Berkeley Voices
140 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsInterviews with people who make UC Berkeley the world-changing place that it is.
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123: One brain, two languages
April 16, 2024 10:00 - 13 minutes - 19.1 MBFor the first three years of Justin Davidson's childhood in Chicago, his mom spoke only Spanish to him. Although he never spoke the language as a young child, when Davidson began to learn Spanish in middle school, it came very quickly to him, and over the years, he became bilingual. Now an associate professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Davidson is part of a research team that has discovered where in the brain bilinguals process and store language-specific sounds ...
122: A language divided
April 05, 2024 10:00 - 11 minutes - 16.8 MBThere are countless English varieties in the U.S. There's Boston English and California English and Texas English. There's Black English and Chicano English. There's standard academic, or white, English. They're all the same language, but linguistically, they're different. "Standard academic English is most represented by affluent white males from the Midwest, specifically Ohio in the mid-20th century," says UC Berkeley sociolinguist Justin Davidson. "If you grow up in this country and your...
121: A linguist's quest to legitimize U.S. Spanish
March 29, 2024 10:00 - 11 minutes - 16 MBSpanish speakers in the United States, among linguists and non-linguists, have been denigrated for the way they speak, says UC Berkeley sociolinguist Justin Davidson. It’s part of the country's long history of scrutiny of non-monolingual English speakers, he says, dating back to the early 20th century. "It’s groups in power — its discourses and collective communities — that sort of socially determine what kinds of words and what kinds of language are acceptable and unacceptable," says David...
120: Medieval song holds clues to lost dialects
March 05, 2024 22:08 - 18 minutes - 25.9 MBIn his research, UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate Saagar Asnani looks at music manuscripts from between the 12th and 14th centuries in medieval France. He says only recently have scholars begun to use a wider variety of media and artistic expressions as a way to study language. "If we unpack the genre of music, we will find a very precise record of how language was spoken," Saagar says. To read medieval music, Saagar learned five languages — Latin, German, Italian, Catalan and Occitan — making ...
119: Art student's photo series explores masculine vulnerability
February 22, 2024 18:08 - 8 minutes - 12.7 MBBrandon Sánchez Mejia stood at a giant wall in UC Berkeley’s Worth Ryder Art Gallery and couldn’t believe his eyes. In front of him were 150 black-and-white photos of men’s bodies in all sorts of poses and from all sorts of angles. It was his senior thesis project, "A Masculine Vulnerability," and it was out for the world to see. "It came from this idea that as men, we are not allowed to show skin as scars or emotions or weakness," said Sánchez, who will graduate from Berkeley this May with...
118: Take the first Black history tour at UC Berkeley
February 01, 2024 21:07 - 9 minutes - 13.9 MBThe self-guided Black history tour at UC Berkeley begins at Memorial Stadium, where student Walter Gordon was a star of the football team more than 100 years ago. It then weaves through campus, making stops at 13 more locations, each highlighting an important person or landmark related to Black history. There's Ida Louise Jackson Graduate House, named in honor of the first African American woman to teach in Oakland public schools. Next is Barbara Christian Hall, named for the first Black wo...
117: Bonobos and chimps show 'a rich recognition' for long-lost friends and family
January 26, 2024 18:24 - 7 minutes - 9.99 MBBonobos and chimpanzees — the closest extant relatives to humans — could have the longest-lasting nonhuman memory, a study led by a UC Berkeley researcher found. Extensive social memory had previously been documented only in dolphins and up to 20 years. "What we're showing here," said Berkeley comparative psychologist Laura Simone Lewis, "is that chimps and bonobos may be able to remember that long — or longer." Berkeley News writer Jason Pohl first published a story about this study in De...
Afterthoughts: The true origins of American immigration policy
January 08, 2024 20:47 - 4 minutes - 6.57 MBHistorians have long assumed that immigration to the United States was free from regulation until the introduction of federal laws to restrict Chinese immigration in the late 19th century. But UC Berkeley history professor Hidetaka Hirota, author of Expelling the Poor, says state immigration laws in the country were created earlier than that — and actually served as models for national immigration policy decades later. This is an episode of Afterthoughts, a series that highlights moments fr...
