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University of California, Berkeley

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Lisa García Bedolla is Berkeley's Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Hitchcock Dean of the Graduate Division, and Chancellor's Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Yale University (1999) and a BA in Latin American Studies and Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley (1992), where she graduated with highest distinction in general scholarship and highest departmental honors in Latin American Studies. Her academic career began as Assistant Professor in Political Science and Liberal Studies at California State University, Long Beach (1999–2001), followed by Assistant and Associate Professor positions in Political Science and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine (2001–2008). Since 2008, she has been at UC Berkeley, advancing from Associate Professor to Professor in the Graduate School of Education (now Berkeley School of Education) and affiliated with the Travers Department of Political Science. Additional leadership roles include Director of the Institute for Governmental Studies (2017–2019) and Chair of the Center for Latino Policy Research (2010–2014).