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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,...

Driven by a mission to address global food insecurity while protecting vulnerable ecosystems, UC Berkeley Political Science alum Justin Kolbeck co-founded Wildtype, the world’s first cultivated salmon. Instead of fishing or farming salmon, the company grows real salmon meat from fish cells.

Wildtype tackles key problems in the global food system, including overfished oceans, the limits of fish farming — which requires large amounts of feed, water and space — and the risk of contamination in seafood supply chains. By growing salmon cells in...