Renee Tajima-Pena

Renee Tajima-Pena is a filmmaker and professor of Asian American studies at UCLA.

Police officers get into position as pro-Palestinian students demonstrate on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, on May 1, 2024.

UCLA Is Now Nearly Unrecognizable as a University UCLA Is Now Nearly Unrecognizable as a University

A police attack on a documentary film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning.

May 15, 2025 / Grace Kyungwon Hong, Michael Chwe, Thu-huong Nguyen-vo, and Renee Tajima-Pena

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