Leisy Abrego
2008-09, Sociology
Mentor: Leo Chavez, UC Irvine
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine

Andres Aguilar
2003-05, Biology
Mentor: John Carlos Garza, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced

Roberto M. Aguilar
2007-09, Neurosciences
Mentors:  Oswald Steward, UC Irvine and Frances Leslie, Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, UC Irvine

Dorit Aharonov
1999-00, Computer Science and Physics
Mentor: Umesh Vazirani, Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Joy Alcedo
1999-00, Molecular Biology
Mentor: Cynthia Kenyon, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UC San Francisco
Current Position: Junior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Elbert Almazan
2006-08, Public Health
Mentor:  Susan Cochran, Professor of Epidemiology, UC Los Angeles
Current Position:  President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Epidemiology, UC Los Angeles

Adah Almutairi
2005-07, Chemistry
Mentor: Jean M. Frechet, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley

Luis Alvarez
2001-02, History
Mentor: David Gutierrez, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, UC San Diego

Javier Arce-Nazario
2006-08, Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
Mentor:  Nancy Peluso, UC Berkeley
Current Position:  President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley

Sonya Atalay
2003-05, Anthropology
Mentor: Meg Conkey, UC Berkeley
Current Position: NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Stanford University

Neda Atanasoski
2007-08, Cultural Studies
Mentor:  Saba Mahmood, UC Berkeley
Current Position:  Assistant Professor, Department of Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz

Luis A. Avilés
1998-99, Public Health
Mentor: Peter H. Smith, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

Sarah Baker
2007-08, Biochemistry
Mentor:  Glen Stucky, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials, Earth and Life Science (CMELS), Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Christine Balance
2007-09, Performance Studies
Mentor:  Deborah Wong, UC Riverside
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Music, UC Riverside

S. Patricia Baquedano-Lopez
1998-99, Linguistics
Mentor: Kris Gutierrez, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley

Katherine Barbeau
1999-01, Chemical Oceanography
Mentor: Alison Butler, Professor of Chemistry, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Scripps Institution, UC San Diego

Katrina Barron
1997-98, Mathematics
Mentor: Geoffrey Mason, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame

Bart Bartlett
2005-07, Chemistry
Mentor: Jeffrey R. Long, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley

Laura Bartley
2007-09, Molecular Biology
Mentor:  Pamela Ronald, UC Davis
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Plant Pathology, UC Davis

William Bauer
2005-07, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Steve Crum, UC Davis
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wyoming

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
2006-08, Environmental Science, Policy & Management
Mentor: Jillian Banfield, Earth & Planetary Sciences
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, UC Berkeley (2008); Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced (2009)

Natalia Berloff
1997-98, Mathematics
Mentor: Paul Roberts, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge

Marisol Berríos-Miranda
2001-03, Ethnomusicology
Mentor: Jocelyne Guilbault, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Music, University of Washington

Bonnie Bertolaet
1997-98, Chemistry
Mentor: Jean Y. Wang, UC San Diego
Current Position: Scientist, Triad Therapeutics

Guoqiang Bi
1996-97, Neurosciences
Mentor: Mu-ming Poo, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh

Chelsea Blackmore
2008-09, Anthropology
Mentor: Rosemary Joyce, UC Berkeley
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Maylei Blackwell
2000-02, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Norma Alarcon, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Center for Chicana/o Studies, UC Los Angeles

Brent C. Blair
2003-05, Plant Ecology
Mentor: Deborah Letourneau, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Xavier University (Ohio)

Peter Bloom
1997-99, Theater, Film & Television
Mentor: Dean MacCannell, UC Davis
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Film Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Victoria Bomberry
2001-03, Modern Thought & Literature
Mentor: Inés Hernández-Ávila, UC Davis
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies: Native American Studies Program, UC Riverside

Mary Pat Brady
1996-98, English
Mentor: Jose David Saldivar, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of English, Cornell University

Daphne Brooks
1997-98, English
Mentor: Barbara Christian, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of English, Princeton University

