Roseanne graduated from Cal in 1976 with a degree in psychology. As a senior she was in pilot group of EOP peer counselors. After leaving Berkeley, she worked part-time for the State Legislature and pursued a graduate degree in counselor education from Cal State Sacramento. Before joining NSS, Roseanne worked as a desegregation consultant for the Office of Civil Rights in Salt Lake City and spent nine years as the director of Cal Corps. She began working in NSS as a Program Director in 1992 and became the Director in 2000. Roseanne is an active member of many of campus committees including: APASA (chair), Coalition of Ethnic Staff Organizations, Registration Task Force Committee, Student Systems Policy committee, Academic and and Enrichment Support , and the Welcome Week Planning Committee. She is also the proud parent of a recent Berkeley graduate!

Jenne (pronounced Jenny) stuffed pre-enrollment packets for the Registrar's Office while she was a freshman at Berkeley. She became a founding member of the Berkeley Fiction Review and was active in queer student issues. In 1979 she joined the Student Information Center (subsequently renamed Student Activities and Services and now known as the Office of Student Life) as a student working in a career position (Senior Clerk 50%) and began her present career writing and designing orientation publications including Resource and Welcome Week materials. After graduating from Cal in 1982 with a BA in English, she studied graphic design at the Oakland California College of Arts and Crafts. Jenne is a member of the Designer Alliance and has volunteered to produce graphics for Cal's AIDS Walk and AIDS Rides/LifeCycle teams.

Cristóbal Olivares, Program Director
643-2463, cmo@berkeley.edu

Cristóbal entered the Cal community in 1987 as a freshman in the College of Natural Resources, intent on becoming a wildlife conservationist.  The next few years brought many new majors (Linguistics, English, and Italian), various student leadership roles (including serving as a CalSO counselor for two years: 1990-1991), and several semesters out of school working full-time. In 1994, he took a career job on campus with University Health Services where he worked for the next thirteen years. His areas included managing two peer educator programs (Health Workers and MAPP), teaching numerous courses in Public Health, and working with Chicano/Latino students on campus. In 2005, Cristóbal returned to Cal as a re-entry student. He continued working full-time at UHS and graduated in 2006 with a degree in Sociology. In 2007, Cristóbal was hired as a Program Director by NSS to oversee freshman and transfer orientations, and the dream of returning to CalSO came true!

As an undergraduate at Berkeley, Nora was involved in many student groups: Raza Recruitment and Retention Center, Raza Caucus, Cal-SERVE, and Chicano/Latino Political Science Association. She was also co-founder of TRENZA and a Stiles Hall mentor. After graduating in Political Science in 1997, she immediately began working on campus. She was the Program Director of the Achievement Award and Student Alumni Mentor Program (California Alumni Association); the Interim Director of the Chicano/Latino Academic Student Development (Multicultural Student Development); and held three different positions within the Office of Student Life including Coordinator in the Gender Equity Resource Center, Adviser for Ethnic Specific Student Group Advising, and Coordinator of Cal Corps K-12 Outreach and Training. Nora sits on many campus and community committees including: Committee on Student Conduct, Immigrant Student Issues Coalition , Chancellor's Student-Initiated Commission on Diversity, Student Affairs Student Development Committee, Raza Student Development Committee, Chicano Latino Community Working Group, New Non-Profit Nexus Board of Directors, and Chicano Latino Alumni Association Board of Directors. She began working with New Student Services in October 2003 as the Summer Bridge Director.

Marissa Bell Toffoli, Editor
642-5465, mtoffoli@berkeley.edu

Darryl joined NSS in 2009 after working as an RD in Unit 2. He recently finished a Master's Degree at the University of Georgia; prior to that, he was the CEO of his classroom with the Teach For America program in the Mississippi Delta. His undergrad degree is from North Carolina State University where his heart for students found its beat.

Student Staff

We rely heavily on the enthusiasm, creativity, diversity, and commitment of our student staff to help us implement our programs. Year round we employ CalSO Coordinators, Publications Assistants, Summer Bridge Assistants, and Senior Clerks. For the summer we hire 60 additional student staff including CalSO Counselors, Reservations Clerks and Roadies.