Nicholas Archer

This past year has afforded Nicolas a great deal of opportunity and success, and much of that opportunity is due to the CUIP Program. During the past few years of his academic career, he has found his niche here at the University of California Santa Cruz, in the realm of leadership and student programming...

Christine Bors

Participating in the Education Abroad Program in Rome, Italy, in 2006, Christine Bors, a fourth-year studio art undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, expanded her knowledge of the world, opening her eyes to a beautiful culture, art, and history—history that humbled her and deeply strengthened her interest in the world of art museum...

The Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program (CUIP) provides opportunities for students to serve the campus by working in a real-world leadership setting. One of these opportunities is an internship as Business Manager of KZSC, a university owned radio station that serves the Monterey Bay area...

Nora Canright

When Nora Canright began as the Career Center Marketing Intern, she did not have any experience with marketing, but she was interested to learn and eager to help the Career Center develop an effective centralized marketing strategy. She was a fourth year psychology major, and she had never taken a business class. Nora’s background in psychology ended up being more of an asset than a handicap...

Andrea Catalano

Growing up in a suburban area of Kansas City, Andrea Catalano received little sexual education. The elementary school nurse had blushed bright red when one of the girls asked her about masturbation, and her high school health course practically omitted it. Andrea came to college at UCSC having little knowledge about safer sex practices or STI’s/HIV, yet she believed they were important topics that should be discussed, especially among young people...

Nyisha Causey

Nyisha Causey, a fourth year at the University of California, Santa Cruz is pursuing a Bachelors Degree in Psychology, which will aid her passion to pursue a career in community psychology and social activism. Throughout her four years at UCSC, Nyisha was heavily involved with Oakes College government and programming, and therefore was not as present within the African/Black community as she would have liked to be...

Elliott Chadwick

Throughout junior high to high school, Elliott’s social justice work, centered on diversity outreach, shaped his initial leadership, collaboration and public speaking skills. As every experience makes future experiences and opportunities possible, diversity outreach provided the skills and qualifications necessary for attaining a Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program (CUIP) position...

Jared Crayton-Thomas

As an incoming freshman at UCSC in 2003, Jared Crayton-Thomas looked to begin a new chapter of his life so much that he decided to apply for the Oakes Mentor Program coordinator position. Now, Jared is finishing up a successful year as the Oakes Mentor Program Coordinator...

Sarah Curtis

Sarah Curtis is the coordinator for the retention program Chican@s and Latin@s Educandose (Ch.A.L.E.). This year posed many challenges for her; however, the internship provided her with a tremendous wealth of learning experiences that she will transfer into all aspects of her life. Her primary task was to focus on creating a structure and foundation for the program and to ensure growth in the future.

Meg Decker

Meg Decker is senior at UCSC, double majoring in Intensive Psychology and History. She serves as one of two Good Neighbor Initiative Interns in the Chancellors Undergraduate Internship Program (CUIP). The goal of the Good Neighbor Initiative is to work to improve the relations between the university and the community surrounding it...

Jonathan Dinio

Jonathan came into the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program knowing that he could contribute greatly to the Kuya Ate Mentorship Program, a retention program catering to the needs of students through a Filipino-American perspective. His previous background included community organizing work in high school, involvement with the Filipino Student Association at UCSC, and coordinating the A Step Forward outreach program...

Mia Docto

Mia Docto’s interest in education, social justice, science and sustainability made her an excellent candidate for the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Education for a Sustainable Living Program Internship. During the time of her internship, Mia was a fifth-year Earth Science major, with a concentration in environmental geology...

Fiona Donohoe

Before beginning the CUIP Coordinator position, Fiona had a lot of experience at her community college, Cabrillo College, via involvement in organizations on campus and working on campus. First, Fiona became very involved in Alpha Gamma Sigma (AGS), a state-wide community college honors society that focused on community service and raising money for scholarships...

Lydia Dupre

For the academic year of 2006 though 2007, Lydia R. Dupre’ had the honor of interning with Life Lab Science Program as their Garden Classroom Coordinator. Prior to the Chancellor Undergraduate Internship Program, she had interned with Life Lab for two academic quarters. The experience of working with Life Lab for a complete year with more weekly hours was completely different than her prior internship

Holly Rose Faith

Holly Rose Faith always had an interest in marketing as well as making more opportunities available for students and people. Prior to her internship as Marketing and Fund Development Intern for the UCSC Career Center Internship Program, she worked diligently in her academics as well as extra curricular activities that helped her thrive and exposed her to new avenues...

Laura Fieberg

Working throughout the course of the year on projects and programs related to environment and society, this year’s CUIP intern for College Eight took a hands on approach to teaching others how to live more sustainably. Chosen on the basis of previous experience and excitement to take on multiple projects, this year’s C8 CUIP had a variety of interests and a desire to work with other students...

Ariel Gardiner

A skeptical Business Management, Economics major, Ariel half-heartedly took a position at SCTV as the Events! Team Coordinator through the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program. By the age of 21, Ariel already had plenty of jobs and internships that provided him experience in a wide variety of fields ranging from government, to retail, to food service, to residential education, to manual labor, and he had established himself as a student leader as a Resident Assistant at Porter College...

