Lisa García Bedolla

Lisa García Bedolla serves as UC Berkeley's Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, Hitchcock Dean of the Graduate Division, and Chancellor's Professor of Education. She combines social science methodologies to study educational and political inequalities in the U.S., focusing on intersections of ethnorace, gender, class, and geography.

• PhD in Political Science from Yale University
• BA in Latin American Studies and Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley

Her research emphasizes intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding marginalized communities, particularly through voter mobilization, immigrant integration, and educational equity. She has developed best practices for civic engagement in low-income communities of color.

Notable scientific awards include five National Book Awards for her publications. Her recent work analyzes the 2020 U.S. elections' civil rights implications, DACA policy impacts, and emancipatory pedagogies in political activism.

• Five National Book Awards

As Graduate Division Dean since 2019, she is not accepting new graduate students. She has partnered with over a dozen community organizations to advance equity initiatives.