Ashley Futterman

Ashley Futterman graduated from UC Berkeley in 2021 with a major in American Studies and dual minors in English and Journalism. She currently works in film acquisitions at Searchlight Pictures in Los Angeles, after beginning her career in independent film finance, development, and production. Her work centers on the life of stories — how they’re made, financed, and received — and she’s interested in the ways narrative shapes culture, memory, and everyday experience. In other words, she found a way to monetize overanalyzing pop culture.

Helen Pinto

In Fall 2021, Helen moved to Berlin, Germany, to start a Master’s Degree in American Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin. She finds herself relating to W.E.B Du Bois and his time in Berlin when he wrote: “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others.” Helen hopes to return to the U.S. following her studies at Humboldt to help bring arts and cultural matters to West Wing affairs. In the meantime, she plans to expand her knowledge of […]

Meg Czeisler

Meg currently holds a Case Manager internship at Panish Shea Boyle & Ravipudi, a personal injury law firm in Los Angeles (website: https://www.psblaw.com/). She will begin law school in the fall of 2022.

Emma Silver

After graduation, Emma moved to Washington D.C. and currently works on Capitol Hill as a Staff Assistant for Congressman Brad Sherman (CA-30).