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At the Cal Alumni Chapter Leadership Conference, alums from across the country reflected on the university’s evolving landscape and strengthened the communities they lead beyond Berkeley.
At Alumni House, filmmakers gathered to talk about independent filmmaking. From student-led productions to a feature film twelve years in the making, the evening revealed how community, resourcefulness, and relentless persistence shape the path from idea to screen.
After witnessing textile waste in India as a child, Amrita Bhasin ’23 began questioning the systems behind overproduction. At Berkeley, she expanded on her experience through sociology and entrepreneurship. Today, she builds circular solutions that help retailers rethink excess and reduce waste at scale.
Kary Mullis revolutionized biology and pissed everyone off. Now that he’s dead, how should we remember him?
The hideout was evidence, a symbol, and in Richard Barnes’s photos, art.
For many Americans, Donald Trump’s 2016 victory came as a shock, especially considering how much he’d trailed Hillary Clinton in the polls. Even FiveThirtyEight founder and famed pollster Nate Silver got it wrong. But UC Berkeley business professor Don Moore thinks we should cut Silver some slack.
