Podcast: Berkeley Voices

Berkeley Voices is an award-winning Berkeley News podcast about the people who make UC Berkeley the world-changing place that it is. It's produced and hosted by Anne Brice in the Office of Communications and Public Affairs. Follow Berkeley Voices.

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Justin Davidson as a toddler smiles as he rides a horse and his mom smiles and holds him on the saddle.

Humanities

Berkeley Voices: One brain, two languages

UC Berkeley sociolinguist Justin Davidson is part of a research team that has discovered where people who are bilingual store language-specific sounds and sound sequences in their brains.

Rachel Jeantel on the stand during her testimony in the trial of George Zimmerman

Humanities

Berkeley Voices: A language divided

Natalie walks on UC Berkeley's campus with her mom and younger brother.

Humanities

Berkeley Voices: A linguist’s quest to legitimize U.S. Spanish

Saagar, with short dark hair and glasses, wearing a powder blue suit, holds a viola to his chin while standing in a courtyard

Arts & culture

Berkeley Voices: Medieval song holds clues to lost dialects

A black-and-white photo of a young man without a shirt on holding and squeezing the bare skin on his chest with a pained expression on his face

Berkeley Voices: Art student’s photo series explores masculine vulnerability

Black-and-white line drawing of Walter Gordon with a Cal football to his side

Berkeley Voices: Take the first Black history tour at UC Berkeley

A mother and baby chimp hug each other atop a wooden structure in a human-made habitat

Bonobos and chimps show ‘a rich recognition’ for long-lost friends and family

A black-and-white illustration of hundreds of Irish immigrants and families with all their belongings

Afterthoughts: The true origins of American immigration policy

a sepia toned photo of about 100 white men in hats shaking hands and celebrating, some of whom are on top of a train.

They built the railroad. But they were left out of the American story.

Timmia Hearn DeRoy

Theater as power: New professor brings Caribbean performance practice to Berkeley

a black-and-white photo of people at Camp Jened, a summer camp for disabled people in the 1970s. A young man carries another young man while they laugh and as the shirtless director of the program looks on and campers in wheelchairs chat in the background.

Funky and free-spirited: How a 1970s summer camp started a disability revolution

a person stands next to an image of a book

Berkeley Voices: How the Holocaust ends

a person looks at the camera through the sides of her eyes

Britt H. Young on learning to navigate the world with the body she has

a person wearing a colorful shirt smiles at the camera

Gericault De La Rose knows who she is and won’t change for anyone

a son has his arm around his mom's shoulders standing outside and smiling

Ali Bhatti on Ramadan and how his faith guided him through deep loss

portrait of a person smiling with the text

‘Be the Change’: Purvi Shah on the moments of beauty as a civil rights lawyer

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