• Deborah A. Lott

    Los Angeles Undergraduate Writing Faculty Deborah A. Lott’s essay “My Cultural Appropriation” was published in the online journal Scoundrel Time. As I began to take small-scale social action, my world and my limited notions of other people grew. The movement enabled me to engage with a world larger than my family, my school, my community. The…

  • Georgia Cassimatis ’15

    Georgia Cassimatis ’15 (New England, MS in Sustainable Development and Climate Change) was the subject of a second article in the Keene Sentinel about her successful projects encouraging public arts, including ownership of 17ROX, a for-profit loft for artists; running The Friends of Public Art, a non-profit advocate for incorporating art in public spaces; and…

  • Ronnell Hampton

    MA in Urban Sustainability alum Ronnell Hampton was a panelist at Encompass: Inclusive Architecture, an annual convening of the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles chapter (AIA|LA) on September 2, 2020. The virtual gathering aimed to “refocus our commitment to environmental justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. As our ongoing pandemic has highlighted the severe inequities…

  • Consuelo Flores

    Consuelo Flores ’06 ’08 (Los Angeles, BA, MFA) was featured by the Los Angeles Times in a cover story about the Chicano Moratorium and its vast 1970 march that ended in police brutality. Flores, who attended the march as a nine-year-old, remembers the day fifty years ago when she wore her prized red tennis shoes…

  • Jake Bailey ‘20

    Jake Bailey ‘20 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) read his poem, “Hallucinatory Experiment No. 8,” for Illanot Review’s Toxic virtual launch party. Bailey had several poems published including “Portrait of a Mouth” in Tab Journal, “Schizo Sees the Man in/on a Coffee Shop” in Booth, “Balloon of Blood,”  in The American Journal of Poetry,…

  • Theordore Burnes Elected to CALPCC Board

    Professor and Core Faculty in Los Angeles’ Clinical Psychology program Dr. Theordore Burnes, was elected to the California Association for Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors (CALPCC) Board of Directors.  Dr. Burnes began his three-year term on July 1, 2020. Committed to advancing the recognition of the LPCC across the state of California, Dr. Burnes has 14 years…

  • Kate O’Neil

    Kate O’Neil, fourth-year PsyD student, and faculty member Marti Straus have published a timely article in the current Psychotherapy Networker magazine titled Playing Together Apart: Figuring Out Teletherapy for Kids.

  • Adrien Kade Sdao ’19

    Adrien Kade Sdao ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) had an essay “Dear Glitch” published in Lady/Liberty/Lit, and “Homeless/Hopeless/Helpless,” appeared in Unlikely Stories. Sdao was accepted into the MA in Children’s Literature program at Kansas State University. 

  • Noah Christensen, Kelsee Luttgens, Rose Nayar, Angelika Bowles ’19

    Noah Christensen, Kelsee Luttgens, Rose Nayar, Angelika Bowles ’19 (Los Angeles, BA) were accepted to present their original research in oral sessions at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR), an annual celebration of excellence in undergraduate research.

  • Akemi Imai ’18

    Akemi Imai ’18 (Los Angeles, MA) was hired as Programs Manager of the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. Imai served as a founding board member and the inaugural executive director for Makoto Taiko, a nonprofit taiko drumming group in Pasadena. She was also a performer and instructor in Makoto Taiko for 17 years.

  • Brianne Fagan ’18

    Brianne Fagan ’18 (New England, MS) was hired as a web assistant with Wells Reserve at Laudholm, estuarine research reserve in Maine.

  • Tim Cummings ’18

    Tim Cummings ’18 (Los Angeles, MFA) was honored with a third LA Drama Critics Circle Award.