People
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Jere Takahashi, Ph.D.
UC Berkeley, Multicultural Student Development
(510) 642-9077
Jere Takahashi has been director of Multicultural Student Development at UC Berkeley since 2000. He is also a lecturer in the Asian American Studies Program and academic coordinator of Asian Pacific American Student Development. With the Center, Jere is helping to coordinate the University-Community Network internship program. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from UC Berkeley.
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Gianna Tran, M.S.W.
East Bay Asian Youth Center
(510) 533-1092
Gianna Tran is deputy executive director of the East Bay Asian Youth Center (EBAYC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring and empowering young people to be lifelong builders of a just and caring multicultural society. EBAYC has a membership of more than 1,000 Asian, Latino, and African American families who live in Oakland’s Eastlake, San Antonio, and Fruitvale neighborhoods. Her work with the Center focuses on an evaluation of the Roosevelt Village Center, a multicultural youth violence prevention program created by EBAYC. Gianna, who has been with EBAYC for more than 16 years, has a master’s degree in social work from San Francisco State University.
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Susan Woolley, M.A.
UC Berkeley, Institute for the Study of Social Change
(510) 642-0813
Susan Woolley is a Ph.D. student with a designated emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Language and Literacy, Society and Culture Program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from Wesleyan University and her M.A. in Education from UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on constructions and negotiations of “safe space” for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students in a public high school. She is particularly interested in how experiences of school safety for these students are complicated by dominant discourses on masculinity and normative sexuality. Susan looks at strategies engaged by youth, including peer education and empowerment through gay-straight alliances, to address issues of homophobia and transphobia in their schools.
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Franklin E. Zimring, J.D.
UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
(510) 642-0854
Franklin E. Zimring is the William G. Simon Professor of Law and chair of the Criminal Justice Research Program at UC Berkeley. He is the Center’s principal investigator. Since 2005, he has been the first Wolfen Distinguished Scholar at the School of Law (Boalt Hall). He has specialized in the empirical study of legal institutions and the assessment of the behavioral impacts of legal regulation. Educated at Wayne State University and the University of Chicago, he served on the University of Chicago faculty from 1967 to 1985 and joined the Berkeley faculty that year. His recent books include An American Travesty: Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual Offending (University of Chicago Press 2004) and American Juvenile Justice (Oxford University Press 2005).
