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Five Moments of Pride for Queer Cal Alumni
UC Berkeley has long been at the forefront of social movements—Free Speech, disability rights, and environmental protection, to name just a few. Cal community members have also played critical roles in pushing for equal rights, visibility, and representation for the LGBTQ+ community. Here are five moments—out of many—when Cal students, faculty, and alumni helped reach […]
Five Moments of Pride for Queer Cal Alumni
Key moments in the advancement of equal rights, visibility, and representation for LGBTQ+ communities at Berkeley.
2018-2019 CAA Alumni Scholars
Join us in acknowledging and congratulating our 2018-2019 Alumni Scholars.
LGBTQ+ Living History: The Turbulent ’50s
In a six-part series, we highlight a few of the moments, movements, and people that made their mark on Cal’s LGBTQ+ history. We move through the decades, beginning in an era of secrecy and continuing through today. The turbulent ’50s and ’60s In the 1950s and most of the 1960s, few organizations existed for LGBT […]
2014-2015 CAA Alumni Scholars
Join us in acknowledging and congratulating our 2014-2015 Alumni Scholars.
A Message from Our Executive Director: Let There Be Light
“Oh Freedom!”—the song you just heard—was what my mother sang with the Freedom Riders. She trained in Philadelphia and traveled to the South to engage in nonviolent resistance alongside Martin Luther King Jr. As an eight-year-old girl, I marched in the March on Washington. So, I speak to you today not only as Cal Alumni Association’s executive director, but also as a wife, mother, sister, aunt, and grandmother who comes from a family involved in the fight for civil rights in the United States of America.
Meet Our 2021–2022 Leadership Award Scholars
Join us in congratulating our incoming 2021–2022 Alumni Scholars and honoring our continuing students.
Create a Lasting Connection to Cal
The CAA Fund Society is a group of alumni and friends who create a lasting connection to Cal through their philanthropic leadership and commitment to our alumni association.
Director’s Chair Winter 2019: In a Sea of Red, Blue and Gold Rise Up
Earlier this fall, I traveled to Mississippi to support our Cal football team members, some of whom are from the South, at their game against Ole Miss.
Emily Pilloton Is Opening Up the World of STEM—and Possibilities—for Girls
It’s late September, and Emily Pilloton ’03 is at Girls Garage, a nonprofit she founded in 2013 in Berkeley. Girls Garage recently reopened for small groups of girls eager to get back to the space and get building again. "I just feel like failure is not an option," she explains. "This space means a lot to the girls that come here."
11 Shuttered Berkeley Establishments Cal Alumni Still Cry Over
Time has changed the foodscape around campus, and many a student's old haunts are no longer in business. Here are 11 Berkeley institutions whose closures made alumni weep.
Cal Connections: Regina Jackson ’84
I was a transfer student from the College of Alameda. I found an incredibly supportive academic home with the support of Dean of Student Services Michelle Woods, and many African American professors, including Harry Edwards, Barbara Cristian, and Percy Hintzen. I sang in the gospel choir and was a featured soloist during the 1984 Black Graduation, singing Irene Cara’s “Out Here On My Own” from the film Fame. Back then, [African Americans] were 3% of the student body.
