Biographies of 2007 Rosenfield Award Recipients

The Rosenfield Distinguished Community Partnership Prize program is designed to publicly recognize ongoing or one-time collaborations between UCLA faculty, or staff and community residents or non-profit organizations that have already enhanced the quality of life in Southern California communities in meaningful and measurable ways. A total of four awards will be presented. Each award is made jointly to the principal UCLA participant and the community partner, thereby publicly recognizing and uniting the two halves of the UCLA in LA partnership. Here are this year's faculty awardees:

The Distinguished Community Leader Award is conferred each year in recognition of a civic/community leader’s extraordinary commitment to the well being of Los Angeles and for nurturance and support of UCLA’s relationship with the broader community. This year's recipient was Alan I. Rothenberg.

The awards are made possible through the Ann C. Rosenfield Fund at the UCLA Foundation under the direction of David A. Leveton.

Yasmin B. Kafai is an Associate Professor of Learning and Instruction at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. Dr. Kafai has been one of the first researchers to establish the field of game studies with her work on children’s learning as designers and players of educational software and games. Her research has been and is being supported by the National Science Foundation and the Spencer Foundation. In 1996, she was one of two educators to receive an Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation and in 1997 she was among the thirty postdoctoral fellows of the National Academy of Education. Kafai partnered with Youth Opportunities Unlimited.

 

Marguerita Lightfoot is an Associate Research Psychologist in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She has extensive research and clinical training and has been a highly recognized researcher. She has served as principal investigator on grants incorporating computerized interventions into the primary care settings of adults living with HIV to reduce sexual risk behaviors; involving computer-based versus interpersonal HIV-related risk reduction; examining homeless youths’ risk acts; and developing culturally appropriate interventions found to be efficacious in reducing HIV-related risk for urban street youth and youth living with HIV in Uganda. Lightfoot partnered with My Friend's Place.

Alison L. Bailey is an Associate Professor in the UCLA’s Department of Education. She is also Division Head of the department’s Psychological Studies in Education division and co-project director of UCLA’s National Center for Research on Evaluations, Standards and Student Testing. Bailey partnered with Para Los Niños.

Bailey's faculty partner is H. Margaret Heritage, Associate Director at UCLA’s National Center for Research on Evaluations, Standards and Student Testing. Heritage is formerly the principal of Seeds University Elementary School, UCLA. For the past nine years, Heritage and Bailey have collaborated in research on language and literacy learning and on the development of effective practices in the teaching and assessment of these areas. Heritage partnered with Para Los Niños.

David Sefton is the Director of UCLA Live, the university’s performing arts program. In his three years in that post, Sefton has introduced UCLA Live audiences to works never before seen on the West Coast or the United States, mixing classical and traditional with edgy, contemporary works. In 2002-’03, Sefton broke new ground by launching the hip International Theatre Festival. The festival brought to campus large-scale, world-class experimental theater with such works as Robert Wilson’s Woyzeck and two visually stunning plays by the revolutionary Societas Raffaello Sanzio from Italy. Sefton partnered with the Lulu Washington Dance Theatre.

Perhaps best known for his enormous contribution to the growth in popularity of soccer nationwide, Alan I. Rothenberg has also led many initiatives that have enhanced the quality of life in Los Angeles throughout his dynamic career in sports, law, banking, business and entertainment.