Caleb Thornton

Off the Court

UCSB alumni, as Caleb Thornton tells it on the shows. Each story was checked against its source.

• José M. HernándezNASA astronaut, former farmworker

  José Hernández worked the fields of California as a kid and didn't speak English until he was twelve. He got his master's at UCSB, NASA turned him down eleven times, and in two thousand nine he rode the shuttle anyway.

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• Chanel Millerauthor of Know My Name

  Chanel Miller, class of twenty fourteen, wrote the memoir Know My Name. It took real courage to put her name on that book, and Gauchos are proud she's one of us.

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• Dionicio MoralesLatino civil rights leader

  Dionicio Morales attended UC Santa Barbara and became a Latino civil rights leader. Not everything that starts on this campus ends up at the beach.

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• Jack Johnsonsinger-songwriter

  Jack Johnson, class of ninety seven, is a multi-platinum singer-songwriter. If you've ever heard an acoustic guitar near a bonfire, you've basically attended UCSB.

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