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.
2022-2023 Campus Advisory Group
Anthony Baniaga [ex oficio]
Herbarium Curator – UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden
Amanda Beisch [ex oficio]
Manager of Garden Outreach and Education – UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden
Marvin Browne
Graduate Student (Sack Lab) – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Thomas Gillespie
Professor – Geography / Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Nurit Katz
Executive Officer – Facilities Management
Chief Officer – Sustainability
Allison Keeney [ex oficio]
Assistant Director – UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden
Nathan Kraft
Associate 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
Maura Palacios Mejia
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Wayne Lab – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Deb Pires
Instructional Consultant and Academic Administrator – Center for Education Innovation in Life Sciences
Jeff Share
Lecturer – UCLA School of Education & Information Studies
Janice Shintaku [ex oficio]
Assistant 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
Associate Professor – American Indian Studies / Gender Studies
Felipe Zapata
Assistant Professor – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Noa Pinter-Wollman
Associate Professor – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
2022-2023 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