Pearl Geronimo

Pearl Geronimo’s deep commitment to College Ten’s theme made her an excellent candidate for the Social Justice & Community CUIP Internship. Pearl is a graduating senior at UCSC majoring in Economics and Politics...

Kelly Hickman

The CUIP Campus Recycling Intern for the 06-07 school year, Kelly Hickman, came to her position with a passion for conservation and protecting the environment. With her motivation to learn new things and willingness to work with other people, she provided energy to the recycling office and truly wanted to make a change on this campus.

Connie Kehn

Connie will be the first to admit it: it was a shot in the dark. She never thought that she would be even considered competitive in a distinguished internship program such as the CUIP, let alone be placed as Coordinator of her own special internship program. Connie was a psychology major transfer student, and although she had work experience, she didn’t think it was enough....

“Liaisons have the most important job in the world,” remarked Campus Sustainability Assessment CUIP intern Laura Kelly, with what might have been a touch of frustration or excitement. “That’s what I feel that I became, working on the Campus Sustainability Assessment...

Sherrice Kelly


Sherrice Kelly displayed her excellent leadership and organization skills as Festival Director for the 27th Chautauqua Student Theatre and Film Festival in spring of 2006. As Festival Director, Sherrice created a line of communication between Publicity, Festival Design and Front of House Staff...

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Maggie Kong

Maggie Kong, the CUIP intern for the retention program Community Unified Student Network (CUSN) had a challenging yet fulfilling year working along side with other dedicated folks in CUSN.

Alexa Kostenko

Prior to entering her position as College Nine Global and International Perspectives Intern, Alexa was well qualified for the internship due to her past experiences in leadership positions and her strong interest in international relations...

Lucy Lynn

The UCSC campus is fortunate in that it hosts a diversity of ecosystems and wildlife such as native meadows, riparian zones, evergreen forests, maritime chaparral, Golden Eagles, Ohlone Tiger Beetles and Red Legged Frogs. In addition to Lucy Lynn’s previous internship and volunteer experience with the UCSC Site Stewardship Program, her backpacking experiences induced an unyielding love and appreciation for nature’s beauty and sparked her interest in restoration work...

Margaret Matchin

Margaret Matchin had been involved with the HIV Peer Test Counseling team for two years before she stepped into her role as the coordinator of the program through the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program...

Kelly McDaniel

Kelly McDaniel, a second year business management economics major and mathematics minor, was in charge of coordinating the program for recruiting and retaining Mathematics majors and increasing their chances of success after graduation for the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program...

Shane Moise

The diversity initiatives project was, without a doubt, a great success. The freedom of mobility in carrying out the project allowed for boundless creative growth. Funding was well supplied, and Shane felt that he had excellent support from his mentors, other Cowell professional staff, as well as staff members around the university...

Tran Nguyen

Tran Nguyen is the 2006-2007 CUIP intern at the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center (AA/PIRC). As a fourth-year Psychology major, she wanted to give back to the AA/PI community by providing students with the space to come together. Inspired and influenced by former CUIPs, Tran applied for the position at AA/PIRC in hope that she could continue in the footsteps of her predecessors to strengthen the AA/PI community...

Monaliza Noormohammadi

Monaliza (ML) Noormohammadi is an ideal example of how a Chancellor’s Undergraduate Intern should perform and benefit from the unique experience. ML has been involved with the service-learning department since her freshman year. She volunteered first at the St. Francis Soup Kitchen and continued her volunteer work at Live Oak Elementary...

Edgar Nuñez

As part of the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program (CUIP), Edgar Nuñez worked as the Outreach Coordinator for SHOP. Whether through collaborating with other campus units or student organizations, conducting workshops and trainings, or developing outreach programs, Edgar worked actively to bring SHOP’s information to the whole campus community. .

Kristan Sartor

Kristan Sartor just loves non-commercial radio. She loves it so much that she’s been involved with KZSC Santa Cruz, the radio station located on the UCSC campus, for the past three years. This year, Kristan served as Volunteer Coordinator for KZSC, through the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program...

Rosemary Tiang

Rosemary Taing entered the University of California Santa Cruz in the fall of 2003 far from her native hometown of Falls Church Virginia, on a quest to expand her horizons and find her passion. After many boring introductory biology and chemistry courses, Rosemary enrolled in Human Sexuality and Female Physiology, which helped ignite her enthusiasm and interest for women’s wellness and sexual health...

Tracy Wieser

Tracy Wieser, the CUIP Wellness Outreach Intern for students, staff and faculty Health/Wellness Outreach and Promotion for the 2006-07 school year, had a wonderful experience working with OPERS and the CUIP program. In her junior year as an undergraduate business major at UCSC, Tracy anticipated using this leadership opportunity to make strong connections with other figures of all ranks, gain leadership experience and strengthen her ability to work independently and proactively...

Hauna Zaich

Hauna Zaich was the Creative Writing Program/ Literature Department Coordinator for the 2006-07 school year through the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program. Excited about the change from two years of retail work, where she was a key holder, Hauna was especially dedicated to her role as coordinator because she was a creative writing major...