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Faculty Equity Advisors
Faculty Equity Advisors
Each department or school at Berkeley has a Faculty Equity Advisor who helps ensure that diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and justice are considered in all aspects of the academic mission. Faculty Equity Advisors are appointed by the department chair or dean. As well as working within their own departments, they participate in a campuswide network to share strategies and collaborate on addressing common challenges.
BPH has a unique model in that we have a Head Faculty Equity Advisor and Faculty Equity Advisors that represent each academic department. Our Faculty Equity Advisors for academic year 2023-2024 are listed and we thank each and every one of them for their continued committment to our School!
Hector Rodriguez, Head Equity Advisor & Healht Policy and Management
Alan Hubbard, Biostatistics
Denise Herd, Community Health Sciences
Jay Graham, Environmental Health Sciences
Mahasin Mujahid, Epidemiology
Eva Harris, Infectious Disease and Virology
Leanna Lewis, Joint Medical Program
About the Faculty Equity Advisor Role
Strategic Planning: Faculty Equity advisors participate in the strategic planning for diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and justice that is part of the Academic Program Review, making sure that DEIBJ is a meaningful part of the department or school’s self-assessment and plans for future success.
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Faculty Recruitment: Faculty Equity Advisors serve as a resource to ensure equity and inclusion in faculty searches, support and success.
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Graduate Student Admission and Advancement: Faculty Equity Advisors consult with graduate admissions committees to ensure equity and inclusion in graduate admissions and fellowships. Faculty Equity Advisors also may be a resource for graduate retention and success.
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Climate of Equity and Inclusion: Faculty Equity Advisors serve as a resource for promoting a positive department climate by contributing to policies and practices that support equity, inclusion and belonging, such as climate surveys and effective responses to identified climate issues.
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Course Consultations
Course Consultations
Leanna W. Lewis, EdD, MSW is the Associate Director, JMP; Administrative Program Director, PRIME-US. Over the past three years, Leanna has served a facilitator for our Anti-Racist Pedagogy Faculty Leadership Academy. She continues in this capacity to serve a consultant and thought partner for faculty related to their presenting their course content with an anti-racist lens. This year, Leanna met with two members of our faculty community:
Biostatistics
War and Public Health
About Leanna
Leanna, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, joined the JMP and PRIME-US in 2015 having spent many years as a mental health clinician at the Center for the Vulnerable Child (CVC) Department at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. For more than two decades, Leanna has worked with a culturally and socioeconomically diverse population in hospitals, schools, and community agencies. Leanna is an experienced lecturer, trainer, and consultant in the areas of racial equity, diversity and inclusion, cultural humility, and culturally responsive and trauma-informed practice. She teaches UCSF residents and faculty through the UCSF Health Equity and Racial (HEAR) Justice GME Pathway, and UCSF Pediatric Leaders Advancing Health Equity (PLUS) Residency Program.
Facilitated Coaching and Workshops
Facilitated Coaching and Workshops
Antisemitism & Islamophobia
Antisemitism & Islamophobia
A collaboration effort with Haas, Office of People and Culture, Optometry, and Goldman School of Public Policy. Two hour sessions were held April 1 and 11, 2024 via Zoom . A summary of themes from participants is as follows:
Understanding and Awareness: The majority of respondents felt that the session enhanced their understanding of the historical origins and contemporary issues faced by Jewish and Muslim communities. This is evidenced by strong agreements in the responses to having a better understanding of the demographics of Jewish people and being able to describe basic concepts of Islam.
Educational Content Satisfaction: Participants appreciated the historical context provided and found the content engaging.
Desire for Deeper Engagement and Interactive Formats: Participants expressed a need for follow-up sessions that not only continue to explore the historical contexts of antisemitism and Islamophobia but also delve into their contemporary manifestations in greater depth. This includes a desire for more dynamic and interactive components within the sessions, such as open discussions or dialogues focused on current events, particularly the ongoing geopolitical issues in Israel and Gaza. There is a notable eagerness among participants to engage in these complex topics more actively and to apply what they learn in practical settings within their communities and educational environments. This feedback underscores a commitment to sustaining the dialogue and deepening the understanding of these critical issues through continued education and participatory learning experiences.
Diverse Perspectives: Participants valued the inclusion of diverse perspectives, especially appreciating the representation from a Black Jewish person, indicating a strong interest in hearing from often underrepresented voices within these communities.
Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy
A partnership between student services and Dream resulted in a series of Financial Literacy workshops and 29 hours of one-on-one coaching with rita zhang of Community Roots Financials (link is external).
What is financial coaching? Financial coaching is a safe and confidential space for you to get inspired, personally grow, and take action on your financial goals. You will be meeting with Financial Fitness Coach (FFC®) and Accredited Financial Counselor (AFC®) rita zhang of Community Roots Financials. Example financial coaching topics include: budgeting, expense management, debt management, money related to career transitions, etc.
Financial coaching testimonials from BPH students:
"I got tips on how to save and financial resources that are available for international students in Berkeley. Specifically, I got tips on how to go about getting discounts for my phone and internet charges and gas. I also got skills on importance of apply for funding (even though my scholarship covers my funding). I would encourage other students -especially international students- to take advantage of these sessions especially when constrained financially, they offer good practical solutions and tips on the way forward. Thank you."
