Dr. Noriko Toyokawa is a Japanese woman who strives to center her life around education not only for herself, but her students as well. Toyokawa was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan and describes herself as a simple Japanese woman living in the U.S. and as a mother to an Asian­American...

  Born in Bangkok, Thailand to Chinese immigrants, Dr. Ruttanatip (Dang) Chonwerawong came to the States as an immigrant, reliving the life her parents once led. But the U.S. stripped her of her identity, greeting her with discrimination and false assumptions. Chonwerawong’s parents...

Once a student without direction, Dr. Geoffrey Gilmore met people that guided him throughout his college career. Now he returns the favor by lending a hand to students in need of guidance. Gilmore received a dual bachelor's degree in psychology and general social sciences, his master's and Ph.D...

  As the new Assistant Director of the ASI Community Centers, Abrahán Monzón is enthusiastic about working with students, faculty and staff to develop programming about issues such as gender and sexuality, social justice and identity. Monzón graduated from UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) with a...

By Shanice Davis Assistant Features Editor Born in a small town in South Texas, former founding Director of the LGBTQA Pride Center on campus, Rodger D’Andreas-Wahl, admits that he knew the small town life of settling down and having a wife and kids was not for him. Instead he took the high road...

By Pierre Yaldo Staff Writer Here in California, we have a serious environmental problem. We waste too much, we pollute too much and it’s coming around to bite us in the butt. Our campus has recently opened a new position, that of the Sustainability Manager, and has hired Juliana Goodlaw-Morris...