Denzil A. Streete

Chief of Staff & Assistant Dean for Graduate Diversity

University of California, Berkeley – Graduate Division

Dr. Streete brings complementary expertise in educational assessment and administration of diversity enhancement programs in graduate education. As Director of the Office for Graduate Diversity (OGD) at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Streete oversees the provision of recruitment and retention strategies and programming for students from historically underrepresented backgrounds. Dr. Streete leads efforts to provide workshops for academic programs at UC Berkeley on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging; as well as, holistic admissions and inclusive mentorship practices. Dr. Streete has decade-long experience in graduate education and specializes on issues of recruiting, departmental climate and inclusive mentorship. As a Black administrator, Dr. Streete utilizes his positionality and his experiences obtaining a PhD at an Ivy League institution to inform his approaches to working with graduate students and faculty. He has led numerous graduate student and faculty workshops at Syracuse University, Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley on issues including imposter syndrome, inclusive mentoring, implicit bias, bystander intervention and healthy departmental climates. At Yale University, Dr. Streete was responsible for diversity recruiting and initiated the Bouchet Bootcamp which provided graduate school preparation training for over 1,000 students from underrepresented backgrounds. Dr. Streete additionally served on the Executive Committee of The Leadership Alliance, a national organization that provides research opportunities and professional development for underrepresented students to mobilize a diversified research workforce.