Art Motta

Art Motta is a second year transfer and re-entry student pursuing bachelor’s degrees in Politics and Latin American & Latino Studies. Art is also a Transfer Student Peer Adviser at STARS.

May 04, 2015

By STARS Staff 



Art Motta is a second year transfer student pursuing bachelor’s degrees in Politics and Latin American & Latino Studies. Originally from Orange County, CA, Art transferred from Fullerton College where he obtained Associate of Arts Degrees in Political Science and Chicano Studies.  During his time at UC Santa Cruz, Art has served as an intern at El Centro, the Chicano Latino Resource Center, as a Porter College and MEChA Representative to the Student Union Assembly, and remains involved in a number of student groups including Porter College Student Senate, MEChA, and the SUA Office of External Affairs.

Art currently serves on the Board of Directors for the United States Student Association, the nation’s largest, oldest, student-led, student-run, non-profit student advocacy organization. He also serves as the Director of National Affairs in the Student Union Assembly where he advocates for student issues at the campus, local, state and federal level. His interest in public policy continues to be a contributing factor in his devotion to fighting for student needs, especially transfer students. Like Art, about 1/3 of UC undergraduates are transfer students and in 2013, 52% were the first in their families to attend college.

Art is currently a Transfer Student Peer Adviser at STARS. If you have any questions be sure to stop by the STARS Student Center located at Kresge 180.