Aaron Trammell is a dedicated professional with almost 12 years of experience at UC Davis Health, where he has held diverse roles ranging from IT to Research, to Training and Development. Currently, he serves as an Education and Development Consultant with the Experience Design Team at UC Davis...Read more about Aaron Trammel he/him/his
Alex Budak is a UC Berkeley Faculty Member, social entrepreneur, and author who works at the intersection of leadership, change, and impact. At UC Berkeley, he created and teaches the transformative course "Becoming a Changemaker," and is Faculty Director of the Berkeley Haas Global Access...Read more about Alex Budak
Ali Linder is a Partner and Client Manager for Mercer and is based in San Francisco. She has provided consulting services on a wide range of health and welfare benefits topics and has published white papers for the California Healthcare Foundation. Ali works with clients to...Read more about Ali Linder
Allison serves as Manager, Special Projects and Staff Engagement in the Office of Medical Education at UCSF. In this role, she both serves as a project manager for Medical Education leadership and as the leader of a successful staff engagement program for the 115 professionals...Read more about Allison Savage
Over the past 15 years, McClintock has been working as a diversity, equity, and inclusion educator, consultant, and strategist as well as an Ethnic Studies high school educator. She has helped create curriculums and training surrounding BIPOC and LGBTQ2+ inclusion and equity in collegiate...Read more about Britt McClintock (she/they)
Carmen Soriano serves as a trainer with Learning and Development, Human Resources, on the Davis Campus. In her role, she supports employee engagement, management development, customer service, career services, live session production, and the UC Learning Center. Passionate about helping the UC...Read more about Carmen Soriano
Catherine Miller is a Senior Principal at Mercer. With 25 years of healthcare industry experience, Catherine has leadership responsibility for large employers in the technology, retail, and public utilities industries, managing strategy development and ensuring client...Read more about Catherine Miller
Eva serves as the Resident Diversity and Recruitment Coordinator with the Office of Student and Resident Diversity at UC Davis Health; she is the principal staff responsible for planning and implementing diversity activities and programs for residents and leading recruitment events (such...Read more about Eva Lee (she/her)
Fatima Alleyne, Ph.D., is the Chief Diversity and Ethics Officer at the American Physical Society (APS), bringing her passion and love for science, technology, engineering, math, and education into her work to drive transformational change and advance diversity, equity, inclusion...Read more about Fatima Alleyne
Inga Bielinska is MCC ICF, team coach, mentor coach, and coach supervisor.
She works globally with clients who undergo change, both organizational and individual, struggle with managing remote and culturally diverse teams, or find...Read more about Inga Arianna Bielinska
Jonathan Gordin is a Partner in the HR Transformation segment of Mercer’s Career business, based in Los Angeles. His expertise is in managing complex projects and assessing structure, processes, technology, and quality within HR/shared service environments. Mr. Gordin's clients...Read more about Jonathan Gordin
Josh Gibson coaches leaders to make positive changes and grow their professional skill sets leveraging 15+ years as a therapist and 10+ years in business. His brain-based approach helps leaders enhance their intellectual and emotional processes to find wise paths and processes...Read more about Josh Gibson
Julie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Employee Assistance Counselor at UC Berkeley’s Be Well at Work Program. She has experience providing therapeutic support and extensive case management assistance to individuals and families. She has a specialty background in...Read more about Julie Resnik (she/her)
Kala is a K-12 educator and systems thinker who seeks to grow in and cultivate the strengths of our communities. Stepter has redesigned classroom and school cultures to deconstruct systems of oppression by implementing the liberatory design model for families and community stakeholders,...Read more about Kala Stepter (she/her)
Kelsey Duff is an executive & leadership coach and learning & organizational development professional. She manages a portfolio of professional & leadership development programs and initiatives, where she helps UCLA employees increase their impact and enhance their...Read more about Kelsey Duff
Kim Sapp Dinwiddie has been at Berkeley for 21.5 years. She is the Assistant Director in Talent Management and Workforce Planning at University Development and Alumni Relations. Kim provides human resources and organizational consulting/coaching, instructional design...Read more about Kim Sapp Dinwiddie
