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The largest residential project Ravi Pariah has ever worked on is 28,500 square feet. It has nine bedrooms and 30 bathrooms and is a jewel within the prestigious Beverly Park neighborhood. The project was massive and took an enormous amount of ...

In some ways, Julia Wolinsky has always felt she was better able to express herself through drawings than words. She had this realization at a young age, and it informed her love of art and her choices of education and career. Art was a way to make ...

When students join the inaugural UCLA Extension Design Arts Premium Studio taught by Lisa SVAN, they will be receiving the opportunity to pick the brain of a lauded expert in her field who has traveled the world working on the architectural concept of ...

Michelle Fisher grew up in a Virginia household that was immersed in the news. Her mother was a radio host and her father was a T.V. broadcaster. She would follow them to their jobs and watch them work on Take Our Daughters to Work Day. They taught ...

As a young student, Sandra Flores witnessed teachers struggling to connect with, understand and uplift all their students. She saw firsthand how language, culture and differences in students' backgrounds could influence the way they were treated in ...

Roosevelt "Rose" Brown has made following his imagination into a successful career. A product design veteran of multiple industries including toys, sneakers and consumer electronics, the new UCLA Extension instructor wants to show others how to funnel ...

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, ...

Luis de Moraes takes pride in the fact that his architecture students find work quickly after completing his classes. Through decades of professional experience and a strong industry network, he has built a reputation for preparing highly qualified ...

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 ...

When a young Shaunté Walton stumbled into the world of infection prevention, she never knew it would lead her to working at UCLA Extension and UCLA Health. But as soon as she immersed herself in this hidden career path, she knew she wanted to make ...