UCSB Beyond Academia is planned and organized by a committee of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers across Social Sciences-Humanities-Education-Fine Arts (SHEF) and Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM) fields.

The members of the 2018 BA Organizing Committee are:

Executive Chair: Brandon Isaac, Materials.

Programming Team: Will Summers (Co-Chair), Materials; Ali Rahman (Co-Chair), Comparative Literature; Jeff Carmichael, Chemistry.

Logistics Team: Victoria Steffes (Co-Chair), Chemistry; Christi Peterson (Co-Chair), Materials; Jing Yu, Education; Chelsea Brown, Psychological and Brain Sciences.

Finance Team: Rhys Kennard (Co-Chair), Materials; Matt Wong (Co-Chair), Materials; Lale Stefkova, Spanish and Portuguese.

Marketing Team: Shawn Warner-Garcia (Co-Chair), Linguistics; Daina Tagavi (Co-Chair), Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology.

Sponsoring Advisors: Robert Hamm, Assistant Dean, Graduate Division; Arica Lubin, Graduate Program Coordinator, Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships; Lana Smith-Hale, Graduate Career Counselor, Career Services.

Beyond Academia is made possible through the generous support of our campus sponsors:

Major Sponsors

UCSB Graduate Division.

Stimulating Entrepreneurial and Economic Development in Santa Barbara (SEED-SB).

UCSB Career Services.

UCSB Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships.

Partner-Level Sponsors

Materials Department; Computer Science Department; Physics Department.

Collaborator-Level Sponsors

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department; Technology Management Program; History Department; Materials Research Laboratory; Interdisciplinary Humanities Center; English Department; Philosophy Department; Communication Department; Linguistics Department; Classics Department; Music Department; Anthropology Department; Sociology Department; Theater and Dance Department; Feminist Studies Department.

We would also like to thank our local sponsor for their support of our networking reception.