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FORWARD THINKING ALUMNA SUSAN WOJCICKI, CEO OF YOUTUBE, IS BLAZING A TRAIL FOR WOMEN IN HIGH TECH

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largest applicant 67,000 pool in history UC students offered admission 35,000 for the upcoming year SANTA California community college CRUZ students offered a spot MAGAZINE 7,072 FALL 2018 With a smaller California high UC Santa Cruz enrollment schoolers saw transfer Tuned in Number of new 9 target than the received more applications undergraduates Alumna Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, took a chance previous year, than 18,000 increase 31% UC Santa Cruz and joined Google as employee No. 16 in 1999. Now she’s 5,600 anticipates working to bring more women into the world of high tech. UC Santa Cruz offers of from last year welcoming for increased its admission to and 37% from fall 2018 admission UC Santa Cruz* 2016 12 Shooting for the stars selectivity The bright—but previously unrecognized—young scientists of UC Santa Cruz’s Lamat program have found California their destiny by turning their eyes to the heavens. Out of state International Hope for housing UC Santa Cruz has designated 2018 16 as the Year of Alumni, a time to savor, With housing costs becoming a crisis both locally and celebrate, and promote the legacy statewide, an ambitious UC Santa Cruz project called of proud Banana Slugs who have No Place Like Home seeks to inform the debate—and made their mark as they’ve gone on the quest for solutions—through research. to successful careers and paradigm- whom shifting endeavors. Shifting the debate we In this magazine and in other 21 on expected enrollment publications, we are sharing stories of Can public philosophy teach us to think? Students serve graduates whose lives were changed and faculty at UC Santa Cruz explore that question in 3.93 by UC Santa Cruz and who embody the an unlikely place—San Quentin State Prison. 73% average values and qualities that represent this Nearly three-quarters of admissions offers are campus—social justice, public service, made to California residents. Of the enrolled GPA environmental stewardship, a dedication student body, students from other states and to exploring the human condition, and a countries make up about 10% of the determination to change the world. undergraduate class. 1332 28 83% average SAT average ACT Cover photo: ART + COMMERCE Percentage of the 3,700 expected freshmen who are likely to enroll from California 2018 freshman admission profile

50% Letters 2 Alumni Profiles 25 Increase over last year’s transfer enrollment * The balance of offers were made to California Calendar 3 1 More Thing 28 for an expected 1,900 new transfer students community college transfer students and This Is UC Santa Cruz 5 Alumni Notes—online at in the fall nonresident students. magazine.ucsc.edu Giving 8 MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU Fall 2018 1 CALENDAR LETTERS events.ucsc.edu UC Rants, raves, recommendations, and love letters from our readers. SANTA Write us at [email protected]. CRUZ MAGAZINE FALL 2018 PHTHALATES NOT I particularly appreciated Jim UC THE ONLY PERIL Gunderson remembering the UNIVERSITY SANTA Faculty OF CALIFORNIA CRUZ 1970s Graphic Stories Guild. MAGAZINE The article on Professor SPRING 2018 Research SANTA CRUZ Rebecca Braslau’s research The 8/9 annual publications are exhaustively documented in Lecture Chancellor on phthalates [“Preventing George Blumenthal plastic’s perils,” page 10, spring the 1982 Official Underground February 26, 2019 and Newave Comix Price Guide Campus Provost/ ’18] was interesting, but left Music Recital Hall

OMG!! Did you know it’s the Year of Alumni @UCSC? This is huuge!! by Jay Kennedy. I ran that Executive Vice Chancellor From agroecology to astronomy, #UCSCAlumni are making a mark on out an important aspect of Speaker: Lise Getoor, the world! Rad! #thinkucsc #slugpower #noknownpredators Marlene Tromp polymer hazards, particularly guild for two years with Charlie UC Santa Cruz professor Boatner and Angela Bocage. Vice Chancellor, for PVC. While phthalates of computer science University Relations are a significant concern for Jerome Schiller ran it for its last Keith E. Brant consumers, the precursor for two years. Founders Assistant Vice Chancellor, making polyvinyl chloride, Charlie Boatner (College V/ Celebration Communications vinyl chloride, is a well-known and Marketing CORRECTION Porter ’77, individual major, October 20, 2018 carcinogen that threatens comics writing) moved to New Sherry L. K. Main The inside back cover of the 6 p.m. workers in the PVC production York City after graduation and spring 2018 issue describes the Porter College Editor process. In addition, there sold stories to DC, Marvel, JC, UCSC Retirees Association Gwen Jourdonnais are a variety of other toxicity Eclipse, and Vertigo. Piranha Cost: $150 per person Bruce Lane Memorial Creative Director concerns, particularly around Press/DC published his Scholarship Fund as being Lisa Nielsen chlorine, present in the supply graphic novel. He’s currently “created in the memory of Art Director/Designer chain for PVC. Elimination of drawing the web strip www. the first campus architect.” Linda Knudson (Cowell ’76) phthalates will not necessarily BureauofBeasties.com. Although Bruce Lane was an eliminate the risks associated Associate Editor Angela Bocage (Gilden) architect, he was not the first with PVC or other polymers Dan White (Porter ’84, art) published campus architect, and he did that involve the use of Proofreader not hold that title. The first her first comics story, “The Baskin Ethics Jeanne Lance phthalates. Foundation campus architect was Jack Worm,” in the Graphic Lecture Medal Photography Wagstaff, who also holds the In this era of federal efforts Stories Guild, and created the Carolyn Lagattuta distinction of being UC Santa to eliminate regulations first comics anthology from October 29, 2018 February 2, 2019 Contributors Cruz’s very first employee, protecting human health and a major publisher for diverse Music Recital Hall Silicon Valley Tyler Bartholome preceding even founding the environment, we should be sexual identities. She is an Featuring virtual reality Honoring Janet Yellen, Amy Ettinger (Merrill ‘95) chancellor Dean McHenry. aware and vigilant about the immigration attorney in Boston pioneer Jaron Lanier GIING former chair of the Federal GIING UC SANTA CRUZ Erin Foley (Rachel Carson ‘12) risks of products and materials and has taken her art and UC SANTA CRUZ Bruce Lane was an architect Presented by the Reserve Scott Hernandez-Jason across their entire life cycle. activism all over the country. who worked first in the Office Humanities Institute DA DA J. D. Hillard (Porter ‘99) —Michael S. Brown, Ph.D. Carolyn McMillan of Physical Planning and Jerome Schiller (Porter ’80, Crown ’74, politics art) has worked on Amnesty Reyna Grande Martin Luther Jennifer McNulty Construction and then in Morton King Jr. capital planning, where he International’s marketing and October 2, 2018 Scott Rappaport P.S. Some of us aren’t as big Marcus Poetry served as director of capital on ads for a couple of the Star Memorial Karyn Skemp (Rachel fans of Chancellor Sinsheimer Peace United Church Reading Carson ‘89) planning until his retirement. Wars movies. Convocation Giving Day as the two letter writers in the Presented by the Tim Stephens (SciCom ’90) I worked closely with Bruce November 15, 2018 February 27, 2019 spring issue [Letters, page 2], This is the 40th anniversary Humanities Institute, February 11, 2019 Peggy Townsend during my time at UC Santa Music Recital Hall both of whom were in executive of my senior thesis, “Under- Research Center for the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium Join us online for a day of Dan White Cruz, first as staff architect roles in the administration. standing Comics.” After Americas, and Bookshop Featuring award-winning Speaker: Melissa Harris philanthropy and then as campus architect. Some of us believe that UC 53 years of comics reading, Santa Cruz poet Gary Snyder Perry, writer, professor, GIING GIING He was devoted to the campus UC SANTA CRUZ UC SANTA CRUZ Santa Cruz was always a creation, and adventures with Presented by the TV host, and political DA DA and well deserves being Alumni “serious” university even as it the ever-evolving industry, I Humanities Institute remembered in this way; I commentator Weekend took a different path. am still fascinated with the To see a full list remember him fondly. medium and field. of upcoming April 26–28, 2019 —Frank Zwart A LIFETIME OF COMICS —Mark Clegg (College V/ UC Santa Cruz Campus architect emeritus I enjoyed the “Comic relief” Porter ’78, individual major, events, visit events.ucsc.edu. article [page 20, spring ’18]. comics art) ILLUSTRATION OF GRANDE BY KATHRYN RATHKE; PHOTO: LANIER BY STOCKLAND MARTEL MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU 2 UC SANTA CRUZ MAGAZINE Fall 2018 3 A NEW BOOK BY JOHN DIZIKES THIS IS Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award | Cowell College Professor Emeritus and Former Provost

A collective biography of the interwoven lives of nine poets, all of Beth Shapiro, whom found their way to Greenwich Village in the early 1900s and UC professor of ecology were pioneers of the women’s poetry movement. and evolutionary biology, was selected as a Howard Hughes Medical SANTA Institute investigator. “These poets rose above convention and social constraints to become powerful agents of a new poetic age. Intellectually astute, sexually CRUZ adventurous, and artistically audacious, they lived lives of great courage.” — Gary Young, Even So: New and Selected Poems “A master historian at his most magisterial: wide-ranging, expansive, generous.” — Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder

