Tag: Cerri Banks
Chair
The National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement at the University of California is chaired by UC President Drake and governed by two advisory boards: a National Advisory Board and an Academic Advisory Board.
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Michael V. Drake
President, University of California
National Advisory Board Co-chairs
![Erwin Chemerinsky](https://freespeechcenter.universityofcalifornia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ErwinChemerinsky.jpg)
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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Howard Gillman
Chancellor, University of California, Irvine
Executive Director
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Michelle N. Deutchman
Executive Director m.deutchman@uci.edu
Center Staff
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Brenda Pitcher
Executive Assistant bpitcher@uci.edu
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Melanie Ziment
Program Associate mziment@uci.edu
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Mahima Shyno
Student Intern mahimashyno@berkeley.edu
National Advisory Board
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.
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Margo Bennett
Retired Chief of Police, University of California Police Department, Berkeley
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Alex Edgar
Undergraduate Student, Political Science, UC Berkeley
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Alexis Atsilvsgi Zaragoza
Masters of Public Policy Candidate, UC Berkeley
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Jessica Herrera-Flanigan
Partner, Monument Advocacy
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Hannah-Beth Jackson
Founder and CEO, Hannah-Beth Jackson & Associates; Former California State Senator
![Tamara Keith](https://freespeechcenter.universityofcalifornia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/TamaraKeith.jpg)
Tamara Keith
White House Correspondent, NPR
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Anne Kornblut
Director, New Initiatives for News Partnerships, Facebook
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Renee Chapman Navarro, Pharm D, MD
Vice Chancellor and Chief Diversity and Outreach Officer, Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco
![Geoffrey R. Stone](https://freespeechcenter.universityofcalifornia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/GeoffreyStone.jpg)
Geoffrey R. Stone
Professor, University of Chicago Law School
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Nancy Thomas
Senior Advisor to the President for Democracy Initiatives and Executive Director of IDHE at AAC&U
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Mark G. Yudof
President Emeritus, University of California
Academic Advisory Board
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.
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Vikram D. Amar
UC Davis - Professor of Law
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Elizabeth Beaumont
UC Santa Cruz - Associate Professor of Politics and Legal Studies
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Jennifer A. González
UC Santa Cruz - Professor of the History of Art and Visual Culture
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Richard L. Hasen
UCLA School of Law - Professor of Law
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Steven W. Hetts, MD, FACR
UC San Francisco - Chair UCSF Academic Senate and Professor in Residence of Radiology, Biomedical Imaging, and Neurological Surgery
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Anne Myers Kelley
UC Merced - Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
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Clarissa C. Kripke, MD, FAAFP
UC San Francisc - HS Clinical Professor of Family & Community Medicine
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Susanne Lohmann
UCLA - Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director of the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences
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Michael Mascuch
UC Berkeley - Associate Professor; Chair, Department of Rhetoric
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Parya Saberi
UC San Francisco - Associate Professor in Residence
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Abigail Thompson
UC Davis - Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
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Isabel Trevino
UC San Diego - Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Academic Advisory Board Emeriti
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Farrell Ackerman
UC San Diego - Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Human Developmental Sciences Program
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Ahmad Atif Ahmad
UC Santa Barbara - Professor, Religious Studies; Chair of the Council on Faculty Welfare, Academic Freedom, and Awards
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Simone E. Chambers
UC Irvine - Professor, Political Science
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Suneil K. Koliwad
UC San Francisco - Associate Professor, Medicine, Diabetes Center; Gerold Grodsky, PhD/JAB Chair in Diabetes Research
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Jeffrey Kopstein
UC Irvine - Professor of Political Science
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Dana Nelkin
UC San Diego - Professor, Philosophy
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Constance Penley
UC Santa Barbara - Professor of Film & Media Studies
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Mary Beth Pudup
UC Santa Cruz - Director and Associate Professor, Community Studies Program
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John Villasenor
UCLA - Professor, Electrical Engineering, Law, Public Policy & Management
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Eugene Volokh
UCLA - Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law