James Dudek is a Senior Organizational Strategist for People & Culture. He serves as an executive adviser to campus leadership on organizational development, strategy, culture, psychology and change. James began his professional journey at Berkeley as a Senior Clerk Typist A. Over the past 30 years he has grown his career and along the way has been in seven distinct job categories (including academic advising, policy analysis, organizational development, and chief of staff roles) in three academic departments, three colleges, and four divisions.
Susan Cass began her career as the receptionist for the Graduate School of Business followed by the undergraduate orientation program coordinator at Stanford (sorry, Berkeley didn’t make an offer). From there she served as resident hall director (University of Washington), and admissions counselor (Pitzer College). Eventually, Berkeley made that offer and here she has served as a major adviser, departmental scheduler, GSAO, college adviser, dean’s executive assistant and strategic planning analyst, analyst and staff support for the L&S faculty Executive Committee,...
Aileen Liu began her career as a high school English teacher in Atlanta Public Schools. Missing being a student, she came to UC Berkeley for her PhD in English, then taught English literature at a small liberal arts college in Connecticut. Looking for a more stable career, and wanting to be closer to her loved ones in California, she pivoted into higher education administration at the UC. She has been an Academic Policy Coordinator at UCLA Graduate Division, a Principal Policy Analyst at UCLA Academic Senate, and now Director of Curricular Engagement Initiatives at L&S...