Introducing CSSL's Student Advisory Board
We’re thrilled to announce the new members of the CSSL Student Advisory Board (SAB): Andrew Crispin, Grace Cao, Hana Dai, Hilary Scanlin, Mel Goetz & Shravan Davuluri!
A big welcome back as well to our returning members: Jess Blackshaw, Julia Oran, Moe Ghaffarian, & Sarah Martin.
The SAB plays a pivotal role in shaping the direction of CSSL’s programs and initiatives, ensuring they reflect the needs, perspectives, and aspirations of our diverse student community. We’re excited to welcome this inspiring group of changemakers and look forward to the creativity, insight, and energy they’ll bring to the year ahead!
Past Announcements
As we approach the 20th anniversary of the Center for Social Sector Leadership, we’re excited to announce the launch of our new 3-year strategy, designed to expand CSSL’s growth and impact in this next chapter. Our work will position Berkeley Haas as the leading business school for students who want to become effective social impact leaders across sectors.
CSSL’s new Social Impact Leadership Framework identifies a distinct set of skills and capabilities for effective, mission-driven leaders. Moving forward, this framework will guide our course design, identify programming gaps, and help serve as a road map for students. Click here to read more!
We are thrilled to announce that Linda Frey will be joining CSSL as our new Executive Director beginning January 8, 2025. Linda was most recently the Director of California’s $146M College Corps program, led by California Volunteers in the Office of the Governor. College Corps funds 45 colleges and universities across the state to engage more than 3,000 full-time students each year in meaningful community service internships, while earning money to help pay for college.
Linda has more than 20 years of experience leading strategy and partnerships for nonprofits, foundations, and international organizations. Her previous roles include VP of Strategic Partnerships for Global Citizen Year (an immersive global gap year program) and Executive Director of the Open Government Partnership, an international organization that promotes government transparency and civic participation. From 2004 through 2012, Linda was a Program Officer at the Hewlett Foundation, where she helped develop the first grantmaking strategy for the Foundation’s Global Development Program. She subsequently managed a $50M grant portfolio designed to promote citizen oversight of public spending and service delivery in developing countries.
Linda has lived and worked in France, Ecuador and Peru and speaks both Spanish and French. She holds a Master’s in Public Administration from Princeton University and a B.S. in Political Science from Duke University. She currently lives in San Anselmo, California with her husband and two teenage daughters.
We are thrilled to be expanding our Board Fellows Program at Berkeley Haas! Golub Capital announced it is working with our center at Berkeley Haas, along with six other leading business schools to establish or expand Board Fellows Programs, which prepare MBA candidates and alumni to become impactful nonprofit board members.
We are thrilled to announce that Omri Even-Tov will be joining founding Faculty Director Nora Silver as Co- Director in the 24-25 school year. As co-founder of the Center’s ImpactCFO program, Omri has fostered a deep passion for the Center’s mission — developing leaders who are dedicated to transforming organizations and communities to create a more just and equitable world.
Omri is an Associate Professor in the Accounting Group where his research focuses on reporting and disclosure policies, capital markets, corporate debt, mergers and acquisitions, and credit rating agencies. Omri’s work examines the economic consequences of different disclosure policies in different settings. He has current research projects on the real effects of conflict mineral disclosures, the effect of disclosures of new public companies on retail investors, and the economic consequences of pension disclosures of municipalities.
Omri has also been recognized for his significant accomplishments as an educator. In his second year as an Assistant Professor, he was honored with Berkeley Haas’ Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching for his MBA financial accounting course. He won the same award the following year for his teaching in the PhD program. In 2018, he was included on Poets & Quants’ list of the “World’s Best 40 Business School Professors Under 40.”