Berkeley Administrative Management Professionals (AMP formerly ABOG)

Mission and Purpose

Berkeley Administrative Management Professionals (AMP) is an organization of business officers from academic departments and research organizations. Formerly known as the Academic Business Officers Group or ABOG, it is one of the oldest staff organizations on campus, and was established as a system-wide group in 1968. The Berkeley chapter, with about 150 members and affiliates, is the only group of its kind that brings together the staff leadership of academic and research units through voluntary association.

Goals

Our specific goals are to improve communication among teaching, research, service, and administrative offices of the Berkeley campus; provide a forum for discussion; study administrative problems for the purpose of finding ways to improve and simplify operations at all levels; provide the administration with a broad-based staff resource that is closely involved with the teaching and research mission; support our members by sharing best practices; and promote and recognize the professional identity of department and unit administrators and managers.

Sponsors

Benjamin E. Hermalin, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost

Contact

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Cruz Grimaldo - Chair
Associate Vice Chancellor Financial Aid and Scholarships & Cal Student Central
ma_cruz@berkeley.edu

Management Council

Emily Best  - Chair-Elect
Assistant Director, Berkeley Law
ebest@law.berkeley.edu 

Joanne Straley - Past Chair
Manager, Plant & Microbial Biology
jstraley@berkeley.edu


Elena Wen Jiang 
CFO for Vice Chancellor of Administration
wjiang@berkeley.edu

Angela Chang
Financial Analyst, VC Administration
changa99@berkeley.edu

Jan Crosbie-Taylor
Assistant Director of Foundational Skills Development, People & Culture
j.crosbie-taylor@berkeley.edu 

Latara Harris 
Manager Business Operations, Procurement, & Onboarding, ProS
latara_harris@berkeley.edu 

Jolie Lam 
Manager, Surgical Robotics and Health Informatics Research & Training Program
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
jolie.lam@citris-uc.org 

Nicole Lowy 
Department Manager, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Dept (ESPM)
nlowy@berkeley.edu 

Barbara Montano
Project Manager, African American Studies
bmontano14@berkeley.edu

Harumi Quinones 
Director of Student Services, Department of Psychology
harumi@berkeley.edu 

Sandy Richmond 
Director of Administration, AGES
AfAm, GWS, Ethnic Studies
sandyjbr@berkeley.edu