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Shapiro named Shapiro is a leader in the field HHMI investigator of ancient DNA, using genetic material from the remains of Beth Shapiro, professor of plants and animals that lived ecology and evolutionary long ago to study evolution biology, was among 19 top and explore how species and scientists selected in May ecosystems have changed by the Howard Hughes over time. This research can Medical Institute (HHMI) to YOUR UC IN SILICON VALLEY provide valuable insights into The Topcon team at Partners’ Day, which is the become HHMI investigators how species and ecosystems culmination of the Baskin School of Engineering’s and receive support to move Corporate Sponsored Senior Project Program. responded to rapid global their research in creative warming at the end of the new directions. produce processing line last ice age. Engineering in Each of the new the real world and technology to support Her findings can inform our investigators—selected automation in construction decisions about how to use The Baskin School of from a pool of 675 eligible vehicles. limited resources to preserve Engineering’s Corporate applicants—will receive During the academic year, and protect species and Sponsored Senior Project roughly $8 million over a students in the program BIOSCIENCES • BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT A certificate, an award or a singlecourse: ecosystems in the face of Program provides students seven-year term. interact with teammates, what does your career need? current climate change. with a unique opportunity EDUCATION • ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY Shapiro joins David Haussler, to experience working on sponsors, and faculty. UC Santa Cruz alumna It’s time to focus on continuing professional education. professor of biomolecular real-world engineering Some make visits to Gia Voeltz (Crown ’94, engineering at UC Santa projects as part of their their corporate sponsor’s biochemistry and molecular PROFESSIONAL Cruz, who has been an HHMI undergraduate education. worksite, and all are biology) was also selected as required to solve problems ucsc extension.edu investigator since 2000. Participants in the 2017–18 - an HHMI investigator; see a along the way. By working program presented projects profile of her on page 27. with mentors at corporate CERTIFICATES including a system to partner companies, students detect foreign objects in a PHOTOS: SHAPIRO BY ELENA ZHUKOVA; TOPCON BY KARYN SKEMP

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learn important skills, take music), with assistant Focusing on what autistic degree program will prepare on interesting challenges, professor of music Bruce people have to say about students to design and and begin to understand Kiesling conducting the their own experiences, implement solutions to the what it means to be a University Orchestra. the authors explore four complex social, ecological, professional engineer. “It has been a thrill to watch behaviors that are common and technological problems Corporate sponsors how our singers respond among people with autism facing the world’s coastal of student projects in to this glorious score in and offer alternative ecosystems and 2017–18 included Atollogy, which we are constantly explanations for each communities. behavior. Topcon, Amazon Lab126, finding messages small and Soares thought that the For Smith, the piece rest of the resources from In other words, returning Kateeva, Mira Bella Energy, large from the composer result could be chalked up became a physical Cantú, KZSC dream charitable contributions alumni were never at a loss Nanometrics Incorporated, about characterization, to the phenomenon known representation of “the trials PBSci adds of new digs Nevro Corporation, stage direction, and how to and create a space that for things to do, people to as “cognitive off-loading”: of women,” she said. programs The cozy, quaint homes Oracle Labs, and Seagate express some of humanity’s continues to cultivate meet, beer glasses to drain, that is, not remembering The Division of Physical of the Lionel Cantú Queer Technology PLC. most base and elevated transformative student and and topics to explore. as well because you know and Biological Sciences Resource Center and KZSC emotions,” said Willey. Rethinking alumni experiences. Listen to our audio story the camera is there to is offering three new 88.1 FM are slated for autism and social For information, visit giving. of the weekend and see remember for you. programs beginning this fall: transformations in coming motivation ucsc.edu/cantu-kzsc. pictures at alumniweekend. Fading memories? years. Master’s degree in ucsc.edu. And mark your Thank Instagram A 2018 Cambridge Busting out University Press online Science Communication Generations of LGBTQ+ calendar for next year’s and Snapchat It’s anything but silent in the article is pushing back Program The UC student groups and budding Alumni Weekend—April UC Santa Cruz How much do you value trees and shrubs near a new hard on the notion that Santa Cruz Science broadcasters have sought 26–28, 2019. joined forces your memories? Enough bronze bust of Rachel Carson people with autism are not Communication Program, life-changing experiences in with the Academy to forgo that next amazing on campus. In fact, the birds an internationally the two wooden buildings of Art University in interested in socializing. Instagram pic? and bugs make a lot of noise recognized science writing perched on stilts behind Emeriti: Look for San Francisco to The article, “Being create costumes for around the sculpture, which program that previously led Merrill College. Prompted your survey Research by UC Santa Cruz vs. Appearing Socially The Magic Flute. sits atop a redwood log. to a graduate certificate, by needs for seismic The Council of UC Emeriti doctoral student Julia Soares Uninterested: Challenging will now award students an renovations, the student-run Associations is sending out (M.S. ’16, psychology) has Carson, a pioneering Assumptions about Social The Slugs M.S. degree. radio station and the Cantú a survey to emeriti faculty Magic Flute found evidence that the environmentalist and the Motivation in Autism,” came home Major in environmental Center see an opportunity in October, and the council act of taking a photograph inspiration for Rachel questions the widespread A wild and colorful group enchants sciences A new major in to grow. encourages all UC emeriti impairs people’s memories Carson College (formerly assumption that the primary of Banana Slugs returned operagoers environmental sciences KZSC envisions adding to take part in the project. of the event. College Eight), would have reason for autistic people’s to campus for UC Santa The UC Santa Cruz Music will lead to a B.S. degree. workstations for modern In a set of experiments, she been pleased to hear this unusual behaviors is that they Cruz’s Alumni Weekend The survey will provide Department presented a Jointly run by the production methods invited people to her lab for racket. After all, her most are not socially motivated. celebration in April, an overall inventory of the fully staged production of Departments of Earth and and more space for its a virtual museum tour where famous book, Silent Spring, Rather, the authors suggest, reveling in the renovated work emeriti continue to Mozart’s comic fantasy Planetary Sciences and Introduction to Broadcast they looked at paintings on documents the devastating their social signals are Quarry Amphitheater, do that contributes to the Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Ocean Sciences with an Media course and new computer screens, knowing environmental impacts of misunderstood—an insight crafting tie-dye T-shirts mission of the university, Flute) in May and June at the emphasis on the physical courses in journalism and they would be tested on pesticides. the authors believe could at a “maker’s faire,” and as well as how they Music Center Recital Hall. sciences, the new major nonprofit management. what they saw. The bust, unveiled during open the door to more giving a “standing-O” to have contributed to their will teach students how to Mozart’s last opera, The Alumni Weekend this effective interventions. Cantú Queer Center revered feminist studies communities. She compared how well apply fundamental concepts Magic Flute premiered at past spring, fulfills a director Travis S. Becker professor Bettina Aptheker, This will be the ninth participants remembered “We hope this research of chemistry, physics, the Theater auf der Wieden longstanding dream of its looks forward to more who delivered the Faculty time the survey has been the paintings following will lead to more respectful and mathematics to near Vienna in 1791, just two creator, Rachel Maryam room for student groups, Keynote/Baskin Ethics conducted; the last time three scenarios: when they treatment of people environmental problems in months before his death. confidential meetings, and Lecture. just looked at the images; Smith (Porter ’18, art and with autism, as well as the survey was done, in One of the most beloved areas such as climate, counseling. He also wants when they looked and took history of art and visual development of more They cooled down with 2015, more than 1,600 works in the operatic pollution, and water adequate space for its pictures using a camera culture). Smith wanted effective methods of frozen chocolate-covered people participated. Survey canon, the UC Santa Cruz resources. library, clothing exchange phone; and when they took to leave a literal mark on supporting them,” said bananas after the Campus findings have been very production was sung in Coastal Science and closet, and food pantry. pictures using Snapchat. campus, following in the Nameera Akhtar, a professor 5K Fun Run, posed for helpful in advocating for the German with dialogues and Policy graduate program footsteps of artists such as of psychology at UC Santa A student fee would fund pictures with Sammy interests and the continuing supertitles in English. The picture-takers A new graduate program in Kenny Farrell (Porter ’74, Cruz who coauthored the a portion of the work. the Slug, and took to the support of UC emeriti. consistently scored worse— Coastal Science and Policy The production was art), whose untitled and paper with lead author, The Cantú Queer Center airwaves at KZSC FM, Look for the survey in your by as much as 20 percent— is welcoming its first directed by music lecturer endlessly photographed Vikram Jaswal, an associate and KZSC have begun which celebrated 50 years