Kiran Johl is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Employee Assistance Counselor at UC Berkeley’s Be Well at Work Program. Her background is rooted in providing trauma-informed counseling and group therapy for survivors of abuse. She is a child of immigrants, and has a special...Read more about Kiran Johl (she/her)
Dr. Kristin Dees is currently a Senior Trainer for Learning and Development at UC Davis. She served as the Director of the Center for Student Involvement for six years and has 19 experience years in higher education. Kristin is a founding and active member of the Critical Whiteness and Anti-...Read more about Kristin Dees
Laura Hassner is a professional faculty member at Berkeley Haas and is the strategic advisor to UC Berkeley’s Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer. She is the Executive Director of the Berkeley Changemaker® , whose courses...Read more about Laura Hassner
Lian’s career in Higher Education has traversed two UC Campuses and multiple functional areas but has always centered upon a clear mission: creating more equitable educational experiences for students. Her passion for equity in higher education began as a student leader-turned-career staff...Read more about Lian Boos (she/her)
Liesel lives for helping people. After three fulfilling decades of supporting managers and leaders solve business problems through information technology solutions, Liesel set out to assist people to find their path to meaningful work and become purpose-driven leaders. She...Read more about Liesel Mendoza
Lyndon Huling is the Manager for Leadership Recruitment, Temporary Staffing, & Diversity Services at UC Davis. He has a Doctoral Degree in Educational Leadership from UC Davis and completed his undergraduate education at UC Davis as well. In each of Dr. Huling’s roles, he...Read more about Lyndon Huling (he/him)
Dr. Michelle Hector Branner is an exceptional business instructor with significant industry experience. She has 14 years of successful experience in the financial industry in investment banking, training, human resource management, and leading teams of more than 250 people. She...Read more about Michelle Hector Branner
Monae Roberts joined UC Davis Veterinary Medicine last week as the school’s first Chief Diversity Officer. They have previously served on the main UC Davis campus as Director of the LGBTQIA Resource Center and a program coordinator at the Cross Cultural Center. After a brief stint off...Read more about Monae Roberts (they/she)
Nicole Resch is a co-founder of Imperative, a relationship platform that helps people build meaningful connections at work through high-impact conversations...the kind that used to only be possible when face to face. She co-authored “Making Work Meaningful,” a joint research project with PwC,...Read more about Nicole Resch
With an academic background in Social and Behavioral Sciences and professional experience in nonprofit technology program development, Priyanka embodies a deep passion and respect for community involvement in advancing meaningful and sustainable social impact solutions. Her...Read more about Priyanka Karki
RobbieLyn Tesnado is the Chief Administrative Officer(CAO) overseeing divisional finance, operations, and human resources within the Vice Chancellor’s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at UC Davis. As a key advisor to the vice chancellor and senior leadership,...Read more about Robbie (RobbieLyn) Tesnado
Sasha Ann Keller is the Assistant Director, Corporate & Foundation Relations in the College of Engineering. Sasha connects industry and individual partners with UC Berkeley's mission to educate inclusive leaders and create knowledge equitably to serve a diverse society. With over 20 years of...Read more about Sasha Ann Keller
Sherri has a B.S. in Speech Pathology from CSU Sacramento and a J.D. from Lincoln Law School in Sacramento. She has worked in a variety of industries ranging from automotive, to real estate title and escrow, to law firms, and now intellectual property and technology transfer. Sherri began...Read more about Sherri Gini (she/her)
For over twenty years Tiffany Reardon has been working in higher education designing programs that support students pursuing degrees in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (STEM). In 2012, she joined Berkeley by accepting a position in the College
Dr. Tracy Pascua Dea is the Academic Climate Program Director, Office for Faculty Equity & Welfare at UC Berkeley. She was the former Chief Diversity Officer and Executive Director of Student Services at Berkeley Journalism. Tracy has more than 20 years of experience in...Read more about Tracy Pascua Dea
Vaneese Johnson, The Boldness Coach™, is a Global Leadership Coach, Keynote Speaker, Brand Strategist, and Author. She teaches, empowers, and challenges professionals to step into their Bold, Big & Bad ™ and up-level their career choices and successes with intention,...Read more about Vaneese Johnson
Verna Bowie joined the UC Berkeley community in 2006 as a volunteer researcher in the Berkeley Natural History Museums before securing a staff research associate position in the Department of Integrative Biology. In 2012 Verna joined the Vice Chancellor for Research office, where...Read more about Verna Bowie