Alumni

Across the country, diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are being scaled back or eliminated altogether. From federal agencies, to Corporate America, to higher education, DEI programs are disappearing, creating uncertainty about what values and priorities will take their place.

As part of the launch of UC Berkeley Social Sciences’ new 5-year strategic plan, Vision 2030, a panel of Social...

What does entertainment look like for a generation raised online? That’s the question Political Economy Alumna Alice Ma set out to answer when she co-founded Mad Realities, a media collective often described as the “MTV of the internet generation.”

At Mad Realities, Ma is reimagining how Gen Z audiences engage with entertainment, science and culture. The company has generated more than 1.3 billion organic views through viral series like “Shop Cats” and “Blow...

When Usha Jain and her husband, Santosh, arrived from India in 1960, their plan was clear: Santosh would earn his master’s degree in engineering, then they would return home. But UC Berkeley has a way of altering destinies. Soon after Santosh’s enrollment, Usha found her own academic calling, entering a master’s program in Asian studies and securing a campus job as a teaching assistant. Thus began Usha’s impactful career...

Sociology Alumnus Charles Long was featured in an article in The San Francisco Standard titled, "Foster care, jail, homelessness, and now UC Berkeley’s top graduate at 43."

The heels of Charles Long’s shoes gave out somewhere along Telegraph Avenue.

Long had just crossed the stage at Memorial Stadium, newly minted as UC Berkeley’s top graduating senior, and was trying to make the 15-minute walk to the restaurant down the street where his family had secured a table. It took him over an hour. Strangers kept stopping him.

Then, as his feet finally found a path...