Staff Assembly
2022-2024 OPSA Steering Committee Nominations
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Meet your 2022-2024 OPSA Steering Committee Nominees
Gail Meloan, Production Liaison (UC Path)
Why do you want to be a member of the OP Staff Assembly Steering Committee? (Your statement of contribution)
It would be a tremendous opportunity to be able to represent our staff, discuss and collaborate on questions and concerns and to provide the support and guidance on issues that affect our employees and workplace environment. The UC is an amazing organization with hard working and dedicated employees. I want to help in some small way to continue to build and improve on what UC has worked so hard to achieve.
Dana Adams, Benefits Associate (UC Path)
Why do you want to be a member of the OP Staff Assembly Steering Committee? (Your statement of contribution)
I believe that I have many strengths and being a member of the OP Staff Assembly Steering Committee, those strengths will be utilized. There’s so much that goes on at the UCPath center that having a seat at the table will provide a voice along with representation.
Danielle Salas, Benefits Supervisor (UC Path)
Why do you want to be a member of the OP Staff Assembly Steering Committee? (Your statement of contribution)
To be able to support and protect the interests of the UCPath Center and OP staff.
Mahjabeen Yucekul, Senior Software Developer (UCOP)
Why do you want to be a member of the OP Staff Assembly Steering Committee? (Your statement of contribution)
I would like to be a member of the OP Staff Assembly Steering Committee to represent my colleagues at California Digital Library (CDL). CDL is special; CDL is a diverse and collaborative group of librarians, software developers and thought leaders who are passionate about advancing, preserving, managing and sharing scholarly contributions. I would also like to increase awareness and participation in OPSA events by CDL staff members.
I am very interested in continuing my professional growth by networking and gaining a better understanding of various roles, functions, dynamics at UCOP. I have seen the benefit of this from my current activities in UCOP groups, including my membership in PACSW; my participation in the subcommittee that organized this year’s Making Power Moves training; and helping my staff Affinity Group partnership subcommittee create a fun two minute video for UCOP’s Multicultural Week. I value the interpersonal and leadership skills development that comes with these activities and look forward to this opportunity to collaborate with OPSA members to organize events for UCOP colleagues and contribute to OPSA success.
Teresa Jackson, Executive Assistant (UCOP)
Why do you want to be a member of the OP Staff Assembly Steering Committee? (Your statement of contribution)
It’s been a great joy and learning opportunity collaborating with my peers. I’d like to serve another term OPSA, so that I can continue to be a voice that represents real inclusion, equity, and diversity on behalf of OP's entire workforce - promoting creative solutions to help build community and address the challenges that collectively impact UC employees.
Tony Yang, Project Policy Analyst (UCOP)
Why do you want to be a member of the OP Staff Assembly Steering Committee? (Your statement of contribution)
As a previous chair of the OPSA Steering Committee I have advocated on behalf of staff seeking to empower the staff voice at UCOP. I want to continue to make sure our staff assembly helps give voice to anxiety and fears of some of our employees both big and small. I have helped to steer staff input in hiring our Ombudsperson and making that a critical resource for our staff affinity groups. I have also planned many OPSA events, including our successful mixology event, and APISA’s Pecha Kucha / Boba Tea. I have also had the honor of representing UCOP staff on the Council of UC Staff Assemblies (CUCSA) which regularly meet’s relate concerns to the President. I’ve been part of UC big and small, holding positions at UCOP, UC Berkeley, and UC Riverside. I believe that diversity of experience across UC is important in identifying resources and programs to engage and empower our staff.
While many of you know that I’m direct, I want to engage our staff in difficult times, with meaningful opportunities through programming, outreach to hold our staff community together, whether in person or in the virtual / remote world. I think our staff assembly can do this through thoughtful decision making and collaboration. I respectfully ask my colleagues to thoughtfully consider my nomination to the OPSA Steering Committee.
Nicola Gruen, Development Analyst (UCOP)
Why do you want to be a member of the OP Staff Assembly Steering Committee? (Your statement of contribution)
I would like to continue to be connected and contribute to the UCOP community through my service of making a difference for UCOP staff.
Shirley Bittlingmeier, Executive Director, IT Client Services (UCOP)
Why do you want to be a member of the OP Staff Assembly Steering Committee? (Your statement of contribution)
I would like to use the experience I have gained from my membership and active participation on the PACSW and APISA committees to OPSA which serves the entire OP community. OPSA and the ERGs are so essential right now to support and advocate for staff as we continue our future of work transition. I also gain from this work personally, as I have the opportunity to work with staff I may not ever interact with and I learn so much from the members!
Thanks for your consideration,
Shirley
Trish Dolan, Regent Coordinator (UCOP)
Why do you want to be a member of the OP Staff Assembly Steering Committee? (Your statement of contribution)
As the Chair of the OP Staff Assembly Steering Committee, it has been an honor to serve the OP Community and to collaborate with staff from the 4 locations – UCPath Center, UCDC, UC Sacramento, and Oakland. In my role, I would like to continue to build on the work of the past year of creating a collaborative community for staff to engage, voice concerns, and celebrate the diversity that makes UCOP the incredible community it is! As an alumna of UC Berkeley and UC employee with a 32 year career (6 at UC Berkeley and 26 at UCOP), I believe that I can offer a mature and fresh perspective on ways to drive deeper staff engagement, have fun, and improve the employee experience at UCOP. I love helping people! To have a chance to impact lives during these challenging times, seems like my calling. I consider myself an optimist and seek to find a positive side to every situation. To continue to lead and work with the committed OPSA team will continue to be an extraordinary opportunity. We are living in unprecedented times, but we can learn so much from this and come out stronger, happier, and hopefully more fulfilled and caring people. I hope to be able to share that goodness and spirit with you!