Steve Finacom
Steven Finacom undertook a staff internship with the UC History Digital Archives in its first year of operation. He helped organize conferences and symposia on the Loyalty Oath controversy and the Centennial of the Hearst Architectural Competition. Finacom is a career UC employee, working in the Capital Projects division of the Berkeley campus, and is one of the founding editorial board members of the Chronicle of the University of California.

Todd Greenspan
Todd Greenspan is Coordinator of Educational Relations in the Academic Initiatives Department, University of California Office of the President (UCOP) in Oakland, CA. In his current position with UC, Todd focuses on statewide studies of higher education and education governance in California. He is involved as a UC representative in the current effort to develop a new Master Plan for Education and was also a UC representative in the last review of the Master Plan in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He represented the University in the studies of the California Citizens Commission for Higher Education, the California Governance Consensus Project, the California Constitutional Revision Commission, and the RAND project on higher education commissioned by the California Education Round Table. Todd is the UC liaison to the California Postsecondary Education Commission and staffs UC representatives to the California Education Round Table and the Intersegmental Coordinating Council. Todd received his B.A. in political science from Stanford University and his master's degree in public policy from UC Berkeley. His first educational policy job was with Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) at UC Berkeley, working on the Oakland Schools' Strategic Planning Project and a study of the California teacher shortage. Todd worked for the UC State Governmental Relations Office in Sacramento from 1985-91. Before moving to UCOP in Oakland, Todd lived for a year in Bali, Indonesia. He is now the treasurer of the Balinese performing arts group Gamelan Sekar Jaya. Todd maintains a website on the Master Plan at http://www.ucop.edu/acadinit/mastplan/ for UCOP.

Joyce W. Bee
Joyce joined the Center for Studies in Higher Education in July 1998, while still a student at Cal, and helped to prepare the initial framework for the UCHDA. She graduated in May 2000 with a degree in Mass Communications and minors in Asian American Studies and German. Joyce served as the principal web designer and graphic artist for the UCHDA, telecommuting from her home base in Los Angeles.

Iset Anuakan
History (Ph.D., 2001)

While completing her Ph.D. in history at UCB, Iset did research for the UCHDA related to the California Master Plan for Higher Education. She tracked down original documentation of legislation and constitutional amendments related to the development of higher education in California, and researched and drafted biographies of the key architects of the Master Plan. Iset's doctoral dissertation focused on race and gender in 19th and 20th century U.S. history, and African American women's development of public institutions.

Linda Duffy
School of Information & Management Systems (M.I.M.S, May 2002)

Linda started work with the UCHDA as an intern during the summer of 2001, developing a thesaurus of controlled vocabulary for indexing the collection, and an extensive database for In Memoriam. Linda holds a Ph.D. in demography from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in social sciences from the University of Chicago.

Jenny L. White
Comparative Literature (Ph.D., May 2003)

Jenny worked with the Center for Studies in Higher Education for several years as webmaster and editor for the Higher Education in the Digital Age project, and, during the summer of 2002, brought her technical and editing skills to the UCHDA project. She focused on quality control, compiling citations for source materials, and proofreading the Master Plan documents.