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Lisa Quiroga

Lisa Quiroga graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English in 2003. Fifteen years later, her life turned upside down when her father died in a car accident in summer 2018. While sorting his belongings, she found two old shoeboxes full of handwritten letters. Not knowing what they were, she took them all home […]

Cassandra Myers

Cassandra Myers ’12 (Comparative Literature), is publishing her debut novel, a mystery/crime fiction hybrid called They Shut Me Up with Winding Road Stories in April 2024. She describes it as “The Godfather meets Agatha Christie with a dash of Seinfeld.” She’s currently the university science writer for San Jose State University.

Karen McIntyre

Karen McIntyre ’11 recently published a book titled Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa.

Ravi Arulanantham

Ravi Arulanantham, M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’88, senior principal consultant at Geosyntec Consultants, has been nominated and chosen to receive the AEHS Foundation Achievement Award, bestowed annually by the International Conference on Soil, Water, Energy, and Air. This award is given to professionals recognized to have made significant contributions to the environmental field while exhibiting outstanding […]

Courtesy Shalini Goel Agarwal

In the Trenches for Democracy

By Tom Kertscher

One attorney’s path to the front lines

An aerial view of geothermal power plants among the farmland around the southern shore of the Salton Sea. Courtesy Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

California’s Salton Sea Could be the Mother Lode of Lithium

By Glen Martin

It’s good news for EVs, but what will it mean for the local community? 

Marisa Guterman

As an Interdisciplinary Studies Field major, wearing many different hats on her debut feature film LOST & FOUND IN CLEVELAND felt organic for writer-producer-director Marisa Guterman ’10. Using the foundation of her created focus at Berkeley – Art’s Potential for Social & Political Change – she put her studies into action. LOST & FOUND IN CLEVELAND is a look at the […]

Roberta Satow

Roberta Satow ’66, Ph.D., is a practicing psychoanalyst in Washington, CT. She is a senior member of the faculty and control analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Roberta is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In addition to her non-fiction book […]

Mary-Margaret Anderson

Mary-Margaret Anderson ’73, a retired administrative law judge with the California Office of Administrative Hearings from 1997 until 2017, has been elected chair-elect, or 2025 chair-in-waiting, of the Board of Trustees of The National Judicial College, the nation’s oldest, largest, and most widely attended school for judges. In 2009, she was appointed to the Medical […]

Judy Kutulas

Judy Kutulas ’75 writes: “Enjoying retirement, but I’ve just published one last scholarly work, Sitcom Mom: The Evolution of a Classic Television Character, on Lexington Press.”

Jill Cheng

Jill Cheng (BA Architecture, 1996), AIA, LEED AP BD+C, was recently promoted to Associate Principal at Los Angeles firm CO Architects. She has more than 20 years of experience in planning, design, and project management in institutional projects, include healthcare, higher education, justice, and K-12 facilities. A member of the firm from 2001-2017, Jill rejoined […]

Keith Hatschek

Author and educator Keith Hatschek’s (’73) most recent book, The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation, was selected for the prestigious ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Book on Popular Music for 2023. Hatschek majored in History and says that the research methods he learned during his undergraduate years […]