Campus kudos

A selection of recent achievements by faculty, staff, and students

As mentioned in a Berkeleyside article on December 6, 2022, the Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business is partnering with the City of Berkeley’s Disaster and Fire Safety Commission to prep local residents for potentially unpopular elements of the city’s Safe Passages Program, which will likely restrict parking in hilly neighborhoods upon implementation.

Professor of Spanish Carlota Caulfield’s “Ghromyt,” a 2022 work blending text with visuals that she cocreated with J.M. Calleja, was included in Red Fox Press’ new compendium on experimental poetry.

Assistant Adjunct Professor of Communication Keli Dailey performed a monologue on “What would you do if this happened to you on Muni?” on stage as part of Muni Diaries Live on November 3, 2022. The website Muni Diaries then released Dailey’s performance as a podcast episode on December 14.

Professor of Education Cliff Lee’s new book, Code for What? Computer Science for Storytelling and Social Justice, was published by MIT Press on January 10.

Lee is also the program director of the Educators for Liberation, Justice, and Joy.

Professor of Art Yulia Pinkusevich had a piece on display as part of In Search of the Miraculous, an exhibition at New York’s Marlborough Gallery, from January 24 to March 11.

Christina Rodriguez, EDD ’25, was featured in an Al Día article about the program she founded, Latinas with Masters. The organization supports its members with career and job searching advice and connects them with professional opportunities. Rodriguez also speaks and consults on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging topics, and she’s started a Latinas with Masters podcast.

Ivy Sigerson ’25 spoke with The Scope in December 2022 about co-founding the new Student Disability Alliance on the Mills campus. “I just want to engage with as many people as I can, disabled or otherwise, because as long as people are talking about it, it’s not going to disappear,” she told the publication.

Professor of Theater Studies Victor Talmadge spoke with The New York Times in January regarding Alec Baldwin’s indictment for involuntary manslaughter of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer on the movie “Rust.” Talmadge is also an actor who has worked with firearms on New Mexico sets and said that he thought the incident wouldn’t result in lasting change in the film industry.

The renowned activist Angela Davis made a return to the Mills campus on March 2 for “We Are Enough: A Guide to Collective Action with Angela Davis” in Littlefield Concert Hall. She appeared in conversation with Cierra Russell, the director of the Mills Center for Student Leadership, Equity, and Excellence, as the keynote speaker of Peace and Social Justice Week.