PHOTOS: FLUTE BY STEVE DIBARTOLOMEO, SMITH BY C. LAGATTUTA, KZSC BY ELENA ZHUKOVA email inbox and in your on multiple-choice tests cohort of students. The Sheila Willey (M.A. ’06, work is popularly known as professor of psychology at a campaign to seek the of music and inspiration. about what they had seen. postal mailbox. the “Porter Squiggle.” the University of Virginia. interdisciplinary master’s MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU 6 UC SANTA CRUZ MAGAZINE Fall 2018 7 EMPOWERING DISCOVERY By Peggy Townsend THROUGH DIVERSITY Because diversity enhances scientific success, UC Santa Cruz has established the Vera Rubin Presidential Chair for Diversity in Astronomy

in the nation, These activities are of special led by top importance to the careers of young scientists such astronomers from nontraditional as Sandra backgrounds. Faber, honored for discoveries LAUNCHING in dark matter THE CAMPAIGN Right: and galaxy Among the women astronomers Vera Rubin at formation, Rubin influenced is Sandra Faber, Vassar College and by UC who followed in Rubin’s footsteps Observatory Observatories by winning the National Medal of director Claire Science and the Gruber Prize for Max, renowned Cosmology. for her invention To demonstrate their deep belief in and use of UC Santa Cruz’s mission to foster adaptive optics. Diversity of opinion enhances the inclusive excellence in astronomy, Two new young women have just success of scientific teams, and it Faber and her husband, Andy, joined: exoplanet theorist Ruth is essential that healthy, thriving, launched the Rubin Chair campaign Murray-Clay and Packard Fellow vibrant science broadly represents with an initial commitment of Alexie Leauthaud, leader in mapping the members of the society it seeks $250,000. Additional gifts from Susan Wojcicki dark matter. to serve. private donors, including Barbara delivering the To advance this goal, UC Santa Cruz • We are proud to be home and John Crary, the Heising-Simons keynote at YouTube’s 2017 Brandcast event Astronomy has established a new to eminent Latinx astronomer Foundation, and Vera Rubin’s sons, in New York kind of endowed faculty chair—one Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, who studies plus a match of $500,000 from the TUNED IN created deliberately to advance fundamental questions in high- University of California Office of the the cause of diversity, equity, and energy astrophysics. For more on President, now round out the first inclusive excellence in astronomy. Ramirez-Ruiz, see page 12. $1.5 million, formally establishing Alumna Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, took a chance the Vera Rubin Presidential Chair. VERA RUBIN: AN INSPIRATION • Women have composed half We are currently pursuing our goal and joined Google as employee No. 16 in 1999—now she’s AND TRAILBLAZER of UC Santa Cruz astronomy Ph.D. students for more than to build the chair endowment to working to bring more women into the world of high tech The new chair is named after one a decade, and 30 percent of $1.75 million, increasing the support of the world’s most distinguished current grad students come from we can offer for diversity, equity, PHOTOS: RUBIN, COURTESY VASSAR COLLEGE; WOJCICKI, COURTESY OF YOUTUBE astronomers and champions of underrepresented backgrounds. and inclusive excellence.

GIVING inclusivity in science: Vera Rubin. • UC Santa Cruz graduates receive You can contribute to a crowd- Rubin (1928–2016) transformed more coveted National Science funding project for the Vera Rubin In 1992, when Susan Wojcicki “She didn’t have the math,” he says Wojcicki at YouTube’s San modern astrophysics by showing Foundation fellowships than any Presidential Chair at c-fund.us/hew. landed in an upper-division continued, “the economics.” Bruno headquarters. “Running that galaxies and stars are immersed other astronomy program in We thank these generous donors: finance course taught by By the end of the quarter, a tech company is a lot like that. in the gravitational grip of vast clouds the nation. UC Santa Cruz Distinguished You have to be willing to always The Heising-Simons Foundation however, Friedman remembers, of dark matter. Professor of Economics Dan be learning and asking questions USES OF CHAIR FUNDS Sandra and Andy Faber Wojcicki (M.S. ‘93, applied In science and in life, Rubin was a Friedman, she found herself near economics) had moved to near and thinking critically. Chair funds will be used to: Loren Kinczel guiding light for younger women, the bottom of the class. the top of the group. “You have to be willing to accept An anonymous donor and for dozens of astronomers from • Sweeten recruitment offers, “She was smart, but she didn’t you don’t have all the answers varied backgrounds. John and Barbara Crary It’s a memory that draws a quick enabling UC Santa Cruz to compete have the background, the and be learning every single day.” successfully for the very best Mark Headley (Stevenson ‘83, chuckle from Wojcicki, 50, who BRIGHTEST MINDS, technical chops,” said Friedman arrived at UC Santa Cruz with a Relaxed and personable, graduate students and postdocs politics and economics) and of the woman who would go on DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES from underrepresented groups. Christina Pehl degree from Harvard University Wojcicki talks about success, At UC Santa Cruz Astronomy, to become CEO of the media in history and literature. about what drives her, and • Support young scientists who have Claudia Webster “diversity” is synonymous with giant YouTube and be ranked about bringing more women disabilities or special needs. Joanna Miller “When I came to UC Santa “excellence”: No. 6 on Forbes’s 2017 list of into the world of high tech. She • Launch young scientists into the The Rubin family “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Cruz, I didn’t know much about • Our six active women professors touches on the challenges facing world to collaborate and to promote University of California Office Women.” economics, but I was able to are the largest tenured female cohort her company, one of her most their work. of the President jump in and learn the material,” MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU 8 UC SANTA CRUZ MAGAZINE Fall 2018 9 TUNEDIN continued

difficult moments, and explains only a viable fetus once you have Google in that space, and, by story red slide is a trippy art piece There were also products how her upbringing helped your Ph.D.” 1999, Wojcicki quit her job at featuring an array of YouTube Wojcicki championed that didn’t her and her two sisters—one “Our parents encouraged us to Intel to join the two men as stars: Lilly Singh, the Fung Bros., go anywhere. sibling, Janet Wojcicki, is an Google’s first marketing manager think outside the box and to think Anna Akana. Across the open “One of the key lessons is that it is associate professor of pediatrics and employee No. 16. She also of different solutions,” Wojcicki hallway is a room for nursing just as important to be honest with and epidemiology at UC San was four months pregnant. says. “They taught us to think mothers. yourself about what’s working and Francisco, and the other, Anne critically and not just follow Some people said she was That’s a lot of what you need to low number of women in tech what’s not working and to not be Wojcicki, is cofounder and CEO whatever others are doing. They crazy, but “the idea of helping know about her. was due to biological differences emotional about it,” she says. of the genetics-testing company taught us to focus on a career of people find information and Wojcicki describes herself as and not discrimination. And one of her most difficult 23andMe—become strong, giving back and one that was in a helping people to become both practical and creative, and “I would say I’ve been really moments? confident women. challenging area.” empowered by being able to is a strong voice for the inclusion lucky because I’ve had good look up information in new Wojcicki says it was the decision, It was a twist of fate that landed of women in the world of tech. mentors and I work at a good Learning early ways resonated with me,” says while she was at UC Santa Cruz, to her in tech. Currently, only 26 percent of place, but I don’t want to say it’s to seek impact Wojcicki of her decision to join step away from the goal she’d set The summer after her junior tech jobs in the United States are been perfect,” Wojcicki says. for herself to get a doctoral degree. Wojcicki grew up on the bucolic the fledgling company. “My year at Harvard, Wojcicki says, held by women, according to the Stanford University campus, the grandmother (Jane Wojcicki) There were the men who “I had grown up on a campus she got a temp job at a Silicon National Center for Women and oldest of three girls. Her father, was a librarian at the Library of interrupted her or ignored her where everyone had Ph.D.s, Valley startup. The vibe at that Information Technology. Stanley Wojcicki, is a particle Congress, and it seemed like this at meetings, business leaders and I had this moment where I small office and the hint of At YouTube, the percentage of physicist and was chairman of was actually a continuation of who addressed her male junior realized that, as much as I liked what technology could become women working for the company the Stanford Physics Department. some of her work.” colleagues instead of her, and economics, I wanted to work in prompted her to take a computer has risen from 24 to nearly the time, not too long after she Her mother, Esther Wojcicki, is a Plus, the internet was beginning the tech field, and that was a very science course when she got 30 percent under Wojcicki’s was named CEO of YouTube, that journalism teacher and founder of to explode. hard moment for me,” she says. back to Harvard. She was hooked. guidance. the landmark Palo Alto High School she discovered she’d been left “I was very emotional about it.” In 1991, she arrived at UC Santa “It was really clear to me that off the guest list for an important Media Arts Center, which counts “One of the things we’ve Right now, Wojcicki says, her top Cruz, which was not only close to there was so much opportunity invitation-only conference of the some 600 students working in and done (to boost diversity in the priority is expanding YouTube’s Silicon Valley but also was one of there and the internet was going top people in media and tech. studying media from newspaper to workplace) is to really increase educational value—videos the few places at the time to offer to change everything,” she says. video production. our recruiting,” Wojcicki says. “I started to question whether that teach a viewer everything a master’s program in economics. Wojcicki rose through the ranks “We make sure we cast a wide “We were surrounded by a lot I even belonged at the from how to create an Excel at Google and, in 2006, was net to find people who may not of talented people who were Not only did she earn her conference,” Wojcicki wrote. spreadsheet to how to tie a knot. instrumental in the company’s have applied but are qualified to focused on their passion and how master’s but she also met her But instead of accepting $1.65 billion purchase of what do the work.” “We’ve got a billion views a day they could make a difference, and husband, Dennis Troper (M.S. the snub, she called on her was then a small online video of learning-related materials,” To read about that really impacted me,” Wojcicki ’93, applied economics; now a The company also encourages mentor, the late Bill Campbell, a sharing service called YouTube. she says. “It’s something we will UC Santa Cruz’s says of those early years. “It product director at Google), and and funds employee resource legendary figure in Silicon Valley. efforts to draw In 2014, she was named CEO of continue to invest in.” inspired me to not be focused on got what she calls “a strong groups dedicated to creating The next day she received her and keep more the company, now estimated to some of the traditional metrics of foundation in analytical thinking.” supportive communities around invitation. And that, Wojcicki says, sums up women in be worth $80 billion. the reason she comes to work engineering and success—fame and income—and “What I learned (at UC Santa culture, gender, race, or sexuality, computer science, “Most helpful for me is to have every day. Her job allows her rather focus on how do you do Cruz) was a lot of key economic and has a generous, 18-week go to magazine. A voice for good friends in the office so I feel to create in new ways “which, something that has high impact, principles and a lot of quantitative family leave program. ucsc.edu. women in tech like I have a support system, to for me, is something very something that is meaningful and and analytical skills that I use “When we extended our family have good mentors, and, lastly, to fundamental,” she says. interesting.” every day at work,” she says. Wojcicki has a corner office leave from 12 weeks to 18, we be really persistent,” she says. at YouTube’s light-filled It’s also how she measures According to articles, the Seven years later, two Stanford saw the rate at which new moms headquarters off busy Highway Wojcicki’s role in the top spot success. Wojcicki household was a place computer science students, left (employment at YouTube) 280 in San Bruno. But any hint at YouTube hasn’t been without where putting on a jacket was Larry Page and Sergey Brin, was cut in half,” says Wojcicki, “I would define success in terms at the trappings of power ends challenges. There was the need preferable to turning up the heat, asked Wojcicki how much she who is mom to five children. of giving back to the world and there. Her desk is a simple long to respond to reports of Russian where the kids were taught would charge to rent the garage The way to get more women making an impact and making table with a computer monitor, operatives exploiting Google, to question assumptions, and in her 2,000-square-foot Menlo into the workplace is also to people’s lives better, and I think a S’well water bottle, and a Facebook, and YouTube to spread where an advanced degree was Park house so they could start a make sure people in power the work I’ve done has changed scattering of Post-it notes. The disinformation in advance of the like the sunrise: expected. company. She told them $1,700 a “extend their privilege,” Wojcicki and improved people’s lives,” only thing dividing her office and 2016 presidential election, and a month—plus a security deposit. wrote in a highly personal 2017 Wojcicki says. In fact, Wojcicki’s sister Anne any employee or visitor on their Department of Labor investigation op-ed in Vanity Fair magazine, in once joked to columnist Maureen Page and Brin would go on to way to the free juice and coffee into gender-based pay gaps “And I don’t think it’s over. I think

