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Undocumented youth engage in advocacy efforts to improve their social conditions. Deploying an expanded definition of advocacy communication, this study (a) examined the heterogeneity of undocumented collegestudents' advocacy communication by identifying profiles of undocumented college students based on their participation in various advocacy communication strategies and (b) examined how these advocacy profiles are associated with health (i.e. anxiety, depression, and self-rated health). Latent profile analysis of 1277 California undocumented, mostly Latina/o/x, college students identified four profiles.Frequent advocators had lower levels of self-rated health and higher levels of anxiety and depression than infrequent advocators. Media advocators reported higher levels of anxiety and depression than infrequent advocators. Finally, organizational advocators reported lower levels of anxiety than media advocators and frequent advocators. Our study advances research on the relationship between advocacy communication and health. We provide suggestions that university staff and programs can take to support undocumented students' advocacy efforts and health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the efforts of the California Space Authority (CSA) towards transformational change through regional economic development to support the needs of space authority and American competitiveness. CSA proposes a strategic plan to retain, grow and create space enterprise in the U.S. by proposing the California Innovation Corridor through partnership with the Department of Labor. The proposal is planned to be institutional, organizational and behavioral while addressing resource alignment, barriers and unintended consequences. It is emphasized that the project will ensure that the partners involved can make contact with key innovation assets and can begin to develop relationship to foster future innovation development and commercialization.