Voices of Santa Clara Podcast

It's graduation! Listen to some of the most popular guests share their tips, wisdom and advice for 2020 graduates in the midst of this quickly-changing and often challenging world. See the guests and…

Erin Ronald is a 2019 Santa Clara graduate in Environmental Studies and Sociology. Erin was recently awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to work with the European version of the World Wildlife Fund to bri…

Margaret McLean is the director of bioethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. She is also senior lecturer in religious studies and affiliate faculty in bioengineering. She teaches courses o…

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Elon Musk are just three of the names that Larry Sonsini has advised.

Larry Sonsini is the founding partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Silicon Valley’s premier law…

Eileen Elrod is a Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies, currently serving as Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development. Her scholarly interests focus on religion, race and gender …

Steve Sordello is the CFO of LinkedIn and serves on Santa Clara’s Board of Trustees. Prior to LinkedIn, Steve was CFO of TiVo, CFO of Ask Jeeves, and held senior management roles at Adobe Systems and…

Heather started at LifeMoves over 6 years ago as a Case Manager. She now serves as Director of Santa Clara County Shelters & Services. Before LifeMoves, Heather worked at Crider Health Center and ser…

John Michael Sobrato is Chair of the Board of Trustees at Santa Clara and Chairman of The Sobrato Organization. There are a few different parts of the Sobrato organization that we cover in this conve…

Tonya Nilsson (lovingly known as Dr. T) is a Civil Engineering lecturer at Santa Clara. She teaches structural and materials courses and develops hands-on, interactive methods of engineering instruct…

Chris Norris is the Director of the Ciocca Center for Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara, a new interdisciplinary center created to advance innovation and entrepreneurship on campus. Chris serves on boa…

This episode was released Thursday, March 19—three days after Santa Clara county joined five other Bay Area counties issued shelter-in-place mandates and Santa Clara University announced all spring q…

Brian Buckley is a senior lecturer in the philosophy department and has taught at Santa Clara since 2007. His research focuses on the philosophy of law, political philosophy and applied ethics.

In thi…

Dr. Sherry Wang is an assistant professor of Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara. She was recently featured in a SF Chronicle article about the social effects of coronavirus.

Her research focuses on …

Bonita Banducci teaches Gender and Engineering for Santa Clara University’s School of Engineering Graduate Program Core Curriculum. She was named a Silicon Valley Woman of Influence 2014 by the Silic…

Miah Jeffra is a writer, artist, curator and faculty in the English/Theater departments. A military brat, Jeffra moved throughout their childhood, but most identifies the South as home. Jeffra teach…

Andrew Ishak's (pronounced Isaac) work is focused on communication of teams and organizations that work in high-pressure situations, such as tactical police units, fire crews, and sports teams. His r…