, Fandango Seattle Project October 2009: Panel presentation, Women s Studies Department, Soul Dancing: The Role of Dance in Community Mobilization, Seattle Washington 2
April 2009: Panel presentation, Women Studies Department Fandango Sin Fronteras: the Role of Dance at the Transnational scale Seattle Washington CAL STATE FULLERTON 2013: Panel Presentation, Contested Territory: Creative Development in Santa Ana, California Latinos in the City Conference, Chicana/o Studies Department California State University, Fullerton CLAIRMONT COLLEGES 2013: Paper Presentation, Building Community Through Son Jarocho in Santa Ana, California Scripps, College, Department of Chicano Studies, Los Angeles NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CHICANA AND CHICANO STUDIES March 2011: Paper presentation, Spaces of Possibility: Challenging the marginality of the immigrant working class in the Creative City, Pasadena URBAN AFFAIRS ASSOCIATION March 2011: Paper presentation, Spaces of Cultural Production: Questioning the Marginality of Immigrant Cultural Spaces, New Orleans March 2010: Paper presentation In Defense of Our Space: Cultural Spaces as Centers of Grassroots Mobilizations. Honolulu Hawaii PLANNERS NETWORK 2010: Paper presentation, Facades of Progressive Gentrification in Communities of Color San Francisco, California RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Co-founder of MASData June 2014--Present Co-founder for Data for Movement, Action and Strategy, a consulting company dedicated to the generation of research for community based organizations working for social justice in the city. UCLA Labor Center July 2013-June 2014 Researcher and analyst for project investigating the current political, economic and demographic shifts in Orange County and their impact on current growing mobilizations in communities of color around labor and social justice. Transnational Community Development Spring 2008-Present Co-principle investigator for research on transnational communities based in Oaxaca and Southern California with Victoria A. Beard. California Data Project, California Arts and Cultural Ecology June- January 2011 Researcher and analyst for project sponsored by the James Irvine Foundation investigating California arts and cultural ecology, Principle Investigator Ann Markusen Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils Research Project Spring 2008-Spring 2009 Researcher and analyst on the neighborhood councils in Los Angeles, and the question of democratic participation in urban governance with principle investigator Victoria Basolo. 3
RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS UCLA, Immigrant Organizations Project, Spring 2008-Spring 2009 Research Fellow for the Center for the Study of Urban Poverty: research studied the impact of immigration organizations economic and community development in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. UCLA, Cultural Dimensions of Transnational Communities Spring 2004-Spring 2006 Research fellowship that involved research that examined ways in which arts and culture and creativity are present, valued and supported in immigrant, particularly transnational communities and in the community development process. UCLA, National Day Labor Project, Spring 1999-2002 This national study on day laborers was a collaborative project with the National Day Labor Organizing Network where I collected data and partook in analysis. WORK EXPERIENCE Lincoln Land Institute August 2011 February 2012 Consultant for the Lincoln Land Institute, community outreach consultant for the Neighborhood Transportation and Activity Study documenting how local jobs, shopping, transportation and neighborhood design affect people s activities and how they travel. Principle Investigator: Marlon Boarnet and Doug Houston Mission Hospital, Mission Viejo and Laguna Beach February 2011 - July 2011 Designing and implementing four resident community forums around community health needs for Mission Viejo Hospital as well as analysis of findings. Urban Institute, Washington DC 2005-2006 Cultural Vitality Measures, Urban Institute, DC. Working with principle researcher, Maria Rosario Jackson on participatory arts in communities of color and developing a comprehensive definition of cultural vitality and how to measure it. Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) May 1, 2002- January 30, 2004 Los Angeles Living Wage Impact Study, a joint project of UCLA and LAANE to assess the impact of the living wage Ordinance on employers and workers. Consulting Includes, gathering demographic data, documenting how raising wages have benefited workers, their families, and how it has affected the work on the job. Editorial Assistant Position September 2009-June 2010 Journal of Urban Affairs, Assistant to the editor, Victoria Basolo at the University of California, Irvine. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin- Madison Community Based Research and Evaluation Spring 2015 Community Sustainability Spring 2015 Community Issues and Service Learning Fall 2014 4
