Alumni Stories
Department stories
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Alumna Nik Altenberg featured in Santa Cruz Local
Several tenants at the University of California-owned Hilltop Apartments on Western Drive in Santa Cruz said they have dealt with rats, raised rents, and questionable charges related to utilities and parking from a multinational property management company.
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Nik Altenberg: Finding truth through investigative skills
Nik Altenberg graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2023 with a B.A. in Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and is now a multimedia journalist for Santa Cruz Local and KQED, with reporting interests including climate change and the environment, policing and incarceration, aging and healthcare, and migration. The UC Santa Cruz news team spoke…
Campus stories
- Alumna Dora Maria Beyer (Merrill ’09, Latin American & Latino studies, politics) was recently named one of Silicon Valley Business […]
- UC Santa Cruz alumna Alina I’vette Fernandez has built a career helping America’s largest banks operationalize their values and environmental, […]
- Recent graduate Lorena Hernandez-Rivera strives to help others.
- This fall, UCSC alum Ricardo Garcia will take the helm of the LA County Public Defender's Office—the largest and oldest […]
- Award-winning journalist and author Héctor Tobar and filmmaker Virginia Espino are the 2018 recipients of the Social Sciences Division's Distinguished […]
- Alumni authors give voice to transformative experiences at UC Santa Cruz that changed their lives and shaped their careers.
- Filmmaker Peter Bratt, a UC Santa Cruz alumnus, and his TV star brother Benjamin were named recipients of the 2010 […]
- Filmmaker Peter Bratt returns to UC Santa Cruz Friday as part of the local premiere of La Mission, his heartfelt […]