Utah Reintegration Program
The Utah Reintegration Program (URP) founded on December 4, 2019, is a large multi-level comprehensive community-based coalition of agencies, programs, and organizations dedicated to (1) ending the recidivism of adults and youth incarcerated, (2) foster alternatives to incarceration, and (3) addressing the root social causes of incarceration in Salt Lake County and society. Grounded in critical re/integration studies, URP:

1. Starts inside incarcerated locations (prisons, jails, and juvenile detention facilities);
2. Supports with (1) life skills and conflict transformation, (2) job readiness and business inclusion, (3) mental health and substance recovery; and (4) college and high school education;
3. Grounded in culture and community of people that are caught in the system and were incarcerated (it has to be culturally and community sensitive); and
4. Works to address systemic root issues within the criminal justice system of incarceration and society.

Salt Lake Harvey Milk Vigil and Remembrance
Founded in 2019, this public, free, and family friendly event located on the sidewalk of 900 South and 900 East in Salt Lake, Utah provides space to remember the powerful life of politician Harvey Milk, the first out gay politician in the U.S. Students and faculty in the Department of Criminal Justice and Gender and Sexuality Student Resource Center collaborate on this important event to address hate crimes, domestic terrorism, and justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI).

Sock Drive
The most common item not provided to unsheltered people is socks. Wearing the same socks for a long period of time can cause many diseases. Those that are unsheltered and caught in the criminal justice system are too often the same population. The Department of Criminal Justice and the Utah Criminology Student Association does not have a utopian perspective of eliminating poverty, but this project educated the students about the resources, economic justice, racial justice, mental health, humanitarian aid, and plight of the social service industry.

Salt Lake Public Picnic
This public picnic founded in 2019 is grounded in a mutual aid and Freirean philosophy. The Department of Criminal Justice and the Utah Criminology Student Association shares, not gives or serves, food with others in their community. This collaborative community engaged project educates students on economic justice, mental health, community building and relations, event planning, organization management. The food that is shared by the SLCC students downtown Salt Lake, Utah is always the same – oatmeal, vegetable soup, juice, coffee, and bagels. The cups, plates, and utensils are able to be washed and used again. The students carpool themselves downtown, which teaches sustainability, grassroots organizing, and self-reliance.

Annual Salt Lake Winter Lowrider Bicycle Show
The powerful and important evening event founded in 2019 centers Latino/a/x and Chicano/a/x culture, while also promoting youth justice, education, social justice, equity, peace, and alternatives to violence and incarceration. This community engaged project is a collaboration with the Dream Center, West Valley Center, Save the Kids, Utah Criminology Student Association, Department of Criminal Justice, Utah Reintegration Program.

Sponsored Publications:

• Peace Studies Journal
• Green Theory and Praxis Journal
• Transformative Justice Journal
• Lowrider Studies Journal
• Journal for Critical Animal Studies
• Hip Hop Studies and Activism Book Series, Peter Lang Publishing
• Critical Animal Studies and Theory Book Series, Lexington Books
• Radical Animal Studies and Total Liberation, Peter Lang Publishing
• Lowrider Studies Book Series, Peter Lang Publishing
• Liberatory Stories and Voices from Community Colleges Book Series, Peter Lang Publishing
• Poetry Behind the Walls