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California colleges and universities are still missing over $5 million worth of humanities grants, despite one federal district court order to return funds to University of California campuses. For at least 19 other campuses, the money remains out of reach as lawsuits continue to challenge the Trump administration’s abrupt halt of promised funding in April, when the National Endowment for the Humanities canceled over $10.2 million to already-awarded projects in California.

Now campuses must scramble for limited, alternative funding if they want to keep their projects alive.

For students like Kathleen Boswell, a teaching credential student at Cal State San Bernardino, the loss affects their professional advancement. Boswell and fellow teaching credential students were ready to participate in the first cohort of the “Inland Empire Project,” originally to launch this fall. This project would have provided training and curriculum for current and prospective K-12 teachers to use local history to talk about national topics, such as world wars. Boswell especially looked forward to testing new approaches to connect students with American history.

“Kids get really excited when history is in their grasp,” she said. “If they can connect to local history, they can connect to the broader scope of history. It’s a domino effect.”

President Trump announced plans to gut the National Endowment for the Humanities in his most-recent budget, starting with cutting two-thirds of the agency’s staff. The agency is the largest public funder of the humanities nationwide, created alongside the National Endowment for the Arts after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act into law in 1965. The law asserts that the arts are vital to democracy. Ever since, NEH awards represent a coveted prize in the humanities field.

Earlier this year, the agency announced major ideological shifts for the types of projects it would support to comply with the president’s executive orders. Those orders aim to eliminate federal funding for programs that promote such ideals as diversity, gender equity, and environmental justice.

During the first three days of April, letters went out to most NEH grant recipients stating that their funding was terminated. A letter sent on April 2 to Cal State San Bernardino states that, “NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President’s agenda.” The termination was effective immediately.

CalMatters reached out to all 29 California campuses that had ongoing NEH-funded projects at that time, as listed on the federal grant tracker USA Spending. CalMatters found that every California campus but one had their funding cut by confirming with public information officers at each college and checking the American Historical Association’s database of terminated NEH grants.

The only campus spared, the California Institute of Technology, confirmed its funding for the Einstein Papers Project remained intact. The collection houses more than 90,000 of Albert Einstein’s written records.

Terminated projects covered a wide variety of topics, from digitizing the history of Catherine the Great at the University of Southern California to the creation of a minor in human rights and border studies at San Diego State University. Some colleges were in the midst of their project spending when they received the news, while others were slated to start in the upcoming months. Canceled grants ranged from about $23,000 to over $500,000. USC’s canceled projects totaled over $1.2 million.

UC researchers then sued federal agencies. In that case, Thakur v. Trump, a federal district court issued a preliminary injunction in June ordering the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Endowment for the Humanities to reinstate grants to the UCs that were not given a grant-specific explanation as to why they were chosen for termination. That case is still ongoing.

Two other lawsuits over the grant cancellations have been filed by humanities groups on behalf of thousands of individual and institutional members. One lawsuit is led by The Author’s Guild and the other by the American Council of Learned Societies. Although the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York consolidated the two cases, the federal judge in both cases granted a preliminary injunction against the NEH in July only for The Author’s Guild case. However, the judge did not order the grants be returned, but instead be held until the case is tried.

As for the other lawsuit led by the American Council of Learned Societies, along with the American Historical Association and Modern Language Association of America, the same judge denied a preliminary injunction, stating they lack standing to sue the NEH for making such institutional cuts as firing employees and discontinuing programs. A hearing in the case is scheduled for today.

Over 40 universities and research institutions in California are members of the American Historical Association, including Cal State Bakersfield, which had to cancel its “California Dreamin’” project.

Jennifer Self, the university spokesperson, told CalMatters in an email that “at this point, the money is on pause and has not been reinstated and everyone is waiting for how this will play out.” Cal State Bakersfield had been awarded $183,000 for a partnership with Bakersfield College to bring high school teachers from around the country to visit historic sites and learn about the history of immigration and agriculture in the Central Valley. Teachers had already been sent their acceptance letters for the workshop when the funding was cut and the project had to be canceled.

Humanities projects take a huge hit

When Michelle Lorimer, the historian and professor at Cal State San Bernardino leading the Inland Empire Project, received the termination notice, she was devastated. For Lorimer, this award represented several months of research, gathering educators and establishing specific programming and curriculum goals. She says the experience has changed the way she looks at federally funded grants.