ILLUSTRATION BY KATHRYN RATHKE answer to a memo from a Google Dowd that, in her family, “you’re found the search-engine giant bar or the office’s giant, one- at YouTube’s parent company, there’s a lot of work still to be software engineer who said the Google, which Google has denied. done.” n MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU 10 UC SANTA CRUZ MAGAZINE Fall 2018 11 By Dan White

Each of these alumni is a first-generation college graduate.

The bright—but previously Ramirez-Ruiz has an outsized pride in every one of these students, Antoni was born in Cincinnati, but who truly live up to the program’s unrecognized—young which community college students the family moved to the Bay Area name. “Lamat” means “star” in when she was 5. Her mother was scientists of UC Santa Cruz’s the Mayan language. can learn about opportunities at UC Santa Cruz. That’s how a waitress at Red Lobster. Her Lamat program have found And the program has yielded a she first heard of Ramirez-Ruiz, father hung drywall. phenomenal statistic: Lamat- her future mentor, and learned “The only people I knew who had their destiny by turning trained UC Santa Cruz alumni that UC Santa Cruz is one of the a science degree were my dentist their eyes to the heavens helped increase the number of few remaining campuses in the and my doctor,” she says. “I didn’t Latinx students in top astronomy UC system to offer guaranteed know anyone who had gone to graduate programs across the admission for qualified community college.” country from 2 percent to 5 college students. percent in seven years. And yet there seems to be On campus, she picked up a something innate about her drive “Ultimately, my legacy is not the Lamat program flyer, applied, and to be a scientist. “When I was a work that I do,” Ramirez-Ruiz was accepted into that scientific little girl, I definitely pictured myself says. “It is really the students I can SHOOTING “boot camp.” The experience was in a lab coat. I saw Doogie Howser generate, and that is the greatest a revelation. and I thought, ‘That’s what you do legacy you have now—being if you like science!’” able to train students in a way “A lot of people, according to FOR THE of thinking that will make them society, don’t have value, and Watching their parents working into transformative scientists that’s not the case,” she says. hard, Antoni says, “my sister and I themselves.” “Enrico especially recognizes just assumed that’s what you did: that there are people who can Work hard, teach yourself the skills STARS Here are their stories. be strong scientists but aren’t you need, become the boss.” going to come to UC Santa Cruz Some of the brightest minds in “Some haven’t had role models UC Santa Cruz all along but were A door opens But Antoni had to miss part of high naturally, inevitably, because their school because of problems at astrophysics are like undiscovered in the sciences who look like looking for an immersive program At 39, Andrea Antoni (Kresge ’18, nontraditional paths don’t lead exoplanets. They are out there, but them,” he says. “Many have lived to ramp up their astrophysics skills. home. After she became a single astrophysics) is more than a decade directly here. You have to go out mother at 18, on her last day of no one knows about them just yet. in a society that told them they And the results, so far, have been older than many of her cohorts in and find those students.” weren’t good enough.” remarkable. high school, she went to work For some of these students, no the astrophysics program at UC In the Lamat program, Antoni at Togo’s, initially as a sandwich one in their family has ever gone When Ramirez-Ruiz launched the Consider this year’s exceptional Santa Cruz, but the long deferment came to realize that the skills maker, but ended up a graphic to college, let alone measured the Lamat Summer Research Program cohort of four recent Lamat grads: of her ambitions has, if anything, she developed in her life outside designer and serving as the brand masses of neutron stars. Fates on High-Performance Computing Andrea Antoni, who became redoubled her focus. of astronomy and academia director for the company’s Aqui and circumstances haven’t aligned in Astrophysics in 2009, he was one of UC Santa Cruz’s most “She is probably one of the best “absolutely translated” to success Cal-Mex division. with their talents. throwing out a wide net, hoping celebrated astrophysics students we have seen in our in research. “This was incredibly to snare the most talented With help from a supportive The trick is seeking such people undergrads after returning to program,” said Ramirez-Ruiz, noting empowering because the thing community college students, as partner, and while her daughter out, and then mentoring and college in her mid-30s; that she has had graduate school that I loved (physics) turned out to well as current UC Santa Cruz was still in high school, encouraging them. After all, offers from Harvard, Princeton, UC be something that I could do well.” students, and make them part Martin Lopez, who went from Antoni completed the transfer “many talented students have Berkeley, and Caltech. She was of the astrophysics community. struggling community college She also realized that her research requirements for a physics major had fewer opportunities than their also the recipient of a prestigious The Lamat program also places student to pursuing a Ph.D. at and classroom work reinforced before coming to UC Santa Cruz. wealthy peers,” says UC Santa 2017 Goldwater Scholarship a special emphasis on attracting Harvard; each other in surprising ways. Cruz astronomy professor Enrico for undergraduates in the fields Though Antoni has worked very Latinx students who are skilled Ramirez-Ruiz, who has made it Monica Gallegos-Garcia, who of mathematics, science, and “Banging my head against the wall hard on campus—and she and her in the sciences but want to delve part of his life’s work to recruit, found a second home in UC Santa engineering and earned a 4.0 GPA. and putting wildly different physics sister are the first in their family more deeply into research. nurture, and champion such Cruz’s scientific community; and concepts together to solve real to go to college—the years have While attending West Valley problems really primed my ears passed like a dream. students. Many Lamat students are Krystal Ruiz-Rocha, who College in Saratoga, Antoni found for thinking in the classroom,” she transfers from community discovered, in science, “I get paid to do science!” she out about “STEM Transfer Day,” in noted. colleges; others have been at “a world of absolute wonder.” PHOTO BY MIRANDA POWELL says, referring to her grant money. MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU 12 UC SANTA CRUZ MAGAZINE Fall 2018 13 SHOOTINGSTARS continued