116: How WWII incarceration fueled generations of Japanese American activists
December 14, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MBToday, we're sharing the first episode of the new season of the Berkeley Remix, a podcast by UC Berkeley's Oral History Center. The four-episode season, called "From Generation to Generation: The Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration," centers the experiences of descendants of Japanese Americans incarcerated by the U.S. government during World War II. It explores themes of activism, contested memory, identity and belonging, and creative expression as a way to process and heal from interg...
115: They built the railroad. But they were left out of the American story.
November 14, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 22.2 MBThe U.S. transcontinental railroad is considered one of the biggest accomplishments in American history. Completed in 1869, it was the first railroad to connect the East to the West. It cut months off trips across the country and opened up Western trade of goods and ideas throughout the U.S. But building the railroad was treacherous, brutal work. And the companies leading the railroad project had a hard time retaining American workers. So they began to recruit newly arrived immigrants for t...
114: Theater as power: New professor brings Caribbean performance practice to Berkeley
October 17, 2023 19:37 - 22 minutes - 31 MBUC Berkeley's first social justice theater professor, Timmia Hearn DeRoy, talks about how Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival practice, rooted in emancipation, drives her work today. "Trinidadian Carnival, it’s social justice theater in practice. Every moment, it’s all about emancipation, the subverting of the powerful narrative through humor, through performance, through doublespeak. And it just taught me so much about the possibilities of the art form." Photo courtesy of Timmia Hearn DeRoy. ...
113: Funky and free-spirited: How a 1970s summer camp started a disability revolution
September 05, 2023 16:27 - 40 minutes - 56.1 MBIt was summertime in the early 1970s in New York City. Fifteen-year-old Jim LeBrecht boarded a school bus headed for the Catskill Mountains, home to Camp Jened, a summer camp for people with disabilities. As the bus approached the camp, he peered out the window at the warm and raucous group below. "I wasn't exactly sure who was a camper and who was a counselor," he said. "I think that's really indicative of one of the many things that made that camp special." Over several years, the camp c...
112: How the Holocaust ends
May 18, 2023 20:05 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBGrowing up, Linda Kinstler knew that her Latvian grandfather had mysteriously disappeared after World War II. But she didn't think much about it. "That was a very common fate from this part of the world," says Kinstler, a Ph.D. candidate in rhetoric at UC Berkeley. "It didn't strike me as totally unusual. It was only later when I began looking into it more that I realized there was probably more to the story." What she discovered was too big for her to walk away. In 2022, she published he...
111: Britt H. Young on learning to navigate the world with the body she has
May 10, 2023 19:22 - 18 minutes - 25.3 MBAt 6 months old, Britt H. Young was fitted with her first prosthetic arm. "The belief was that you would get started on using an adaptive device right away and that would be easiest for you, rather than learning to adapt to your body the way that it is, rather than learning about how to navigate the world with the body you have," said Britt, who is graduating from UC Berkeley with a Ph.D. in geography on May 15. Born missing part of her left arm, Britt never went to school without wearing...
110: Gericault De La Rose knows who she is and won't change for anyone
May 08, 2023 22:07 - 22 minutes - 31 MBGericault De La Rose is a queer trans Filipinx woman, and refuses to change for anyone. "Being that queer trans person completely owning herself I hope gives other people permission to be themselves, too," she says. A master's student in UC Berkeley's Department of Art Practice, Gericault explores in her art Philippine mythology and her experience as a trans woman. One time, she dressed up like a manananggal — a kind of monster that detaches from her lower body at night to look for unborn...
109: Ali Bhatti on Ramadan and how his faith guided him through deep loss
March 23, 2023 22:05 - 15 minutes - 21.9 MBYesterday at sunset marked the start of Ramadan, the ninth and holiest month of the Islamic calendar. For Ali Bhatti, a Ph.D. candidate in science and math education at UC Berkeley, it’s a time to feel closer to God, to break habits and to remember what he’s thankful for. In this episode, Ali describes, in his own words, what the month means to him. He also talks about how 9/11 shaped his childhood in New Jersey, finding his Muslim community at Berkeley and how Islam, and the support of his ...
