Cal-in-Sac Undergraduate Research on Diversity and Entrepreneurship

Alramadan, Noor: Entrepreneurial Women of Color: Small Business Success in California's Food Industry, 2024

Blanco, Juan Pablo: Beyond Financial Assistance: Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Black and Latino Small Businesses Owners, 2024

Contreras, Joselen X.; Zhu, Eric C.: Once Here and Gone Forever: The Perils of Being A POC Business Owner in San Francisco Chinatown; An Op-Ed, 2024

Kou, Irene: Lending Practices for Formerly Incarcerated Entrepreneurs of Color: The Considerations from Community Development Financial Institutions, 2024

Marquez, Andres: POC Small Business Owners in Sacramento: Challenges Faced and Related Issues, 2024

Martínez Ramírez, Emely; Garcia Dura, Samuel: Supporting Community Development Financial Institutions Amidst Legal and Political Challenges, 2024

Wong, Elia: The Power of (Good) Marketing: San Francisco’s Outreach to Its Diverse Small Businesses, 2024

Aini, Matthew; Cosio, Kristel; Greenwald, Sofia; Jacoby, Molly; Keene, Tristan; Kim, Ethan et al.: Closing the Wealth Gap: Removing Barriers Faced by Women of Color Entrepreneurs, 2023

Carrigan, Sidney: Overcoming Barriers to Employment By Employing Oneself: Understanding How A Criminal Record Affects One’s Potential to Develop Their Own Business, 2022

Castro, Lesly: How the Covid-19 Pandemic Exacerbated the fight between POC-OwnedSmall Businesses & Gentrification, 2022

Gonzalez Ramirez, Jose: The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners of Hair and Nail Salons, 2022

Greenberg, Sam: Streets for Whom? The Fight Over Space on Oakland’s Gentrifying Commercial Streets, 2022

Hernandez, Yvette: The Challenges LA County Latino Food Truck Owners Face in Opening and Expandingtheir Business, 2022

Lopez Osorio , Jenifer: “Discount Centers”: A Safe and Permanent Pathway to a Business Startup for Indigenous Immigrant Entrepreneurs, 2022

Nguyen, Cindy: The Benefits of Farmers Markets, 2022

Ruelas, Ayline: Latinx-Owned Small Businesses are Struggling to Survive in Sacramento Even Post-Covid, but What can be Done?, 2022

Serrano, Jennifer A.: How Latinx Business Owners Utilize Social Media, 2022

Shaughnessy, Tristan: Helping Out — Why Small Business Centers Matter, 2022

Smith , Jackson: In California, Women-and POC-owned Small Businesses Feel the Crunch of a Rising Cost of Living , 2022

Tran, Rebecca: The Impact of COVID-19 on AAPI Businesses: An Attack on All Fronts, 2022

Velez, Allyson: Supporting Undocumented Entrepreneurship, 2022

Yiu, Michelle: Resilience Amidst COVID-19 Shut-Downs and Stigma: Experiences of Bay Area Asian Female Nail and Hair Salon Workers and Owners, 2022

Aziz, Nabil: Oakland’s Cannabis Social Equity Program: Reversing The War on Drugs, 2021

Dargahi, Layla: The Mountain of Waste: How Small Businesses Have Managed Food Packaging Practices During the COVID-19 Era, 2021

De Anda Plascencia, Pedro: Swap Meet Vendors: An Exploration of Neglected Voices, 2021

Diaz, Michael: Paycheck Protection Program: Unequal Loan Distribution and Increasing Racial Disparities, 2021

Eusebio, Kai: Against Hate and Hardship: How Asian American Small Businesses and Restaurants Have Survived the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021

Hamill, Erin: Were they Enough? Cal Relief Grants Battling Gendered Unemployment in the Pandemic, 2021

Kay, Joshua: Contract Local! An examination of San Francisco's Local Business Enterprise Program, 2021

Kim, Nancy: Predatory Practices of Food Delivery Giants Against Minority-Owned Restaurants, 2021

Nguyen, Jimmy: COVID-19 Relief & Recovery: Vietnamese American Businesses in San Jose's Little Saigon, 2021

Nyandemoh, Nyanga: Black Businesses Face the Brunt of the Coronavirus, but Where Is the Aid?, 2021

Saran, Tanvi: BIPOC Small Businesses: Surviving and Sacrifice, 2021

Van, Minh Anh: Asian American Small Business Owners: Inequitable Access to Government COVID-19 Relief, 2021

Vasquez, Victor: Cannabis Social Equity: The Battle to Compete in a Competitive Marketplace, 2021

Vasquez Guzman, Leslie: How Diversity Affects California Nonprofit Organizations, 2021

Velez, Allyson: Party Planning Businesses You Absolutely Need to Know About, 2021