Cal State L.A. professor visits New Zealand on scholarship

Cal State Los Angeles professor Angela Cooke-Jackson, left, with Jade Le Grice, faculty of psychology at the University of Auckland, following a workshop for Te Pūtahi o Pūtaiao Centre in New Zealand.

Photo courtesy of Angela Cooke-Jackson/Cal State L.A.

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LOS ANGELES — Cal State Los Angeles professor Angela Cooke-Jackson, a nationally recognized scholar in health communication and behavioral science, recently completed a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Auckland and Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, a distinctive public Māori institution in New Zealand.

Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand.

As a 2024-25 Fulbright Scholar, Cooke-Jackson collaborated with senior lecturer Jade Le Grice of the University of Auckland on research exploring ho