People

Staff

Faculty Director

Heather A. Haveman

Professor of Sociology and Management

EXECUTIVE Director

Anthony Suen

Graduate Student Services

Pamela Gleason

Assistant Director of Career Services and Employer Relations

Cybil Vidal

Instructors

Dr. Adam Obeng

Dr. Adam Obeng, currently a Senior Staff Data Scientist at Pinterest, previously a Research Scientist at Meta, previously a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University in the City of New York, and sometime of St. Anne’s and Nuffield Colleges in the University of Oxford.

Rachel Williams

Rachel Williams is an experienced recruiting and HR strategist with a demonstrated history of working in the Silicon Valley tech scene. She’s skilled in full lifecycle recruiting, workforce development, Inclusion strategy, negotiation, public speaking, sales and management of projects and people. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and considers herself a continuous learner.

Mary Kate Stimmler

Mary Kate Stimmler spearheaded Future of Work initiatives at Google, driving workplace flexibility through research, pilot programs, and program management. She led data-driven strategies on organizational topics like culture, diversity, and retention, using social science and statistical methods.

Max Aufhammer

Maximilian Auffhammer is the Avice M. Saint Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics & Political Economy and Chair of the Berkeley Academic Senate. Joining UC Berkeley in 2003, his research focuses on environmental and energy economics and applied econometrics. A Research Associate at NBER and a former IPCC lead author, his work appears in top journals, including The American Economic Review and PNAS.

William Thompson

William Thompson is a cognitive scientist interested in understanding what makes human intelligence so open-ended and creative. “With my students and collaborators I study the social foundations of higher cognitive abilities such as language, problem-solving, reasoning, decision-making, and creative thinking.”