Dear UC Berkeley community,
On behalf of UC Berkeley’s Excellence in Advising and Student Services Awards Committee and the Council on Advising and Student Support, we are delighted to announce the recipients of our 2023 Excellence in Advising and Student Services Awards. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all of the nominators who took the time to recognize the impactful contributions of our recipients on student learning, engagement, and belonging on the Berkeley campus. Congratulations to each of the award recipients on this important achievement. Recipients will be featured in our in-person Celebrating Our Collective Efforts community event slideshow.
The entire advising and student services community is invited to join us in Celebrating Our Collective Efforts on Tuesday, November 28 from 3-4:30pm PT in West Pauley Ballroom. We look forward to celebrating our ongoing hard work and dedication to supporting students. We also look forward to spending well-deserved time together for some much needed joy, laughter, music, games, and some amazing giveaways/prizes! RSVP now for this event.
We encourage everyone to add words of gratitude and thanks to individuals and teams within our student services community on this 2023 Kudoboard.
Thank you for making Berkeley a better place for students and for all of us.
Sincerely,
Oliver M. O’Reilly (he/him), Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Lisa García Bedolla (she/her), Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division
Dania Matos (she/her), Vice Chancellor, Equity & Inclusion
Stephen C. Sutton (he/him), Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
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2023 Excellence in Advising and Student Services Awards Recipients
Please see the Advising and Student Services Awards webpage for more detail, including names of team members.
The Mary Slakey Howell Excellence in Advising and Student Services Award, Our Highest Honor
- Diana Lizarraga, Cal NERDS Executive Director and Student Equity & Success STEM Leader, Cal NERDS
Advising Innovation
- Leleña Avila, Graduate Program Manager, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
- Office of Undergraduate Advising, College of Letters & Science T2C Team
- Brandilyn Buckley, Senior College Advisor
- Tanya Chirapuntu, Assistant Director
- Floriberto "Javier" Garcia, College Advisor
- Wendy Hernandez-Guevara, College Advisor
- Michelle Logarta, College Advisor
- Anay Martinez-Schurr, Senior College Advisor
- Madalyn Morris Huerta, College Adviser
- Emily Nahem, College Advisor
- Karla Rodriguez-Sandher, College Advisor
Equity Champion
- Anay Martinez-Schurr, Senior College Advisor, Office of Undergraduate Advising, College of Letters & Science
Service to the Advising and Student Services Community
- Berkeley International Office Frontline Team
- Rosa Letizia Beschi, International Customer Service Assistant
- Xiaoying Zheng Webster, International Customer Service Assistant
- Zirui (Susie) Shu, International Customer Service Assistant
- Jessie Stewart, Director, Community Engagement & Partnerships, Cameron Institute for Student-Athlete Development, Intercollegiate Athletics
- Office of Undergraduate Advising, College of Letters & Science Frontline Unit
- Anna Sanderson, Intake Advisor
- Brielle Buechler, Intake Advisor
- Brittany Kulusich, Intake Advisor
- Cat Ming Hubbard, Advising Assistant
- Phuong Tang, Supervisor
- Rachel Remillard, Intake Advisor
- Saifu Xu, Intake Advisor
Outstanding New Advisor or Student Services Staff
- Camille Simsuangco, Undocumented Student Program Counselor, Undocumented Student Program
- Marisol Vasquez, Student Services Advisor, Cal Student Central
- Najet Carrick, Assistant Director for the College of Chemistry, Berkeley Career Engagement
- Valerie Moss, Program Manager and Student Advisor, Masters of Development Engineering and Global Poverty and Practice Minor, Blum Center for Developing Economies
Outstanding Advisor or Student Services Staff
- Jan Carmelo Bautista, Assistant Director of Degree Completion Pathways, Educational Opportunity Program
- Michael Mansfield, Undergraduate Academic Advisor, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Outstanding Advising or Student Services Administrator, Director, or Manager
- Leah J. Rozeboom, Interim Executive Director and Director of Flex Experience, EWMBA Program Office, Haas School of Business
- William Orta, Director of Student Services, Mechanical Engineering/Nuclear Engineering
Outstanding Peer Advisor, Mentor, Counselor, or Ambassador
- Elina Emami, Executive Co-Director, Middle Eastern North African Recruitment and Retention Center
- Haider Ali Bhatti, Graduate Student Coordinator, STEM*FYI and Diversity & Community Fellow, Office for Graduate Diversity
- Paula Marquez, Harm Reduction Staff Coordinator, Collegiate Recovery Program, Center for Support & Intervention
Outstanding Faculty Advisor
- Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, Anthropology
- Ignacio Chapela, Professor and Faculty Advisor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Advising Champion
- John Arnold, Professor & Undergraduate Dean, College of Chemistry
- Lee Borrowman, Executive Assistant Dean, Rausser College of Natural Resources Dean's Office