UCLA News and Stories | California Edition | November 2025
Bruin-led Businesses: Nonprofits
From advancing medical science to promoting the arts, protecting the environment to fighting injustice, these organizations founded or led by UCLA alumni are improving the quality of life in our communities.
Advocate for our University by sharing why UCLA is meaningful to you. How has it lifted you up or impacted the health of a loved one? These stories will be shared with policy-makers to demonstrate that their constituents want them to stand up for UCLA.
Throughout the month, we’re sharing life-stage specific advice from webinars, as well as job search tools and professional development resources that hold relevance at different points in your career.
View the overlapping image comparison of Broxton Avenue in Westwood Village from the 1930s to today. This 14,000 square foot pedestrian thoroughfare would be recognizable in any era thanks to three iconic structures that have endured for over 90 years.
Warm weather, prestigious schools, freedom of speech... it's the American "California" dream for this UCLA Extension graduate from Moscow. She cherishes the liberties we often take for granted and warns of an alternative reality she knows all too well.