Chair
James B. Milliken
President, University of California
Leadership
Advancing free expression in higher education takes people who understand both its history and its stakes today. The Center is led and advised by scholars, educators, and civic practitioners from across the country, who are working to keep open inquiry and democratic learning at the center of campus life.
Advisory Board
National Advisory Board
The National Advisory Board is responsible for providing guidance to the Center’s Executive Director to ensure that it is advancing its mission with high quality and high impact programming and activities. It is co-chaired by UC Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman.
Alexis Atsilvsgi Zaragoza
Masters of Public Policy Candidate, UC Berkeley
Margo Bennett
Retired Chief of Police, University of California Berkeley Police Department
Sigal Ben-Porath
MRMJJ Presidential Professor, Graduate School of Education and Faculty Director Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program, University of Pennsylvania
Alex Edgar
Youth Engagement Manager, Made By Us
Hannah-Beth Jackson
Founder and CEO, Hannah-Beth Jackson & Associates; Former California State Senator
Mehra Marzbani
Undergraduate Student, UCLA
Renee Navarro, Pharm D, MD
Vice Chancellor, Opportunity and Outreach, UC San Francisco
Margaret Talev
Kramer Director, Syracuse University Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship
Nancy Thomas
Senior Advisor to the President for Democracy Initiatives and Executive Director of IDHE at AAC&U
Eugene Volokh
Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Mark G. Yudof
President Emeritus, University of California
Advisory Board
Academic Advisory Board
The Academic Advisory Board includes professors representing a variety of disciplines across all ten UC campuses. They will assist in the creation of the Center’s project priorities and future selection of fellows. Members will serve as liaisons between their university and the fellow that is in residence for one week on their campus.
Vikram D. Amar
UC Davis – Professor of Law
Estee Beck
UC Merced – Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Merritt Writing Program Director
Steven Brint
UC Riverside – Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy
Michael M. Chemers
UC Santa Cruz – Professor and Chair of the Department of Performance, Play & Design
Jennifer A. González
UC Santa Cruz – Professor of the History of Art and Visual Culture
Özge Hacıfazlıoğlu
UC Berkeley – Adjunct Professor, Leadership Programs Berkeley School of Education
Steven W. Hetts
UC San Francisco – Chair UCSF Academic Senate and Professor in Residence of Radiology, Biomedical Imaging, and Neurological Surgery
Anne Myers Kelley
UC Merced – Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Clarissa C. Kripke
UC San Francisco – HS Clinical Professor of Family & Community Medicine
Jennifer Lucero
UCLA – Associate Dean for Admissions at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM), and the Vice Chair for Inclusive Excellence (OIE) for the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at UCLA DGSOM
Yolanda T. Moses
UC Riverside – Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Professor of the Graduate Division
Abigail Thompson
UC Davis – Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
Isabel Trevino
UC San Diego – Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Ken Ueno
UC Berkeley – Professor, Composition, Department of Music
Advisory Board
Academic Advisory Board Emeriti
Farrell Ackerman
UC San Diego – Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Human Developmental Sciences Program
Ahmad Atif Ahmad
UC Santa Barbara – Professor, Religious Studies; Chair of the Council on Faculty Welfare, Academic Freedom, and Awards
Elizabeth Beaumont
UC Santa Cruz – Associate Professor of Politics and Legal Studies
Simone E. Chambers
UC Irvine – Professor, Political Science
Suneil K. Koliwad
UC San Francisco – Associate Professor, Medicine, Diabetes Center; Gerold Grodsky, PhD/JAB Chair in Diabetes Research
Jeffrey Kopstein
UC Irvine – Professor of Political Science
Susanne Lohmann
UCLA – Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director of the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences
Michael Mascuch
UC Berkeley – Associate Professor; Chair, Department of Rhetoric
Dana Nelkin
UC San Diego – Professor, Philosophy
Constance Penley
UC Santa Barbara – Professor of Film & Media Studies
Mary Beth Pudup
UC Santa Cruz – Director and Associate Professor, Community Studies Program
Parya Saberi
UC San Francisco – Associate Professor in Residence
John Villasenor
UCLA – Professor, Electrical Engineering, Law, Public Policy & Management
Join the board
Accepting Advisory Board Nominations
Are you a UC faculty member interested in issues of expression, engagement and democratic learning on college campuses? Or do you know one? The Center is now accepting nominations for the Academic Advisory Board. Nominate yourself and/or a colleague.
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