“I’m not going to apply for federal funding right now for the work that we’re doing. That would be a waste of time,” Lorimer stated. “ It’s really time-consuming writing these applications, so honestly it would need to be something that I’d feel confident that we’d have a shot at — not something I’m trying to pigeonhole our work into.”

The NEH initially approved the Inland Empire Project for nearly $150,000 to roll out over a period of three years. The project was to create a framework of teaching that uses local history as a method to demonstrate broader U.S. historical topics, such as segregation, redlining and environmental injustice. Teachers in local schools, as well as aspiring history teachers from Cal State San Bernardino, would have received this curriculum and tools to use in classrooms.

Lorimer has looked for alternative funding, but grants of this size are rare and she anticipates that private grants will only get more competitive. Certain private grants are by invite only. Lorimer said that although her college is a member of the American Historical Association, she is not getting her hopes up that the funds might be returned.

Michael Kerp, an assistant professor at Cal State San Bernardino, had planned to create curriculum about the Salton Sea, focusing on environmental and civil rights. He said that the cuts don’t just hurt the university, but the surrounding community.

“There are thousands of high school students who would have benefited from learning about their communities, understanding how to make change in their communities and working closely with their teachers and local leaders in the region,” Kerp said. “Underserved school districts had this opportunity, and now it’s gone.”

Kerp plans on helping Lorimer downsize the project, and has been able to secure some smaller philanthropic funding through the university. He agrees that applying for future federal funding under the current administration is likely a waste of time.

Other projects halted include $171,000 for an institute at San Jose State open to K-12 teachers, librarians, and administrators highlighting the immigrant experience through history and literature. Another project was awarded to Saint Mary’s for over $50,000 for an architectural and engineering assessment of the Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art building with the goal of someday making it the first carbon-neutral building on campus while preserving their collections. Cal State Dominguez Hills was to receive $141,000 to conduct an ethnographic study of Chat GPT’s influence in California and Hawaiian classrooms.

Three California private universities receive new NEH grants

Despite Trump’s calls to dismantle the NEH, the organization announced on Sept. 15 it is awarding $10.4 million, the largest single grant it has ever awarded, to the New York-based Jewish organization Tikvah to “examine Jewish history, culture and identity in the broader context of Western history,” according to a NEH press release. In August, the NEH also announced that it merged seven grantmaking offices into four divisions and appointed new heads to those divisions.

Since May, the agency has also allocated over $44 million in grants to universities and organizations for research and preservation projects, including for an initiative called “A More Perfect Union,” which celebrates the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. Three California private universities have received these new grants.

Two awards were given to the University of Southern California — $60,000 for the development of a book on the history of Jerusalem from 1099–1187 and over $249,000 to process and digitize historical archives relating to Southern California’s first African American Baptist church. The university had four NEH projects spanning over $1 million cut in the spring for programs including a history project that would have created an augmented reality of a long-lost Chinatown area of Los Angeles. Another project would have funded 18 academic conversations between humanities experts and the public regarding the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and reframing the conversation in a way that is inclusive of underrepresented groups like Native Americans.

A single award was given to National University, a private nonprofit university located in San Diego, in the amount of $100,000 for a project titled, “Legacies of War: Memorials and Memories of the American Civil War & the Vietnam War.” Pepperdine University, a private Christian university located in Malibu, also received $30,000 for a project focused on the role of Christianity and the bible in the “American founding.”

Given the new executive orders limiting the scope of what is now acceptable for a federally funded grant, the NEH website gives the following advice to prospective applicants: “We encourage you to read the relevant Executive Orders and consider whether your project’s topic — jointly with its goals, methodology, activities, and intended audience — seems allowable.”

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Lylah Schmedel-Permanna is a contributor with the College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. CalMatters higher education coverage is supported by a grant from the College Futures Foundation.

Justin Seth Talkington — our beloved son, brother, uncle and cherished friend — passed away unexpectedly in his home in San Francisco. His family and loved ones are deeply saddened and shocked by his passing. His existence and lifetime contributions in his vast and diverse social circles are irreplaceable. 

