Associate Professor of Economics George Bulman's research focuses on the economics of education, and public and labor economics. Recent articles include papers concerning the impact of COVID-19 on community college enrollment and student success, and parental resources and college attendance. Dr. Bulman was also featured in The Routledge Handbook of Economics Education 1. He received a B.S. in Mathematics from Haverford College, followed by a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.

Assistant Professor of Teaching. Dr. Córdoba is interested in developing novel statistical methods to address scientific questions related to the environment, and turning those experiences of interdisciplinary collaboration into teaching methods for statistics and data science. Her areas of application include climate models, biophysics, and spectrophotometry, among others. Dr. Córdoba is committed to practicing open science and she believes in mentoring young scientists. She is a founding member of the R-ladies chapter in San José, Costa Rica.

Tesla Jeltema is a faculty member in the Physics Department and the Associate Director of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics. She is also currently serving as the Deputy Spokesperson for the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration. Her research interests focus on constraining the nature of dark matter and dark energy using the formation and evolution of large-scale structure in the universe. Outside of work, she spends her time with her two, crazy kids; she is also a competitive open water swimmer and among other swims has swum the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco and the roughly 13 miles from Anacapa island to the coast of California.

Dr. Lauren Lyons is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy department. She joined UCSC in the fall of 2024 after completing her PhD at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. She regularly teaches courses in ethics, philosophy of law, and social and political philosophy. She is especially committed to engaging students in philosophical reflection on the pressing political and moral questions of our time—such as immigration, climate change, democracy, abortion, and the ethics of war. Dr. Lyons’s research explores moral and political issues within the criminal legal system, with current projects examining the ethics of policing, incarceration, and surveillance. Outside of her academic work, she enjoys hiking, cooking, and watching marine wildlife in the Monterey Bay. 

Dimitris Papadopoulos is Professor of History of Consciousness in the Department of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a transdisciplinary researcher working at the intersections of technoscience studies, socio-cultural theory, visual studies, and political ecology. His most recent books include "Ecological Reparation. Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict" (Bristol UP, 2024); "Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice" (Duke UP, 2021); "Experimental Practice. Technoscience, Alterontologies and More-Than-Social Movements" (Duke UP, 2018).

Catherine Ramírez, Professor and Chair of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz, is a scholar of Latinx literature, history, visual culture, and performance. Her expertise includes immigration and assimilation, historical memory and erasure, Mexican American women’s history, zoot suits and style politics, and Latinxfuturism. In addition to authoring many books and essays, she's written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. A first-generation college graduate, she's originally from Monterey Park, CA.