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As a scholar/artist/activist, Dr. Johnson’s research and activism focus on narratives of identity, protest, healing, and social justice in digital media, popular media, and everyday lived experiences. As a polymath, their mixed-media artistry involves working with metals, recycled and reclaimed goods, photography, poetry, percussion, and paint to interrogate systems of oppression and create capacity for different, critical futures. Dr. Amber Johnson is the Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff in the Division for Equity & Inclusion at University of California...

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Ashley brings over a decade of experience as a marketing and communications professional. She works in higher education developing communications plans and campaigns that deepen community engagement and advance cohesive narratives. She is passionate about understanding and solving problems for others—especially in respect to equity, impact, and access—through social media and web strategy and challenging both herself and others to put the user/client first. She enjoys creating “A-ha” moments for others through clear and beautifully presented information. Outside of work, you...

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Amy Scharf (she/her) has more than 20 years experience in educational equity and diversity leadership. She currently serves as the Division of Equity & Inclusion's Director of Faculty and Departmental Initiatives, where she leads departmental equity and inclusion planning efforts, directs key faculty programs, provides strategic consultation to campus departments and administrators, and leads a wide variety of workshops and dialogues for faculty, staff, students and campus leaders.

Before coming to Berkeley, Amy spent many years in the non-profit education sector...

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Gadise Regassa (she/her) is the new Faculty and Departmental DEIBJ Initiatives project manager. With 10 years of experience in higher education, non-profit organizations, and business consulting firms, Gadise is passionate about using research and programming to advance anti-oppressive policies and practices in academic and work contexts.

Dorit Price-Levine is a licensed attorney-mediator and a professional facilitator, specializing in supporting people to speak effectively across their differences on polarizing and divisive topics. Trained in Transformative Mediation and Non-Violent Communication, Dorit has worked with hundreds of institutions across the country. Her clients have included national nonprofits, corporations, universities, government agencies, and communities of faith. Previously a Senior Associate at the Consensus Building Institute and Deputy Director of Resetting the Table, Dorit designs and leads...

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Fabrizio Mejia is currently serving as Interim Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion

Fabrizio Mejia is a transformative leader in higher education, deeply committed to equity, transformation, and justice, and currently serves as Interim Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion at UC Berkeley.

In his permanent role as Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Equity and Success in the Division of Equity and Inclusion, Fabrizio oversees programs such as the Basic Needs Center, Berkeley Underground Scholars, the Centers for Educational Equity and Excellence (CE3), the...

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Julian Ledesma is currently serving as Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Equity and Success

Julian comes from a family of undocumented immigrants and a bracero father. The youngest and only US born member of his family, he is a product of blue collar and racially diverse East Oakland. Before starting his role as Interim AVC, Julian served as the Senior Executive Director of the Centers for Educational Equity and Excellence (CE3), helping to lead a cluster of over ten programs that specialize in serving communities of systemically marginalized students at...

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Dr. Elisa Diana Huerta (they/them/elle) is a Brawley born and Tejas raised organizer, educator, artesanx, and scholar. They did their undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin and their doctoral work at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Elisa’s scholarship and teaching focuses on expressive culture, women of color feminist praxis, hemispheric Indigeneity, radical pedagogy, and community-based research. As the Founding Director of the UC Berkeley Multicultural Community Center (MCC), and now Associate Vice Chancellor of Community Engagement &...