by Web Admin | Jan 29, 2021 | Alumni Stories, Anteaters in the Professional World, First Gen Stories, Startup Stories, Stories
The UCI Women in Leadership series is dedicated to amplifying the stories and voices that have historically been missing from the leadership and entrepreneurship conversation. In this latest installment, we highlight Anh Tran—financial advisor, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL...
by Web Admin | Oct 27, 2020 | Alumni Stories, First Gen Stories, Stories
For UC Irvine (UCI) alumna JuHee Kim, her role as Managing Director of VaynerMedia LA is just the latest in her long string of accomplishments. Over her twenty years in the marketing and media industry, JuHee has worked with some of the largest media companies in the...
by Web Admin | Sep 3, 2020 | First Gen Stories, Stories
As a softball player, Shawna Jackson has played the field for most of her life. Hailing from a sports-loving family, she took to the diamond as soon as she could hold a bat. It wasn’t until Jackson discovered an unexpected love of theater that she decided to trade in...
by Web Admin | Sep 3, 2020 | First Gen Stories, Stories
As a high school senior in Yuma, Arizona, Stacy Ann Suarez Cham dreamed of attending a University of California school. But out-of-state tuition was too high, so she instead went to the University of Arizona, where she became fascinated by the “invisible world of...
by Web Admin | Sep 3, 2020 | First Gen Stories, Stories, Student Stories
During her first year as a professor of Chicano/Latino Studies and History at UCI, Anita Casavantes Bradford published her first book, a transnational history of the Cuban Revolution. As her career in research was beginning to take off, she decided to approach the...
by Web Admin | Sep 2, 2020 | First Gen Stories, Stories, Student Stories
For most students at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), excelling academically and achieving all their goals sounds like a dream scenario. However, for biological sciences major Britanny Duong, dreams aren’t always as they seem: At the beginning of my first...
