President Janet Napolitano is a Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. She served as the twentieth president of the University of California, the nation’s largest public research university with ten campuses, five medical centers, three affiliated national laboratories, and a statewide agriculture and natural resources program. Prior to joining the University of California, President Napolitano served as Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2013. She is a former two-term Governor of…

Amy Slater is an attorney and lecturer on the subject of negotiations and conflict resolution at the Goldman School of Public Policy and at the University of California Hastings School of Law. From 1997 to 2000 she was the first general counsel of Ask Jeeves, Inc. (now Ask.com). Before joining Ask Jeeves, Ms. Slater worked in private practice and in corporate legal departments in San Francisco, Redwood City and Oakland. Ms. Slater has a BA degree from the University of California…

Dr. Weissinger teaches at Mills College and at the Goldman School of Public Policy. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley’s school of social welfare. There, she helped create a qualitative database documenting the lives of children in foster care.  Dr. Weissinger received her PhD in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley in 2013. Her dissertation examines reasons for attrition among foster care adoption seekers. She formerly served as data…

Professor Jennifer L. Skeem is a psychologist who writes and teaches about the intersection between behavioral science and criminal justice.  Her research is designed to inform legal decision-making about juveniles and adults with emotional and behavioral problems.  Specific topics include improving outcomes for justice-involved people with mental illness, understanding psychopathic personality disorder, and promoting prosocial behavior among juveniles at high risk for violence. Professor Skeem’s current work addresses a recent surge of interest in the use…

Janelle Scott is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Graduate School of Education and African American Studies Department. She earned a PhD in Education Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to earning her doctorate, she taught elementary school in Oakland, Calif. Her research explores the relationship between education, policy, and equality of opportunity,…

Dr. Meredith Sadin received her PhD in Politics and Social Policy from Princeton University in 2014. As a member of the Analytics Department (or, “The Cave”) in Barack Obama's 2012 Presidential Campaign Headquarters, she helped implement new ways of applying experiments to understanding voter sentiment, targeting, and underlying societal mechanisms. In this role, Dr. Sadin was responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and analyzing dozens of large-scale surveys and field experiments - some involving more than a million subjects.  …

Patricia A. Pelfrey is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE). She is the co-author (with Margaret Cheney) of A Brief History of the University of California (University of California Press, 2004) and editor of The Pursuit of Knowledge: Speeches and Papers of Richard C. Atkinson (University of California Press, 2007). Her most recent book is Entrepreneurial President: Richard Atkinson and the University of California, 1995-2003 (University of California Press, 2012), a study of the Atkinson presidency…

Dr. Alyssa Mooney is a postdoctoral scholar whose research interests focus on the effects of criminal justice reforms in California on system involvement, health and social outcomes, and racial/ethnic and geographic disparities. She completed her PhD in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, and a Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Claire Montialoux is an assistant professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy. She is an economist with research interests in labor, public finance and inequality. Her research focuses on how labor market policies affect wage inequality and can advance racial justice. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and NPR. She received her PhD in Economics from CREST in 2019.

Professor Jane Mauldon earned her undergraduate degree from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and her PhD from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, where she studied demography and public policy. Her substantive interests are in welfare policy and child and adolescent health, including disabled children and adolescent pregnancy. Her teaching interests include health policy and economics, poverty and public policy, demography, and quantitative methods. She recently evaluated the teen-parent component of California’s welfare reforms. She…