New Alumni Officers & Board Members

From the UCLA Newsroom: The UCLA Alumni Association board of directors has elected three new members and four officers whose terms began July 1. The volunteer-led board is made up of alumni who partner with alumni affairs staff to advance the association’s mission of enriching the lives of alumni worldwide and engaging them in UCLA’s future.

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The board’s new president, Cinthia Flores (image shown), serves as a quasi-judicial officer adjudicating state labor law matters on the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, having been appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020...

Devon Dickau will serve as the board’s new vice president. He is the head of future of work at Google DeepMind, where he collaborates with business leaders to address people and culture challenges in support of responsible AI development and business performance...

The board’s new secretary, Sonia Das, is principal attorney at the law offices of Sonia Das, where she focuses on nonprofit organizations and estate planning... 

The new treasurer, Chris MacLaughlin, is executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Kestra Holdings, where she leads integrated marketing strategy for a network of financial firms serving wealth management professionals... 

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One incumbent director was reelected for another term, and three directors were elected to new terms. The reelected and newly elected directors of the UCLA Alumni Association board are:

Austin Berke is a founding engineer at Harmonic AI, where he builds and supports a data platform used by leading venture capital firms and enterprises. He previously worked as a software engineer at Microsoft...

Sonya Brooks is a scholar, public servant, community builder and higher education leader whose work is rooted in educational access, student well-being and institutional transformation. She is also the CEO and founder of Beautiful Girls Garden and We Are Our Mothers’ Gardens, where she develops STEM, well-being and leadership programming for girls and young women...

Ron Yee is a partner at Wooden’s Wisdom, where he coaches individuals and teams to apply the Pyramid of Success and build stronger performance through values-based leadership and team spirit... 

Diana Zschaschel is the owner of LA Dental Day Spa and an Army Reserve colonel supporting 15,000 soldiers under the 79th Theater Support Command as the command surgeon. As a dentist, she is leading efforts to expand access to care for individuals with disabilities... She has served on the Alumni Association board of directors since 2021.

Full announcement at https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-alumni-association-board-2026. The complete list of board members with their bios is at https://alumni.ucla.edu/board-of-directors/.