The grassroots work with non-partisan groups throughout the state resulted in educational and community events that were all part of the California Freedom Summer.

“People of color are seven out of 10 young people in the state of California and in some of your communities you are eight out of 10, nine out of 10, 10 out of 10,” Veronica Terriquez, director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, told 100-plus high school students at a recent event at UC Riverside.

As soon as she joined the UCLA faculty in 2021, Terriquez began organizing the California Freedom Summer, a collaboration across the University of California system, several community colleges and dozens of community groups — all centered on a non-partisan effort to inspire young people understand the issues, register to vote and get active in their communities. It’s modeled after the original Freedom Summer — a 1964 push in Mississippi to register voters of color and follows on a similar 2018 project Terriquez led as a professor at UC Santa Cruz.

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