Legacy
The Berkeley Forum was founded in 2012 by Pierre Bourbonnais and had its first event spring of 2013, a panel on the Federal Budget.
Favorite Memory: Spring 2020 retreat! There was so much planning and coordination going into retreat, that it was so much fun to see it all come together and welcome all the new members.
Future: I’ll be living in New York City, working as a data scientist at Atlassian. Outside of work, I’m hoping to improve my skiing, make my friends laugh, and continue to learn!
Nayan Chavan | Fall 2019
Data Science & Computer Science
Favorite Memory: Moderating the Forum’s event with Dr. Anthony Fauci, NIAID Director, in October 2020!
Future: For the near future I will stay in the Bay Area, working as an engineer at C3 AI. In the future I hope to go to grad school, either for law or urban planning, and get to travel the world a bit!
Abhay Aggarwal | Fall 2018
Computer Science & Minor in City Planning
Favorite Memory: Attending the speaker dinner with Gene Luen Yang and being on the Zoom call with Dr. Anthony Fauci. Also growing as an individual and a leader and building relationships with my peers.
Future: Continuing work in the equity, inclusion, and diversity space and pursuing a career in management consulting and, in the future, the public sector.
Cindy Tang | Fall 2018
Business Administration & Sociology, Minor in Human Rights
Favorite Memory: Moderating an event with the director of my favorite TV show, Saturday Night Live!
Future: I'll be living in San Francisco, working in economic consulting at Cornerstone Research. I'll continue to pursue music and comedy on the side, but when those fail, I hope to go to grad school to make the parents proud!
Charlie McMurry | Spring 2019
Economics & Business Administration
Favorite Memory: Ski trips
Future: Working as a research scientist and on my own news/forecasting business
Conner Lambden | Fall 2015
Immunology & Computer Science
Favorite Memory: Maureen's wine fundraiser
Future: Currently a PhD student at Brown University
Haley Keglovits | Spring 2016
Computer Science & Cognitive Science
Favorite Memory: Grabbing food after General Meetings
Future: Jeffrey will serve in the Korean military for 18 months as part of a mandatory draft, then will apply to medical school in the US.
Jeffrey Park | Fall 2018
Molecular and Cellular Biology & Minor in Political Economy
Future: Michael is interested in climate and energy issues and is writing his thesis on the dynamics of clean technology adoption in California. After graduation, he will be joining Redstone Strategy Group as an analyst in the California office.
Michael Chien | Fall 2016
Business Administration, Environmental Economics and Policy
Favorite Memory: 1. Helping to put on the Forum’s first ever online event with the rest of the Hong Kong Panel team and 2. The last retreat before COVID shut everything down…good times.
Future: I’ll be working at Adobe as a consultant in the San Francisco office, and will hopefully be going back to school eventually for a MBA.
David Lee | Fall 2019
Economics & Minor in Data Science
Favorite Memory: Fall 2019 Programming Leadership where I met and grew close to one of my closest friends.
Future: Bianca hopes to continue advocating for educational equity for underrepresented and marginalized groups in the STEM fields. Through her involvement in educational equity nonprofits and various science outreach events, she hopes to inspire more youth to pursue avenues they otherwise would not have envisioned pursuing.
Bianca Monique Luansing | Spring 2019
Physics & South and Southeast Asian Studies
Favorite Memory: Meeting Michael Stevens! Or somehow organizing the photoshoot and having it be a mix of chaos and order
Future: Outside of not keeping my LinkedIn up to date (lol), I'm pursuing a PhD at Yale in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. My work focuses on the development of feathers as a means for studying their evolution.
Cody Limber | Fall 2016
Molecular and Cellular Biology & Integrative Biology
Favorite Memory: Walking Mythbusters cohost Jamie Hyneman to the event venue is definitely up there. As are the travel trips to NYC and Tokyo with Forum friends, finding housemates and lifelong pals through the club, etc... lots of great memories!
Future: Gloria is an Associate at the Boston Consulting Group with experiences across technology, pricing, and growth strategy. In her free time, she's an avid DIYer (most recent project: refurbishing an old table).
Gloria Chen | Spring 2016
Business Administration & Minor in Public Policy
Favorite Memory: Moderating & Fall 2018 retreat
Future: PhD in Biophysics @ UCSF
Hersh Bhargava | Fall 2016
Molecular and Cell Biology
Favorite Memory: As Michael says in S2E9 of The Good Place, "The real Berkeley Forum was the friends we made along the way."
Future: To pay the bills, Jess pushes pixels around at Facebook (she's a product designer). Outside of that, she spends her time watching film essays on Youtube and far too much TV, doing yoga, reading books and her favorite subreddits, and beating egg whites to stiff peaks (as evidenced).
Jessica Liu | Fall 2015
Cognitive Science & Minor in Asian American Studies
Favorite Memory: Fall 2017 Retreat
Future: Mihir is planning to work at GCA Advisors, a tech-focused investment banking advisory firm.
Mihir Gokhale | Spring 2017
Statistics
Favorite Memory: My favorite memory was moderating an event with Karen Korematsu, Founder & Executive Director of the Fred Korematsu Institute. We had a really wonderful discussion on the importance of reshaping collective memories and US history education. I ended up learning a lot about myself and my identity from that event.
Future: Tanya plans to conduct a senior thesis project around sanitation justice and gender equity in South Asia next year. After that, she will likely attend graduate school and obtain a J.D./PhD.
Tanya Mahadwar | Fall 2017
Political Science & Minors in Conservation & Resource Studies & Human Rights
Favorite Memory: Managing an event with one of my favorite actors, Dylan O’Brien, and getting to speak with him after the event!
Future: I’ll be moving to New York City to pursue a career in investment banking at J.P. Morgan
Ankita Inamdar | Fall 2018
Business Administration & Minor in Data Science
Omotara Oloye | Spring 2019
Computer Science & Music
Favorite Memory: Studying' with forum members in MLK, playing lineage CODENAMES over zoom, and of course, getting through Tech Lead hiccups with the team : )
Future: Francesca is pursuing a career in product management, especially in areas in which entertainment and technology intersect. This summer she will be a software engineer intern at Tanium!
Francesca Song | Spring 2020
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Favorite Memory: Having my first TBFF with Haley (we planned for an early morning yoga class), and then arriving late to the class and getting locked out! I was so mortified, but we ended up getting brunch after and everything turned out okay.
Future: I'm currently a management consultant at Capgemini Invent. I'm also studying for graduate school exams and plan on going back to get my MBA!
Angela Liu | Fall 2016
Economics
Favorite Memory: Putting on my first event with Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman to a packed Anna Head!
Future: Grace is currently working in San Francisco in life science consulting, and loves to get out of the city on the weekends to go camping and climbing!
Grace O'Toole | Fall 2015
Business Administration & Cognitive Science
Favorite Memory: (1) Realizing the impact of the Forum's work when inviting four diverse and intelligent women to speak at the After #MeToo Panel and listening to audience members stay after the event to thank the speakers for their labor and words. (2) Creating and writing the first Murder Mystery dinner based off of Forum members and watching my community duel it out to find the killer!
Future: Indu is planning to start working as a Strategy Analyst at Accenture after she graduates in May 2020.
Indu Pereira | Spring 2017
Business Administration & Music
Favorite Memory: Making the speaker flyers :') and getting them signed.
Future: Kaitlyn is trying to live a more active lifestyle and take advantage of the beautiful California climate - starting with daily jogs and frequent hikes!
Kaitlyn Kang | Fall 2018
Architecture & Economics
Favorite Memory: Getting tacos with Comms after meetings :)
Rena Song | Spring 2019
Economics & Data Science