108: 'Be the Change': Purvi Shah on the moments of beauty as a civil rights lawyer
March 22, 2023 14:35 - 40 minutes - 56.8 MBIn this episode of Be the Change, host Savala Nolan, director of Berkeley Law's Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, interviews Purvi Shah. Shah is the founder and executive director of Movement Law Lab and a civil rights litigator, policy advocate and law professor who has spent over a decade working at the intersection of law and grassroots social movements. During their conversation, they talk about the nuts and bolts of founding a legal nonprofit in response to current event...
107: 'Be the Change': Nazune Menka on creating the course, Decolonizing UC Berkeley
March 15, 2023 13:21 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MBIn this episode of Be the Change, host Savala Nolan, director of Berkeley Law's Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, interviews Nazune Menka. Menka is a lecturer at Berkeley Law and a supervising attorney for the campus’s Environmental Law Clinic. She is Denaakk’e from Alaska and Lumbee from North Carolina. In fall 2021, Menka designed and taught a new undergraduate legal studies course called Decolonizing UC Berkeley, and she taught Indigenous Peoples, Law and the United States ...
106: 'Be the Change': Khiara M. Bridges on claiming her voice as a prominent Black woman
March 08, 2023 14:44 - 51 minutes - 71.5 MBHost Savala Nolan, director of Berkeley Law's Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, interviews Khiara M. Bridges. Bridges is a professor at UC Berkeley's School of Law and a powerful public intellectual who speaks and writes about race, class, reproductive justice and the intersection of the three. During their conversation, they talk about the process of Bridges claiming and using her voice as a prominent Black woman. And they discuss the complexities of presentation and adornmen...
105: 'Be the Change': A podcast that aims 'to remove the mystery of making change'
March 01, 2023 14:29 - 20 minutes - 28.3 MBEmbodying the change you want to see in the world can feel ... well, intimidating. Impossible, even. But Berkeley Law's Savala Nolan wants to help us all figure it out — one step at a time — in her podcast, Be the Change. "We're talking about transforming the world and being the change and these very lofty concepts," says Nolan, director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice. "But I hope what they see is that big, lofty concepts really contain lots of little, teeny, tiny st...
104: Ty-Ron Douglas: Bridging the academic and athletic worlds
February 09, 2023 15:56 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBWe’ve heard the acronym DEIBJ a lot on campus, especially in the past few years. For those who might not know, it stands for diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and justice. A growing number of people at UC Berkeley have positions dedicated solely to this incredibly important work. But sometimes it’s hard to know exactly what DEIBJ means, what it actually looks like in practice — now, in our day-to-day lives, but also in the future, when initiatives and policies and other on-the-ground ...
103: Law student Hoda Katebi: Iran's protests are about 'total liberation'
December 07, 2022 23:15 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MBIn this episode of Berkeley Voices, Berkeley Law student Hoda Katebi discusses how, after she began wearing the hijab as a sixth-grader in Oklahoma, she learned that clothes are inherently political. "It played a huge role in shaping my own personal growth, as well as my relationship to politics," Katebi says. Since protests broke out in Iran nearly three months ago, sparked by the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini by Iran's so-called morality police, Katebi has been an outspoken suppo...
102: Exploring the sound of the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz
November 08, 2022 23:12 - 19 minutes - 26.9 MBOn Nov. 20, 1969, a group of Indigenous Americans that called itself Indians of All Tribes, many of whom were UC Berkeley students, took boats in the early morning hours to Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. They bypassed a Coast Guard blockade and took control of the island. The 19-month occupation that followed would be regarded as one of the greatest acts of political resistance in American Indian history. Everardo Reyes is a Ph.D. student in ethnomusicology at Berkeley. After taking ...
101: 'Interior Chinatown' is about roles and how we play them
August 24, 2022 19:38 - 23 minutes - 33.1 MBIn this episode of Berkeley Voices, Charles Yu discusses his 2020 book, Interior Chinatown, which goes inside the mind of a young Asian American man trying to make it in Hollywood. Incoming UC Berkeley students read the book over the summer as part of On The Same Page, a program from the College of Letters and Science. "This is really a book about roles and how we play them," Yu said. "Sometimes they are fundamental to who we are, but they can also be very limiting or reductive. I hope that...
100: How Roe v. Wade radically changed American culture
June 29, 2022 17:35 - 22 minutes - 30.8 MBWhen Roe v. Wade was handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973, which protected a woman’s right to an abortion, “it changed everything,” says Kristin Luker, a professor emerita of law and of sociology at UC Berkeley. “It was so revolutionary — I argue it was on a par with the American Revolution or the French Revolution.” Last Friday, the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe, giving states broad power to curtail or end abortion. As of today, abortion is now banned in at least seven state...