On May 23, 1998, Seth blessed his parents Bebot and LT at Mad River Hospital in Arcata. He was taken home to siblings Christian and Meaghan, where they were later joined by younger sister Hazel. Seth’s early childhood years were lived in the intimate community and beautiful beachside town of Trinidad — living just a couple hundred yards from the beaches that Seth enjoyed walking. 

He attended Trinidad Union School from preschool through 8th grade, and then North Coast Preparatory Academy, graduating with International Baccalaureate honors in 2015. He achieved his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at UC Davis, class of 2020. While going to UC Davis he worked on a project with Engineers without Borders in which they improved access to freshwater in areas of Africa. He also worked as a research assistant in the Granular Material lab, and as a student assistant in the student disability center. He completed an internship overseas in Sydney, Australia working with an architecture company producing energy efficient houses.

Seth utilized his degree working in several different engineering firms. He helped design a ride at Great America amusement park, “The Liberty Twirler,” and recently went for a whirl with friends during a get-together that he had planned. From 2021 to 2024 he was a design engineer at a civil planning and surveying company serving multiple Bay Area communities - fire hydrants you pass by in these streets have been installed with his directions. As a staff engineer for a geotechnical consulting firm in Silicon Valley, he worked in construction sites erecting solidly built infrastructure based on his calculations and tests. 

Seth took his role as an uncle very seriously and never missed a birthday or holiday. He spoiled his two nieces Arabella and Dahlia with anything they wanted. No request was too much when it came to them, and no limitations to their greatness were seen by him. His nieces recently sent a video of the toy he sent for a birthday and seeing that they had built a model of our childhood home, he encouraged them to look into architecture and engineering careers. During family gatherings and trips, one of the girls was always being carried by Seth while the other was hot on his heels following him to the next amusement.

Seth and his family enjoyed soulful trips to the Philippines, enjoying time with his loving Filipino family and immersing into his cultural roots. He wowed everyone with his karaoke performances, often driving people to fits and tears of laughter. People appreciated his comedic personality, and willingness to try anything, including Balut. During his most recent trips he had gotten traditional-style Filipino sun and moon tattoos. Seth shared that he wanted to move to Bohol, Philippines and retire there later in his life to rest in paradise.

In Seth’s spare time he enjoyed many hobbies. He had become very involved in the Midnight Runners run club, running 5-mile routes every week through SF’s Embarcadero. He played on a community soccer team, enjoying heated competition at Crocker Amazon soccer fields on Saturdays. He also collected Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokémon cards, took up 3D printing, woodwork and rock climbing as ventures. Seth participated in and managed the Instagram page of FilipinUp, a Filipino rock climber collective. He’s fondly remembered for intense games of Super Smash Brothers, garnering the gold trophy for an annual family Smash Bros tournament. When gifted a guitar from his brother, he took to it and would play guitar riffs and serenade friends during bonfires at the beach. He enjoyed walkabouts and would bring furry friends such as his roommate’s dog and his sister’s dogs. He was looking into getting a furry friend of his own, hoping to have a small sidekick for his walks. Many early memories of him include glimpses of him walking around Trinidad and McKinleyville with no destination, just the steady rhythm of walking. 

Seth was the steadiest person I knew, making us all proud of his professional achievements while also making time to be authentically present for everyone. He will be remembered dearly by those that got the chance to know him and by the irreplaceable memories he left us on earth. We are deep in sorrow at the loss of this earth angel.

Justin Seth Talkington’s memory is survived by Mother Bebot and Father LT,  Brother Christian and Sisters Meaghan and Hazel, Nieces Arabella and Dahlia, Aunties Alma, Rosel and Shinna, Uncles Ceasar and Larry, and Cousins Lance, Lorence, Ian, Shaina, Sophia and Jheah. Seth is preceded in death by Grandparents Hazel and Leonard, Lola Geronima and Lolo Loreto, Uncles Victor and Kenneth.

Special thanks to Seth’s dear friends, peers and community groups for being his chosen family members and loved ones. Thank you for the wonderful relationships and adventures that you forged with him. We appreciate your kindness and existence that contributed to wonderful chapters in Seth’s life and wish you well.

Seth Talkington’s funeral services will be held Sunday, September 28 at 560 12th St., Fortuna. The family will receive guests at 1:30 p.m., with the official service commencing at 2 p.m. Family, friends, and all who cared for Seth are warmly invited to attend his funeral and the celebration of his life that will follow. The celebration of life will begin at 5 p.m., location TBA. Seth will be interred in Humboldt County.

