2022 NOW Conference Presenters

Vaneese Johnson (she/her)

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, ownership, and self-direction.

As a powerhouse possibility creator and transformation instigator, Vaneese teaches and emboldens today’s professionals through her proprietary success fundamentals of Becoming Out Loud Daily (BOLD), Building in Your Gifts (BIG), and being Branded...

Veronica Padilla (she/her/ella)

Veronica Padilla (she/her/ella) was born and raised in Northern California, majored in Political Science and Spanish at Cal. She started her career at UC Berkeley in 1999 as an Admissions Assistant in the School of Law, progressed to be an undergraduate student adviser for the Department of Philosophy and was promoted to Manager. She moved on and was responsible for the administrative and financial management of the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures in addition to Buddhist Studies and currently oversees the Department of Earth & Planetary Science as well...

Vic Sanchez (they/he)

Vic Sánchez (they/he) is from Monterrey, Mexico and Dallas, Texas. They have been at UC Berkeley since 2014 and have served in multiple roles in Residential Life. Vic is currently the Assistant Director of Residential Life for University Village in Albany serving students and their families.

Before coming to UC Berkeley, Vic attended the University of Vermont and Texas A&M. Vic enjoys working in Residential Life and aims to incorporate an equity lens to their work. In their free time, Vic likes to workout, go for walks around SF and...

Wayne Kuang (he/him)

Wayne joined UC Berkeley in 2018 with over 20 years of extensive IT project management experience across multiple industries in higher education, healthcare, and telecommunications. Wayne has a proven track record in successfully managing infrastructure deployments, system implementations, operational analysis, financial budget planning and forecasting.

Prior to transitioning to the Technology Program Office in November 2020, Wayne was a project manager in UC Berkeley’s...

Yoshita Mukherjee

Yoshita Mukherjee joined the UC Berkeley, Technology Program Office in March 2020 with eleven years of prior career experience at UCSF. Her experience spans information services and technology related work in higher education and healthcare domains. She has worked with established organizations as well as startups, managing both local and global teams. Her project management approach is a hybrid model with progressive elaboration in phases and working closely with teams. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and an MBA.

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