Excellence in Management

2025-26 Excellence in Management Award Nomination Form Coming Soon!

Congratulations to these 27 outstanding managers and supervisors who received the 2025 Excellence in Management award!

Award recipient name	Department
Adriana Solís-López	Development and Alumni Relations, Berkeley Haas
Aileen Liu	L&S Division of Undergraduate Studies
Amy Weissenbacher	Student Affairs Procurement
Carolyn Knight	Facilities Services IT
Cathy Kodama	Health and Wellbeing, University Health Services, Health Promotion
Clarity White	BEARS - Berkeley Regional Services
Eric Askins	The Haas School of Business
Gregory Cera	L&S Advising
Hüseyin Sarı	Educational Design and Technology
Ingrid McKenney	Development and Alumni Relations
James Collins	The Office of the Registrar
Jennifer Siecienski	UC Berkeley Student Union
Jeremy Brooks	Berkeley Career Engagement
Jesse Dieker	Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology
Karla Sanchez	SHARE/BEST - Berkeley Regional Services
Kellie Brennan	Civil Rights, Whistleblower & Clery Compliance
Kerry Franzetta	Financial Aid and Scholarships
Kim Sapp Dinwiddie	University Development & Alumni Relations
Laurie Haskell-Woerner	School of Information
Leslie Harlson	Berkeley Discovery
Mariam Mohammad	UC Berkeley Extension, Admissions & Student Services
Dr. Marissa Nichols	Intercollegiate Athletics-Cameron Institute
Marjorie Degraca	Haas School of Business
Nadege Thorez-Oparin	UC Berkeley Extension
Rachel Crow	Interdisciplinary Social Science Programs
Robbie Powers	Civil & Environmental Engineering
Sunny Lee	Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor & Dean of Students

If you have any questions, please contact the BSA EIM Committee at bsa_eim@berkeley.edu

About the Excellence in Management Award

The award honors exemplary managers and supervisors who have led their teams and team members to meaningful accomplishments this past year.

This year’s Excellence in Management theme is: coming soon!

2025-26 Excellence in Management Committee

Chairs:

Almadora Henry, Financial Analyst, Dept of IEOR & BioEAmanda Gill, Academic Program Director, School of Information

Committee Members:

Diana Chávez, Career Services + Employer Engagement Director, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Jonathan Chew, Senior Development Associate, Individual Giving, College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
Raymond Fong, Pre-Award Team Lead, Berkeley Regional Services - ProS Region
Diane Lang, Academic Department Manager, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Russell Maan, Case Manager, Center for Support & Intervention
Weixing Ou, Research Administrator, Berkeley Regional Services - ERSO Region
Ashley Spinelli, Director, Global Engagement Office Division of the Vice Provost for Academic Planning
Sherrie Stewart, Development Associate and Advancement Events Manager, School of Optometry
Linda Waterfield, Head of Registration, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Yanni Zhang, Manager of Finance and Business Operations, Berkeley Center for Health Technology & UC Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program