Alumni
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Life Beyond the Redwoods: Allysa Kazhe at Apple
One year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Allysa Kazhe(John R. Lewis ’25, electrical engineering) is an engineering program manager at Apple.
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Life Beyond the Redwoods 2025: Jennie Lin at Google
One year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Jennie Lin (Crown ’25, computer science) is a software engineer at Google.
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Life Beyond the Redwoods: Brock Hrehor at the Capitol Forum
One year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Brock Hrehor (Stevenson ’25, philosophy) is an investigative reporter at the Capitol Forum.
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Life Beyond the Redwoods: Evelyne Gong at Deloitte
One year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Evelyne Gong (Oakes ’25, business management economics) is an audit and assurance associate at Deloitte, one of the Big Four accounting firms.
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Life Beyond the Redwoods: Serena Ramirez at Pivotal and Northeastern University
One year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Serena Ramirez is a development associate for Pivotal, fundraising to bring educational and career opportunities to foster youth, and is pursuing her Master’s in public administration from Northeastern University.
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Life Beyond the Redwoods: Max Deneroff at Kansas City University, College of Osteopathic Medicine
One year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Max Deneroff is a medical student at Kansas City University, College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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Life Beyond the Redwoods: Owen Moosman at UC San Francisco
One year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Owen Moosman (Stevenson ’25, molecular, cell & developmental biology) is working as a research associate in the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Life Beyond the Redwoods: Samantha Chang at Sunblink
One year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Samantha (Sammy) Chang (College Nine ’25, art & design: games and playable media) is a marketing and player communications coordinator at Sunblink—a video game development studio based in Boulder, Colorado, best known for creating the critically acclaimed video game ‘Hello Kitty Island Adventure’.
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Life Beyond the Redwoods: Maddison Brodeur at Girl Scouts Heart of Central California and Maddison’s Communitea
One year after graduating, Maddison Brodeur (Stevenson ’25, community studies and sociology) is a Regional Coordinator at Girl Scouts Heart of Central California, running her own business, Maddison’s Communitea, and currently serving as Miss Black Sacramento through Nov. 2026.
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Life Beyond the Redwoods: Samiyah Shaikh at Carnegie Mellon University
One year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Samiyah Shaikh (John R. Lewis ’25, computer science) is pursuing a Master’s degree in software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
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UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association announces 2026 Alumni Award recipients
John Torigoe, Melinda Aldrich, James Hein, Peter Coha, Jim Gunderson, and Stephanie Barron Lu are the recipients of the 2026 UC Santa Cruz Alumni Awards.
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Jessica Lum to serve as UC Santa Cruz’s sixth alumni regent
Since graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Jessica Lum (Rachel Carson ’09, environmental studies and economics) has built a career in external affairs, serving mission-driven organizations, non-profit trade associations, and government. She began her two-year term as an alumni regent earlier this month.