Executive Director, E3C; attorney and children’s advocate
Katie Albright, JD, is an attorney and children’s advocate with more than thirty years of legal and non-profit executive experience. She currently serves as the founding Executive Director of Equity and Excellence in Early Childhood at the University of California-Berkeley, an interdisciplinary public impact alliance dedicated to advance early childhood learning and wellbeing through research, policy, and practice. She also serves as a Senior Advisor with Alliance for Community Advocacy providing strategic and programmatic consulting services to state and county governments, institutions...
Dean, School of Public Health; maternal and child health expert
Dr. Michael C. Lu is the dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to coming to Berkeley, Lu served as director of the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau under the Obama Administration. During his tenure, he transformed key federal programs in maternal and child health, and launched major initiatives to reduce maternal, infant, and child mortality across the nation. For his leadership, he was awarded the prestigious U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Hubert H. Humphrey Service to America Award in 2013. In 2025, Lu was elected to...
Director, Institute of Human Development, and Professor, School of Public Health; youth participatory research scholar
Emily J. Ozer is a Professor of Community Health Sciences at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Professor Ozer teaches graduate courses in behavioral science theory, mental health, community interventions and program evaluation. Her research interests include school-based health promotion and prevention programs, post-traumatic stress disorder and community-based participatory research. She is particularly interested in how the school and classroom contexts in which prevention programs are implemented affect outcomes. Her current research involves a multi-method study of the impact...
Professor, School of Social Welfare; education and equity in social work
Susan Stone is the Dean for UC Berkeley Social Welfare as well as the Catherine Mary and Eileen Clare Hutto Professor of Social Services in Public Education at the School of Social Welfare. Her research agenda focuses on understanding and advancing the conditions and practices of school social work and other related service provision in educational settings to support the school experiences and trajectories of K-12 students, with a particular focus on equitable school policies, routines, and practices. She is interested in partnered research approaches, in which research questions and...
Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy; racial attitudes and policy expert
David C. Wilson is the dean of the Goldman School and Professor of Public Policy.
Wilson’s research examines how individuals formulate their political preferences about race and justice, and how social cognition shapes broader survey response behaviors. His research is published widely in areas of inquiry that include the application of double standards in evaluating racial groups and related policy issues, attitudes toward voter identification laws and electoral malfeasance, blame attributions toward elected leaders and political groups, and how diversity culture and climate affect...
Dean, Berkeley School of Education; educational leadership and systems change
Michelle D. Young, Ph.D., is the Dean of the Berkeley School of Education. A scholar of educational policy and leadership, Young’s scholarship focuses on how university programs, educational policies and school leaders can support equitable and quality experiences for all students and adults who learn and work in schools. This scholarship is divided into two distinct areas: leadership preparation and practice and critical policy analysis. Young has received multiple awards for her scholarship, including the JRLE, William J. Davis, and Emerald Literati Awards highlighting the excellence of...