99: Indi Garcia lives and breathes the 'abolitionist philosophy'
May 05, 2022 19:18 - 10 minutes - 14.1 MBIn episode 99 of Berkeley Voices, Berkeley Law student Indi Garcia, who is graduating on May 13 with pro bono honors for her work on the Post-Conviction Advocacy Project, talks about how meeting with incarcerated men as a college student inspired her anti-prison and criminal justice work. "These men were just brilliant," said Garcia. "They were so much more than the crimes that led them there." Listen to the episode, read a transcript and see photos on Berkeley News. Follow Berkeley Voices...
98: How one student finds hope in her 'fellow earthlings'
April 15, 2022 12:00 - 16 minutes - 22.3 MBIn this episode of Berkeley Voices, Hope Gale-Hendry, a fourth-year student in ecosystem management and forestry at UC Berkeley, shares in her own words how she discovered her deep interconnectedness with all living things, and why she decided to study the American pika. "We have a shared history on this planet," said Hope. "That is the lesson that I have been able to use to foster my passion for conservation and foster this love and admiration that I have for my cousins on this planet. Not ...
97: Biologist confronts deep roots of climate despair
April 01, 2022 21:08 - 19 minutes - 27 MBIn this episode of Berkeley Voices, Bree Rosenblum, a professor of global change biology at UC Berkeley, talks about why we need to stop blaming each other for the environmental crisis that we’re in, and instead confront its root causes and expand our ideas of what it means to be human on our planet. "We are in such an individual and collective squeeze point," she said. "Do we want humanity to mean what it has meant in the past, or do we want to create a new meaning for our species and our p...
96: Should we bring back woolly mammoths?
March 18, 2022 12:00 - 45 minutes - 62.1 MBToday, we are sharing an episode from The Edge, a podcast by California magazine and the Cal Alumni Association: "Should we bring back woolly mammoths?" Hosts Laura Smith and Leah Worthington sat down with a genetic engineer and an ecologist to understand how de-extinction works and to explore its unintended consequences. This episode was originally released in June 2021. Listen to the episode and read a transcript on Berkeley News. (Photo by Timothy Neesam via Flickr) Hosted on Acast. S...
95: 'The past will be present when Roe falls’
March 04, 2022 13:00 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBBerkeley Law professor and anthropologist Khiara Bridges discusses the history of reproductive rights in the U.S., what’s at stake when Roe v. Wade is overturned and why we should expand our fight for reproductive justice. "Roe v. Wade didn't fall out of the sky," says Bridges. "In 1973, the justices weren’t like, 'You know what we should make up? A right to an abortion.' Roe v. Wade was actually part of a long line of cases dating back to the 1920s." And it likely won’t stop at abortion rig...
93: How the seven-day week made us who we are
February 18, 2022 13:00 - 13 minutes - 18.4 MBAs a kid growing up in New York City, Roqua Montez was interested in everything — comics, dinosaurs, science, music and dance, martial arts — and his calendar filled up fast. Now, as the executive director of communications and media relations in UC Berkeley's Office of Communications and Public Affairs, he still has a lot to keep track of. To manage his activities and responsibilities, Roqua has relied on something that we all rely on: the seven-day week. The week has been used as a timeke...
94: How the seven-day week made us who we are
February 18, 2022 13:00 - 13 minutes - 18.4 MBAs a kid growing up in New York City, Roqua Montez was interested in everything — comics, dinosaurs, science, music and dance, martial arts — and his calendar filled up fast. Now, as the executive director of communications and media relations in UC Berkeley's Office of Communications and Public Affairs, he still has a lot to keep track of. To manage his activities and responsibilities, Roqua has relied on something that we all rely on: the seven-day week. The week has been used as a timeke...
S2E3: How the seven-day week made us who we are
February 18, 2022 13:00 - 13 minutes - 18.4 MBAs a kid growing up in New York City, Roqua Montez was interested in everything — comics, dinosaurs, science, music and dance, martial arts — and his calendar filled up fast. Now, as the executive director of communications and media relations in UC Berkeley's Office of Communications and Public Affairs, he still has a lot to keep track of. To manage his activities and responsibilities, Roqua has relied on something that we all rely on: the seven-day week. The week has been used as a timeke...
