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June 2007 > Alumni > Honors


In Brief

Ethan Johnson Kristen Lewis Derek Briggs
Ethan Johnson Kristen Lewis Derek Briggs

Ethan Johnson, who graduated from the Social and Cultural Studies program in 2005, has been awarded a Ford Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Fellowship for the 2007–08 school year. He will be conducting research in Quito, Ecuador as a follow up to his dissertation research, which examined the relationship between schooling and racial inequality in an Afro-Ecuadorian region. Johnson, an assistant professor of Black Studies Department at Portland State University, was an advisee of Jabari Mahiri at the GSE.

Kristen Lewis, who earned a master's degree from the Graduate School of Education last spring, has been hired as the assistant coach for UC Berkeley’s women's swimming program. Lewis, who had worked for the Cal Athletic Department in an administrative capacity for the past two years, is a former UCLA All-American and Academic All-American.

Derek Briggs has won a National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship. Diana Bernbaum, was awarded a 2007–08 College Board Research Grant. Both Briggs and Bernbaum were advisees of professor Mark Wilson while they were students at the Graduate School of Education.

Janet Mutsumi Daijogo will be inducted into the 2007 Marin Women’s Hall of Fame. Daijogo earned a BA in Child Development from the School of Education in 1959 and her education credential a year later.

 

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