Elise Burmeister-Getz
1998-99, Engineering
Mentor: Roger Cooke, UC San Francisco
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Bayer Corporation

Jennifer Moss Burns
1997-98, Marine Biology
Mentor: Dan Costa, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, University of Alaska, Anchorage

Lucy Burns
2003-05, English
Mentor: Neferti Tadiar, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Asian American Studies and World Art and Culture, UC Los Angeles

Amalia Cabezas
2000-01, Women's Studies and Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Ruth Milkman, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Women's Studies, UC Riverside

Marne Campbell
2008-09, History
Mentor: Vincent Franklin, UC Riverside
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, UC Riverside

Luis M. Campos
2008-09, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Mentors: Craig J. Hawker and Dennis O. Clegg, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Materials, UC Santa Barbara

Dolores Ines Casillas
2006-07, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Rosa Linda Fregoso, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, UC Santa Barbara

María Bianet Castellanos
2003-05, Anthropology
Mentor: Robert Alvarez, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota

Elizabeth Castle
2002-04, History
Mentors: Bettina Aptheker and Angela Y. Davis, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of American Indian Studies, University of South Dakota

Gloria Chacón
2006-08, Languages/Literature
Mentor: Inés Hernández-Ávila, UC Davis
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Native American Studies, UC Davis

Mirosalva Chávez-García
1998-99, History
Mentor: Rosaura Sanchez, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies, UC Davis

Melinda Chen
2004-06, Psychology
Mentors: Patricia Greenfield and John McCumber, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley

Dennis Childs
2005-07, Languages/Literature
Mentor: Cheryl Harris, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Literature, UC San Diego

Ming M. Chiu
1996-97, Education
Mentor: Kris Gutierrez, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Julie Chu
2004-05, Anthropology
Mentor: Lisa Rofel, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Wellesley College

Wesley Clapp
2007-09, Neurosciences
Mentor:  Adam Gazzaley, UC San Francisco
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology, UC San Francisco

Theotis Clark, Jr.
1998-00, Chemistry
Mentor: Marcin Majda, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Division of Science, Truman State University

Kamari Clarke
1997-98, Anthropology
Mentor: Stephen Small, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University

Mary Cloninger
1997-98, Chemistry
Mentor: Larry Overman, Professor of Chemistry, UC Irvine
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Montana State University

Julia Coates
2004-06, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Martha Macri, UC Davis
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Native American Studies, UC Davis

Katherine Coffing
1999-00, Functional Anatomy
Mentor: Henry McHenry, UC Davis
Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, UC Los Angeles

Kevin Connelly
2001-02, Linguistics
Mentor: Leanne Hinton, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Independent Research

Tosha Comendant
2002-04, Ecology
Mentor: Pete Raimondi, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Conservation Scientist, Nature Conservancy

Vilashini Cooppan
1996-97, Comparative Literature
Mentor: Susan Gillman, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, UC Santa Cruz

Frank Corsetti
1999-00, Geological Sciences
Mentor: John Crowell, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California

Lorenzo Covarrubias
2000-02, Anthropology and Political Science
Mentor: Kathleen Bruhn, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, St. Louis University

Kathleen Crowe
1996-97, Ecology
Mentor: Alan Hastings, UC Davis
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Humboldt State University

Alberto Cruz-Martín
2007-08, Neurosciences
Mentor:  Carlos Portera-Cailliau, UC Los Angeles
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of Neurology and Neurobiology, UC Los Angeles

Ofelia Ortiz Cuevas
2008-09, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Dylan Rodriguez, UC Riverside  
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside

Christina Cuomo
1999-00, Genetics
Mentor: Andrew Murray, UC San Francisco
Current Position: Program Member, Genome Biology and Cell Circuits, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sohail Daulatzai
2003-05, Critical Studies
Mentor: Aamir Mufti, Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, UC Irvine

Lilian Davila
2006-08, Engineering
Mentor: Valerie Leppert, UC Merced
Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, UC Merced

