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Pick the UCMAA Board Member Who Calls You, July 26

In response to feedback from alumni who want to know more about our UCMAA Board, we're organizing our third board call-a-thon for Saturday, July 26. Board members will call alumni, introduce themselves and share information about what's going on with the Alumni Association. And YOU get to select who calls you.
Learn more about our board members and pick who calls you.

ALUMNI HIGHLIGHT: MAYRA CHAVEZ-FRANCO

Shortly after graduation, Mayra Chavez-Franco and her now husband, Josue (Josh) Franco (Social & Cognitive Science/BA/2009), found themselves both working in Washington, D.C. in U.S. Representative John Garamendi’s Office.

After three years in D.C., Mayra was getting a little homesick. “D.C. was an amazing experience,” she recounts, “but I missed my family a lot, and both Josh and I wanted to be back in California.” About a year after transferring to the representative’s Fairfield office, Josh received word that he’d been accepted into the Ph.D. program in political science at UC Merced and the couple returned to their old stomping grounds – this time as an engaged couple. Read her full story.

FEATURED CLASS NOTES

2009: Socorra Camposanto (Biological Sciences/BS) will be performing at the Palo Alto Art and Wine Festival on Sunday, August 24 from 10 to 10:45 a.m.

2011 & 2012: Congratulations to Evelyn Hoyo-Atlas (Computer Science & Engineering/BS/2012) and Josh Atlas (Computer Science & Engineering/BS/2011) on their recent fairytale wedding in June 2014.

2013: Julie Cordova (Sociology/BA) is working as a social worker for the Oxnard Family Circle Adult Day Health Center.

We'd like to share your note with UC Merced alumni! Visit alumni.ucmerced.edu/contactinfo to submit your note today.

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