Shanti Corrigan

Shanti brings decades of fundraising, alumni relations, and communications experience to her appointment with the School of Information and its Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC), including 20 years with UC Berkeley.  

Working full-time with the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity since 2022, she's partnered with their leadership and research team on transformative investments in trailblazing initiatives like the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, Cyber Civil Defense, and the AI Policy Hub.

Her prior joint appointment with the School of Information helped establish the "I School"s first $1M doctoral fellowship endowment, expand resources for entrepreneurial I School Innovators, and deepen ties with the schools' phenomenal librarian alumni in support of new information professionals. 

A Berkeley High alumna, Shanti attended UC Santa Cruz where she secured her BA in Community Studies, drawn to its social change emphasis and the opportunity to conduct international fieldwork, which she completed in Barcelona co-teaching women's self-defense classes - an experience memorialized in her honors undergraduate thesis.

Early development work with the Berkeley YWCA, Business for Social Responsibility, and three years with the Washington D.C. based headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), preceded her career in higher education.  At the University of Southern California, while working in development and student affairs, she secured her Master's degree in Communications Management from the Annenberg School for Communications with distinction.

Joining the UC Berkeley staff in 2003, Shanti served as Director of Development, Alumni Relations & Communications for International House across eleven adventurous years - working closely with its leadership, Board, and a small but mighty team to consistently exceed fundraising goals, including its milestone 75th Anniversary capital campaign.  Shanti helped to secure over $20M in service to the I House mission while consciously building its brand and network through revamped online and print communications, video contests, annual fundraising Galas, and alumni convenings in London, Paris, Milan, Tokyo, L.A, D.C., and the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

As Assistant Dean for UC Berkeley's Graduate Division 2014-2017, Shanti designed and launched a $500K to $500K matching gift program - the Berkeley Endowments to Attract and Retain Graduate Students (BEAR Grads) program - which, through collaborative fundraising across campus, secured $20M for Graduate Fellowship Endowments in just over two years. 

She joined the School of Information - formerly the School of Librarianship - after a productive two years with the UC Berkeley University Library (all 24 of them), including leadership for the 10th Anniversary of the East Asian Library and significant expansion of direct funding for the wine oral history project and detective book collections of the Bancroft Library. 

She completed her Certification as a Planned Giving Specialist (CSPG) in 2021. 

Shanti lives and volunteers in El Cerrito where she resides with her husband, their youngest soccer-obsessed Berkeley High teen, a "spoiled hot dog" (dachshund) named Digby, and enjoys rare but welcomed visits from an eldest son now attending Chico State University and working as a firefighter.

She invites your connection on LinkedIn and welcomes discussion around the important priorities of the I School and CLTC at (510) 693-8062 or shanti@berkeley.edu.