RAPDP Trainer

Amy Lee Frithsen

Amy currently teaches Customer Service for the RA in the RAPDP series.

Andrew Scarbeary-Simmons

Andrew currently teaches Fund Management in the RAPDP series

Angela Brito Baldwin (she/her/hers)

Principal Research Administrator, ERSO

Angela Brito Baldwin is a Principal Research Administrator with eight years of experience in research administration, bringing a diverse portfolio of expertise across a broad range of institutional and operational areas. In addition to her administrative background, she has more than 25 years of experience in training and professional development, delivering engaging instruction across a wide variety of subjects.

She currently serves as a trainer for the HR for the RA, Customer Service for the RA, and New Awards courses within the Research Administration Professional
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David Wolf

David currently teaches Budget Development in the RAPDP series.

Deborah Howard

Deborah currently teaches Federal Cost Policy & Compliance in the RAPDP series.

Eboni Wilson

Eboni currently teaches HR for the RA in the RAPDP series. She also helped develop the HR for the RA Basics eCourse.

Erica Whitney (she/her/hers)

Associate Director, BRDO

Erica is BRDO’s Associate Director for Strategy and Training. Erica provides a wide range of strategic initiative and proposal development services, with expertise in facilitating team building and team science, project conceptualization, proposal organization, and editing. Erica also has significant experience providing training on proposal development, NIH and NSF policies and programs, and scientific writing. Erica has supported research development efforts at UC Berkeley since 2010, building on her research development positions at UC Davis and the UC Davis...

Hannah Holloway

Hannah currently teaches Cost Share and Non-Federal Cost Policy & Compliance in the RAPDP series, and helped develop the Cost Share Basics eCourse.

John Zurik

John supports the Budget Development class in the RAPDP series, and has taught the class in the past. John also helped develop the Budget Development Basics eCourses.

Kate Lewis (she/her)

Associate Director, Industry Alliances Office

Kate has more than 20 years of experience in research administration at UC Berkeley. She started as a pre-award RA in the Berkeley Seismological Lab back in 2005, worked in SPO for a few years on both the subaward team and as a Contract and Grant Officer, and moved to the Industry Alliances Office in the summer of 2013. As an Associate Director in IAO, Kate leads a team of industry contracts officers and negotiates contracts ranging from industry sponsored research to unfunded agreements, like material transfers, data use and transfers, and non-...