Special guests include Dr. Tsu-Jae King Liu, Dean of the UC Berkeley College of Engineering and Colette Patt ’85, Ph.D. ’95, Assistant Dean for DEIBJ, UC Berkeley College of Computing.
Linda “BK” Wells was the recipient of a 2022 Pinecone Book Award. Wells has published three humorous novels, and, Funny Money was selected as an Amazon Prime Read for Summer 2022.
In Funny Money, two queer female friends decide they can solve their financial problems by robbing the San Francisco Mint. Their wannabee drag queen housemate convinces them the best way to break in is to disguise themselves in drag and ride on a Pride Parade Float. Well, being broke can be a drag!
This lawyer has a secret. Her name’s Victoria. I was doing drag on the weekends when I was working as a prosecutor at Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. It was a very schizophrenic lifestyle. I was considered one of the best trial lawyers in the D.A.’s office. And then I would shift gears on […]
Hint: It’s not stanfordium, oxfordium, or caltechium. Glenn Seaborg was born too late to have spawned Cal’s spirit cry. It’s coincidence, surely, that his name is an anagram for “Go Bears!” And, although he was definitely a Bears fan and was Chancellor when Cal last made it to the Rose Bowl in 1959, he was […]
Throughout her childhood in Oakland, California, Bettye Kearse was told that she was descended from President James Madison and his slave, Coreen. “Always remember,” her family told her, “you’re a Madison. You come from African slaves and a president.” In 1990, when Kearse, a pediatrician and graduate of UC Berkeley, became the family griotte—or storyteller, […]
