Housing the public good
Raised in migrant farmworker communities, UC Irvine Ph.D. alumna Deyanira Nevarez Martinez now helps shape housing policy as a scholar, educator and elected official.
October 29, 2026
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Raised in migrant farmworker communities, UC Irvine Ph.D. alumna Deyanira Nevarez Martinez now helps shape housing policy as a scholar, educator and elected official.
From the U.S. to England to Hungary, recent global studies Ph.D. graduate Temitope Famodu studies how people make sense of identity across borders
UC Irvine alumna Johanna Solomon, ’15 political science Ph.D., turned a lifelong instinct for listening into a career in peace building
Jen Zelnick UC Irvine anthropology Ph.D. ’22 turns research on deportation into expanding access to justice for Californians
UC Irvine alumna Jiaxuan Li ’26 turned a fascination with how the brain bends the rules of language into a career at the frontier of artificial intelligence.
The universe presents physicists with enough problems of its own. UC Irvine alumna Clara Bradley, ’24 logic & philosophy of science Ph.D., studies the ones physicists create for themselves.
Young-Suk Grace Kim, professor at the UC Irvine School of Education, has received the Carol Connor Mid-Career Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR).
UC Irvine sociology alum Leah Ruppanner M.A. ’06, Ph.D. ’09 offers research-based advice to international audiences through books, podcasting and social media.