Eva Whitney was the Arts Research Center's Communications Assistant from Jan 2023 through August 2024. It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Eva passed away in December 2024. We are heartbroken at the loss of such a generous, vibrant, kind and brilliant light.
Eva was a graduate from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in comparative literature. Born and raised in San Francisco, she attended Ruth Asawa School of the Arts for creative writing and has been immersed in the city’s art scene her entire life. She has led poetry workshops at 826 Valencia, been a gallery assistant, ran a multilingual creative writing publication through the Comparative Literature Department at UC Berkeley, and worked as ARC’s communications assistant from 2023 through August 2024. Her work has been featured in the likes of NYU’s brio Literary Journal and BAMPFA’s Student Committee Film Festival. In the future, she hopes to work in publishing & editing.