The Garden’s Campus Advisory Group and Board of Visitors are invaluable resources that assist the Botanical Garden in serving the diverse needs and perspectives across UCLA and the wider Los Angeles community. Composed of staff and faculty from many different departments as well as major community stakeholders, these committees provide input and feedback on our collections, programs, and plans for the future.
2023-2024 Campus Advisory Group
Anthony Baniaga [ex oficio]
Herbarium Curator – UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden
JB Baum
Student – Geography / Environmental Studies, Conservation Biology
Amanda Beisch [ex oficio]
Manager of Garden Outreach and Education – UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden
Thomas Gillespie
Professor – Geography / Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Nurit Katz
Chief Sustainability Officer, UCLA
Allison Keeney [ex oficio]
Assistant Director – UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden
Andy Kleinhesselink
Managing Director – Sage Hill at UCLA
Nathan Kraft
Professor – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Stephanie Landregan
Program Director – UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture and Horticulture programs
Irene Liao
Postdoctoral Scholar – Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
Cully Nordby
Associate Director – Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Elsa Ordway
Assistant Professor – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Co-Director – Congo Basin Institute & Center for Tropical Research
Deb Pires
Instructional Consultant and Academic Administrator – Center for Education Innovation in Life Sciences
Ary Sanchez-Amaya
M.Sc. Student – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jeff Share
Lecturer – UCLA School of Education & Information Studies
Janice Shintaku [ex oficio]
Director of Development – UCLA College Life Sciences
Victoria Sork [Chair]
Director, UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden and Herbarium
Distinguished Professor – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Shannon Speed
Director, American Indian Studies Center
Paula Gunn Allen Chair and Professor – American Indian Studies / Gender Studies / Anthropology
Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs
Felipe Zapata
Assistant Professor – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Noa Pinter-Wollman
Professor – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
2023-2024 Board of Visitors
Martin H. Blank
Linda Duttenhaver
Kathryn Welch Howe
Morton La Kretz
Melvin D. Lindsey
Kaili Peng
Nancy R. Riordan
Irene Romero
Maurice M. Salter
Victoria Sork [ex oficio]
Maureen E. Stockton
Drew J. Zager [Chair]
Elena B. Zager