Delores Delgado-Bernal
1997-98, Education
Mentor: Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell, UC Davis
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Utah

Robin DeLugan
2004-06, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Beatriz Manz, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, UC Merced

Gina Dent
1998-99, English & Literature
Mentor: Angela Y. Davis, Professor of History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz

Thomas Desch-Obi
1999-00, History
Mentor: Christopher Ehret, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Professor, Department of History, City University of New York

Gerardo Dominguez
2007-09, Physics
Mentor:  Mark Thiemens, UC San Diego
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UC San Diego

Julie Dowling
2004-05, Sociology
Mentor: Denise Segura, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Latina & Latino Studies, University of Illinois – Champagne-Urbana

Nathaniel Dudley
2006-08, Molecular Biology
Mentor: Joel Rothman, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology and Neuroscience Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara

Julianne Dunphy
1999-00, Molecular Cell Biology
Mentor: Christine Guthrie, UC San Francisco
Current Position: Freelance English Instructor and Editor in Milan, Italy

Katherine Dunphy Gúzman
2004-06, Earth Science
Mentor: Jill Banfield, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, CA

Lisa Dyson
2007-08, Physics
Mentor: Ori Ganor, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Independent Consultant

Lucila Ek
2002-04, Education
Mentor: Ana Celia Zentella, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Division of Bicultural and Bilingual Studies, University of Texas, San Antonio

Michelle Erai
2008-09, History of Consciousness (Feminist Studies)
Mentor: Piya Chatterjee, UC Riverside
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Women's Studies, UC Riverside

Sylvanna Falcon
2008-09, Sociology and Women’s Studies
Mentor: Piya Chatterjee, UC Riverside
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Women's Studies, UC Riverside

Cynthia Feliciano
2003-04, Sociology
Mentor: Rubén G. Rumbaut, UC Irvine
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chicano/Latino Studies, UC Irvine

Kevin Fellezs
2004-06, Music
Mentor: Jocelyn Guilbault, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, UC Merced

Ellen Fernandez-Sacco
1998-99, Art History
Mentor: Dell Upton, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, UC Berkeley

Jason Ferreira
2003-05, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Angela Y. Davis, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Assistant Professor, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University

Aisha Finch
2007-08, History
Mentor:  Brenda Stevenson, UC Los Angeles
Current Position:  Assistant Professor, Department of Women's Studies and Afro-American Studies, UC Los Angeles

Andrew Fisher
2002-03, History
Mentor: Kevin Terraciano, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carleton College

Alyson Fletcher
2005-07, Engineering
Mentor: Laurent El Ghaoui, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Thomas Yoshio Fujita Rony
1997-98, American Culture
Mentor: Takashi Fujitani, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies, California State University, Fullerton

Galit Furhmann Alpert
2006-08, Neuroscience
Mentor:  R. T. Knight, UC Berkeley
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley

Angela Garcia
2007-08, Anthropology
Mentor:  Carole Browner, UC Los Angeles
Current Position:  Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine

David G. García
2008-09, History
Mentor: George Lipsitz, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara

Mishuana Goeman
2003-04, Modern Thought and Literature
Mentor: Patricia Penn Hilden, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Dartmouth College

Francisca (Gonzalez) Godinez
2000-02, Education
Mentor: Adaljiza Sosa Riddell, UC Davis
Current Position: Independent Research

Gloria González-López
2000-02, Sociology
Mentor: Barrie Thorne, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

Tiros A. Gonzales
1996-98, Sociology
Mentor: Stefano Varese, UC Davis
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Chinese University, Hong Kong

Gayatri Gopinath
1998-99, English & Literature
Mentor: Lisa Lowe, UC San Diego
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Women and Gender Studies, UC Davis

Monique Guillory
1997-99, Comparative Literature
Mentor: Patricia Cline Cohen, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Director, The Mississippi Learning Institute

Gema R. Guevara
1999-00, Literature
Mentor: Rau’l Fernandez, UC Irvine
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Literature, University of Utah

