by Julia Halprin Jackson | Mar 26, 2024 | Featured, Spartan Spotlight
A True Spartan Heart Longtime SJSU media producer Keith Sanders, ’82 Radio-Television-Film, preserved hours of SJSU footage after recovering more than 600 videotapes during his tenure on campus. Photo courtesy of Keith Sanders. The year: 1974. The location: the...
by Cassie Myers | Feb 19, 2024 | Campus Life, Featured, Spartan Spotlight
Spartan Leaders United: Meet Three SJSU Alumnae Who Served as Regional Directors for Their Sororities From left: Carol R. Dixon, Michelle Aldridge, and Natalie Brannon. Photos courtesy of subjects. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that San José Spartans — past, present...
by Julia Halprin Jackson | Feb 1, 2024 | Featured, Spartan Spotlight
Milan Balinton Already Believes in You Milan Balinton has served as executive director of San José’s African American Community Service Agency for more than a decade. He’s just getting started. Photo courtesy of Malin Balinton. While Milan Balinton has...
by Julia Halprin Jackson | Oct 12, 2023 | Featured, Spartan Spotlight
Your Food, Our Land, His Art Spartan artist Oscar López, ’21 MFA Pictorial Arts, has received a grant to create a mural depicting the lives of California farmworkers. Image of López’s print courtesy of the artist. Editor’s note: In May 2024, Oscar...
by Julia Halprin Jackson | Sep 18, 2023 | Featured, Spartan Spotlight
Educator Nancy Gutierrez Prevails This is how Nancy Gutiérrez describes the neighborhood where she grew up: “When you think of the intersection of King and Story, what images come to mind? People of different colors, cultures and corners, majority Latinx. East Side...
by Julia Halprin Jackson | Sep 14, 2023 | Featured, Spartan Spotlight
Emilio and Samson, Side by Side Emilio Gallegos served in the U.S. Marines from 1999-2010. Bay Area photographer Vicki Topaz interviewed him and his family for the film “By My Side.” Photo by Vicki Topaz. Emilio Gallegos, ’19 Creative Writing, is a man...
