AmeriCorps
$200,000.00
Validation of the Multidimensional Civic Agency Measure
National study validating a multidimensional measure of youth civic agency, individual and collective power, and socio-political drive.
One political network · Person
Laura Wray-Lake
UCLA Luskin professor of Social Welfare, youth civic-engagement researcher and Vote16 Research Network member.
Research funding
$1,834,619.00 documented UCLA research portfolio.
Research grants are shown separately from Vote16 campaign funding. No grant below is represented as financing Vote16 advocacy or the Culver City campaign without a source establishing that use.
John Randolph & Dora Haynes Foundation
$13,200.00
Is Los Angeles Ready to Lower the Voting Age?
Faculty fellowship project examining public readiness, municipal feasibility and political appetite for lowering the voting age to 16 or 17 for local school board and municipal elections in the greater Los Angeles area.
AmeriCorps / Corporation for National and Community Service
$359,213.00
A Multimethod Examination of Urban Youth Civic Engagement
Mixed-methods study of how urban youth of color navigate environmental barriers and build pathways to community activism.
National Science Foundation
$272,375.00
Advancing Scientific Knowledge of the Links between Civic Engagement, Developmental Competencies, and Ecological Assets across Childhood and Adolescence
Multi-site developmental research on relationships among individual traits, community assets and youth civic socialization.
NSF collaborative total: $669,142.00 · UCLA site allocation shown here: $272,375.00Spencer Foundation
$292,731.00
Examining Developmental, Contextual, and Historical Effects of Civic Engagement during the Transition to Adulthood: An Integrative Interdisciplinary Approach
Longitudinal interdisciplinary study of how developmental, contextual and historical forces shape civic engagement during the transition to adulthood.
John Templeton Foundation
$697,100.00
The Development of Engaged Citizenship in Childhood and Adolescence: Examining the Role of Character, Competencies, and Contexts
Large-scale study connecting positive youth development, character, competencies and context to civic socialization and participation.
Lower-voting-age research
“Is Los Angeles Ready to Lower the Voting Age?”
The John Randolph & Dora Haynes Foundation funded this 2019–2020 UCLA faculty fellowship project at $13,200.00. The project examined public readiness, municipal feasibility and political appetite for lowering the voting age to 16 or 17 in greater Los Angeles.
Vote16 network
Research, convening and Culver City.
2025 · UCLA Luskin
Vote16USA National Convening
Vote16USA held its national convening in partnership with UCLA Luskin. Wray-Lake participated in the convening as the movement gathered youth organizers, educators, advocates and policymakers.
UCLA event record →Sept. 18, 2026 · Culver City
Vote16 town hall
The supplied event record identifies Wray-Lake as a UCLA professor of Social Welfare and Vote16 Research Network member, appearing with Mia Moroz, LaJuan Allen and Bryan “Bubba” Fish.
Open Vote16 file →Connected record
Source trail.
File card
Money, groups, facts, sources.
Professor of Social Welfare, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
- See the linked record.
- No recipient detail on this card yet.
- UCLA Luskin identifies Wray-Lake as a professor of Social Welfare whose research focuses on youth civic engagement.
- Her UCLA profile identifies her as a member of the Vote16 Research Network.
- Vote16 Culver City lists her among the endorsers of its 2022 measure.
August 2026 · Robert Frost Auditorium
Vote16 town hall and CCUSD booking chronology.
A Vote16 Culver City event graphic identified Robert Frost Auditorium for a proposed town hall with LaJuan Allen, Laura Wray-Lake, Bryan “Bubba” Fish and a Culver City High School Vote16 student leader. CCUSD correspondence later documented the District's review and denial of the facility request.
Aug. 23
CCUSD was asked for booking records.
Correspondence asked CCUSD for paperwork showing booking details for the advertised Frost event, stated that it appeared political and asked how District policy applied. A follow-up later that day sent the current policy.
Aug. 24
A CPRA request sought rental records and communications.
The request sought renter identity, classification, agreement and payment records and was expanded to communications with the sponsoring entity, District staff, Board members, listed speakers or others regarding the event request.
Aug. 25
Superintendent Jiménez denied the Frost request.
Jiménez later stated that the administrator overseeing Frost Auditorium requests brought him a request on August 25. He said he denied it under Board Policy 1160 because the forum was not available to all sides of the issue on an equitable basis, and that the group was notified that day.
Aug. 28
CCUSD reported no disclosable responsive records.
CCUSD's response to the August 24 request stated that, subject to the CPRA standards and exemptions described in its response, the District did not possess disclosable records responsive to the request.
Unresolved documentary question: the available records do not document the steps by which the proposed Frost event reached public promotion before the August 25 facility request described by Jiménez. They do not establish whether any earlier arrangements occurred through written communications, oral communications, a facility-reservation system, or another process.