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. Artist Oscar López, ’21 MFA Pictorial...
by Julia Halprin Jackson | Sep 28, 2023 | Leadership
Transforming the Social Sciences: Deep Dive in Five with Anne Marie Todd Pop quiz: Where on campus can you find the following: one of the first Chicana and Chicano Studies departments in the country; the Record Clearance Project, an initiative that teaches Spartans...
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 7, 2023 | Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
“Nisei” Film Wins Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Drama at Cinequest Darren Haruo Rae, ’13 Radio-Television-Film (far right), screenwriter and director of the short film “Nisei,” discusses a scene during filming at SJSU’s University...