Academic Labor Relations Coordination

Responsible for providing oversight of strategic campus-wide alignment and policy decisions. 

Executive Sponsor

• Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost - Ben Hermalin

Functional Leaders

• Vice Provost, Faculty — Vicky Plaut
• Vice Provost, Graduate Studies — Lisa Garcia Bedolla
• Vice Chancellor, Administration — Marc Fisher
• Vice Chancellor, Research — Kathy Yelick
• Chief People & Culture Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources — Eugene Whitlock
• Assistant Vice Provost, Academic Personnel Office — Heather Archer

Academic Unit Leaders

• Academic Senate Chair — Max Auffhammer

• CoSED Rep, Dean, Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences  —  Steven Kahn

• CoHSSD Rep, Dean, Division of  Social Sciences — Raka Ray

• Assistant Executive Dean, College of Letters & Science — Amy Robinson

Team Management and Support

• Special Advisor to the Provost on Academic Labor Relations Coordination and Haas Chief Administrative Officer — Courtney Chandler

• Assistant Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff — Andrea Lambert-Tan

• Office of Legal Affairs — Nicole Pereira, Principal Campus Counsel

• Interim Associate Vice Chancellor, Communications & Public Affairs — Roqua Montez

• Project Manager — Isabel Nguyen, Senior Project Manager, Business Process Management Office

• Subject matter experts will be added to specific meetings on an adhoc basis as needed (e.g., staff from payroll, academic ELR, grad div, etc.)

Represent key stakeholders to consult and address contract implementation and operational issues arising from the implementation of academic labor contracts.  

Convener

• UAW Campus Coordination Leader and Haas Chief Administrative Officer - Courtney Chandler

• Senior Project Manager, Business Process Management Office - Isabel Nguyen 

Functional Leaders

• Chief People & Culture Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources - Eugene Whitlock

• Assistant Vice Provost, Academic Personnel Office - Heather Archer  

• Assistant Dean, Graduate Student Services - Andrea Rex

Team Members

• Academic Personnel Office, Manager, Academic Employee & Labor Relations - Veronica Garcia

• Employee & Labor Relations

• Director, Employee & Labor Relations - Carrie Ann Colton

• ELR Academic Manager - Patricia Cano

• Team Addison Employee & Labor Relations Consultants

• Chi-Chi Chukwu

• Jasmine Bermudez

• Peter Ishaya

• Rose Rouille

• Academic Department Representatives

• Executive Assistant Dean, College of Letters & Science - Amy Robinson, 

• Assistant Dean, Administration and Finance, Rausser College of Natural Resources - Lee Borrowman

• Department Manager City & Regional Planning - Natasha Gillooly

• Graduate Student Funding Analyst, College of Letters & Science - Solomon Lefler 

• Berkeley Regional Services

• Assistant Vice Chancellor & Executive Director, Business Operations - Seamus Wilmot

• Executive Director, ERSO - Cynthia Weekley

• Regional Director, SHARE - Teal Sexton 

• Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research

• Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff to the Vice Chancellor for Research - Elizabeth Brashers

• Senior Manager of Visiting Scholars and Postdoc Affairs (VSPA) -Cecilia Fura

• Human Resources Administrator - Laura Mays 

• Office of the Vice Chancellor for Finance

• Associate Vice Chancellor & Controller - Mike Riley

• Director, Payroll & Timekeeping - Crystal Parkinson

• Director, Contracts & Grants Accounting - Elizabeth Chavez

• Executive Director, Budget and Financial Operations - Rita d’Escoto 

• Graduate Division

  • Assistant Dean for Student Services - Andrea Rex

  •  Director of Student Funding - Ken Mahru 

• Communications & Public Affairs, Senior Director of Strategic Communications - Janet Gilmore 

• Office of Legal Affairs, Principal Campus Counsel - Nicole Pereira 

• Government & Community Relations, Executive Director - Esther Gulli

• Office of the EVCP, Academic Affairs Manager - Kristine Lee Wilby