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Alumna (Cowell ’73, B.S. Earth Sciences)
National Medal of Science (2012), Gruber Prize, and many other distinctions
Crown ’94, biochemistry and molecular biology Professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology; 2018 HHMI investigator
Gia Voeltz is a professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Colorado University Boulder whose research is not only upending the way scientists think about our cells but also has implications for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, ALS, and Parkinson’s. She was the winner of a prestigious $8 million Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant.
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Helene Moglen
First female dean in the University of California system
Helene Moglen was a professor emerita of literature and women’s studies at UC Santa Cruz who came to the campus in 1978 as dean of the humanities. The late feminist literary scholar and author was the first woman dean in the University of California system.
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Bettina Aptheker
Ph.D. ’83, history of consciousness Distinguished professor of feminist studies
Bettina Aptheker is a distinguished professor of feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz who has taught one of the country’s most influential introductory feminist studies courses for three decades. Awarded an Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001, she is the author of the 2006 memoir, How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel.
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Cheryl Scott
Oakes ’74, biology Award-winning epidemiologist
Cheryl Scott is an award-winning epidemiologist who has had a 40-year public-health career that included helping Tanzania improve its response to HIV/AIDS from 2001–2005 as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in that country. She also worked to prevent the spread of tuberculosis in California and recently joined the Dean’s Advisory Board at Boston University’s School of Public Health.
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Kris Perry
Alumna, Merrill '86, Sociology & Psychology
CA Deputy secretary for early childhood development, Prop 8 plaintiff.
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Ashley Nicole Black
Porter ’07, theater arts Emmy-winning writer, comedian, actress
Ashley Nicole Black is an Emmy-winning writer, comedian, and actress. She won a 2017 Emmy for outstanding writing for a variety special as senior writer for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and is now an actress and writer for HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show.
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Irma Eréndira Sandoval
PhD Podivtics '03
Comptroller General, Mexico, appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to serve as an anti-corruption force in his cabinet.
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