Instructors

Cinema helped Elie El Choufany survive during his tough childhood. As an adult, cinema has helped him thrive - both as a screenwriting instructor for UCLA Extension and now as a newly announced 2026 Academy Nicholl Fellowship winner. "All my life, ...

Brian Sonia-Wallace believes poetry and the creative arts should be an interwoven part of society - that public displays of wordplay should be commonplace. To follow through on that ethos, he has spent the last 15 years lugging around a Remington ...

Purchased by UCLA in 2023, UCLA Downtown originally housed the Title Insurance and Trust Company, which erected the Art Deco building in 1928. Since then, its uses have fluctuated - at one point a design center, later a garment manufacturing and most ...

When UCLA Extension leadership sought to create a Sustainability Certificate Program, they knew Nurit Katz would be an invaluable resource. Having served as UCLA's chief sustainability officer, it made sense to use her expertise to help build the ...

Director of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture Stephanie Landregan is lending a hand in recovery efforts.

A Q&A with instructor Dominique Elston on diversity, therapy and what a career in counseling really means.