Seth has an online memorial board for friends and loved ones to share thoughts, prayers and memories. For further details, contact his family at (707) 296-8208 or follow the Facebook event page “Seth Talkington’s Funeral and Celebration of Life.”

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It’s 26 feet tall, 53 feet wide, 800 feet long, weighs 140,000 pounds, is filled with water, and is probably pretty expensive; no, it’s not a sinking megayacht — it’s the world’s largest water-filled cofferdam by volume, as well as the longest, and it was just manufactured in Hydesville by Humboldt-based company AquaDam.

A definition: cofferdams are barriers built in bodies of water, allowing for the enclosed section to be drained, useful in a flood or during construction. This specimen, ordered to help future repairs on a levee in a wastewater treatment facility in Palm Harbor, Florida, was shipped out by AquaDam this morning, rolled up in a gigantic tube and lashed to a semi-truck. 

AquaDam’s cofferdams have some advantages over traditional cofferdams; because they’re water-inflated, they can be filled up with floodwater already at the site — in this case, about 6.4 million gallons of the stuff. Using one is a lot less labor-intensive than stacking sandbags or constructing a normal dam. Because they’re plastic, they’re also far cheaper; using sheet piling for the job this dam was created for would have cost around $15 million, said AquaDam manufacturing supervisor Seth Ash in a phone call with the Outpost today, but this dam cost about a tenth of that. 

“And when you’re done, you pump the water out,” Ash said. “You drag it out with an excavator, you roll it up as you’re dragging it out, and you can reuse it and reuse it and reuse it again.”

Working six days a week, 10 hours a day, it took three weeks to make. It’s made out of 700 panels, each 164 feet long, and just sewing them all together took a week of work. AquaDam has leveled up their manufacturing capabilities in the last decade; Ash said they never would have been able to make a dam this big 10 years ago, but purchasing a custom welder that allows them to weld their own plastic liners changed everything. 

“I think all our employees are pretty proud of being able to do this and to assemble this so quickly in a timely fashion,” Ash said. “And we had absolutely no problems doing this, assembly-wise or manufacturing-wise. It went really, really well. So I do believe most of our employees and our bosses are pretty happy about how well this went…I wish we would have put a wrap on the bag before it left here. It would have looked a little prettier. But, you know, maneuvering something that’s 140,000 pounds is easier said than done.”

Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:

On Sept. 20, 2025, at approximately 12:20 p.m. Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a local business to meet with a 52-year-old female victim of an alleged sexual assault that occurred earlier that morning in the Loleta area.

During their investigation deputies learned that the suspect was identified as Amos Lee Nuckols, 56 years-old, of Eureka, and a driver for a local transit company. Nuckols was driving in the area of Little Fairfield St. in Eureka with a client in the vehicle, when encountered the victim seated on the side of the road.   He then stopped and offered the victim a ride, which she accepted.  He then reportedly drove his client to the Ferndale area where he was dropped off and then drove the victim to a secluded area in Loleta where the alleged sexual assault occurred.  

Deputies contacted the North Coast Rape Crisis team and requested an advocate respond to the scene. The advocate responded met with the victim and transported her to a local hospital for treatment and provided her with additional victim assistance resources.

Based upon the victim’s statement and the initial investigation deputies arrested and booked Nuckols at the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on the following charges:

• P.C. 220(a)(1) Assault with intent to commit a specified felony
• P.C. 243.4(d) Sexual Assault

This is an active criminal investigation, and no further details will be released.

Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.

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New data from the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Public Health Branch shows a significant decrease in opioid overdose deaths over the last two years — the lowest numbers reported since 2020. 

During a biennial update on the county’s syringe exchange program at Tuesday’s Humboldt County Board of Supervisors meeting, Public Health Officer Dr. Candy Stockton largely attributed the decrease in local overdose deaths to increased access to overdose-reversing drugs like naloxone, commonly referred to by the brand name Narcan.

“Our participants have reported nearly 280 overdose reversals in the last year,” Stockton said. “It’s actually critically important if you think about the total number of deaths that we had in Humboldt County from overdoses last year was about 50, [and] looking at how much higher that would have been without the overdose reversals that we had as a result of our naloxone distribution.”

