UC Berkeley law student Marlenee Blas Pedral named student regent for 2022-23

The University of California Board of Regents has appointed University of California, Berkeley School of Law student Marlene Blas Pedral as the 48th student regent.

Blas Pedral’s ties to the UC system run deep — aside from being a rising second-year law student at UC Berkeley law, Blas Pedral also received a bachelor’s degree in global studies from UC Santa Barbara, was a career counselor at UC Riverside and served as associate director of the school’s Center for Social Innovation.