STILES HALL - Key Persons
Ana Jackson is the Stiles Hall Board President. She is Chief Evaluation and Data Strategy Director at Blue Shield of California Foundation. She completed her doctoral work at the Goldman School of Public Policy, focusing on health equity and the social determinants of health.
Job Titles:
- Global Head of Complex Cases for HSBC
Catherine Jisun Ahn is the Global Head of Complex Cases for HSBC. She is the daughter of Korean immigrants and has a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee is the former Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus and cast the only vote against giving President Bush a blank check to wage war after the September 11th attacks.
Elaine Valenzuela(She/Her/Her's) was born and raised in Huntington Park, California but her heart also belongs to Zacatecas and Durango, Mexico. She began volunteering with the community service programs back in August of 2017 and then became the Sylvia Mendez Elementary Tutoring Coordinator. She is continuing to build mentoring programs for elementary, middle, and high schools that provide pathways to success for both mentors and mentees.
Eric Roberts was the Director of Forensic Accounting at Morrison & Foerster law firm and was a Partner at Deloitte, an international accounting and consulting firm.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director of the Centers for Educational Equity
Fabrizio Mejia is the Executive Director of the Centers for Educational Equity and Excellence: Educational Opportunity and Undocumented Student Programs, Transfer, Re-entry & Student Parent Centers, and Student Veteran and Cal Independent Scholars Services.
Job Titles:
- Chief of Staff / Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Diversity at Sonoma State University
Jerlena Griffin-Desta is the Chief of Staff/Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Diversity at Sonoma State University. Her doctorate degree focused on meritocratic processes in college admissions.
Experience Berkeley Transfer
Jimmy Hawkins III (he/him) is from Vallejo, CA, and graduated from UC Berkeley in 2023 with a Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies.
In managing the Experience Berkeley Transfer program, he aspires to eliminate barriers to higher education for underrepresented students statewide through culturally responsive mentorship and innovative approaches to leadership development.
Jonathan Nussur (pronouns: He series) is a confidence builder, non-profit leader, and health researcher.
Jonathan has been connected to Stiles Hall since his undergraduate days at UC Berkeley when he served as a program coordinator for the Stiles Hall Experience Berkeley Program.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and Co - CEO of Allbirds and Has Been Affiliated With
Joseph Zwillinger is the co-founder and co-CEO of Allbirds and has been affiliated with Stiles Hall since he was a Sports4Kids volunteer in 2000.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of the Board
- Founder and CIO of Tamridge Capital
Josh Fisher is the Stiles Hall Board Vice President. Josh is the Founder and CIO of Tamridge Capital and a founding board member of Colorwave. He has served on the Stiles Hall Board for more than 20 years and founded "Touchdown for Kids" in 1995.
Job Titles:
- General Counsel at Zeplin
José Luis López is General Counsel at Zeplin, previously an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. José graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law, co-president of the student body and Editor-in-Chief of the California Law Review.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor and Chair of Geography at UC
Jovan Scott Lewis is an associate professor and Chair of Geography at UC, Berkeley. He co-leads the Economic Disparities research cluster and is a member of the California State Reparations Task Force.
Kevin Anderson is a History and English teacher who has led racial equity initiatives at public, charter and private schools in the SF Bay Area. He is currently a PhD student at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and also the author of the children's book, H2O Around the World.
Linda M. Burton is Dean of the School of Social Welfare, who's focus is inequality and poverty. She also directed NIMH's African American Mental Health Research Training Program for over a decade.
Linda is a UC Berkeley Alum with a specialty in Early Childhood Development. She blesses our home and stomachs with her wonderful cooking.
Job Titles:
- Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress
Maria Echaveste is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and former deputy chief of staff to President Clinton and on the board of MALDEF.
Marilyn has worked with Stiles Hall for 39 years, serving first in 1975 as the Director of the Educational Guidance Center.
Mike Williams '82 was vice-chair, of Capital Markets, for Barclays Global Investors, vice-chair of the UC Berkeley Foundation, and Director of Athletics. He and his wife Jeanne have three children.
Na'ilah Nasir is President of the Spencer Foundation and president-elect of the American Educational Research Association.
California State Senator Nancy Skinner is the chair of the Budget and Fiscal Review Committee and vice-chair of the Legislative Women's Caucus, She is a social justice advocate, energy and climate change trailblazer.
Pia Mishra was an associate with CapitalG (Google Investments), was an analyst at Goldman, Sachs, currently working on her Master at the Stanford School of Business.
Tere Cruz is an Economics Ph.D. Student at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Harvard and McNair Research Scholar
Thelton Henderson was the Senior U.S. District Court Judge for Northern California. Appointed in 1980, he was the Justice Department Civil Rights Division's first African-American lawyer.