Biography

 Tiffani is a Southern California raised, First Gen College Graduate who received BA in Psychology from UC Berkeley, Master of Public Health from Cal State San Jose and is currently looking forward to receiving her Ed.D within the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies – Education Leadership Program in spring 2023. With career that spans over 20 years at UCLA, she currently serves as the Associate Director for UCLA Student Health Education and Promotion.

Throughout Tiffani’s UCLA career,her commitment towards being a compassionate, impactful, and agile campus leader has supported her well towards enhancing the campus community’s health and wellbeing through an equity, diversity & inclusion lens. In prior years, she served as the Assistant Director for UCLA Bruin Resource Center (BRC), founding director of the UCLA Intergroup Relations (IGR) Program, and adjunct lecturer with UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health. Notably, she has facilitated many other firsts for the UCLA too, including: launching IGR to address emergent diversity, equity concerns impacting the campus climate; spearheading campus community health & well-being efforts like, Bruin Love Station – UCLA’s first-ever mobile sexual health and wellness resource cart; and the Bruin Public Health Ambassadors Program – an on-the-ground response to COVID mitigation across the campus. Furthermore, it was under her leadership and partnership with the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center that led UCLA to become the third UC campus to officially adopt the Okanagan Charter: An International Charter for Health Promoting Universities & Colleges. Among Tiffani’s many other notable achievements at UCLA and within the UC-system, her commitment to helping UCLA Bruins optimize their growth, health and resilience has forever remained front and center.

“Know deep down, you have the power to build your own table at which to feast. Don’t wait around for the crumbs off someone else’s table, a table where you might never be invited to pull up a chair.” – adaptation | Ateh Jewel