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Colleen Hofstadter Hlavac completed her debut mystery novel, The Stalker in the Desert, during the pandemic. The novel has become an international seller, achieving sales in seventeen countries. Colleen’s next mystery novel, Liquid Deceptions, is scheduled to launch this summer.For more information, please visit www.Colleenhlavac.com or @colleenhofstadterhlavac on Instagram.
Matej Silecky is the Director of a documentary about Ukrainian history that began airing on PBS stations nationwide in April 2022, timing that coincided with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The film, Baba Babee Skazala, tells the little-known story of Ukrainian children torn from their homes in the crush between the Nazi and Soviet fronts in […]
Elizabeth Moore is the new Chief Communications Officer at UC Hastings as of February 1, 2022. She previously worked as the Director of Communications for Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey.
This April, Conchita Lozano-Batista joined Earthjustice as their General Counsel.
Olivia Clare Friedman published her debut novel, Here Lies, with Grove Atlantic in March 2022.
Abel Guillen ’97 MPP ’01 has been named Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond headquartered at the California Department of Education. Previously, his public service track record includes serving as a Trustee for the Peralta Community Colleges and an Oakland City Council member. He looks forward to gathering […]
Patrick Slavin ’84 has accepted a senior staff position at Johns Hopkins University as the Communications Lead with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity and the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. He has also been appointed to the Board of Directors at Lusaka (Zambia) International Community School, the largest private international school in Zambia. […]
Erin Wade got a law degree from Berkeley in 2008, but quickly realized that she hated being a lawyer. Instead, she turned to her childhood love: mac and cheese.
A few years ago, artist Cynthia Brannvall spent the summer experimenting with creating a floor to ceiling cyclone of clothes, trying to push her textile work to sculpture. She didn’t really like the results—she had meant to convey female power with the cyclone, but instead it looked ghostly and fragile — and she worried she’d wasted the summer.
California magazine is seeking part-time remote interns to work on our award-winning quarterly print publication and general interest website starting in late August 2022. Are you enthusiastic about getting coffee?! Running errands?! Doing senseless busy work for no pay that won’t help your career in the future?! That’s great! But do it on your own […]
Susan R. Lin ’00 (BA, mass communications) has been named Master of Wine by the Institute of Masters of Wine. The Master of Wine credential is recognized globally for the highest standards of rigor in its holistic examination of all aspects of wine. Lin joins a prestigious group of 418 Masters of Wine around the world, and is one of 56 Masters of Wine in the United States.
A Q&A with Cuba expert Elena Schneider.
A Q&A with documentarian Matt Durning.
Gary and Coralee George Mueller have lived at The Forum at Rancho San Antonio in Cupertino for the past 15 years. The pandemic has afforded them time for lots of reading, walking, listening to music, and doing Zoom and Facetime calls. Now fully vaccinated, Coralee and her husband look forward to light at the end […]
We have weathered injections of Moderna or Pfizer and continued with masking for an eventual reintroduction to congenial living. Your Secretary has been waiting patiently to hear words of encouragement on a November reunion. As much as I had hoped to cement plans by March 2021, there is still no confirmation of a campus reunion […]
Dr. Christina Maslach is the research psychology pioneer of job burnout. In addition to award-winning articles and books that Maslach has written on the subject, she also constructed the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), the most widely-used tool for measuring job burnout around the world. Decades of Maslach’s work helped serve as the foundation of the […]
High school has always been hard, but its challenges are now unprecedented. Peter Nicks’s new documentary, Homeroom, which began streaming on Hulu on August 12, follows a group of Oakland students as they move through their final chapter of high school. Their academic year began in 2019 before it was, of course, interrupted by the […]
The number of babies born in the United States has been decreasing for six straight years, giving rise to many alarmist headlines and widespread hand-wringing over an impending population implosion.
Last year, a heat wave caused hundreds of thousands of people to be without power in California. The rolling blackouts were the first to affect the state in almost 20 years, and are unlikely to be the last.