“I just can’t believe people are willing to do that. I can have a job where people pay me to do inquisitive nature only heightened physics? That is just the most as I grew older, and I strove to beautiful thing. How lucky I was learn as much as I could.” that life opened this door for me.” In Lamat, “I learned a great deal Antoni plans to begin at UC more about research practices Berkeley this fall to pursue her and methods, and how to explain Ph.D. complex topics to my peers and people with no knowledge in Leap of faith astronomy,” she says. Martin Lopez (Crown ’18, In fact, it was Lamat that gave astrophysics) is a quiet and her the tools to understand humble man of faith; every the workings of the universe, time he mentions a blessing in and motivated her to major in his life, or talks about plans for physics. Lamat also exposed the future, he quickly adds the her to students from diverse words, “Thank God.” backgrounds—something that was sorely lacking in her physics Clearly, Lopez has a lot to be classes, she said. grateful for. He has gone from Above: Astronomy professor Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz with Lamat students failing community college to us, and my perspective and think critically and believes in After graduating from UC Santa pursuing a Ph.D. in astrophysics (now alumni) Monica Gallegos-Garcia (at blackboard), Martin Lopez Cruz two years ago, Ruiz-Rocha attitude toward school were us,” Lopez said. “He believed (center), Andrea Antoni (center-left), and Kyle Rocha (Oakes ’18, at Harvard starting in the fall transformed.” in me as a student with no astrophysics; left) continued her work on campus; of 2019. His transformation background whatsoever and no her mentor, Ramirez-Ruiz, hired In fact, excelling at school who has decided to attend a Disruptions of Main-sequence from a struggling student to an research skills and helped me her as a junior research assistant. became an act of worship. After Ph.D. program in astronomy/ Stars of Varying Mass and Age: outstanding scholar was, literally, and mentored me through my transferring to UC Santa Cruz, astrophysics at Northwestern Inferences from the Composition a matter of faith. journey at UC Santa Cruz.” Aldo Changing the cycle he was accepted into Lamat, University. of the Fallback Material,” Lopez, a New Yorker and a first- an impressive feat in itself. In Batta, a postdoctoral scholar, Ramirez-Ruiz believes in these Though she enrolled at UC Santa which was published in the generation college student, a typical year, Lamat receives also guided him throughout his students. He also believes in the Cruz as an astrophysics major, Astrophysical Journal this year. did not give much thought to hundreds of applicants for only time at UC Santa Cruz. inherent wisdom of “going out into Lamat took her work to a whole school or the sciences when a few positions. But for those “Lamat,” Lopez says, “was an society and trying to bring in the other level. In the process of Understanding the he graduated from high school determined few, the program immeasurable blessing.” top students from all walks of life.” learning about astrophysics, “I workings of the universe in 2008. He enrolled in a came with full funding for In the process, Lamat is doing got to familiarize myself with community college, but mostly summer research throughout Research launchpad Krystal Ruiz-Rocha (Stevenson more than just preparing these its ups and downs and many to please his parents. After their careers at UC Santa Cruz. ‘16, physics) plans on continuing For Monica Gallegos-Garcia students for success. dropping out with a GPA of 1.1, long hours of frustration, but I research in astrophysics and For Lopez, the program also led (Oakes ’18, astrophysics), “These students are the most he moved to San Jose to enroll also got to know the wonderful pursuing graduate studies. This to an invitation to join a research the Lamat summer program talented in the whole department, at an art institute and pursue a community that doing research coming year she is going to group with Ramirez-Ruiz, who was her first real exposure to and that is just so refreshing,” he career in video games, only to be within Lamat comes with,” she participate in the renowned Fisk- pushed the students to think astrophysics research—and said. “And I can guarantee you that told that he could not draw and said. “Because of this I would say Vanderbilt Bridge Program. should seek another profession. critically, even while bolstering posed a formidable challenge in that the Lamat program launched when they become professors, their confidence with strong the beginning. She was a first- my science research because it A Salinas native, she is the first they will be mentors, too. And While enrolled at another support. generation college student, and it gave me a very raw look at what in her family, on her father’s side, if you mentor a first-generation community college, he took a to attend college, and the first to “Lamat was my first real exposure took a little while just to find her it was really like.” student, you can change the whole class called Islam 101 to satisfy footing in academia. pursue a STEM field. And yet her history of their family. Rising up to astrophysics and any idea of Now she is becoming a star in his GE requirements. It ended up connection to the sciences was to the top and coming back as how research worked or how to “Many times, I would stay on her own right, studying, among changing his life. strong, immediate, and unbreakable mentors of others—that is the only do it,” Lopez said. “I didn’t know campus working for late hours other things, “the very violent “I decided to accept Islam and even when she was a child. way to change the cycle in this how to read a paper, how to search because I was stuck on a deaths of stars that are disrupted become Muslim after the class country.” n for papers, or even know what the problem,” says Gallegos-Garcia. by a supermassive black hole’s “I loved the way science allowed ended, thank God,” he says. point of reading them was.” me to understand the world around But all that hands-on research gravitational field.” For more information, visit “Islam urges us to educate me,” Ruiz-Rocha said. “The act As for Ramirez-Ruiz, “he experience would be a stemdiv.ucsc.edu/lamat. ourselves and benefit and Gallegos-Garcia is first author of learning something new filled pushes all of his students to boon for Gallegos-Garcia, of a paper entitled “Tidal contribute to the society around PHOTO BY C. 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Opposite page: Professor Steve McKay (rear center) and his students preparing for door-to-door surveys at the Nueva Vista Community Resources center in Santa Cruz’s Beach Flats.

by 29 percent for middle-income from renters all over Santa Cruz not one single thing,” Greenberg workers and nearly 43 percent for County. said. She believes the answer high-wage earners. Other factors The project, No Place Like lies in what she calls “the Three include the dramatic rise in single- Home (noplacelikehome.ucsc. Ps”: protecting renters to increase family homes inhabited by renters edu), is already starting to move stability, preserving existing as well as California’s relatively the conversation forward, with affordable housing, and producing high costs for labor, materials, data to help guide the dialogue. more affordable housing. and land, making residential Researchers found that 73 percent development less profitable. of 1,700 interview subjects Essential dialogue The causes are complicated but reported “rent burden,” meaning The initiative is also sponsoring the impacts are immediate and they spent more than 30 percent dialogues throughout the impossible to ignore. of their income on rent and utilities. community. In the fall of 2017, UC Santa Cruz students have Of renters who moved in the last McKay and Greenberg filled the shared stories of living in pool five years, 50 percent said the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium during sheds, in tents, in cars parked in move was “forced or involuntary,” a free public event that kicked off driveways of friends’ houses, just most often due to eviction or a rent Affordable Housing Week. increase. to get by. As part of the project, UC Santa County renters are squeezed. Such data can be painful to Cruz students interviewed More than 12,000 renters in Santa read about, but this information renters and homeowners Cruz County paid more than half of heightened awareness of an issue anywhere they could find them, their income for rent in 2016, and that has been building up for much capturing their responses at HOPE FOR too long, said UC Santa Cruz laundromats, mobile homes, and 11,000 paid more than 30 percent of income for rent, according to the associate professor of sociology flea markets. Some students Harvard University Joint Center for Steve McKay. rode city buses and chatted with Housing Studies, which reported in “Housing is becoming the new passengers. While going out HOUSING into the community to interview 2017 that Santa Cruz was the third weather: Everybody is talking With housing costs becoming a crisis both locally worst metro area for rent burden. about it,” he said. residents about their housing situations, they often talked and statewide, an ambitious UC Santa Cruz project And statewide, homelessness Two years ago, he and UC Santa about their own housing travails called No Place Like Home seeks to inform the debate is surging. California’s homeless Cruz sociology professor Miriam as a way to break the ice and population jumped nearly 14 Greenberg had no idea how much establish common ground. —and the quest for solutions—through research percent from 2016 to 2017—to a impact they would have when they total of more than 134,000 people. initiated the No Place Like Home Such dialogue is essential, It rose only 9 percent over the study, which they launched in especially when some previous seven years, according to collaboration with the Community respondents complained about the U.S. Department of Housing Action Board of Santa Cruz County UC Santa Cruz’s own impact on the rental and homebuying This story is In Northern California, the The scope of this problem crisis is so severe, particularly in and Urban Development’s 2017 and Community Bridges, with market because of its increasing adapted from a outrageous cost of homebuying can induce a strong sense of the Bay Area: More people are Annual Homeless Assessment financial support from the UC student body. more in-depth and renting is doing more than just helplessness. As a case in moving in from other states than Report to Congress. Santa Cruz Humanities Institute, version online. making cash-strapped residents point, consider the city of Santa moving out. No other region in the UC Santa Cruz Division of “We won’t deny we have an Visit magazine. sleep in sheds and cars. It’s also Cruz, which was struggling with California has experienced such No Place Like Home Student Success, the UC Office of impact, but we’re also the largest ucsc.edu to the President, and others. causing an identity crisis. affordable housing issues even explosive growth of high-paying But there is, at least, one positive employer, and we want to help read the full fix what is going on,” McKay How “progressive” can a city be before an influx of well-paid Silicon jobs. Statewide, between 2011 development in the midst of this Now, they are just starting to get a article. said. “Sometimes our students if housing starts to become out Valley tech workers started turning and 2016, California added just crisis; two forward-thinking UC sense of their impact. get doors slammed in their of reach for all but its wealthiest every home sale into a bidding 171 homes for every 1,000 Santa Cruz sociology professors, “We are getting taken seriously by face. But they are renters, too. residents? How functional can a war, with the median price of a people, according to the San Jose and more than 200 UC Santa city and county planners,” McKay It’s really about making better city be when the people providing home hitting more than $900,000 Mercury News. Cruz undergraduates, have been said. “We are bringing about connections. Instead of blaming its goods and services can’t this year. Meanwhile, the mean The study, by San Francisco public making international headlines conversations about solutions. We the students, why not bring afford to live there anymore, and hourly wage for renters in the city policy group Next 10, noted that for an ambitious project intending want to inform the debate through them into the discussion of how the teachers of its children must is $14.62 per hour. while pay for California’s low-wage to calibrate the scope, and side research.” do we create better housing for endure long, grueling commutes A study released in May points earners grew by just 17 percent effects, of the housing quandary. “What needs to be done locally everyone?” to work? to why the California housing over the past decade, wages rose Their research incorporates hard PHOTO BY JARED RANKIN facts, analysis, and human stories and regionally about housing is MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU 16 UC SANTA CRUZ MAGAZINE Fall 2018 17 HOPEHOUSING continued

