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...
Director of Faculty and Departmental Diversity Initiatives
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Amy Scharf (she/her) has more than 20 years experience in educational equity and diversity leadership. She currently serves as UC Berkeley's Director of Faculty and Departmental Diversity Initiatives, where she leads departmental equity and inclusion planning efforts, directs key faculty DEIBJ programs, provides strategic consultation to campus departments and administrators, and leads a wide variety of equity and inclusion workshops and dialogues for faculty, staff and students. Her office is part of the Division of Equity & Inclusion.
Associate Vice Chancellor, Community Engagement & Transformative Care
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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...
Fabrizio Mejia is currently serving as Acting Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion while VC Dania Matos is on leave.
Fabrizio Mejia is a transformative leader in higher education, deeply committed to equity, transformation, and justice, and currently serves as the Acting Vice Chancellor for the Division of 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...
