CCSP 2025 Summer Social Justice Grant

Congratulations to our 2025 grantees:

• • Undergraduate Summer Grants  - $500/each
    • Kamilah Pasha - Mental Health ToolBox.
    • Merica Griffin - Indigenous land and cultural sovereignty.
  • Two (2) Graduate Summer Grants - $750/each
    • Clinical Psychology Grad Student - Using EEG to examine how neural processing of social rejection is influenced by cultural background.
    • Ariek Norford - Settler Colonialism, Ecocide, and the Climate Crisis in Occupied Palestine.

The Center for Changing Systems of Power at Stony Brook (CCSP) is pleased to offer 2 undergraduate and 2 graduate summer grants in support of:

• Research
• Artivism
• Social Justice Activity

In one of the following focus areas:

• Carceral Studies 
• Environmental Justice
• Health Disparities

Complete Applications must include:

1. A 250 word personal statement providing a concise overview of your background, academic interests, and commitment to social justice
2. A 250 word project proposal describing how your project relates to one of the 3 focus areas, what you plan to do over the summer, and how it will advance your academic and social justice work.
3. A letter of recommendation

Minimum GPA: 3.0

Grant recipients will be required to participate in a Fall 2025 presentation to share their research, artivism, or social justice activity and reflect on the impact of their project.