In this episode of a new season, Rodrigo Lara interviews Jesus Moo:
"Hi, my name is Jesus Moo, and I am a 4th year philosophy major at UCLA. I work in UCLA Transportation. My hobbies include reading, writing, and dancing."
In this episode Julie Dugua, Pierre Morel and Tom Hagander and Eulalie Blanloeil discuss some controversial issues about the student life at UCLA. What do YOU think? Play now and find out!
Welcome back everyone! In today's episode, we have Katie Greenler, a graduate student in Urban and Regional Planning specifically working in design and mapping. Katie's from Orange County, CA and a 2x Bruin!
In today's episode, we have Harshita Khandelwal, who's been living in UCHA for more than a year!
Spring 2023 is here and the Co-opcast is back with a new host.
The guest of this episode is Andrew Lewis, he has been a co-oper since Winter 2020, he is majoring in Political Sciences at UCLA, he was Vice President of the North Westwood Neighborhood Council and a leader at the Young Alumni Association at UCLA.
Now he is part of the Board of Directors at the University Cooperative Housing Association as the Notetaker. Andrew likes to play tennis. Meet Andrew Lewis everyone! Play now!
Cianna Razo is a recent alum from UCLA with a B.A in Global Studies and from Fullerton College with an A.A in Economics. In her three years of undergrad, she successfully lobbied California lawmakers on state bills, and co-implemented and co-developed a financial literacy program open to all UCLA undergraduates. She has also written an undergraduate thesis centered around gendered political makeup in the U.S & the Philippines. At the co-op, cianna is currently involved as the alumni committee chair!
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Co-opcast is back in this WINTER FALL 2022 for our 5th Season! In this episode Rodrigo Lara interviews Leo Liu, Store Crew Chief:
"I’m a Chinese international student, came to the coop 5 years ago and lived here ever since. I’m working on my PhD degree in biochemistry and also my startup Chilk.co. It has been crazy to think about I would be doing both not long ago, but the support from my fellow coopers and friends had truly been amazing. I’m also the store crew chief, so if you like any snacks, let me know I’ll get them for you in our little student store."
Anais Pautrat is from France, studies Global Business in UCLA Extension as a part of her degree. But what is more important - she made a lot of friends in UCHA! Watch this funny episode to get the spirit of sincere friendship and Christmas! Happy Holidays fellows!
Michael Guevara is a 4th year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at UCLA. He joins us to describe his research on micromagnetics with potential for cell sorting applications.
John Ellis Manning-Villar is a new member in the UCHA. He moved into the COOP on March 2021. But during even this short period of time he understood that COOP is a very special place and he wants to share his view. Ellis is studying Physics at UC Santa Cruz and has great ideas for his future path.
Our new host of this episode - Neema Afrasiabi.
This week we had the pleasure of interviewing Sal Vazquez, a 5th year doctoral candidate in the graduate school of Education here at UCLA, as well as our own Assignment Manager! In this interview, he shares and describes his research and gives us insight into the real world effects of the multitude of questions that he studies concerning education. He also convinces our interviewer Grace to delve into the world Si-Fi/fantasy!
Lixuan Tai is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at UCLA. He has been at the coop since June 2020. His PhD research focuses on material growth, like topological insulators, anti ferromagnets, and more.
Alberto Pena, more known as Mojo tells his magic story! You literally SHOULD check it out! Nothing motivates more than healthy smoothies, good movies and this guy. He has his own tricks for dealing with life and he shares them in this interview!
Mojo pursuing a film career and education. He is currently enrolled in UCLA’s Professional Program for Screenwriting and TV Writing, with plans to hop onto the directing and acting program next.
On this Episode, the last of the 2nd Season Winter 2021, Ksenia interview Loren Blazek to talk about career in Filming. Don't miss out! After this we will take a break for finals and will be back next quarter.
"Loren Blazek is a 18 year old filmmaker originally from Santa Cruz, California, and now based in Westwood. He is currently majoring in Film Production at Santa Monica College, with hopes of transferring to AFI. Loren has been making videos and short films since he was a kid. After attending the highly selective UCLA Digital Filmmaking Institute in Highschool, he has gone on to work on numerous projects as a writer, director, editor, or cinematographer. He went on to write and direct "The Mark", a ~20 minute dystopian/suspense Short Film. The Mark has seen selection at numerous film festival, garnering many awards including the title "Best Young Filmmaker" at multiple festivals. He recently wrote and directed a music video for the song "Sun Days", the opening track to hip-hop duo The Vine Tree's newly released album, "T.C.V.1.D." The music video explores the underlying toxicity that rots away beneath the happy façade of a relationship. His greatest filmmaking inspiration is Stanley Kubrick, and his favorite contemporary director is Alfonso Cuaron. His favorite films are 2001: A Space Odyssey and Children of Men. He aspires to a future career in filmmaking, and hopes to someday be a writer, director, or cinematographer for feature length film."
Bailey Kobelin is a freelance photographer & videographer who primarily works with musicians documenting live shows, creating album covers, as well as shooting and editing music videos. During the pandemic, she has been offering people photo and video shoots virtually as a part of her Projector Portrait Project.
Hey, y'all ! Co-opcast is back with special alumni guests: Anthony Waite and Kathy Mesa. Enjoy this story full of fun facts and curiosities about these two Coop personalities!
"Hey I’m Kathy. I moved into the co-op right after I graduated high school in 2014. I was an SMC student then transferred to CSULA. I’m now 24 and living in Hollywood. I love to travel and hang out with friends in my free time." (Kathy Mesa)
"My names Anthony I joined co-op in 2016. I was the cleaning crew crew chief and the facilities crew chief. The most meaningful thing I did with my time at the coop would be trying to save the 3rd grace quarter and I started my event Big Gay Party in room 202." (Anthony Waite)
Chris Ochoa is a 2nd year PhD student in UCLA’s Molecular Biology Interdepartmental Doctoral Program (MBIDP). He is a member of Dr. Sanaz Memarzadeh's lab here at UCLA where their research focuses on gynecological cancers such as ovarian and endometrial cancer. Their overall goal is to make discoveries that will improve the lives of patients with these types of diseases.
On this Episode, Grace Canning interviews Danielle Bongiovanni. Danielle Bongiovanni studies Acting at the UCLA school of theater, film, and television, although she is mainly interested in pursing a music career as a singer, writer, and multi-instrumentalist. The co-op provided a creative community in which she fostered her talents by performing often and with other co-op members!
We have two amazing guests on this Episode – Carrie Park and Rohan Dutta. Carrie is from South Korea, Rohan from India and they met each other here at the Co-op. Carrie studied Political science and paralegal studies at UCLA and UCLA Extension and Rohan doing his master’s in electrical and computer Engineering. They moved in and out of the Co-op several times due to different circumstances, but they always came back. Now they are about to leave the Coop again so we caught them before to listen to their coop/love story and to wish them to be back again!
