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Friday, July 23, 2021

New Student Regent-Designate

From the Daily CalThe UC Board of Regents selected UC Berkeley second-year law student Marlenee Blas Pedral to be the 2022-23 student regent. According to Blas Pedral, after attending UC Santa Barbara as an undergraduate student, she served as a professional staff member at UC Riverside. During her time there, she co-founded the UCR Career Closet, which provides students with professional attire, and the Butterfly Project, which mentors and provides internship opportunities to undocumented students.

“As a first-generation student, the UC has provided me with quality education and meaningful professional experience,” Blas Pedral said in an email. “The initiatives and meaningful partnerships I developed motivated me to apply to law school.”

For the following year she will serve as the UC student regent-designate, during which she will participate in deliberations, learn from regents and visit the UC campuses, Blas Pedral said.

She will receive voting privileges starting in 2022, she added...

Full story at https://www.dailycal.org/2021/07/22/uc-berkeley-law-student-marlenee-blas-pedral-selected-to-be-2022-23-uc-student-regent/.

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