Diversity Resources and Professionals
Various colleges within the University have diversity directors — professionals committed to cultivating a campus environment that will value and actively seek to promote diversity. The individuals listed below work to increase the number of underrepresented scholars who will enroll and graduate from UC Berkeley graduate programs. Please contact them for assistance and support.
Diversity Directors
- Gloria Chun
Graduate Diversity Director
College of Letters & Science, Social Sciences
158 Barrows Hall
(510) 642-5565
Email: gchun@berkeley.edu
Social Sciences Graduate Diversity Office - Sheila Humphreys, Ph.D.
Director of Diversity
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
203 Cory Hall
(510) 643-1974
Email: humphrys@eecs.berkeley.edu
Diversity Programs, EECS - Audrey Knowlton
Biological Sciences Graduate Diversity Director
College of Letters & Science, Biological Sciences
158 Barrows Hall
(510) 642-5113
Email: knowlton@berkeley.edu
Graduate Diversity Outreach, Biological Sciences - Josephine Moreno, Ph.D.
Graduate Diversity Director
College of Letters & Science, Arts & Humanities
158 Barrows Hall
(510) 642-5575
Email: morenojm@berkeley.edu
Graduate Student Outreach & Diversity
- Colette Patt, Ph.D.
Director, Student Diversity Program
College of Letters & Science, Physical Sciences
101 Durant Hall
(510) 642-0794
Email: colette@berkeley.edu
Science Diversity Office - Abby M. Rincon, MPH
Director of Diversity
School of Public Health
141 University Hall, Suite J
(510) 643-7900
Email: arincon@berkeley.edu
Diversity, School of Public Health - Vanessa M. Rivera, Ed.D.
Executive Director, Student Academic Affairs
College of Engineering
230 Bechtel Hall
(510) 642-7594
Email: cblf@berkeley.edu
Graduate Academic Diversity Program
Resources
- Office of Equity & Inclusion
Gibor Basri
Vice Chancellor
(510) 642-7294
Email: vcei@berkeley.edu - Graduate Division
Associate Dean, Graduate Divison
Office: 424 Sproul Hall
(510) 642-5472
grdean.support@berkeley.edu - American Indian Graduate Program
Carmen Foghorn
Director
598/597 Barrows Hall
(510) 642-3228
Email: carmenf@berkeley.edu
Web: grad.berkeley.edu/aigp - Graduate Diversity Program
Carla Trujillo, PhD
Director
327 Sproul Hall
(510) 643-7550
Email: carlat@berkeley.edu
Web: grad.berkeley.edu/diversityprogram - Graduate Diversity Program
Cynthia Ladd-Viti
Outreach & Summer Research Coordinator
327 Sproul Hall
(510) 643-2103
Email: clv@berkeley.edu
Web: grad.berkeley.edu/diversityprogram - Graduate Financial Aid
John Choppy
Assistant Director
211 Sproul Hall
(510) 642-6442
Email: fao_grad@berkeley.edu
Web: students.berkeley.edu/finaid
- Graduate Services: Fellowships
318 Sproul Hall
(510) 642-0672
Email: gradfell@berkeley.edu
Web: www.grad.berkeley.edu/financial/ - Gender Equity Resource Center
202 Cesar Chavez Student Center
(510) 642-4786
Email: geneq@berkeley.edu
Web: geneq.berkeley.edu - Graduate Assembly
Anthony Hall
(510) 642-2175
Web: ga.berkeley.edu - Housing & Dining Services
2601 Channing Way
(510) 642-2456
Web: www.housing.berkeley.edu - Night Escort Services
642-WALK
642-9555 - UC Berkeley Child Care Services
2339 Haste St. Berkeley, CA
(510) 642-1827
Web: www.housing.berkeley.edu/child/contact.html - University Health Services
Tang Center, 2222 Bancroft Way
(510) 642-2000
Web: uhs.berkeley.edu
Professional
- Architecture
Lois Ito-Koch
Student Affairs Officer
370 Wurster Hall
(510) 642-5577, likoch@berkeley.edu
Web: arch.ced.berkeley.edu - City & Regional Planning
Yeri Caesar-Kaptoech
Student Affairs Officer
228 Wurster Hall
(510) 643-9440
Email: ycaesark@berkeley.edu
Web: www.dcrp.ced.berkeley.edu - Graduate School of Education
Rochele Fraga
Admissions Coordinator
1607 Tolman Hall
510) 642-0841
Email: gse_info@berkeley.edu
Web: gse.berkeley.edu - Goldman School of Public Policy
Jalilah LaBrie
Coordinator, Admissions & Student Affairs Officer
2607 Hearst Avenue, Room 241
(510) 642-1940
Email: jalilah@berkeley.edu
Web: gspp.berkeley.edu - Haas School of Business
S430 Haas
Stephanie Fujii
Director of Admissions, MBA Program
(510) 642-1405
Email: sfujii@haas.berkeley.edu - Kim Guilfoyle
Administrative Director, Ph.D. Program
(510) 642-3944
Email: kimg@haas.berkeley.edu
Web: www.haas.berkeley.edu - Health & Medical Sciences
Jessea Greenman
Student Affairs Officer
570 University Hall
(510) 642-5671
Email: jmp@berkeley.edu
Web: jmp.berkeley.edu - Health Services & Policy Analysis
Dion Shimatsu-Ong
Program Manager
247C University Hall
(510) 643-8571
Email: hspa_phd@berkeley.edu
Web: hspa.berkeley.edu
- Information Management & Systems
Meg St. John
Director of Admissions and Student Affairs
102 South Hall
(510) 642-1465
Email: admissions@ischool.berkeley.edu
Web: www.ischool.berkeley.edu - Journalism
Cory Welch
Admissions Coordinator
121 North Gate Hall
(510) 643-7928
Email: cwelch@berkeley.edu
Web: journalism.berkeley.edu - Landscape Architecture
Tony Tieu
Student Affairs Officer
206 Wurster Hall
(510) 642-2965
Email: laepgrad@berkeley.edu
Web: www.laep.ced.berkeley.edu - School of Law/Jurisprudence
Kristin Theis-Alvarez
Associate Director of Admissions
2850 Telegraph Ave., Suite 500
(510) 643-8441
Email: ktalvarez@law.berkeley.edu
Web: www.law.berkeley.edu - School of Public Health
Graduate Recruitment & Diversity Services (GRADS)
(510) 642-6698
Email: sphgrads@berkeley.edu
Web: sph.berkeley.edu - School of Social Welfare
Melanie Green
Admissions and Student Services Coordinator
120 Haviland Hall
(510) 642-9043
Email: melanieg@berkeley.edu
Web: socialwelfare.berkeley.edu
Student Organizations
- African American Graduate Women
Web: ga.berkeley.edu/projects/woci - American Indian Graduate Student Association (AIGSA)
Email: aigp@berkeley.edu - Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA)
Email: apalsa@law.berkeley.edu - Black Graduate Engineering and Science Students (BGESS)
Email: officers@bgess.berkeley
- Graduate Minority Student Project & Graduate Women’s Project
Email: gmsp@ga.berkeley.edu, gwp@ga.berkeley.edu - Latino Association of Graduate Students (LAGSES)
Email: lagsesboard@lists.berkeley.edu - Queer Grads
Email: grads@queer.berkeley.edu
Web: queer.berkeley.edu/grads
This is a partial list. Click here to view the full student group listing.
