From academics to real-world impact, explore stories from our community that highlight the people and experiences making Occidental College a place of opportunity, discovery, and success.
Teddy Max Pozo Faculty Computer Science Meet Teddy Max Pozo of computer science, a multimedia writer and artist. Their art practice combines conductive materials with clay sculptures and original game designs to create unique game arcade machine and console installations.
Vivian Wenli Lin Faculty Media Arts & Culture Meet Vivian Wenli Lin of Media Arts & Culture, a media artist and educator with a background in psychology, documentary film, video art, and interactive installation whose research interests focus on issues of representation, gender, migration, and the Asian diaspora.
Min Joo Lee Faculty Asian Studies Meet Min Joo Lee of Asian studies, whose research focuses on the transnational popularity of Korean popular culture, gender and race politics in Korea, and feminist media theory.
Karla Peña Faculty Urban & Environmental Policy Meet Karla Peña of Urban & Environmental Policy, whose teaching and research involves developmental sociology and natural resources and environment.
Zachary Silver Faculty Psychology Meet Zachary Silver of psychology, whose research and teaching interests involve how animals learn from and about humans.
Susan Blake Faculty Philosophy Meet Susan Blake of philosophy, whose teaching and research interests include theory of knowledge, early Chinese philosophy, philosophy of perception, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.
Dhyandra Lawson ’08 Alumni Art & Art History Shaped by her experiences at Occidental, Dhyandra Lawson—now a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)—brings her artistic vision to life as she plans a new exhibit.
Jamie Amemiya Faculty Psychology Meet Jamie Amemiya of psychology, a developmental psychologist interested in the development of social cognition as it relates to how children and adults think about and respond to societal problems.
Natasha Sekhon Faculty Geology Meet Natasha Sekhon of geology, a low-temperature geochemist and paleoclimatologist whose research combines concepts from karst and speleothem sciences to investigate the hydroclimate of terrestrial environments varying on seasonal to millennial time scales.
Claire Cahen Faculty Urban & Environmental Policy Meet Claire Cahen of Urban & Environmental Policy, an urbanist, researcher and educator, who studies municipal austerity and public sector union renewal.
Sohaib Khan Faculty Religious Studies Meet Sohaib Khan of religious studies, whose research and teaching lie at the intersection of Islamic legal studies, anthropology, postcolonial studies, and histories of capitalism in South Asia and the Middle East.
Sophie Prado-Tucker Student Art & Art History History During her time as an intern at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Sophie Prado-Tucker has been able to actively engage with a forthcoming exhibition, gaining firsthand experience and insight into the art world.
