From left, Michelle Alexander, Juju Chang, Annie Gutierrez and Loren Kieve. Photo by David Gonzales
On Friday morning, a reporter spotted an alumna looking at a map as she walked across campus and stopped to ask the woman if she needed directions. The visitor was looking for El Centro Chicano, and since the reporter was headed in that direction, they walked together. The alum marveled at how much the campus had changed, particularly its diversity. She said that when she arrived on campus in the late ’60s, she was one of only a handful of Chicano students. As they parted, the alumna introduced herself simply as “Annie.”
Fast-forward to Friday evening, the two ran into each other again, this time in Tresidder Union. “Annie,” it turned out, was ANNIE L. GUTIERREZ, JD ’71, a retired judge of the Superior Court of the State of California and a nationally and internationally recognized attorney. She was among four distinguished alumni being inducted into the Multicultural Alumni Hall of Fame.
Each year since 1995, inductees representing the campus’ four ethnic community centers are honored during Reunion Homecoming Weekend.
In addition to Gutierrez, who represented El Centro, the other inductees for this year were JUJU CHANG, ’87; MICHELLE ALEXANDER, JD ’92; and LOREN KIEVE, ’69.
Chang, an Emmy Award-winning correspondent for ABC News, was inducted by the Asian American Activities Center. She also served as moderator for this year’s Roundtable at Stanford.
Alexander, the Black Community Services Center’s inductee, is a law professor at Ohio State University. A civil rights advocate and litigator, Alexander is the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
Kieve, a distinguished trial lawyer and legal scholar who has led several state and American Bar associations, has advanced the fields of civil justice reform, civil rights, and evidence rules and policies. Inducted by the Native American Cultural Center, Kieve is a champion of native arts and culture and interdisciplinary undergraduate education.
—ELAINE RAY