2022 NOW Conference Presenters

Orsolya Nadasdi (she/her)

Orsolya Nadasdi is an experienced higher ed professional. With a background in retail sales and advancement, her career trajectory spans several industries and skill sets including production, development and project management. Over the past 14 years at UC Berkeley, she has worked her way up from an analyst for frontline fundraisers, to a technical project management, and now she serves as the associate director in Data Quality and Management. Orsolya is deeply engaged with staff organizations and serves as Cal Women’s Network’s Professional Development Chair at UC...

Pamela Rich (she/her)

Pamela Rich has been an internal, organization development consultant with UC Berkeley’s People and Organization Development team, a unit of People and Culture, for 4 years. She has led groups all over campus through strategic planning, team building and goal setting projects. She works to balance process with results aiming for just the right amount of discussion and action planning. In her facilitation, she also seeks to promote a culture of inclusion and belonging appreciating a mindset of continuous improvement.

Before coming to Berkeley,...

Patricia Juarez (she/her/ella)

With 30 years of experience in the IT industry in both México and the U.S. Patricia is the Senior Business Systems Analyst for the Imagine team at Berkeley IT. The team provides enterprise document management system services to all campus departments. As the Senior BSA, Patricia has been instrumental in bringing campus departments towards paperless business processes through a series of complex projects, which in turn, has allowed her to successfully use a wide variety of communication tools.

As a leader in her community, Patricia is the...

Robert Amos (he/him)

Robert Amos has been in IT for two decades, with a focus on Public Cloud and Virtualization, he has skills of designing and maintaining large workloads on VMware, AWS (Amazon Web Services), and GCP (Google Cloud Platform). Prior to joining UC Berkeley in 2020, Robert has IT experience in Government and Health Care as a fully remote employee. And he is currently working on bringing more efficiency, security, and redundancy to Berkeley IT.

Over the last two years Robert enjoyed helping the community by volunteering with local North Bay Health...

Sam Griffin (she/her)

Sam has over 8 years of technical project management in university, health care and software development settings. She has spent the last few years at the University of the Pacific where she was responsible for leading university-wide projects, including the implementation of Office 365, the project to prevent dead-naming which required changes to most university systems, and a digital workspace implementation for faculty/students. Sam has an associate degree in Systems Administration and a bachelor degree in Network Communications Management from DeVry University. She is...

Sarah Bailey (she/her)

Sarah Bailey is the Service Lead for Content Collaboration Services at UC Berkeley, managing Box, Google Drive, and Sharepoint, and serves as an administrator for other productivity and collaboration tools in the portfolio.

Sarah brings 13 years of experience in IT service management to UC Berkeley, and is passionate about productivity tools. Much of Sarah’s responsibility includes effective change management and communication with the campus community. She also works closely with her teammates to continuously improve incident response....

Siti Keo (she/her)

Siti Keo was/is a refugee who came to the United States as an infant. She grew up in San Diego and now calls the Bay Area home. She completed her doctoral degree in Southeast Asian history at UC Berkeley, where she is currently the manager of the Linguistics Department. Before joining Linguistics in 2021, she worked as a financial analyst at the Department of Earth and Planetary Science. She has experience in other roles within the University, including being a student, graduate student instructor, a graduate student researcher and staff member of the L&S Dean’s...

Sonya Scott (she/her)

Sonya Scott has been an Adviser in the College of Letters & Science at UC Berkeley for over 21 years. Believing that each moment is a teachable moment, Sonya strives to act as a coach who will challenge, motivate, encourage, and celebrate students, while holding them accountable and providing a new perspective for them to consider. With a passion for working with underrepresented students, in L&S Sonya devotes expertise to the Sophomore Success Committee, the Arts & Humanities Neighborhood, and satellite advising at the African American Student...

Sydney Chaney-Thomas

Sydney is an instructor at UC Berkeley where she teaches Effective Leadership and Management. Sydney spent 20 plus years in the private sector working in corporate marketing for technology companies and startups. She currently runs her own C corporation Ocean SF, a sustainable social impact sailing apparel brand. Ocean SF marries her love of the outdoors, environmental causes and sportswear. Sydney lives in Moraga, California.

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Tiffany Reardon (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 UC's flagship campus by accepting a position in UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering. In her spare time, she enjoys writing and has two blogs Reufinder.com and RoseColoredLenses.com. In May of 2021 she...