"I would encourage students to utilize this resource because it allows you to become more self-aware on your relationship with money."
RePAIR
RePAIR
We have continued to cultivate a culture of holistic wellness in BPH. A component of this has included Dr. Marcus Adéshima Penn’s restorative work during to move our community toward an environment of restoration.
Whether you read my statements or have attended meetings/workshops with Che Abram, you have experienced just two of the tools I adopted from the training series: compassion alerts at the start of diversity statements; the use of creative “icebreaker” questions developed by BPH members during the RePAIR™ training series; setting community agreements by asking, “What do you need to feel safe and share in this environment?” are also ways Che Abram has incorporated components of the training. During the academic year 2023-2024, several staff groups have had the opportunity to experience coaching sessions with Dr. Penn and those that attended facilitated workshops have the opportunity to experience his RePAIR™ training tools and resources.
Right to Be Series & Gender Inclusion
Right to Be Series & Gender Inclusion
Our ARC4JSTC Workforce Development Team retained the services of Gen Eq and Right to Be to offer a series of workshops:
Gender Inclusion: Supporting Trans & Nonbinary Communities at BPH and Beyond: provided us with concepts, practices, and policies to create gender inclusive spaces and advocacy. Content included core concepts and definitions; inclusive practices and language; policies and practices impacting trans and nonbinary community members; supports and resources for trans and nonbinary community members.
Link to PDF of presentation (link is external).
Four Part Right to Be Series
Four Strategies to Mitigate Implicit Bias: We’ll start by learning the brain science behind implicit bias, and how the part of the brain that used to protect us now holds us back. Through polls, brief thought experiments, and journaling, we’ll reflect on how implicit bias can show up in our actions and the impacts those biases can have on ourselves and our teams. Then, we’ll roll our sleeves up and get to work, practicing four concrete strategies that you can begin to use to mitigate bias in your own life. You’ll leave more confident in your ability to see and mitigate bias.
Bystander Intervention in the Workplace:We will equip your employees with the right information on how to be an effective online bystander in the midst of workplace harassment using our proven 5Ds methodology; 98% of employees leave our training committing to intervene next time they witness disrespect or harassment.
Resilience: This Moment and Beyond: We’ll start by talking about what resilience really is, and how it’s different (and harder) than self-care. Using guided practices, we’ll learn how to hold our pain and still find joy. We’ll explore how we’re making sense of this moment — and how that’s shaping our experience of it. And we’ll learn practices to recover quickly when we’re knocked down by the world.
Conflict De-Escalation in the Workplace: Conflict De-escalation requires patience, a willingness to listen, and an ability to see the humanity in everyone. Using Right To Be’s Observe-Breathe-Connect methodology, we’ll learn how to identify potential conflict before it escalates using our “pyramid of escalation” and how to assess whether De-escalation is the right action.
Spring Workshop Series
Spring Workshop Series
In a response to climate survey results, Che Abram developed and facilitated a workshop series for all member of Berkeley Public Health. These workshops were designed as a means to provide spaces to process experiences, cultivate community, and provide tools and resources to care for oneself and others.
Grieving Racialized Experiences (participants: 10) - facilitated by Che Abram: understand the relationship between our past adversities or disruptions and how they shape our grief response to racialized experiences.
Psychological Safety I, II (participants: 20/20) - facilitated by Che Abram & Dr. Marcus Penn: experiential workshops designed to help you cultivate psychologically safe spaces for your team, groups, and in our environment.
microAggressions (postponed) - facilitated by Che Abram: understand the difference between micro and macro aggressions, their impact on individuals and our community, and understand different types of boundaries as a guide for self-advocacy when you decide to address microaggressions.
C.A.R.E Awareness (participants: 18) - facilitated by Che Abram & Dr. Marcus Penn: using the RePAIR™ C.A.R.E. model, participants learned about several methods of C.A.R.E. that are available to individuals, teams, departments, and organizations to calibrate before or after disruptions.
Che Abram's Professional Development
Che Abram's Professional Development
Each year I share what activities I have particpated in for my personal and professional growth and development. Therefore, I spent a significant amount of time either reading or engaging in conversations and activities that enhanced my antiracism, diversity, equit,y inclusion, belonging, and justice knowledge and skills.
ADEIBJ Growth & Development
Academic Freedom
Anti-Semitism and Antisemitism
Civil Discourse, Conversations Across Difference
Civil Rights
Critical communication and event planning
Disability Access
Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Speech
Inclusive Study with Berkeley Haas
Islamophobia
The Craft of Reading (writing course) - UC Berkeley Extension
Topics Che as read more about: Armenia, Antisemitism, Congo, Nonbinary identity, Genocide, Grief, Hindu community, Myanmar, Jewish identity, Sudan, Transgender identity and Palestinian identity.
Society for Applied Anthropology Conference
Impactful Books
Accountable by Dashka Slater
Dear Life by Alice Munro
Drama Free by Nedra Glover Tawwab
Educated by Tara Westover
I Did a New Thing by Tabitha Brown
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luthur King, Jr.
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical-Self Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down by Joan Morgan
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