Teaching Associate, University of California, Irvine Winter 2013 Planning in the Global South Teaching Assistant, University of California, Irvine Spring 2007 Winter 2012 Qualitative Methods (Spring 2012); Planning Theory (Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Winter 2012); Qualitative Research (Fall 2011); Environmental Policy and Design (Spring 2007); Poverty alleviation and Development (Winter 2010); Latino Metropolis (fall 2000); Introduction to Urban Studies (spring 2011) Teaching Associate, University of California, Irvine Fall and Winter 2003-2008 Chicano(a) Latino Studies Program, History and Politics of Mexican Dance in Mexico and United States Co-teaching Student Initiated Course Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008 Created the syllabus, methods of evaluation, final product and co-taught three distinct courses. The courses included Critical Planning, Unequal Development in Cities and Unmasking the City Budget. Co-teaching Student Initiated Course, UCLA Spring 2005 Created the syllabus, methods of evaluation, final product and co-taught Revolutionary Planning in the Department of Urban Planning. STUDENT ADVISING Phd Dissertation Committee Member: Cynthia Lin NON ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS University of Wisconsin-Madison. Driven but Denied. School of Human Ecology, Department of Civil Society and Community Studies. 2014. University of California, Los Angeles and ACSP. July 2014. UCLA-USC Pre-doctoral Workshops for Students of Color University of Southern California and ACSP. July 2013 Summer Pre-Doctoral Workshop for Students of Color. Americans for the Arts. November 2012, Engaging with Community-Based Art Organizations: A new Center of Gravity (it s not only about the arts) National Public Radio. March 2011, National Public Radio Air Talk Santa Ana s Gentrification Wars Artists Revitalizing the East Side. October 2009, Art and Gentrification: Artists as Actors Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. UCLA Labor Center. May 2009, FIOB Oaxacan Transnational Organizing and Community Development, Los Angeles Orange County Human Relations Commission. May 2007, A Critical Perspective on the City Budget, Santa Ana, California Western Knight Journalism Conference. November 2005, The Latinization of Art and Cultura in America: Understanding Its Impact and Why it Matters, Los Angeles Grantmakers in the Arts Conference. October 2005, Paper presentation The Maintenance of Culture in a Transnational Context Los Angeles ACADEMIC SERVICE 5
Sustainability Task Force, UW School of Human Ecology 2014-present Steering Committee, Haven Center for the Study of Social Justice 2014-present Sustainable Communities Focus Area Co-Lead: University of Wisconsin Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies 2014-present Editorial Team, The City 2014-present Summer Pre-Doctoral Workshops for Students of Color, ACSP 2013 and 2014 Member of Planners of Color Interest Group, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 2010-present PUBLIC SERVICE Committee Member, Bilingual Labor and Communication Program with the School for Workers, UW Madison Board Member, Worker Rights Center, Madison Wisconsin 2014-present Board Member, Orange County Communities for Responsible Development, 2014-present Board Member, Centro Cultural de Mexico, 2012-present Advisory Board, UCI Community and Labor Project 2014-present Co-Organizer for Urban Planning and Crisis: Critical Planning in Action Conference 2008 Executive Director, Centro Cultural de Mexico 2002-2005 AWARDS Focus Fellow, Georgina Institute of Technology, Office of the Vice President for Institute of Diversity 2014 UCI, Miguel Velez Scholarship Winter 2011-Spring 2012 Dean s Excellence Scholarship Fund, University of California Irvine 2008 Community Development Award for Executive Director, City of Santa Ana 2005 Hispanic Woman of the Year 2003 Award, LULAC Orange County Human Relations Commission 2003 State of California Secretary of State, Kevin Shelley, Cultural Arts Service Award 2003 Orange County Board of Supervisors Orange County Hispanic Woman of the Year 2003 6