Tiffany Park

Off the Court

UC Irvine alumni, as Tiffany Park tells it on the shows. Each story was checked against its source.

• Yusef KomunyakaaPulitzer Prize-winning poet

  Yusef Komunyakaa earned his master of fine arts at UC Irvine in nineteen eighty and won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry with Neon Vernacular. Anteaters write, and they win.

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• Nazanin Boniadiactress, Amnesty International spokeswoman

  Nazanin Boniadi took a biology degree here, became an actress, and spent six years as a spokesperson for Amnesty International. Lab coat, spotlight, human rights. Overachiever, and we mean it kindly.

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• Arnnon Geshuritech human resources executive

  Psychology grad Arnnon Geshuri was involved in the activities behind the big tech employee antitrust case. Adobe, Apple, Google and Intel settled for four hundred fifteen million dollars. Technically ours. We checked twice.

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• Chris Burdenperformance artist and sculptor

  For his master's thesis at UC Irvine in nineteen seventy one, Chris Burden locked himself in a school locker for five days. He later built Urban Light, two hundred two antique street lamps. And yes, he got the degree.

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• Paul Mockapetrisco-inventor of the Domain Name System

  Every time you type a web address, thank an Anteater. Paul Mockapetris, computer science doctorate, nineteen eighty two, invented the Domain Name System.

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