Rachel launched Blackmarket Bakery with a simple vision - to create delight featuring real ingredients, classic technique, and a sense of fun. Inspired by memories of her childhood in the South, Chef Rachel, her family, and staff opened retail locations in Costa Mesa, Santa Ana, and San Diego.

Klemek is an accomplished pastry chef who graduated from the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in Napa Valley, after graduating from UC Irvine with a bachelor's in anthropology. On December 8, she shared her recipe for success with alumni and community members as part of the be BOLD 2.1 speaker series.

Rachel Klemek '90, Blackmarket Bakery

Understanding the Russia-Ukraine Crisis

a pop-up Zoom panel featuring:  

Erin Lockwood, Assistant Professor, Political Science, UCI
Jeff Kopstein, Professor, Political Science, UCI
David Meyer, Professor, Sociology, UCI
Heidi Hardt, Associate Professor, Political Science, UCI

Moderated by Bill Maurer, Dean, School of Social Sciences, UCI
Hosted by Simone Chambers, Professor and Chair, Political Science, UCI

Understanding The Russia - Ukraine Crisis Podcast

Todd Schweitzer is co-founder and CEO at Brankas Bank, an open banking and payments platform. He's held senior roles at private equity firm Seawood Resources and management consultancy Booz and Company, spanning technology, public sector, and financial services. He holds a dual bachelor's degree from UC Irvine and a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University.

BOLD 2.2 with Todd Schweitzer

Danika Wong is the CMO/Head of Product for Satisfi Labs, where she oversees both the marketing and product strategy for the company. Over the last 3 years, she has established Satisfi Labs as a leader in the conversational AI and the voice space through branding and product positioning. She is currently focused on transitioning the company into a product-led company which includes enhancing the product with innovative features and partner integrations.  

Prior to joining Satisfi, Danika served as the Director of Marketing for GroundTruth, where she managed sales and product marketing campaigns to drive awareness and adoption of their mobile-location technology for the ad-tech industry. In two newly created roles for Macy’s, she also led Millennial Marketing Strategy and Mobile Marketing Strategy. While at the company she was named a winner of the Macy's Ideas Lab, awarded for innovative ideas that enhance the Macy’s customer experience. Danika holds a degree in political science and international studies from UCI.

Danika Wong

A panel discussion featuring:

Raúl Carrillo, Modern Money Network
Alexis Goldstein, Financial Analyst, Truthout
Nick Mitchell, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UCSC
Christopher Newfield, Professor of English, UCSB
Hosted by Bill Maurer, Dean, UCI School of Social Sciences, and moderated by Hannah Chadeayne Appel, Associate Director, Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, UCLA.

"There is no alternative" has been the refrain of austerity politics since Margaret Thatcher first uttered the phrase in the 1980s. In U.S. public higher education, this has meant the withdrawal of state funding, skyrocketing tuition and student debt burdens, the adjunctification of faculty and increasing precarity of labor, and bond-financed prestige construction projects. Today, COVID-19 saps more money from privatized university budgets: cancelled housing and dining contracts, normally lucrative medical centers on pause for all but emergencies, and more. And so, the refrain comes back. There is no alternative to drastic budget cuts, massive firing, furloughing, and hiring freezes. But COVID-19 does not merely reproduce the rhetoric and fact of budget crisis. From rent strikes to student debt moratoria, from decarceration to free healthcare, the pandemic shows us that there are, and always have been, immanent alternatives. What are these alternatives for the financing of public higher education, both during and after the COVID-19 crisis?

Join us to discuss salary caste systems and university endowments, student debt and institutional debt service payments, federal funding, Modern Monetary theory, and beyond. Let’s organize to refuse austerity now, and enact other worlds together.

Refusing Austerity in Higher Education: A How-To Webinar

Andrew Penner - Conversation with KNX News Radio 97.1 FM on equal pay. Reported by Karen Adams on 11/29/2022.

Andrew Penner - Discussion on Gender Pay Equity (Interview 01)

Andrew Penner - Conversation with KNX News Radio 97.1 FM on equal pay. Reported by Karen Adams on 11/28/2022.

Andrew Penner - Discussion on Gender Pay Equity (Interview 02)

UC Irvine will launch its new pre-health program with support from a three and a half million dollar grant from the state of California. “So, these programs are meant to diversify California’s medical schools and to train physicians who receive specialized training in working with California’s most medically underserved communities.” Belinda Campos, professor and chair of Chicano/Latino studies and a faculty member in the program in medical education for the Latino community. “What we propose to do is to build cohorts that make sure that nobody is flailing about trying to figure out this information by themselves.” Now that the grant funding is secure, the program is expected to launch this summer. I’m Nataly Tavidian, KNX News 97.1 FM.

KNX 97.1 FM conversation with UCI professor Belinda Campos(Spot 01)

The goal is to diversify California’s medical schools. Belinda Campos, professor and chair of Chicano/Latino Studies: “The more we have people from many different experiences who approach problems of health with different lenses and in different ways that I think are really important for creative problem solving. We don’t want medical school classes filled with people who all think the same way and approach problems in the same way. I think that limits the creativity and the innovation and the future problem solving – in terms of health – that can happen.” Campos says when students from underserved communities become physicians, many times they go back to serving those communities. I’m Nataly Tavidian, KNX News 97.1 FM.

KNX 97.1 FM conversation with UCI professor Belinda Campos(Spot 02)

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