Best of CASE District VII Award
 

Institution: University of California, Berkeley

Title of entry: Berkeley Voices

About this entry: Berkeley Voices is a podcast from UC Berkeley Strategic Communications. It’s produced, edited and hosted by Anne Brice. It runs throughout the academic year, with a new episode coming out once a month.

The podcast explores the work and lives of fascinating UC Berkeley faculty, students, staff, and visiting scholars and artists. It aims to educate listeners about Berkeley’s advances in teaching and research, to spark curiosity about the deeper layers of American and world history that are explored by our prominent scholars and to build awareness and community across our diverse campus.

Each season, the podcast centers on a theme that bridges Berkeley’s core priorities with the broader cultural landscape. For the 2025-26 academic year, Berkeley Voices is exploring the impact of Berkeley research — on both a personal level and profound scale — with the theme “two sides of a story.”

The two podcast episodes in this CASE Circle of Excellence submission are: “For 50 years, she recorded her Pomo language. Her voice is helping this student reclaim his culture.” and “Wikipedia as resistance: This UC Berkeley class makes queer contributions visible.”

Part of the “two sides of a story” series, the episodes highlight the impact of reclaiming marginalized narratives, from the preservation of an Indigenous language to the strategic use of digital platforms to ensure LGBTQ+ histories are no longer omitted from the record. Both episodes explore how documenting the past is not a passive act, but a powerful tool for cultural survival and social resistance.