People

Karen Olson

Karen Olson manages the AggieBudget help desk and user administration, including conducting onboarding and training for new users.

Erin Oriolo

  • Employee Relations Consultant
Over the past 10 years Erin has enjoyed working with clinicians, faculty, and graduate students across multiple UC campuses. She is a graduate of UC Davis with a Bachelor of Science in Communication.

Monica Padilla

  • Employee and Labor Relations Analyst
Monica has been with UC Davis Health since 2018 and joined the Employee and Labor Relations team in 2022. She has a bachelor's degree from UC Davis and a master’s degree from UC Los Angeles.

Jessica Parker

  • Project Policy Compliance Manager
Jessica Parker joined UCDH in August 2021. She has a PhD, over 10 years of experience working in both the private and public sectors, and a passion for using data and analytics to assist with operational excellence and process improvement.

Katherine Parpana

Katherine ‘Kat’ Parpana, M.A. serves as a Diversity and Inclusion Educator for the University of California, Davis in the Office of Campus Community Relations, a unit in the Office of the Chancellor. Kat supports the campus diversity education program.

Carolyn Penny

Carolyn Penny, J.D., serves as the Director of the Office of Campus Dialogue and Deliberation. She has more than 30 years of experience in conflict resolution, and collaborative problem solving of complex public policy disputes as well as leadership education, strategic and organizational planning, stakeholder input process design, issue framing, and facilitation of public engagement processes.

Tracey Pereida

Tracey Pereida is an Academic Human Resource Analyst in Graduate Studies and has been with the Graduate Studies team for over 13 years.

Spencer Richards

Spencer Richards, a Fidelity workplace planning & guidance consultant since 2015, has worked at Fidelity since 2011. Spencer provides services to staff, emeriti and retirees at UC Davis and UC Davis Health.  Prior to joining the UC team, he was the private client specialist at Fidelity’s Investor Center in Roseville.

Heather Rico

Heather Rico’s employment with People Development Systems and Sacramento State University as a Trainer combined with her experience as a Business Analyst with Intel Corporation brings valuable firsthand knowledge to share with her students.

Byron Roberts

Byron Roberts has worked for eight years in university technology transfer and patent law, including five years in university technology transfer and three years as a patent agent at a law firm.