Students who participated in the field “There is this narrative that students are Cruz will appear on a ballot measure students struggle to study and succeed “It is not unusual to spend $1,000 to In 1988, when Don Lane (Merrill research said it gave them a vivid sense the problem, when they face the same going before voters in November. when they have to live in cramped or share a room (off campus), so many ‘78, politics) was first elected to of their common cause with the wider problems as the tenants,” said Le. Proponents of rent control say this undesirable situations. In K–12, younger students try to work more, or take out the Santa Cruz City Council, most community. On the positive side, Le said that the measure is a long-overdue response students are having new teachers every more loans, to stay here,” McKay said. of the discussion about affordable Thao Le (Oakes ‘19, sociology) was project has already increased awareness to exorbitant housing costs that are year because the schools can’t keep In light of this housing crunch, both housing was focused on lower-income one of the students who interviewed and momentum for solutions. Tenant disrupting neighborhoods and pricing them—they can’t afford to stay.” McKay and Greenberg are enthusiastic residents living in “funky, poor-quality residents in the Eastside area known advocates have proposed rent control out Santa Cruz workers. Opponents The problem must be addressed not supporters of expanding affordable housing. It used to be that people at as Live Oak, getting their stories about and “just cause” laws giving landlords have also mobilized, arguing that it will just from a local and urban but a regional housing on and off campus, though the bottom were feeling the crunch. housing struggles. less license to evict tenants. create an expensive new bureaucracy, perspective because those uprootings Santa Cruzans and alumni are deeply Now it’s everybody unless you are really well off.” Even during the past two years after she Thanks in part to No Place Like Home, reduce the number of rentals available, have such a far-ranging impact, she said. divided when it comes to the locations transferred to UC Santa Cruz from De “We are on the edge of getting into accelerate gentrification, and raise “We see people being pushed to outside and sizes of potential developments. Since then, a mess of demographic Anza College in Cupertino, “I have seen a larger conversation about housing,” rental prices even faster than before. the county, to Salinas, and beyond,” and market forces, along with local, it get worse,” Le said. “So many of my said Sarah Wikle (College Ten ’18, Greenberg said. She noted the recent Roots of an regional, and nationwide trends, have really close friends are homeless, couch- community studies), who interviewed Losing the qualities of home surge in commuters traveling to Santa intractable problem played their part in making the city more unaffordable, ranging from the city’s surfing, or overcrowded.” planning officials in Santa Cruz as No Place Like Home makes the strong Cruz from Monterey County because Widespread grumblings about lack of irresistible “beach town” appeal to the part of the project. She hopes that case that unaffordability rips the fabric they can’t afford Santa Cruz anymore. She said that people in the Santa Cruz affordable housing go back at least to growth of the vacation rental market community should recognize their Santa Cruz’s newfound notoriety as an of community. The financial and emotional strain of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when unaffordable place to live helps turn it and the 2008 subprime mortgage common cause with UC Santa Cruz “Very high housing costs leads to finding housing, or being forced to live in measures to create rent control failed into “the next hub for rent control” as meltdown, sending millions of evicted students “paying ridiculous amounts” displacement,” Greenberg said. “It substandard housing, is another quality- three times. Bad as it was, the problems well as just cause laws. homeowners into the rental market. for low-quality housing. causes constant tenant turnover in of-life issue. were much more straightforward than Some housing proponents cast A rent control initiative proposed by the house down the street, affecting they are now. the blame on “no-growth” or tenant advocates for the city of Santa neighborhood stability. University

A NEW CHAPTER—AND MORE HOUSING—FOR KRESGE COLLEGE

Kresge College is best known for its The project is designed to enhance, noted that the new design makes the distinctive architecture, along with its and grow, the college’s living-learning college easier to navigate and creates legacy of experimental teaching and environment while providing more inviting outdoor gathering spaces. strong sense of community. space for much-needed student The plan includes four new buildings, support, residential, and academic But this planned village of stucco-lined including an academic building, a programs, embracing its history while buildings nestled into the redwood student assembly space, and two meeting the needs of today’s students, forest of the UC Santa Cruz campus or three residential buildings for said UC Santa Cruz senior architect has long been showing its age. first-year students. The majority of Jolie Kerns. existing buildings are retained, as are The sixth college to open on campus, The design team, working together many familiar landmarks, including Kresge was built in 1973, occupying with the campus, has been careful the piazzetta and the famous about eight acres of redwood forest. to knit the new design work with the “waterfall steps.” Designed by architect Charles Moore original site plan designed by MLTW, of Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull and We are creating a multimedia special Kerns said. Whitaker (MLTW) with landscape report on the Kresge renewal, and architect Dan Kiley, the college is a The new construction will add we invite alumni and the campus cluster of residential, academic, and approximately 200 new student beds, community to send us their Kresge student support buildings lining a while growing the footprint of Kresge stories as part of the report, which meandering pedestrian street. from 133,000 to 200,000 square feet. will come out later this fall. The redevelopment will also include Hoping to reinvigorate the college, Submit stories and memories about new instructional facilities, academic address deficiencies, and update Kresge—and find information and offices, a student and faculty center, it to comply with current code, updates—at magazine.ucsc.edu/ and new student support spaces. the university is undertaking a kresge-renewal. two-phased project balancing One driving principle of the design new construction, renovation, and is for better connectivity throughout selective removal. the college, and between the college and the campus, said Kerns. She also MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU Kresge College, known for its distinctive architecture, is slated for a renewal. 18 UC SANTA CRUZ MAGAZINE Fall 2018 19 By Scott Rappaport HOPEHOUSING continued

“slow-growth” policies that halted Lane, for his part, would like to see Greenberg, and participating students undesirable developments in their more rental housing and smaller, more hope to restore a sense of home to the tracks, but also had the effect of affordable units. troubled community. creating an inadequate stock of “For me, personally, I think the path “The goal is to now help transform the affordable housing. forward has to do with saying, ‘OK, we housing crisis itself,” said McKay. “The are not going to have unlimited housing goal is to work collectively to transform Seeking coinciding (construction), but the housing we build Santa Cruz, one of the most beautiful solutions from now on is going to be very targeted places in the world, into one of the Deep divisions within the community to meeting the needs of the community, most just, welcoming, stable, and can make it hard to settle on any one and not just letting external forces, such dignified communities in the world; into path forward. The trick, said Greenberg, as Silicon Valley pressures, and the tourist a real and loving home for all.” n is getting solutions from different economy, be the drivers,’” Lane said. For information, visit noplacelikehome. factions to coincide. Whatever the outcome, McKay, ucsc.edu.

HELP FOR HOUSING ON CAMPUS: STUDENT HOUSING WEST SHIFTING THE DEBATE Above: San Quentin State Prison Warden Ronald Can public philosophy teach us to think? Davis observes A rendering of the proposed new family student housing community and child-care facility near the intersection of Hagar and at an Ethics Bowl Students and faculty at UC Santa Cruz Coolidge drives, part of the Student Housing West project. debate at the prison. explore that question in an unlikely place— UC Santa Cruz is in dire need of project would go up at the current site of sensible, as well as environmentally student housing. Almost no one living Family Student Housing on Heller Drive, sound. The campus has tried a number San Quentin State Prison. on or off campus would debate that with Family Student Housing moving of approaches—converting double point. But the questions of where and to a small area at the base of the East rooms to triples, lounges to quads—but how to build such housing, along with Meadow, at Hagar and Coolidge drives. those were stopgap measures. We need This article is Twice a month from last September He soon suggested and arranged a very its size and scope, are the subject of That site would also include a new child- a long-term solution.” adapted from to February, UC Santa Cruz philosophy unusual debate between seven philosophy a longer online lecturer Kyle Robertson woke up early, students from UC Santa Cruz and a team impassioned discussion and debate. care facility for the children of campus UC Santa Cruz had hoped to start faculty, staff, and students. special report dropped his kids off at school, drove north of prison inmates from San Quentin. It Such is the case with Student Housing development on the Hagar site this past that includes for one hour and fifty minutes, crossed the took place in the prison chapel—in front of West, a proposal to build 3,000 beds UC Santa Cruz currently houses about summer, aiming for occupancy in fall videos and more Richmond Bridge, and went to San Quentin an audience of nearly 100 inmates. on campus as part of a systemwide 53 percent of its undergraduates on 2019. But because of the wide range of initiative to add 14,000 more beds campus, a greater percentage than any opinions about the development and content. To see State Prison. “This is the first time there’s been across the University of California other UC, but the campus would like the spirited debate, campus leaders the full report, He was there to teach a course in Ethics a debate inside San Quentin,” says by 2020. The UC Santa Cruz project, to add more to help students forced extended the comment period and visit reports. Bowl—a nonconfrontational alternative Robertson, who served as moderator. a public-private partnership, was to navigate one of the least affordable held additional meetings to allow news.ucsc.edu/ to the traditional competitive form of “And it’s one of the first Ethics Bowls announced in December 2016. housing markets in the nation. more discussion about the project ethics-bowl. debate—in collaboration with the Prison that’s ever happened in a prison.” and possible alternatives. The campus And, for more The Santa Cruz project, currently “This is a serious situation that will not University Project (PUP). released a revised draft environmental The event at San Quentin is just one of the proposed for two sites, would be fix itself on its own,” said Chancellor information, visit impact report in mid-September for a 45- At the same time, he was also teaching many outreach activities of the Center for for upper-division undergraduates, George Blumenthal. “Plain and simple, publicphilosophy. day public comment and review period. an undergraduate course and coaching Public Philosophy (CPP) at UC Santa Cruz. graduate students, and students with we need more housing for students. PHOTO BY JONATHAN CHIU, SAN QUENTIN NEWS ucsc.edu. a team in Ethics Bowl at UC Santa Cruz. Founded in 2015 by associate professor families. As imagined, the bulk of the They need our help. Our goal is to craft a For the latest updates and information,

