Executive Team

Susan Stone

Interim Dean

Susan Stone is the Interim Dean for Berkeley Social Welfare as well as the Catherine Mary and Eileen Clare Hutto Professor of Social Services in Public Education at the School of Social Welfare.

Her research agenda focuses on understanding and advancing the conditions and practices of school social work and other related service provision in educational settings to support the school experiences and trajectories of K-12 students, with a particular focus on equitable school policies, routines, and practices. She is...

Dana Kowalski

Assistant Dean for Administration and Finance

swcao@berkeley.edu, 510.664.5065

Dana Kowalski has served as the School of Social Welfare’s Chief Administrative Officer and Divisional Finance Leader since 2019. She joined the School of Social Welfare as the Department Manager in the summer of 2017. Prior to Social Welfare, Dana worked as a Business Systems Analyst on the Berkeley Financial System Team, a Financial Analyst for Campus Shared Services...

Joyce Dorado

Associate Dean for Research-Practice Partnerships

Dr. Joyce Dorado is a Teaching Professor and Associate Dean for Research-Practice Partnerships in the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley and the Co-Founder and Director of Healthy Environments and Response to Trauma in Schools (HEARTS). Dr. Dorado is a nationally recognized expert in partnering with schools and other youth-serving systems to create trauma-informed, equitable, and healing organizations. She has served as an appointed member of the California State Supreme Court Justice’s statewide steering committee for the Keeping Kids in School and Out of Courts...

Mel Lamagna

Chief Instructional and Student Affairs Officer
swcisao@berkeley.edu, 510.502.6731