93: How the Great Migration transformed American music
February 04, 2022 13:00 - 15 minutes - 21.6 MBBetween 1910 and 1970, about 6 million Black Americans moved from the rural South to cities in the North, the West and other parts of the United States. It’s known as the Great Migration. Musicians who moved to these cities became ambassadors, says UC Berkeley history professor Waldo Martin, “not only for the music of the South, but for the culture from which the music emerged. And the music was made and remade, and continues to be today. On Feb. 17, mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran and jazz ...
92: Making and remaking music of the Great Migration
February 04, 2022 13:00 - 15 minutes - 21.6 MBBetween 1910 and 1970, about 6 million Black Americans moved from the rural South to cities in the North, the West and other parts of the United States. It’s known as the Great Migration. Musicians who moved to these cities became ambassadors, says UC Berkeley history professor Waldo Martin, “not only for the music of the South, but for the culture from which the music emerged. And the music was made and remade, and continues to be today. On Feb. 17, mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran and jazz ...
S2E2: Making and remaking music of the Great Migration
February 04, 2022 13:00 - 15 minutes - 21.6 MBBetween 1910 and 1970, about 6 million Black Americans moved from the rural South to cities in the North, the West and other parts of the United States. It’s known as the Great Migration. Musicians who moved to these cities became ambassadors, says UC Berkeley history professor Waldo Martin, “not only for the music of the South, but for the culture from which the music emerged. And the music was made and remade, and continues to be today. On Feb. 17, mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran and jazz ...
93: Making and remaking music of the Great Migration
February 04, 2022 13:00 - 15 minutes - 21.6 MBBetween 1910 and 1970, about 6 million Black Americans moved from the rural South to cities in the North, the West and other parts of the United States. It’s known as the Great Migration. Musicians who moved to these cities became ambassadors, says UC Berkeley history professor Waldo Martin, “not only for the music of the South, but for the culture from which the music emerged. And the music was made and remade, and continues to be today. On Feb. 17, mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran and jazz ...
S2E1: Building wetlands to recycle water
January 21, 2022 13:00 - 13 minutes - 19.1 MBAs drought and the effects of climate change continue to threaten the water supply that Californians rely on, experts at UC Berkeley are looking for new ways to generate an ongoing, stable water supply in its cities that is not as reliant on the weather. "Californians are leaders worldwide in the recycling of water," says David Sedlak, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the Berkeley Water Center. There's just one problem that needs to be solv...
92: Building wetlands to recycle water
January 21, 2022 13:00 - 13 minutes - 19.1 MBAs drought and the effects of climate change continue to threaten the water supply that Californians rely on, experts at UC Berkeley are looking for new ways to generate an ongoing, stable water supply in its cities that is not as reliant on the weather. "Californians are leaders worldwide in the recycling of water," says David Sedlak, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the Berkeley Water Center. There's just one problem that needs to be solv...
91: Building wetlands to recycle water
January 21, 2022 13:00 - 13 minutes - 19.1 MBAs drought and the effects of climate change continue to threaten the water supply that Californians rely on, experts at UC Berkeley are looking for new ways to generate an ongoing, stable water supply in its cities that is not as reliant on the weather. "Californians are leaders worldwide in the recycling of water," says David Sedlak, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the Berkeley Water Center. There's just one problem that needs to be solv...
92: California needs a new water supply. Could wetlands be an answer?
January 21, 2022 13:00 - 13 minutes - 19.1 MBAs drought and the effects of climate change continue to threaten the water supply that Californians rely on, experts at UC Berkeley are looking for new ways to generate an ongoing, stable water supply in its cities that is not as reliant on the weather. "Californians are leaders worldwide in the recycling of water," says David Sedlak, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the Berkeley Water Center. There's just one problem that needs to be solv...
90: From a $16 keyboard to a symphony
December 10, 2021 13:00 - 13 minutes - 18.4 MBWhen Joshua Kyan Aalampour was 16, he taught himself to play the piano using a cheap 61-key keyboard and videos on YouTube. Four years later, Joshua is a music student at UC Berkeley. He has performed his work at Lincoln Center, written a symphony and composed a score for a feature-length film. He teaches music to students around the world. He performs a new piece for TikTok every day. All while taking at least 26 credits each semester so that he can graduate this May — two years early. Lis...
