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WHO TELLS YOUR STORY?

Welcome to Who Tells Your Story UCR. UC Riverside is home to 23,278 students. Each Highlander has their own story and though each story is unique, we all share similar struggles and aspirations. This page strives to create a sense of solidarity and inclusivity within our campus. UCR is a diverse campus so come and share with us who tells your story!

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Commitment

Name: Xóchitl Chávez Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology UCR Music Department I was born in Pueblo, Colorado. My mother was a...

It's All In The Mind

Name: Edgar Ortega, MD Resident Physician | PGY-1 Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience University of California, Riverside School...

Lights Camera Action... Gabe

Name: Gabe Pineda Year: 1st Year Major: Theater, Film, and Digital Production When I was 5 years old, my mother and I left our old lives...

Mr. Dynamic and the Dynamic Genome

Name: Alejandro (Alex) Cortez Academic Coordinator & Lecturer B.S. in Biology, UCR Class of 2002 M.S. in Ecology, Evolution, and...

Indian Jones

Name: Kuntal Chaudhuri BS-MS in Geological Sciences, IISER Kolkata, India PhD student in the Department of Geological Sciences, UCR...

Dare to Dance

Name: Candice Shanice DeGraft-Ackun Major: B.A. in Dance Class of 2018 I transferred to UCR determined to accomplish the goals I had set...

An Engineer In Training

Name: Gustavo Jaime Correa Major: 4th year, Electrical Engineering, University Honors Class of 2019 Wow, three years have past and now I...

Christopher and the Citrus Orchard

Name: Christopher Drozd PhD Student in the Plant Pathology Program, UCR B.S. in Plant Biology, UCR Class of 2017 As someone whose family...

All is Well

Name: Nicole Rae Valencia Administrative Analyst, UCR Library UCR Wellness Ambassador Friend of UCR Botanic Gardens Society '54 Member...

M.D. Making a Difference

Name: Dr. Nada Awad, M.D. UCR School of Medicine, Class of 2018 UCR School of Medicine is unique in that it came to be through the hard...

A Broad Perspective

Name: Macy Jeffery Ring Education Abroad Coordinator, UCR B.S. in Anthropology UCR, Class of 2005 Among some of my favorite memories of...

Just Determined

Name: Melissa Medhat Mikail, J.D. UCR Alumnus, Class of 2015 B.A. in Philosophy/Law and Society I was born to immigrant parents who fled...

Barbershop Backstory

Name: Gerson Lemus Major: Business Administration; Concentration: Marketing Class of 2018 Moving away from home to go to UCR was one of...

Rise over Run

Name: James K. Alcala Major: B.S. in Mathematics Class of 2018 I’m happy to say I’m a part of the class of 2018, with a B.S. in...

An Ode To My Journey at UCR

Name: Kishore Athreya Major: English with Life Science Core, University Honors Class of 2018 A life of a Pre-Med begins with a dream to...

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