Center for Skateboarding, Action Sports and Social Change

Join us for the Book Party celebrating Our Associate Director Dr. David Kamper's new book, "Rezballers and Skate Elders: Joyful Futures in Indian Country"! Friday, May 1, 2026 3–5 PM Arts & Letters Quad, SDSU Come through for free food, skateables, and a free throw contest to fundraise for Dr. Kamper’s GoFundMe campaign to help donate his book to Tribal youth centers! For more information on the GoFundMe, you can also check out the link in our bio!

Thanks to @nbcsandiego for covering our amazing night @sandiegostateuniversity with the legendary @atibaphoto co-moderated by @adrianne.sloboh & co-presented by the @sdsubrc & @skate.sdsu ! It was a night that brought all of our skate, scholar, student & shutterbug family together ! Link in bio !

Check out this KPBS Midday Edition interview with Atiba Jefferson and Dr. Neftalie Williams ahead of Atiba’s SDSU event last month, “Atiba Jefferson: Finding Focus.” In collaboration with the SDSU Gus & Emma Thompson Black Resource Center (@sdsubrc ), our Center was honored to host Atiba for a talk and retrospective on his career and influence across skateboarding culture and photography. Link in bio!

Join celebrated DGK skateboards athlete Adrianne Sloboh and Dr. Neftalie Williams TOMORROW at 6:30pm as they co-moderate a discussion with Atiba Jefferson in celebration of Black History Month! Atiba Jefferson: Finding Focus Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026 Storm Hall West (011) San Diego State University RSVP link in bio

Join us for an engaging conversation with legendary African American, skateboarding, youth culture, and sports photographer Atiba Jefferson (@atibaphoto ). Recognized as one of the most influential visual storytellers of his generation, Atiba has captured defining images of icons such as Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, as well as musical artists including Interpol, Turnstile, and Tyler, the Creator. As the director of the ESPN-produced, Emmy-nominated, Clio award-winning documentary “Monochrome,” he continues to expand his impact across mediums, exploring the intersections of culture, sport, music, and community. With a client roster that includes cultural leaders like A$AP Rocky, Pharrell, and the late Virgil Abloh, Atiba effortlessly merges all aspects of youth culture into commercial and editorial work for brands such as Vans, Nike, Thrasher, Reebok, Oakley, Off White, and the Olympic Games. At this event, the Canon Ambassador will discuss a retrospective of his extensive career, while offering insight into the future of skateboarding, media industries, entrepreneurship and opportunities for meaningful social change. Moderated by Dr. Neftalie Williams (@neftaliedotcom ) and DGK Skateboards athlete Adrianne Sloboh (@adrianne.sloboh ), this is an event you don’t want to miss! Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026 6:30–8 p.m. Storm Hall West (011) San Diego State University RSVP using QR code

SDSU is the place for skateboarding studies! Join Brandon, Kanten and Pat today at the SDSU Love library from 11-12 pm The event, free and open to the public, will be hosted by Kimball Taylor, who teaches a rhetoric and writing studies course at SDSU called The Rhetoric of Board Sports (RWS 360)

Earlier this month, the Center opened The Stoke Sessions 2.0 Conference--hosted by the SDSU Surf and Skate Studies Collaborative (@surf_skate_sdsu )--with a keynote event featuring Steve Van Doren, VP of Marketing and Events at Vans, and Bryce Wettstein American 2x Olympian skateboarder. Their passion and perspectives set the stage for an incredible conference ahead! Photos by Cole Serrano (@shoot_the_cole )

Don’t forget to join us at the keynote event for the upcoming The Stoke Sessions 2.0 conference — four days of conversation, culture, and connection, Oct. 9–12 at SDSU! This year, our keynote speakers are Steve Van Doren, VP of Marketing and Events at Vans, and Bryce Wettstein, two-time American Olympic skateboarder. 📅 Thursday, October 9
🕡 6:30 PM
📍 SDSU Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union Theatre Come hear their stories, insights, and inspiration at this special evening you won’t want to miss! See schedule of events: sdsu.edu/stoked/schedule Learn more about the keynotes and the conference, in link in bio. ______________________________________________ Sponsored by: SDSU College of Arts and Letters, Center for Skateboarding, Action Sports and Social Change, Surf/Skate Collaborative, Department of History, Department of Sociology, MALAS, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences at SDSU, Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies, American Indian Studies, Center for Public and Oral History, L. Robert Payne School of Hospitality & Tourism Management.

Join us for a 2-mile skateboard ride on Friday, September 5 at 1 PM at SDSU Mission Valley Park. In partnership with Circulate San Diego, SDSU Parking & Transportation Services and SDSU Public Affairs will be co-hosting this event! After the ride, enjoy free snacks, pick up a free helmet, and connect with others in the community! #SDSU #SkateboardRide #MissionValley

Our director is honoured to return to the same team that sponsored him during his earliest days! Long live, Cleveland! REPOST FROM @ridecleveland New! Neftalie Williams Jazz Model (2025) In the fall of 2024, Christopher Harrington @cj.harrington approached me about doing a few reissues of the old Cleveland graphics. Those conversations led to me selling him the company outright; he, in turn, retained me as the creative director and co-team manager at the new company. We are proud to introduce the new Neftalie Williams @neftaliedotcom model, an updated version of the old Blue Series I (aka, the original “Nef 1”) with Neftalie’s signature added to it as a thank you for his dedication to the company. #sdsu #sdsu #skatesdsu

Join us this Friday May 9th for a study break @3pm ‼️Grab a donut and watch some clips🍩 Open to all sdsu students!! #sdsu #sdsuskate #skate

REPOST from @dkamper1 We are so excited about the book and his position as Associate Director of the Center and mentoring the Skate club :) I am beyond thrilled that Reballers and Skate Elders, the book l’ve been working on for 10+ years, is finally out with UNebraska Press. Link in my bio to my new website and how to buy it (also coming soon a link to help me purchase copies for tribal rec & community centers). @inez1175 and @rainibear are just two is the amazing people creating joyful futures in Indian Country that helped me make this book happen.