Michelle Habell-Pallan
1997-98, Literature
Mentor: Lisa Lowe, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington

Sora Han
2006-08, Law
Mentor: Leti Volpp, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, UC San Diego

Lachelle Hannickel
2007-08, French
Mentor: Jacqueline Bobo, Women's Studies Program, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Women Studies Program, UC Santa Barbara

David Manuel Hernández
2005-07, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Abel Valenzuela, Jr., UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies, UC Los Angeles

Roderick Hernandez
2001-03, English
Mentor: Rafael Perez-Torres, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Antonia Herzog
2000-02, Energy and Environmental Policy
Mentor: Daniel Kammen, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Staff Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Climate Center, Washington, DC

Glake Hill
2003-04, Physical Chemistry
Mentor: William Lester, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Jackson State University

Tessa Hill
2004-06, Earth Sciences
Mentor: Howie J. Spero, UC Davis
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, UC Davis

Carol Hirschmugl
1996-97, Physics
Mentor: Malcolm Howells, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Anhthu Hoang
2001-03, Zoology
Mentor: Tyrone Hayes, UC Berkeley
Current Position: General Counsel, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, New York, NY

Karen V. Holliday
2003-05, Anthropology
Mentor: Carole H. Browner, UC Los Angeles
Current Position:  US Psychiatric Genetics Research Training Postdoctoral Fellow and Consultant to LA Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor UCLA
Current Institution:  Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA)

Grace Kyungwong Hong
2001-02, Literature
Mentor: Emory Elliott, UC Riverside
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, UC Los Angeles

Kelli Hoover
1997-98, Entomology
Mentor: Loy Volkman, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University

Adria L. Imada
2003-04, American Studies
Mentor: Henry Yu, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego

Gaye Johnson
2000-02, American Studies
Mentor: Douglas Daniels, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Sara Johnson
2001-03, Comparative Literature
Mentor: VéVé Clark, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Literature, UC San Diego

Orit Kalman
2000-01, Chemical Engineering
Mentor: Karen McDonald, UC Davis
Current Position: Independent Research

Roshanak Kheshti
2006-08, Women and Gender Studies
Mentor: Paola Bacchetta, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego

Brian Klopotek
2008-09, American Studies
Mentor: Tom Biolsi, UC Berkeley
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Jacqueline L. Kiplinger
1996-98, Chemistry
Mentor: Robert G. Bergman, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Researcher, Structural Inorganic Chemistry, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Stephen Klisch
1999-00, Mechanical Engineering
Mentor: Anne Hoger, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, California Polytechnic State University

Erik Kupperman
1998-99, Biochemistry
Mentor: Didier Stainier, UC San Francisco
Current Position: Researcher, Ontogeny/Curis

Jong Bum Kwon
2005-07, Anthropology
Mentor: Namhee Lee, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of East Asian Languages and Culture, UC Los Angeles

Susan Lambrecht
2002-04, Ecology
Mentor: Michael Loik, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, San Jose State University

James Kyung-Jin Lee
2000-02, English
Mentor: Rosaura Sanchez, UC San Diego
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Jee-Young Jennifer Lee
1998-99, Sociology
Mentor: Robert Waldinger, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, UC Irvine

Julia Lee
2005-07, English
Mentor: Brook Thomas, UC Irvine
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin

Mary Leech
2001-03, Geological and Environmental Sciences
Mentor: Bradley Hacker, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, San Francisco State University

Fatema Legrand
2004-06, Immunology
Mentor: Douglas Nixon, UC San Francisco
Current Position: Research Scientist II, Research Division, Bavarian Nordic Immunotherapeutics

Adrian Lenardic
1997-98, Geophysics
Mentor: Mark Richards, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Rice University

Amanda Lewis
2007-09, Microbiology
Mentor:  Victor Nizet, UC Irvine
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego

Esther Lezra
2005-07, Languages/Literature
Mentors: Susan Gillman, Professor of Literature, UC Santa Cruz and George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies and Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Global and International Studies Program, UC Santa Barbara

Kui Lin
1998-99, Biochemistry
Mentor: Cynthia Kenyon, UC San Francisco
Current Position: Researcher, Genentech, Inc.

