Julia K. Mata

Feb 2, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Lauren Kaori Gurley |Julia K. Mata |Emmanuel Martinez

Fast food companies fueled a surge in child labor violations in 2023, with thousands of teenagers illegally scheduled to work late and long hours. Among them was high school senior Sebastian Marek who got a job at a McDonald’s in Los Angeles to help his mom pay rent. Managers scheduled Marek to work too long on school nights when he was 17, violating child labor laws. He lost sleep, missed classes and received warnings that he might not be able to graduate high school.

Sep 8, 2023 | latimes.com | Julia K. Mata

This comic is for the diaspora Salvis and navigating our complicated relationship with our familial homelands. Julia Mata is a comic book author from Southern California with familial roots in Central America and the Eastern European Jewish Pale of Settlement. In her drawings and stories she centers nuanced narratives with space for joy, beauty and emotional growth.

Aug 17, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sara Martin |Tyler Smith |Julia K. Mata

1 INTRODUCTION A key question in evolution and ecology is what factors shape the geographic range limits of species (Brown et al., 1996; Gaston, 1996; Sheth et al., 2020). Many studies have investigated the factors that influence a plant species' range and abundance, including anthropogenic effects, dispersal dynamics, and biotic interactions.