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...
by Cassie Myers | Aug 22, 2023 | Awards and Achievements, Spartan Spotlight
Alumnus Shariq Shah Receives $100,000 to Fund AI Tutor Start-up Shariq Shah, ’19 Computer Science, doesn’t waste time. His third start-up, Tutorly.ai, has only been operational since February, and he has already been selected to receive $100,000 from gener8tor, a...
by Julia Halprin Jackson | Aug 21, 2023 | Spartan Spotlight
Redefining Student Success with Shonda Goward When Shonda Goward, associate vice provost of undergraduate advising and student success at San José State, first met with a faculty advisor as a first-generation student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,...
