2025 DSLB Bios

Reagan Adams is a 2nd year History of Art and Visual Culture student! Her favorite part of being HAVC student is all the support made available from within the department through HAVC representatives and faculty! On campus, Reagan is also an Event Manager for the Commercial Events and Marketing Office, a director for UC Santa Cruz’s own Rocky Horror Shadow Cast: Slugs in Fishnets, and has served as a choreographer for various productions. 

Elijah (he/him/his) is a 4th year art major, whose primary practice is shoemaking. You are most likely to find him in the on-campus studios surrounded by scraps of old shoes and blasting an eclectic range of music. His shoemaking focuses on circularity and upcycling, using old sneakers and other textiles to craft new, wearable footwear. His interests in art making include circularity, movement, and cultural extension through the Object. He studied abroad in London for the 2023 – 2024 academic year, and loves to spread the word on the indispensable opportunities UCEAP offers to students, and more importantly how feasible study abroad is to students in the Art department.

Helene is a fourth year Film and Digital Media Major at UCSC. She is originally from Pacifica, CA but has spent the last year studying abroad at the University of Sussex in England. Her interests include screenwriting, producing, and aerial cinematography. Outside of school, she enjoys spending time with her cat, Diego, thrifting, drawing, and attending midnight film screenings.

Michael (he/him) is a third-year major in Creative Technologies. He was originally from the Philippines and moved to California when he was 4. He has a passion for both computers and digital design, and is currently expanding his knowledge in all aspects of these topics to land a career with UX/UI design. In his free time he is either working out, working on his backlog of Gundam model kits, or strumming his guitar. If you have any questions or just need a friend, please reach out to him!

Xander Patnoe is a 4th-year Music major, in the Contemporary Practices track and Electronic Music Minor. She has been studying classical voice, having been in two UCSC Opera productions and is a member of the UCSC Chamber Choir. She also focuses heavily on composition, she credits her music theory, composition, and electronic music professors with helping her develop a unique craft as a composer. She makes music as eclipse.xiv, and has two full-length albums out in addition to one sample-based mixtape. She is also the UCSC Music Department Peer Advisor, where she advises prospective music students on each major & minor, from a student’s perspective.