Robert Liu
1999-00, Applied Physics
Mentor: Kenneth Miller, UC San Francisco
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Biology, Emory University

Ann López
2004-06, Environmental Studies; Ethnography
Mentor: Jeffrey Romm, UC Berkeley and Patricia Zavella, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Research Associate with the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, UC Santa Cruz

Julio Lopez
2006-08, Multidisciplinary Studies
Mentor: Stefano Varese, UC Davis
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Native American Studies, UC Davis

Jia Grace Lu
1997-98, Applied Physics
Mentor: Paul McEuen, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, UC Irvine

David Luis-Brown
1999-01, Literature
Mentor: Francine Masiello, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Miami

Kathleen (Kelly) Lytle Hernández
2002-04, History
Mentor: George Lipsitz, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, UC Los Angeles

Jason MacCannell
2005-07, Geography
Mentor: Walter Hood, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Independent Researcher

Juan Mah y Busch
2002-03, English Language and Literature
Mentor: Maria Herrera-Sobek, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Loyola Marymount University

Jelani Mahiri
2007-09, Anthropology
Mentor: Olga Najera-Ramirez, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz

Carolyn Malmstrom
1997-98, Biological Sciences
Mentor: F. S. Chapin, III, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University

James R. Marston
2003-05, Geography
Mentor: Richard Church, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara

Antigona Martinez
1999-00, Psychology
Mentor: Richard Buxton, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Project Scientist, ERP Lab, Department of Neurosciences, UC San Diego

Julian Martinez
1996-98, Neurosciences
Mentor: Gary Lynch, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: overseas

Lorraine Martínez
2000-02, Psychology
Mentor: Dacher Keltner, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Independent Research

Ashley Maynard
1999-00, Developmental Psychology
Mentor: Thomas Weisner, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Hawai’i

Kathleen McAfee
1999-01, Geography
Mentor: David Goodman, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Visting Scholar, Agriculture and the Environment Geography Department, UC Berkeley

Dwight McBride
1996-97, English
Mentor: Eric Sundquist, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Professor, Department of African-American Studies, WCAS, Northwestern University

Juliet McMullin
2000-02, Anthropology
Mentor: Carole Browner, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Riverside

Luz Mena
2002-04, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Patricia Penn Hilden, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Women's Studies, UC Davis

Elisabeth Middleton
2008-09, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management: Society and Environment
Mentor: Ben Orlove, UC Davis
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis

Jerry Miller
2001-03, Philosophy
Mentor: Teresa de Lauretis, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Haverford College

Matthew Milnes
2006-07, Endocrinology
Mentor: Bruce Blumberg, UC Irvine
Current Position: Endocrinologist, Reproductive Physiology Division, Zoological Society of San Diego

Mireille Miller-Young
2003-05, History
Mentor: Anna Everett, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Women's Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Susette Min
1999-00, American Civilization
Mentor: Elaine Kim, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, UC Davis

Todd Minehardt
1999-00, Chemistry
Mentor: Peter A. Kollman, UC San Francisco
Current Position: Lecturer and Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University

Stephen Mojzsis
1997-98, Geology
Mentor: T. Mark Harrison, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder

Wesley Moons
2008-09, Psychology
Mentor: Shelley E. Taylor, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, UC Los Angeles

Rachel Morello-Frosch
1997-98, Public Health
Mentor: Andrew Szasz, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Lorena Navarro
2004-06, Biochemistry
Mentor: Jack Dixon, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, UC Davis

Erin Ninh
2005-06, English
Mentor: Rachel Lee, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Althea Scott Nixon
2008-09, Education
Mentor: Michael Cole, UC San Diego
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Communication, UC San Diego

Angela Nonaka
2006-07, Linguistics
Mentor: Leanne Hinton, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

