Topher Wilkins: Un-conference Yourself BY PAKSY PLACKIS-CHENG Opportunity Collaboration (OC) connects and supports global leaders building sustainable solutions to poverty. Each year, 400-plus leaders attend the Opportunity Collaboration. A conference unlike others. These leaders spend close to a week in [...]
Featured Artist: Gordon Studer – Reigniting a Love for Painting BY MELISSA WALKER Every month we ask an artist to share an impact maker. This month we feature longtime Emeryville-based painter, designer, and award-winning illustrator, Gordon Studer. Can you briefly [...]
Photographer Stephanie Rausser. Photograph by Lawrence Cowell. Stephanie Rausser: Finding the Beauty & Humor in Life BY MELISSA WALKER Every month we ask a photographer to share an impact maker. This month we feature Stephanie Rausser, who shares [...]
UCSB’s Materials Research Laboratory Science Symposium BY CHELSEA CATANIA On February 2-3 at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) held the annual Materials Research Outreach Program (MROP) Symposium. MROP was founded in 1999 to [...]
Bryan Lane, a singer for the Los Angeles Master Chorale, talked to us about the auditioning process and shared his impact maker.
A Los Angeles nonprofit started by a Jesuit priest, Homeboy Industries, provides this pathway to help former gang members rehabilitate by bringing a positive change to the lives of people of all ages with hope, support and training.
Calm spoken and bright-eyed, Toye, was surprisingly alert even after working a 13 hour shoot in New York the day before for the popular network television show, The Good Wife. Back at home in Santa Barbara, California, he shared his views on the film industry with impactmania.