Lupita Rodriguez

Lupita Rodriguez served as the Supervising Communication Specialist at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society (CSTMS) at UC Berkeley, where she oversaw all visual and written communications. After graduating UC Berkeley, she has been contracted as the department's principal web designer where she led the complete migration of the CSTMS wordpress website onto Open Berkeley. Her expertise includes web development, article writing, graphic design, and strategic communication. Lupita has gained proficiency in HTML and JavaScript, focusing on enhancing web accessibility by auditing and fixing WordPress code to ensure ADA compliance. Self taught, Lupita continued to pursue employment in computer science as a TA for Hartnell College's cybersecurity and nanoprogramming summer courses. In this position, she has fine tuned her knowledge of cybersecutiy, wireshark, and linux. For any website-related questions, please contact her at guadalupe_cr@berkeley.edu.

Lupita earned an Associate of Arts in Sociology from Hartnell College and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley. She is currently pursuing graduate studies in Speech-Language Pathology, where her research centers on the intersection of technology and communication disorders. Her work investigates the effectiveness of telepractice for diverse populations, such as children with apraxia of speech in rural areas and the remote implementation challenges of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for non-verbal children with cerebral palsy.