Leadership
“We need to research, educate, listen to, and understand each other. It is hard to imagine social progress anywhere that wasn’t dependent on freedom of speech.”
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law
The National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement at the University of California is chaired by UC President Napolitano and governed by two advisory boards.
The National Advisory Board is responsible for providing guidance to the Center’s Executive Director and UC senior officials overseeing the work of the Center, to ensure that it is advancing its mission with high quality and high impact programming and activities. It is co-chaired by UC Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman.
The Academic Advisory Board includes professors representing a variety of disciplines across all ten UC campuses. They will assist in the creation of the Center’s project priorities and future selection of fellows. Members will serve as liaisons between their university and the fellow that is in residence for one week on their campus.
Chair

Michael V. Drake
President, University of California
National Advisory Board Co-chairs

Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law

Howard Gillman
Chancellor, University of California, Irvine
Executive Director
Executive Assistant
National Advisory Board

Harvey Brody
UC Regent Emeritus

Vijaya Gadde
General Counsel, Twitter

Tamara Keith
White House Correspondent, NPR

John King
President and CEO, The Education Trust; Former U.S. Secretary of Education

Anne Kornblut
Director, New Initiatives for News Partnerships, Facebook

Monica C. Lozano
President and CEO, College Futures Foundation

Avi Oved
Student, UCLA Law School

Bret Stephens
Columnist, New York Times

Geoffrey R. Stone
Professor, University of Chicago Law School

George Will
Columnist, Washington Post
Academic Advisory Board

Farrell Ackerman
UC San Diego - Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Human Developmental Sciences Program

Ahmad Atif Ahmad
UC Santa Barbara - Professor, Religious Studies; Chair of the Council on Faculty Welfare, Academic Freedom, and Awards

Ashutosh Bhagwat
UC Davis - Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law and the Boochever and Bird Endowed Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality

Amy Binder
UC San Diego - Professor, Sociology

Simone E. Chambers
UC Irvine - Professor, Political Science

Michael Mark Cohen
UC Berkeley - Associate Teaching Professor, African American Studies & African Diaspora Studies

John Ganim
UC Riverside - Distinguished Professor, English

Jody Greene
UC Santa Cruz - Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning; Director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning; Professor of Literature

Andrea Hasenstaub
UC San Francisco - Associate Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Jeffrey Kopstein
UC Irvine - Professor of Political Science

Suneil K. Koliwad
UC San Francisco - Associate Professor, Medicine, Diabetes Center; Gerold Grodsky, PhD/JAB Chair in Diabetes Research

Christopher Kutz
UC Berkeley - C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law

Sean Malloy
UC Merced - Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES)

Catherine Ramirez
UC Santa Cruz - Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies

Seana Shiffrin
UCLA - Professor of Philosophy and Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice

Hendry Ton
UC Davis - Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at UC Davis Health and a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science

Nella Van Dyke
UC Merced - Professor, Sociology

John Villasenor
UC Los Angeles - Professor, Electrical Engineering, Law, Public Policy & Management

France Winddance Twine
UC Santa Barbara - Professor

Jose Wudka
UC Riverside - Professor, Physics and Astronomy; Divisional Dean Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Academic Advisory Board Emeriti

Dana Nelkin
UC San Diego - Professor, Philosophy

Mary Beth Pudup
UC Santa Cruz - Director and Associate Professor, Community Studies Program

Eugene Volokh
UC Los Angeles - Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law