Ariana Ceja

Ariana Ceja (she/her) is a creative administrator, a cultivator of collaborations, and an inventive navigator through bureaucracy. She joined the Center for Race and Gender in 2019 and was named Associate Director in 2023. She oversees the center's administration, finance, human resources, communications, and all day-to-day operations. Ceja has over 20+ years of higher education administration experience with the last 15 years working at research centers focusing on issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and social justice. She was the Program Manager for the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Prior to working at UC Berkeley, she served in a joint position as the Administrative Assistant to both the Director of Judicial Affairs and the Vice President of Student Services at California State University, Long Beach. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Humboldt State University, and a M.S. in Criminology from California State University, Long Beach.