Alumni Spotlights feature outstanding UC Santa Barbara alumni succeeding in their careers, proud of their Gaucho heritage.

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Through the annual Gaucho Gallop, high school P.E. teacher and coach Brian "Chuckie" Roth '97 hopes his students will give UCSB a go.
As the third generation of Gauchos in her family, Catherine Flaherty ’22 blazes a path all her own.
Traveler, teacher, matriarch, social activist, survivor—nonagenarian Harriett Beu Hankins came home to UCSB and found a wealth of new educational opportunities.
Shelley Iocona ’98 found computer science “intriguing yet intimidating.” Then she turned the industry on its axis.
Gina Fischer `07 works every day to improve women’s lives.
From Procter & Gamble to Clorox to Peet’s Coffee, master marketer Eric Lauterbach BA ’89 advises business professionals to listen to strangers, do the math, and create the space to try and to fail.