Ann-Marie Nuñez
2005-07, Sociology
Mentors: Kenji Hakuta, UC Merced and Sylvia Hurtado, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio

Kysa Nygreen
2005-07, Education
Mentors: Pamela Perry and Margaret A. Gibson, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Education, UC Santa Cruz

Todd Ochoa
2005-07, Anthropology
Mentor: William Hanks, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Karina Oliva Alvarado
2007-09, English and Ethnic Studies
Mentor:  Rafael Perez-Torres, UC Los Angeles
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, UC Los Angeles

Rosa C. Orellana
1999-00, Mathematics
Mentor: Mark Haiman, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, West Los Angeles College

J. Richard Olivas
1997-98, History
Mentor: Sharon V. Salinger, UC Riverside
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Division of History, University of Washington

Sidne Omori
1996-98, Immunology
Mentor: Cornelis Murre, UC San Diego
Current Position: Staff Scientist, Rickert Lab, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California

Laura O'Rourke
2005-07, Archeology
Mentor: Rosemary Joyce, UC Berkeley
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Rudy Ortiz
2001-03, Physiology
Mentor: Frank Talamantes, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Division of Natural Sciences, UC Merced

Lily Owusu-Darkwa
2002-04, Anthropology
Mentor: Phillipe Bourgois, UC San Francisco

Jeanne Panek
1997-98, Forest Science & Plant Physiology
Mentor: Allen Goldstein, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Research Consulting, National Park Service
http://www.aplv.org/panek/

Keng-Fong Pang
1998-99, Anthropology
Mentor: Amin Sweeney, South & Southeast Asian Studies
Current Position: Visiting Scholar, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UC Los Angeles

Suman M. Paranjape
2003-05, Biomedical Sciences
Mentor: Eva Harris, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Division of Infectious Diseases – Public Health, UC Berkeley

Marjorie Patrick
2001-03, Animal Physiology
Mentor: Sarjeet Gill, UC Riverside
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of San Diego

Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
1998-99, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Karen Brodkin, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, UC Davis

Kylie Peppler
2007-08, Education
Mentor: Mark Warschauer, UC Irvine
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Indiana University-Bloomington

Dolen Perkins-Valdez
2003-04, American Literature
Mentor: Richard Yarborough, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Puget Sound

Hector Perla
2007-08, Political Science
Mentor:  Lisa Garcia Bedolla, UC Irvine
Current Position:  Assistant Professor, Department of Latino and Latin American Studies, UC Santa Cruz

Vu Pham
2002-04, Ethnic Studies
Mentors: George Lipsitz, UC San Diego and Nayan Shah, UC San Diego
Current Position: Research Fellow, Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine

Stephen Pitti
1997-98, History
Mentor: David Gutierrez, UC San Diego
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of History, Yale University

Chavella Pittman
2003-05, Sociology
Mentor: Walter Allen, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Social Science Division, New College of Florida

Eric C. Porter
1998-99, History
Mentor: Waldo Martin, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, UC Santa Cruz

Myisha Priest
2003-05, African American and American Literature
Mentor: Harryette Mullen, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of English, Santa Clara University

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
2008-09, History
Mentor: Cheryl Harris, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Law, UC Los Angeles

Amber L. Puha
1998-99, Mathematics
Mentor: Ruth Williams, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, California State University, San Marcos

Javier Read de Alaniz
2006-08, Chemistry
Mentor:  Larry Overman, UC Irvine
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, UC Irvine

Christine Reif
2005-07, Earth Science
Mentor: Quentin Williams, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UC Santa Cruz

Iliana Reyes
2001-03, Psychology
Mentor: Eugene Garcia, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Language, Reading and Culture, University of Arizona

Corinne Richards
2008-09, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Mentors: Jim McGuire and Eileen Lacey, UC Berkeley
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley

Mattie Richardson
2005-06, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Leila Rupp, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin

Teri Robinson
2007-09, Chemistry
Mentor:  Mattanjah deVries, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, UC Santa Barbara