91: From a $16 keyboard to a symphony
December 10, 2021 13:00 - 13 minutes - 18.4 MBWhen Joshua Kyan Aalampour was 16, he taught himself to play the piano using a cheap 61-key keyboard and videos on YouTube. Four years later, Joshua is a music student at UC Berkeley. He has performed his work at Lincoln Center, written a symphony and composed a score for a feature-length film. He teaches music to students around the world. He performs a new piece for TikTok every day. All while taking at least 26 credits each semester so that he can graduate this May — two years early. Lis...
90: Giving up Twitter with Michael Pollan
November 26, 2021 13:00 - 22 minutes - 31.3 MBToday, we share an episode of The Science of Happiness, a podcast produced by our colleagues at the Greater Good Science Center. Host and UC Berkeley psychology professor Dacher Keltner talks with Berkeley Journalism professor and bestselling author Michael Pollan about what it was like for Pollan to give up Twitter — something that he found was becoming a somewhat unproductive compulsion. Next week, we'll be back with our final Berkeley Voices episode of the season. Listen to the episode...
Giving up Twitter with Michael Pollan
November 26, 2021 13:00 - 22 minutes - 31.3 MBToday, we share an episode of The Science of Happiness, a podcast produced by our colleagues at the Greater Good Science Center. Host and UC Berkeley psychology professor Dacher Keltner talks with Berkeley Journalism professor and bestselling author Michael Pollan about what it was like for Pollan to give up Twitter — something that he found was becoming a somewhat unproductive compulsion. Next week, we'll be back with our final Berkeley Voices episode of the season. Listen to the episode...
89: Cups for conversations — about war
November 11, 2021 13:00 - 6 minutes - 9.44 MBEhren Tool is the ceramics studio manager in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley and a veteran of the 1991 Gulf War. In his off-time, he makes brutal-looking clay cups to start conversations about war. Since 2001, he has made and given away more than 21,000 of them. Here he is — in his own words — talking about his cups. Listen to the episode, read a transcript and see photos on Berkeley News. This audio is from a video about Tool that was published with a feature story on Berkele...
88: Recycling isn't what we thought it was. So, what now?
October 29, 2021 20:49 - 18 minutes - 25.5 MBIn 2018, China enacted a policy that effectively banned the import of most plastics and other materials. "That really, I think, was the Chinese government drawing a line in the sand and saying, 'Look, we don’t want to be seen as the world’s garbage dump anymore,'" said Kate O'Neill, a professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and author of the 2019 book Waste. The United States, which had been shipping some 700,000 tons of recyclable waste to China ...
87: How Nobel winner David Card transformed economics
October 15, 2021 12:00 - 23 minutes - 32 MBThe labor economist and UC Berkeley professor of economics, who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in economics, talks about why his research on the economics of the minimum wage, immigration and education was so controversial — and how it continues to be today. Listen to the episode and read a transcript on Berkeley News. (UC Berkeley photo by Keegan Houser) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
86: Paralyzed at 15, student finds self-advocacy, independence at Berkeley
October 01, 2021 12:00 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBIn January 2015, 15-year-old Mariana Soto Sanchez woke up one Saturday morning at her home in Ontario, California, with weakness in her hand. Within minutes, the feeling had spread throughout her body. Her parents rushed her to the hospital. By the time they got there, she had total paralysis. Later that night, they found out she had a rare disorder called transverse myelitis. From that point on, Mariana had to adjust to an entirely new way of living. Six years later, Mariana has regained som...
86: Disabled and empowered: How Mariana Soto Sanchez found self-advocacy at Berkeley
October 01, 2021 12:00 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBIn January 2015, 15-year-old Mariana Soto Sanchez woke up one Saturday morning at her home in Ontario, California, with weakness in her hand. Within minutes, the feeling had spread throughout her body. Her parents rushed her to the hospital. By the time they got there, she had total paralysis. Later that night, they found out she had a rare disorder called transverse myelitis. From that point on, Mariana had to adjust to an entirely new way of living. Six years later, Mariana has regained som...