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office reported 32 drug overdose deaths in 2020, which ticked up to 53 in 2021. In that same time period, fentanyl overdose deaths increased by 377 percent — jumping from nine in 2020 to 34 in 2021 — launching Humboldt into a fentanyl epidemic. There were over 80 local drug overdose deaths reported in 2022, as seen in the chart above, but that number steadily declined in 2023 and 2024.

“Our overdose death rates have been decreasing slowly over the last three years, but we are still losing 50 of our friends, family members and community members to overdose,” Stockton continued. “The numbers for this year look on track to be at that same level or slightly higher this year. This overdose prevention work remains critically important in our community.”

Stockton also reported a “drastic decrease” in the local hepatitis C rates over the last five years, something she attributed, in part, to local syringe exchange programs. 

“The combination of both being able to treat and cure hepatitis C and slowing the spread among individuals who are infected has really helped us as a community combat this serious illness,” Stockton said. “[These programs] help reduce the incidence of HIV and hepatitis C transmission, as well as helping to reduce overdose deaths in people who use drugs.”

“[There is] lots and lots of data going back, showing that [syringe exchange programs] do not increase drug use, as is sometimes a concern for people,” she continued. “We also know that areas that have active syringe service programs across the country have actually lower incidence of syringe litter in their community, lower incidence of needle stick injuries for law enforcement officers, and decreased crime levels compared to areas that do not have those programs.”

Following staff’s presentation, Fifth District Supervisor Steve Madrone acknowledged that “we’ve all been touched in our families by addiction and these drugs in one way or another,” and thanked DHHS for their work.”

“I think the data does show that [these programs are] having a positive effect,” he added. “We’re not Portugal, so we don’t have heroin shops and other kinds of things. We don’t hand out drugs; we hand out equipment to try and make things safer. I mean, there’s some interesting data in countries like Portugal and other places that have taken it to a whole ‘nother level further, but we don’t do that in America.”

First District Supervisor Rex Bohn was more skeptical.

“I appreciate the work you’re doing … [and] I’m just an old man looking here, but we’re going to give away smoking supplies in the unincorporated community so they can smoke an illegal product, but we’re not doing any more tobacco licenses?” he asked rhetorically. “But as we move forward with the fentanyl use, a lot of that is going to be enforcement. … If they can’t get the product, maybe they’re going to think about coming in and getting help with that.”

Similarly, Board Chair Michelle Bushnell said she hasn’t been “greatly supportive” of needle exchange programs in the past, due to concerns over monitoring and lenient parameters. 

“It’s not that I don’t agree with the process or the concept, I just wanted some more — I guess more? I don’t know what the word is — I wanted it to be monitored more,” she said. “I do appreciate the work, and I do recognize that the drug overdoses have gone from injectables to more pill form now, which is unfortunate, and hopefully someday we can find solutions for that as well.”

Supervisors Natalie Arroyo and Mike Wilson both expressed support for the program, with Wilson making a motion to approve and file the report. The motion passed in a 5-0 vote.

Staff’s full presentation can be found at this link.

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The City of Eureka is among a group of plaintiffs that prevailed over the Trump administration in federal court Tuesday.

The plaintiffs, a group of local organizations and governments that receive millions of dollars of federal grant money, accused the Trump administration of imposing “unauthorized and vague conditions” on their grant funding. Yesterday, a federal judge agreed, issuing a preliminary injunction that bars the administration from making grants conditional upon fulfilling Trump’s policy goals.

The president’s administration was trying to force grantees to comply with a series of recent executive orders that prohibit recipients from promoting “woke” beliefs and practices, such as DEI, “gender ideology” and elective abortion, while requiring them to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts. The City of Eureka is among many jurisdictions to have passed a sanctuary ordinance prohibiting the sharing of immigration-related information with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The plaintiffs in this suit, led by the City of Fresno, challenged the actions on constitutional grounds, arguing that they violate the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the Fifth Amendment, Separation of Powers, the Spending Clause and the Tenth Amendment.

The City of Eureka joined the lawsuit last month. City Manager Miles Slattery told the Outpost via phone that while the city has not yet received any grants that would have been contingent on those new conditions, it regularly received Community Development Block Grants and federal transportation grants.