Albert I. Roca
2003-05, Cellular and Molecular Biology
Mentor: Alex McPherson, UC Irvine
Current Position: Project Scientist, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, UC Irvine

Russell Rodriguez
2007-09, Anthropology
Mentor:  George Lipsitz, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara

Robert Chao Romero
2003-05, History
Mentors: Laura Gomez and Kevin Terraciano, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies, UC Los Angeles

Hilda Mercedes Romero
2008-09, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Gina Dent, UC Santa Cruz  
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz

Laura Romo
2000-01, Psychology
Mentor: Tom Wickens, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, UC Santa Barbara

Ana Rosas
2006-07, History
Mentor: Vicki L. Ruiz, History, UC Irvine
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, UC Irvine

Horacio Roque Ramírez
2001-03, Anthropology
Mentor: Karen Brodkin, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Lynn Sacco
2001-03, History
Mentor: Patricia Cline Cohen
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Elizabeth Batya Safran
1998-99, Geology
Mentor: Robert Anderson, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Lewis and Clark College

Gilberto Sambrano
1996-98, Molecular Biology
Mentor: Shaun R. Coughlin, UC San Francisco
Current Position: Specialist, Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, UC San Francisco

Juan Sánchez
2007-09, English
Mentor: Ian Duncan, UC Berkeley
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley

Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel
2003-05, American Studies and Feminist Studies
Mentor: Rosa Linda Fregoso, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz

Darieck Scott
2001-03, Literature
Mentor: Ian Duncan, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, UC Santa Barbara

Jana Sequoya-Magdaleno
1996-98, Modern Thought & Literature
Mentor: Hertha D. Wong, UC Berkeley
Current Position: overseas

Jeanne Serb
2003-05, Biology
Mentor: Todd H. Oakley, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University

Jared Sexton
2002-04, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Norma Alarcon, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, African American Studies and Film/Media Studies, UC Irvine

Setsu Shigematsu
2005-06, Women and Gender Studies
Mentor: Lisa Yoneyama, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, UC Riverside

Kiron Skinner
1996-97, Political Science
Mentor: Thomas Schwartz, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University

Lisa V. Smith
2000-02, Epidemiology
Mentor: Zuo-Feng Zhang, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UC Los Angeles

Stephen Sohn
2006-07, English
Mentor: Glen Mimura, Film & Media Studies
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Stanford University

Lilia Soto
2008-09, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Abel Valenzuela, Jr., UC Los Angeles
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chicana/o Studies, UC Los Angeles

Gabriela Soto Laveaga
2001-03, Latin American History
Mentors: Vincanne Adams and Warwick Anderson, UC San Francisco
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Caroline Streeter
2000-02, Ethnic Studies
Mentors: Herman Gray and Angela Y. Davis, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department English and Center for African American Studies, UC Los Angeles

Julie Sze
2003-04, American Studies
Mentor: David Pellow, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, UC Davis

Kimberly TallBear
2007-08, Science & Technology Studies
Mentor:  Charis Thompson, UC Berkeley
Current Position:  Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley

Andrea Tao
2007-09, Chemistry
Mentor:  Daniel E. Morse, Professor Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, UC Santa Barbara

D. Lee Taylor
1997-98, Plant Biology
Mentor: Scott Hodges, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Institute of Arctic Biology and Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Daphne Taylor-García
2008-09, Comparative Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Chela Sandoval, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Desiree Thayer
2007-08, Neurosciences
Mentor:  Lily Y. Jan, UC San Francisco
Current Position:  NIH Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physiology, UC San Francisco

Lisa B. Thompson
2000-01, English
Mentor: David Van Leer, UC Davis
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and African-American Literature, State University of New York at Albany

Timothy Thornton
2006-08, Genetics
Mentor: Terence Speed, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Biostatistics, UC San Francisco (2008); Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington (2009)

Mayya Tokman
2003-05, Applied Mathematics
Mentor: Alexandre J. Chorin, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Natural Sciences Division, UC Merced

