Representing nearly 700 ethnic studies scholars and practitioners across the UC system, the Ethnic Studies Council first formed in response to highly coordinated, politicized attacks against our field and its world-transforming potential. In keeping with the grassroots movement tradition of the struggle that birthed the field, the council includes not just faculty, but also, students and staff in its organizing core. As with the CSU and California Community College councils, the Ethnic Studies Council at the University of California furnishes an urgent space of convergence that enables us to leverage our collective strength in advocating for our field, carrying out its critical work, and enacting its legacy of grassroots political education and collective action in the present. During a time of unabating state violence, imperialist aggression, and naked fascism, the Council has led campaigns for K-12 ethnic studies, promoted a UC systemwide ethnic studies admissions requirement, and taken robust part in the defense of students, staff, faculty, and community members targeted for protesting the ongoing Nakba of the Palestinian people. Our organizing includes systemwide initiatives that have exposed UC complicity in genocide. The Council issues a weekly newsletter with updates on relevant news, events, and campaigns. We produce our own podcast, The Lower Frequencies, and each quarter we convene ethnic studies practitioners from across the ten UC campuses and beyond in general assemblies organized around pressing issues related to our field.