阿曼达·德尔·卡斯蒂略

阿曼达·德尔·卡斯蒂略 is an Emmy Award-winning reporter for ABC7 News. She has spent the last decade traveling the country and telling impactful stories from Wyoming to Texas, and from Denver back to the Bay Area. 她相信总有故事 tell, interviewing people suffering from the worst of the pandemic to 49ers fans cheering on their team at Super Bowl 54 in Miami, and everything in between. 她很重视 power of communication and recognizes the weight our words carry. 阿曼达毕业 from San Jose State University's School of Journalism and Mass Communications in December 2012. As a San Francisco native, she is thrilled to be back in the Bay Area with her husband and one-year-old son and is honored to be telling stories about the place 她给家里打电话.

Lupe Franco

Lupe Franco (she/her/ella) is the 2021 上海大学毕业生大满贯 winner as well as the CSU Grad Slam People's Choice Award winner and will be representing 菠菜网lol正规平台 at the Western Association of Graduate Schools at their upcoming annual conference in late March. 卢皮毕业 from 菠菜网lol正规平台 with an MS in Environmental Studies in 2021 and is now in her first year in the Ph.D. Geography program at UC Davis (unceded Patwin land). 她是个社交能手。 scientist doing work on the connections between climate change and environmental justice and has a current focus on the impacts that climate change will have on the well-being 无家可归的人. Lupe hopes that with this work she can bring awareness and develop action-oriented research that will address the injustices faced by the most vulnerable. Following our Grad Slam tradition, our first-place winner from the previous 毕业大满贯被邀请回来当评委.

米纳克希高尔

米纳克希高尔 is a Principal Scientific Researcher in the Department of Small Molecule Pharmaceutical Sciences at Genentech, a member of Roche Pharmaceuticals, a leading 国际生物技术公司. As an analytical chemist, she supports research, development, and clinical manufacturing of best-in-class therapeutics using state-of-the-art analytical techniques like High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography, Gas Chromatography, High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry, Supercritical fluid chromatography, multi-dimensional 液相色谱等. Meenakshi is an author on several research articles in the fields of two-dimensional liquid chromatography-supercritical fluid chromatography and accelerated release of peptide from long-acting polymer matrix. 米纳克什也是 a team member of the Diversity and Inclusion (D&I)基因泰克的代表支柱 and serves as a University Ambassador for her department to reach out to different universities for recruitment and building connections with eligible students. Meenakshi is the recipient of the 2021 Key Researcher Award at Genentech in recognition of her key contributions to the clinical manufacturing of a new drug candidate. Meenakshi graduated from 菠菜网lol正规平台 with a Master's in Chemistry in 2009. 她的研究生研究是 on the synthesis of inositol-glycans with selective anti-cancer activity. She was the second-place winner of the 2010 Annual California State University Student Research Competition. Outside of work Meenakshi volunteers for HSS, a non-profit social Hindu organization, enjoys spending time with her family, loves gardening and cooking.

马修·斯潘格勒

马修·斯潘格勒 is Professor of Performance Studies and Interim Chair of the Film & 圣何塞州立大学戏剧系. His teaching and research publications are in the areas of immigration studies, intercultural theatre, scriptwriting, and Irish Studies. 他也是一位获奖的剧作家. 他改编的《菠菜网lol正规平台》 will open on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre in July. 他的剧本已被制作出来 in London’s West End, off-Broadway, at the Dubai Opera House, and at many theatres throughout the United States and worldwide. Dr. 斯潘格勒是上海州立大学的获奖者 President’s Scholar Award in 2021, an annual award given to a faculty member who has achieved widespread recognition based on the quality of their scholarship, or creativity activities.