Karen Tongson
2003-05, English
Mentor: Judith Halberstam, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Southern California

Elva A. Torres
2003-05, Chemistry
Mentor: Stephen R. Leone, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Plank Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany

Trinh Tran
2004-06, Neuroscience
Mentor: Jane Gitschier, UC San Francisco
Current Position: Full-time Instructor – Faculty, Department of Biology, City College of San Francisco

Tania Triana
2004-05, Languages and Literature
Mentor: Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, UC Davis
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages, University of Oregon

Emily Troemel
2000-01, Biology
Mentor: Charles Zuker, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant in Molecular Biology, Ausubel Lab, Harvard Medical School

Carolyn Turnovsky
2005-06, Sociology
Mentor: Abel Valenzuela, Jr., Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara

Nora Underwood
2001-02, Ecology
Mentor: Richard Karban, UC Davis
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology, Florida State University

Heather Van Epps
2006-08, Neurosciences
Mentor: Yishi Jin, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Western Washington University

Deborah Vargas
2002-04, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, UC Davis
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies Program, UC Irvine

Luis Velarde
2008-09, Chemistry
Mentor: Alec Wodtke, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara

Jennifer Lisa Vest
2000-02, Philosophy and Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Sandra Harding, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida

Sacha Vignieri
2006-08, Zoology
Mentor: Hopi Hoekstra, Biological Sciences, UC San Diego
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Biological Sciences:  Ecology, Behavior & Evolution, UC San Diego

Kalindi Vora
2007-09, Anthropology
Mentor:  Aihwa Ong, UC Berkeley
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Orli Waarts
1996-97, Computer Science
Mentor: Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley
Current Position: overseas

Devin Walker
2006-08, Physics
Mentor: Lawrence J. Hall, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley

Dorothy Wang
1999-00, English Literature
Mentor: Michael Davidson, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Departments of English and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University

Grace Wang
2005-06, Area Studies
Mentor: Sunaina Maira, UC Davis
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, UC Davis

Suzanne Wash
2000-02, Linguistics
Mentor: Martha Macri, UC Davis
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research, Deparrtment of American Studies, UC Davis

Kerstin Wasson
1997-98, Biology
Mentor: Peter Raimondi, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Research Coordinator and Adjunct Assistant Professor of EE Biology, Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve

Vicki Wedel
2006-07, Anthropology
Mentor: Sabrina Agarwal, UC Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, UC Merced

Christopher Wetzel
2007-09, Sociology
Mentor:  Duane Champagne, UC Los Angeles
Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, UC Los Angeles

Michael J. Williams
2008-09, Mathematics
Mentor: Martin Scharlemann, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
2003-05, Political Science
Mentor: Denise Ferreira da Silva, Professor of Ethic Studies, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, UC Irvine

Robin Wilson
2006-07, Mathematics
Mentor: Martin Scharlemann, UC Santa Barbara
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Cal Poly-Pomona

Grace Wolf-Chase
1996-98, Astronomy
Mentor: Mary Barsony, UC Riverside
Current Position: Research Scientist and Astronomer, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago

Eric W. Wong
2000-01, Chemical Physics
Mentor: James Heath, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Researcher, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

K. Wayne Yang
2004-06, Education
Mentor: Jeannine Oakes, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego

Louie Yang
2006-08, Population Biology
Mentors: Jonathan Levine, Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara and Mary Power, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara

Kathleen S. Yep
2002-04, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Alice Yang Murray, UC Santa Cruz
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Pitzer College and Department of Asian American Studies, The Claremont College

Jeffrey Yoshimi
2002-04, Philosophy
Mentor: Wayne Martin, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, UC Merced

Rolaine Young Owl
2000-02, Astronomy
Mentor: Michael Jura, UC Los Angeles
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UC Los Angeles

Lisa Ze
2005-06, Ethnic Studies
Mentor: Lindon Barrett, UC Irvine
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Departments of English and Africana Studies, Wayne State University

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