For Cal alumni Sanjay Shah and Rachelle Mendez, lessons learned as undergraduate rhetoric majors forged a path to success in Hollywood.
In the late 1990s, Sanjay Shah and Rachelle Mendez were assigned to the same group project in a UC Berkeley rhetoric class. That collaboration would become a blueprint for two decades of friendship and creative partnership that led to parallel paths into the television industry, multiple hit shows, and prestigious awards like the Emmys.
Shah is a writer, showrunner, and executive producer on Everybody Still Hates Chris, an...