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Kristen Ingels

10-second bio: Meet Kristen Ingels: Saranap born with Mexican roots

Name: Kristen Ingels Title: Marketing Communications Coordinator Department/Unit: External Relations/Communications Location: 7th floor, Franklin When I started working at UCOP: May 2013 What I do for UCOP in five words or less: Build public awareness of UC The best part


Jack Stobo, EVP of Health Sciences and Services

10-second bio: Jack Stobo of Health Sciences and Ivy League hockey team fame

Health Sciences and Services Senior Vice President Jack Stobo, who hails from Boston, was the first hockey goalie in the Ivy League to wear a facemask.


Karen Basey

10-second bio: Meet Karen Basey, playwright who hails from El Pinole

Associate HR Business Partner Karen Basey recently wrote and produced Take Me Back! The Musical, which ran last fall at an Oakland theater.


Karla Campbell, Director of Operations

10-second bio: Meet Karla Campbell, Colorado native and fly-fishing dreamer

Director of Operations Karla Campbell has teaching in her blood. The former middle and high school teacher would like to be a fly-fishing guide.


Andre Cleveland, mail processor

10-second bio: Meet Andre Cleveland, mail processor and ’toon maven

Mail Processor Andre Cleveland started drawing at age 9. He loves cartoons so much that some nights, he says, he dreams in cartoon.


Cyndi Lukk of ITS

10-second bio: Meet Cyndi Lukk, equine therapist in training

Cyndi Lukk of Information Technology Services is training to be a licensed psychotherapist, working with horses, when she "grows up and retires."


Chris Noble, managing editor in Internal Communictions

10-second bio: Meet Chris Noble of Communications, who has 10 hometowns

Chris Noble, managing editor in Internal Communications, grew up in 10 different cities in the United States, Africa and Europe.


Aleta Martinez

10-second bio: Meet Aleta Martinez of Health Sciences and Services: She’s not Judy

Aleta Martinez, administrative assistant in Health Sciences and Services, has a twin sister and eight other brothers and sisters.


Catherine Knaizewycz

10-second bio: Meet Catherine Kniazewycz, from “Normalcy,” USA

Meet Catherine Kniazewycz, director of architecture in Capital Resources Management. She says her home town of Iowa City, Iowa, couldn't have been more normal.


Alida Nattress

10-second bio: Meet Alida Nattress, Academic Affairs award-winning cook

Alida Nattress, executive assistant to the vice provost in Academic Planning, Programs and Coordination, would love to have her own restaurant.


Brendan O'Callaghan

10-second bio: Meet Brendan O’Callaghan, External Relations Ironman

Brendan O'Callaghan, executive communications coordinator in External Relations, recently competed in an Ironman distance triathlon, which includes swimming, biking and a full marathon run.