“We’re looking at a $5 million grant for transportation [currently],” he said.

With yesterday’s ruling, which follows a temporary restraining order granted last month, Judge Richard Seeborg found that plaintiffs were likely to succeed on the merits of their case. Only Congress has the authority to impose conditions on federal grant funding, he noted. And he found that the administration’s grant conditions likely violate the Separation of Powers; they’re unrelated to the expertise of the granting agencies; and the vagueness of the conditions would encourage “arbitrary and discriminatory” enforcement, among other issues.

The order applies to these federal agencies:

• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
• U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
• Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
• Federal Highway Administration (FHA)

It’s unknown whether defendants’ attorneys will now seek a permanent injunction. The Trump administration could also appeal the ruling. You can read the decision full at this link.

Press release from the Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities:

Next week, September 29 through October 5, 2025, the Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities (CRTP), Tri-County Independent Living, the Humboldt Transit Authority, and the Humboldt County Association of Governments are organizing the annual Week Without Driving on the North Coast. The Week Without Driving is an invitation for anyone who wants to participate – but particularly for elected and appointed officials, transportation planners and engineers, and other decision-makers – to get some first-hand experience of what it is like to live without the option of driving, here in our local communities.

In July of this year, Week Without Driving founder Anna Zivarts gave a well-attended public talk in Arcata about the nondrivers in every community, the importance of meeting the transportation needs of nondrivers, how communities can work better for nondrivers (and everyone else), and valuing the expertise of nondrivers. Nondrivers include people with disabilities, kids, older people, immigrants, people with suspended licenses, and people who can’t afford to own or operate a vehicle. Humboldt County’s nondrivers include at least 36,000 people without a driver’s license, as well as an unknown number of people who have a license but can’t drive for financial or other reasons.

For participants in the Week Without Driving, the challenge is to not drive themselves in any car. If participants do end up driving during the week, they are encouraged to reflect on why they ended up driving, and what they would have done if they didn’t have that option. Local decision-makers who sign up to participate in the Week Without Driving are also invited to ride along with a local transit rider on one of their regular routes to gain additional first-hand insights into using the local transit system.

This is the third national Week Without Driving. Hundreds of organizations across the country are hosting local Week Without Driving activities and events.

Local Leaders Sign Up to Participate

As of this release, 46 local residents in Humboldt County have signed up to participate in the Week Without Driving, including elected officials and other local leaders. The Humboldt Transit Authority also issued a formal proclamation recognizing the Week Without Driving at their September 3rd Board of Directors meeting.

Following is a partial list of local leaders who have pledged to participate:

• Robin Baker, McKinleyville Family Resource Center co-executive director
• Philip Beaudry, Eureka Transportation Safety Commission member
• Alysia Bixler, Redwood Community Action Agency projects coordinator
• Mary Burke, McKinleyville Municipal Advisory Committee member
• Caitlin Castellano, Eureka senior planner
• Katie Collender, Humboldt Transit Authority Deputy general manager
• Mario Fernandez, Eureka City Council member
• Caroline Griffith, Eureka Transportation Safety Commission chair
• Ashton Hamm, uxo architects worker-owner
• Frank Herrera, Cal Poly Humboldt Social Justice Equity & Inclusion Center coordinator
• Morgan King, Cal Poly Humboldt climate action analyst
• Maggie Kraft, Area 1 Agency on Aging executive director
• Meredith Matthews, Arcata City Council member
• Mark Mueller, Eureka Transportation Safety Commission member
• Nanette Nickerson, Caltrans District 1 senior transportation engineer
• Bonnie Oliver, McKinleyville Municipal Advisory Committee member
• Joben Penuliar, Caltrans District 1 complete streets coordinator
• Greg Pratt, Humboldt Transit Authority general manager
• Saskia Rymer-Burnett, Caltrans District 1 transit planner
• Sarah Schaefer, Arcata City Council member
• Matt Simmons, Arcata Planning Commission chair
• Emily Sinkhorn, City of Arcata director of environmental services
• Oona Smith, Humboldt County Association of Governments senior regional planner
• Jessica Welch, Cal Poly Humboldt Library organizational development & engagement coordinator

There is still time for anyone interested to learn more and sign up to participate at https://transportationpriorities.org/weekwithoutdriving.