Bio/CV
Pronouns - she/her
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, directing state and national training initiatives on cultural competence, multicultural education, bias-based harassment, racial justice, LGBTQ+ and gender equity, and organizational transformation. She holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Studies from the Berkeley School of Education, and has authored a number of research studies, toolkits, curricula, and teaching/training guides. In addition to her work at Berkeley, Amy also holds a faculty position at Saint Mary's College of California in the Master of Arts in Leadership Program.