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of philosophy Jon Ellis, it is “Coming into this Ethics Bowl supported by the Humanities class and debate, I struggled in Institute, an incubator for the understanding of the concepts humanities research on the Santa of ethics,” Jones adds. “But doing Cruz campus. the exercise of applying them to The center is also coaching and real-life events has helped me conducting regional Ethics Bowls better understand them. They are for high schools throughout not some abstract concepts, but Northern California; creating relevant and applicable in solving short animated videos about life’s problems.” philosophical problems that teach reasoning skills and how to avoid Thinking and reasoning biased thinking; teaching moral There’s no shortage of contentious philosophy and ethics in Santa topics that can be debated in an Cruz jails; working with biologists Ethics Bowl—ranging from the to study how language affects Trump Administration’s “Muslim conservation efforts; and even Above: San Quentin State Prison inmates Forrest Lee Jones (left), Above: David Donley (top row, center), philosophy Ph.D. candidate, Ban,” to the use of military drones, introducing philosophy, ethics, Wayne Boatwright (center), and Nelson Butler talk at an Ethics Bowl with Santa Cruz County Jail inmates. to political discussion on social debate at San Quentin. and critical thinking to children at media, to the ethics of marital three elementary schools in the “I think that the way we argue Excitement and anxiety to a prison—let alone talked to a Inmates’ experiences infidelity. local community. prisoner, or an ex-prisoner—so in courts of law, and in ‘forensic’ The Ethics Bowl class and At San Quentin, the students and Robertson’s two-hour class for the it was pretty nerve-wracking at The idea is to move philosophy debate competitions, has subsequent debate with prisoners grappled with just two Ethics Bowl debate at San Quentin some points.” away from the stereotype of the undermined our ability to engage cases: “Should we change a rule covered topics such as moral UC Santa Cruz philosophy old bearded man pondering in in the constructive debate that Third-year philosophy student made by the American Psychiatric theory and how to use ethics to undergraduates affected the the mountains and instead apply is necessary for democracy Pedro Enriquez (Oakes ‘19) also Association that states it is justify a position in a case. inmate participants in a variety its principles to crucial problems to function. Ethics Bowl, or had some concerns. of ways. Each had a personal unethical for psychiatrists to give a “They loved it—they were really we all face in today’s world. And something like it, could be a “I thought it was going to be a reason for taking part in the professional opinion about public into it,” says Robertson of the in an era of intense partisanship, cure,” says Robertson, assistant lot more like the movies where debate, and afterward, most figures they have not examined in inmates. “They would stay after rabid fighting on social media, director of the CPP, who earned a they’re locked down, and you expressed a desire to participate person?” (a rule that has recently class to talk to me; they would “fake news,” and “alternative law degree from UC Berkeley and know, they’re going to be hollering in future Ethics Bowl debates. generated public debate because facts,” the center promotes a practiced for two years in Silicon not want to stop talking,” he of President Donald Trump), and or whatever,” he said. “So when “I decided that it would be new normal of how to talk about Valley before earning a Ph.D. in adds. “They read incessantly and “Is it ethical to boycott, divest, we walked in after we passed a great idea and learning the really big issues confronting philosophy from UC Santa Cruz were really well-prepared. I think and sanction Israel for its actions the security and they were just experience to engage other us today—in a civilized, rational, in 2015. also, pragmatically, they were in the West Bank and Gaza Strip?” walking around, I was like, ‘Wait, students in some type of formal and much friendlier manner. learning moral advocacy skills for “Standard debate is reasoning is anybody gonna do anything, But perhaps the most stirring their own hearings—many have debate,” says inmate Randy with an agenda,” adds Ellis. “It is like where are all the cops, what if thing for UC Santa Cruz life sentences with a possibility Akins. “Just to be able to interact Constructive debate also what we find so corrosive in they do something?’” philosophy professor Jon Ellis of parole.” with the public made me feel Ethics Bowl is the opposite of today’s politics. People have their But their fears were soon whole again. was how genuinely excited the traditional forms of debate in this favored view and then emphasize But for the UC Santa Cruz inmates in the audience were by alleviated. “I’ll do it again,” he adds. “I country—the “win-at-all-costs,” the information that fortifies their students, training for the debate the excellent job the San Quentin learned how to incorporate other negative, whatever-it-takes debate stance. Evidence that threatens was a mixture of anxiety and “Once the prisoners started team was doing at this particular people’s views into a cogent that is typical of cable news, their position is rationalized away, adrenaline. coming up and talking to us, exercise of fair-minded reasoning they were really friendly,” says argument.” congressional debates, election while problems for the opposing As philosophy major Anna Feygin and open-minded listening. Enriquez. “And I remember campaigns, and our courtrooms. view are scavenged for, and then (Oakes ’18) notes, “It’s one thing Inmate Forrest Lee Jones had a looking out into the crowd and “There was an integrity there that Both Ellis and Robertson magnified. to be forewarned about what to different take on the experience. seeing the inmates and how really stood out to me, in the way believe that traditional debate expect when you head inside “I wanted to represent my team “Not surprisingly, schools and attentive they were, and seeing that both teams—but especially competitions, a well-established a prison; it’s another to actually and demonstrate the knowledge communities around the country all the volunteers and just the San Quentin team—engaged part of the U.S. high school experience it. I’ve been learning in the Prison are pursuing alternative forms thinking, ‘Wow, this is a big deal.’ with the questions that were curriculum since early in the 20th University Project classes,” says of debate, ones that switch the “I was nervous because I was You know, it’s easy for me to posed, showing a sincere respect century, ultimately strengthen and Jones. “I’d never participated in a order of priority, and set the goal essentially going and walking into think of this as an extracurricular for the complexities of the thinking reward one-sided thinking. debate and wanted to experience of truth and understanding over a prison, but excited at the same activity, but it means a lot more and reasoning required by the its setting. the goal of persuasion.” time,” she recalls. “I’d never been than that to a lot of people.” difficulty of the issues,” says Ellis. 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REACHING MORE COMMUNITIES

