Beatriz Lopez-Flores joined the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley in 2003. She is the director of the Graduate Advising Diversity Program, the Julia Morgan Engineering Program and, in collaboration with the EECS Department, coordinates the Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB). These programs offer tutoring, academic advising, graduate fellowships, and other advising services to both graduate and undergraduate engineering students.

Just before her arrival at UC Berkeley, Beatriz spent 18 months living in London and traveling throughout Europe, as well as traveling to China and Australia. Prior to this, she served as Vice-President for the national civil rights organization, MALDEF (the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund), for three years where she was responsible for various national educational programs as well as overseeing the Make Yourself Count/Hagase Contar! Census 2000 National Education Media Campaign. Proud of being bilingual and bicultural, Beatriz was a founding member of the fourth bilingual radio station in the country in the early 1980's in the Salinas Valley.

Beatriz is a passionate advocate for equity, underrepresented students and women's issues; she has a proven commitment to forging links between students, faculty and administrators. In addition to UCB she has worked at UCLA and UCSC. Beatriz has served as a board member in various organizations such as the Dolores Huerta Foundation, the AT&T National Consumer Issues Council and the United States Secretary of Commerce Census 2000 Advisory Committee. Most recently she has had the opportunity to serve as a reviewer for an NSF program.

A graduate with honors of UC Riverside, Beatriz holds a master's degree in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard University. She is a first-generation college student and a proud product of Affirmative Action.

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