Alumni

Henry Sohn didn’t know what he wanted to do in college. At first, he was considering medical school, but an eye-opening hospital experience and a serendipitous internship at Apple altered the course of his life. Taking two breaks from UC Berkeley, Sohn ultimately completed his bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1992.

It was a good time to enter the Bay Area’s tech scene. Sohn leveraged his Apple internship into jobs at...

Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) Academic Achievement Counselor How long have you been at Berkeley?

I have been a professional staff member at UC Berkeley since July 2023, when I joined the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP)(link is external) as an Academic Achievement Counselor. Beforehand, I started my academic journey at Berkeley in the Fall of 2017 as a freshman and graduated in the Summer of 2021 with a degree in Social Welfare and Chicano Studies.

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Organized by Sophia Perez, Indigenous Technologies Coordinator for the Berkeley Center for New Media, a weeklong series of public workshops beginning March 9 will feature master navigators teaching everything from traditional canoe technology to ancient star-mapping.

Sophia Perez thought her 2018 visit to Saipan, in the Pacific Ocean’s Northern Mariana Islands, would only last a few weeks.

She’d graduated from UC Berkeley with a double-major in rhetoric and ethnic studies in 2014, and went on to work in commercial film and media production in Los Angeles and...

African American Studies Alumna Petra Rivera-Rideau co-authored an op-ed for The New York Times titled "Which Bad Bunny Halftime Show Did You See?"

Bad Bunny made history at the Super Bowl on Sunday, giving voice to Puerto Rican history and culture, and doing so in Spanish at a time when that alone could get you picked up by masked immigration agents. Though Bad Bunny did not yell “ICE out” or otherwise call out the Trump administration directly, his performance was unapologetically political.

And you know what? It was a party, too, complete with live salsa,...