Each winter, high school teams watched it steadily grow. But “I was no less impressed by the from Salinas to San Francisco his team soon noticed that most UC Santa Cruz team,” he adds. travel to UC Santa Cruz to vie in of the growth had come from “What was most impressive to the Northern California High socioeconomically advantaged me was the poise and goodwill ALUMNI School Regional Ethics Bowl. schools and student bodies. the students showed after The topics discussed are relevant “We saw a need to reach out losing the debate to the inmate PROFILES and easy for a high school to schools that don’t have team. If there was bitterness or student to relate to: “Is it ever OK debate programs and students disappointment, it didn’t come to lie for a friend?” “Is it ethical that don’t have these sorts of through at all; rather, directly after for a school to punish or fire opportunities,” said Robertson. the event, they were genuinely teachers for conduct that occurs As a result, in 2016, the center and eagerly debriefing with off campus?” “Should a student established an “Outreach the inmates, exchanging ideas, confront the father of a friend Invitational” program for those perspectives, and appreciation.” making homophobic and sexist schools. It trained undergraduate remarks in his own home?” philosophy majors to coach the Robertson says that he plans to But the process is very different high school teams and brought co-teach a class this year with from traditional debates where in community leaders to serve the Prison University Project at teams are assigned a particular as judges. San Quentin, and that together they hope to hold future Ethics side for which to argue. Instead, And by bringing the students the Ethics Bowl teams are to UC Santa Cruz for the main Bowls at San Quentin involving asked to defend whatever event, they made college a much up to four new prison teams. He ethical position their sustained more tangible possibility. adds that the Center for Public reasoning has led them to Philosophy is also hoping to “A lot of our students are really endorse. The emphasis is on expand its outreach locally and not exposed to the college sincere, thoughtful reflection, as host the first-ever Ethics Bowl in opposed to simply persuasion. culture,” said Luis Ruelas, a teacher at Downtown College the Santa Cruz County jail system. Kyle Robertson, assistant Prep Alum Rock High School in “This type of event embodies director of the Center for Public San Jose. “So being on a college the type of activity I value at the Philosophy, founded the regional campus was super exciting for high school program in 2012 center for a variety of reasons,” them because they haven’t really says Robertson. “It reaches out Ada Recinos: Council crusader College Ten ’15, sociology when he was a Ph.D. student seen themselves at a college at UC Santa Cruz, and has to communities that are generally Ada Recinos’s Salvadoran mother Recinos says her political awakening She moved to Richmond, where before.” not included in our public and grandmother were on her mind came in 2006 when she joined she got involved in progressive deliberations about difficult ethical when the 26-year-old was sworn in thousands of L.A. high school politics and, in a decision that North Salinas High School students Denize Ignacio (center) and and political situations. The San as the city of Richmond’s youngest students to protest a House bill surprised many, was appointed to Aliyah Annis (left) at the 2018 Ethics Bowl high school regional. Quentin inmates are often the council member in 2017. designed to tighten immigration fill a vacant city council seat. rules and realized that, even though objects of such deliberation, but Her grandmother raised nine Recinos says her goals around her parents were citizens, she rarely, if ever, participants. children on her own, working to housing, immigration, and needed to work for those who give them a life of freedom and accessibility rise out of her “It also teaches students much weren’t protected. more about what they believe, education. Her mother fled her background. and why they believe it, than war-torn country for the U.S. at 17, The tools for that engagement, “I think I’ve always known that a traditional ethics classroom looking for the same things. however, came from UC Santa what was important to me was to Cruz, says Recinos, where she was experience,” he adds. “This “They made this (the council advocate and create policies to help part of the Everett Program, which pushes them, I think, to make appointment) happen,” says people like my family,” Recinos says. helps students learn the theory and Recinos, her voice breaking. “Not just immigrants but people arguments that they themselves practice of social activism. believe in rather than trying to “It was never about my name who work 40 hours a week and yet predict what others want being announced. It was about After graduation, Recinos, who still have a difficult time keeping their to hear.” n the possibility that I could make was the first in her family to go homes and paying for transportation happen here all that my mother and to college, worked in nonprofits, and day care—the barriers to wealth grandmother wished could have including an Oakland program that and asset building. PHOTOS: SALINAS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS BY STEPHEN MARINO; RECINOS BY ANASTASIIA SAPON happened in El Salvador.” helped Latina immigrants build “That is my calling.” cooperatively owned businesses. —Peggy Townsend MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU

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At the time he enrolled, UC Santa Cruz, It’s a stunning image that’s at the heart that ER also seemed to clamp onto Jeremy Strick: which opened its doors to students in of Gia Voeltz’s work, which not only has mitochondria and endosomes and clip 1965, was still new. The intimate program upended the way scientists think about them in certain spots, which is important Living artfully gave him a chance to forge connections our cells but also has implications for because these organelles can play a role in Cowell ’77, art history with faculty, while the interdisciplinary the understanding of neurodegenerative human disease. teachings taught him to look at a piece of diseases like Alzheimer’s, ALS, and “As soon as something gets surprising, When Jeremy Strick arrived at UC Santa art from a fresh perspective. Parkinson’s. that’s what I want to work on,” says Cruz, its Art History Department was tiny. “It was a new model for public higher Now Voeltz is one of a select few who Voeltz. Santa Cruz itself seemed far removed education with a kind of openness and have been awarded an $8 million Howard from any viable art scene. Strick had to UC Santa Cruz professor of ecology and experimentation,” Strick said. Hughes Medical Institute grant, which will travel 75 miles to San Francisco to visit a evolutionary biology Beth Shapiro was allow her to delve more deeply into the world-class art museum. Strick met his wife, Wendy (Cowell ’78, also selected as one of this year’s school, then spent more than a decade secrets our cells hold. history), at Cowell College during his Howard Hughes Medical Institute implementing and overseeing it. But that small department, with its strong first day of sophomore year. He also Currently a professor of molecular, cellular investigators. See story on page 5. emphasis on student independence and Smith went on to work as the co-principal made connections with lifelong mentors, and developmental biology at Colorado creativity, was fertile ground for Strick, —Peggy Townsend of the June Jordan School for Equity, a including the late Nan Rosenthal, the first University Boulder, Voeltz came to UC who went on to pursue a distinguished small public high school in San Francisco’s professor of art history at UC Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz from New York intending to career overseeing prestigious collections Excelsior neighborhood. become a medical doctor. Then, she joined of modern and contemporary art, including Harry Berger Jr., now a professor emeritus Distinguished Professor of MCD Biology These days, he is spending his time the directorship of the Museum of in the Humanities and Arts divisions, had Manuel Ares’s lab, which was focused on grooming future school administrators, Contemporary Art (MOCA) in downtown an enormous influence on Strick’s studies, RNA research, and found her home. immersing them in culturally responsive Los Angeles. He has also been a curator at as well. discipline practices, critical pedagogy, Voeltz continued her RNA work at Yale the National Gallery and the Art Institute of After graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Strick transformative school leadership skills, University, where she got her Ph.D. But a Chicago. went on to study art history at Harvard. and social justice issues. His classes are funny thing happened. During a seminar especially designed for people studying to He credits the education he received at UC lecture, a Harvard Medical School biologist become school principals. Santa Cruz with giving him the intellectual mentioned that no one really had any idea Darrick Smith: tools he needed in graduate school and in He is currently an assistant professor of how an organelle called the endoplasmic his career. A mission to educational leadership at the University reticulum (ER) actually formed. of San Francisco, which hired him to help “It felt in some ways that we were on the Voeltz thought that was a cool question. In give back revamp a 50-year-old school leadership edge of the Western world,” he said, “and introductory textbooks, ER is described as program and teach graduate students in it was an opportunity to look back with an interconnected system of membranes Oakes ‘96, sociology the areas of transformational leadership fresh eyes.” that looks like a stack of pancakes inside and social justice. He wants his students In 1992, Darrick Smith graduated from —Amy Ettinger the cell and is involved in lipid and protein to grow into leaders who will challenge high school. In that same year, his synthesis. Voeltz knew little more than social ills through their work in schools. hometown of Oakland had 175 homicides. these basic ideas, and she spent the next “We are preparing principals to few days reading everything she could At that time, the social problems in his address how people are humanized find on ER before stepping completely out city were making international headlines. or dehumanized through the school Gia Voeltz: of her field. The Associated Press ran a story entitled, experience,” he said. “1992: Bloodiest Year in Oakland History.” Cell sleuth Using state-of-the-art equipment at her Smith, as a first-generation college lab in Boulder, Voeltz discovered that By then, Smith had already made up student, felt a pressure to thrive. That Crown ‘94, biochemistry instead of a stack of pancakes, the ER his mind to do something about this pressure—much of it internal—gave him a “had a beautiful architecture” that was grim statistic. In his sophomore year, and molecular biology tight focus for his time at UC Santa Cruz. more like lacy coral with other organelles he dedicated his attention to exploring On the screen, the red blobs move, trailing hanging from it as if they were Christmas solutions to the bloodshed and “There’s a narrative that you go to college Strick has been the director of the Nasher green, rope-like tubes as if they’d just ornaments. Not only that but other desperation that had plagued what he calls to find yourself and explore. For many of Sculpture Center in Dallas since 2009, escaped some evil captor. organelles were communicating through his “beautiful and powerful city.” us, that’s not the case,” Smith said. overseeing exhibitions featuring the work the ER. This unexpected discovery

of Diana Al-Hadid, Melvin Edwards, Roni PHOTOS: SMITH BY ANASTASIIA SAPON; STRICK BY ALLISON SMITH; V. VOELTZ BY BARRY GUTIERREZ “I was losing classmates and seeing a lot In his time on campus, and in the spurred her forward, and she found Horn, and many others. He credits his UC of violence,” he said. years since he graduated, Smith was Santa Cruz art mentors with giving him determined to give back to his community. Smith made good on his promise to the confidence and the critical sense he himself and to his hometown. After “We’re on a mission,” he said. “We’ve got needed to find his way in the art world. graduating from UC Santa Cruz, he a job to do.” “The faculty was terrific, but beyond moved back to Oakland, created a youth —Amy Ettinger that, you had to almost create your own development program at his old high program,” Strick said.

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One of the first rules for a successful success—but I took risks, experienced leader is to set and clearly achievements and setbacks as I tested communicate an agenda. In these these leadership premises, and have a tumultuous times, that is truer career I am proud of. than ever, and it is as much about I try to make that message to these leadership and personal values as it young people just starting out, and is about policy. emphasize that I was once just where In my public career I have obsessed they are and they will face these over telling the truth. That is not always same challenges, and have the the norm right now, but the fact that same opportunity for achievement. others don’t value the truth in the We need to fight climate change, same way should not change that have accessible and effective higher basic goal of honesty for the rest of us. education, guarantee health care to all, A key part of getting to an agreement and ensure that everyone shares in our is being able to explain someone else’s economic bounty. Leadership qualities ’Our way opinion back to them in a way that they of truth, inclusion, and civility will get feel heard. As a polarizing lack of civility us a significant way toward these in public discourse increases, there is goals. And we all have a role. 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