Cultivating Values, Ethics, & Innovation for a more Just, Equitable, & Viable Future
Our Team.
While CAVEAT's Founding Directors provide the vision and direction, CAVEAT Interns bring innovation and creativity to carrying out our mission.
CAVEAT Founding Directors
Dr. Lisa A. Berkley’s life’s work is dedicated to how we thrive, as individuals and society. At UCSC, along with her work at CAVEAT, she is faculty and the Founding Director of Crown College’s Resiliency and Well-Being Program. Dr. Berkley is the founder of the Institute for Inner Economy and serves as President of Women In International Security, US West Coast Region (WIISWest). she also serves on the Board of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte.
Dr. Berkley is a former elected Councilmember and former Vice-Chair of the Planning Commission in her former home city of Marina, California where she served on multiple County and State boards and organizations.
With more than 30 years teaching and working in individual and community holistic well-being, Lisa’s unique background as a policy advisor, peace facilitator, healer, and activist spans across four continents and stems from more than 25 years of experience in wholistic health and education, stress management, meditation, interpersonal conflict resolution and terrorism studies. She is certified in different modalities of mind-body healing as well as holds a B.A. in Environmental Science and Economics, an M.A. in International Policy, focusing on Counterterrorism and Transitional Justice, an M.A. in Leadership and Change, and a PhD in Leadership and Change. Dr. Berkley co-authored the book, Women and Leadership Around the World, Vol. III (Information Age Publishing, 2015) recently co-edited and co-authored Leadership at the Spiritual Edge: Emerging and Non-Western Concepts of Leadership and Spirituality (Routledge, 2024). Forthcoming in 2026 she will have two additional book chapters on leadership and a three-book series on how we thrive in a complex world.
Linda MacDonald Glenn, JD, LLM, is an American bioethicist, healthcare educator, lecturer, consultant, and attorney-at-law with over 30 years of experience across multiple industries including exponential technology, healthcare, government, education, and business ethics. She is a renowned thought leader, keynote speaker, and writer with a substantial body of published work in peer-reviewed journals and is frequently quoted in the media for her thoughtful, incisive views on emerging technologies.
Glenn is a Founding Director of the Center for Applied Values and Ethics in Advancing Technologies (CAVEAT) at Crown College, University of California Santa Cruz. She also holds faculty appointments at California State University Monterey Bay and the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical Center. Her academic research focuses on the legal, ethical, and social impact of emerging and exponential technologies and "evolving notions of personhood."
a former Women's Bioethics Project Scholar, Glenn is a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and has completed a fellowship at the former Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association. Prior to academia, she practiced as a trial attorney specializing in patient advocacy, bioethical and biotechnology issues, end-of-life decision-making, reproductive rights, genetics, and neuroethics.
Nada Miljkovic is a multi-disciplinary educator, entrepreneur, and artivist (artist-activist) who serves as the Interim Managing Director of UCSC's Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development and as a Faculty Instructor at Crown College, University of California, Santa Cruz. She has been a lecturer at Crown College since 2015, teaching ethics, entrepreneurship, creativity, leadership, and digital storytelling across a wide range of courses she helped design and implement.
Miljkovic holds a BS in Construction Management and BA in Philosophy from Purdue University, a Masters in Fine Arts in Digital Arts and New Media from UC Santa Cruz, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Digital Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. She is the co-founder and CEO of GetVirtual and founder of Artist on Art, LLC. Additionally, she serves as President of several Bay Area nonprofit boards including the Arts Council of Santa Cruz County, United Services Agency, Inc., and E.A.R.T.H. Lab,SF
Manel Camps is Professor in Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology at the University of California Santa Cruz. His research program focuses on the evolution of new biochemical activities, both at the level of single proteins (DNA repair and antibiotic resistance genes) and of bacterial genomes (plasmids, toxin-antitoxins). His training includes a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine degree (Autonomous University of Barcelona, 1993), a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology (Stanford University, 2001), and six years of postdoctoral training in directed evolution and cancer mutagenesis with Dr. Lawrence A. Loeb at the University of Washington. He joined the Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology at UCSC in 2007. His scientific publication record can be found here.
Between 2014 and June 2025, he served as Provost of Crown College, whose theme is "Social and Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies". At Crown College, and with the generous support of Crown alumni, he oversaw the development of educational programs in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, media/creative communication, and resiliency. The Innovation and Entrepreneurship program is now part of a Certificate that includes an introduction to entrepreneurship and finance, operational aspects of entrepreneurship and opportunities for service-learning and business pitch competitions.. In July 2021, he was appointed Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED) to continue to grow I&E educational programs and to support the growth of a dynamic and sustainable entrepreneurship community on campus in partnership with the Innovation and Business Engagement Hub and other stakeholders on the UCSC campus.
Current InternS
Lydia Cayer is a rising sophomore in Business Management Economics and Marine Biology at UC Santa Cruz. She enjoys learning and writing about generative AI, biology, law, and the ethical reasoning driving or holding back these fields. Bioethics is a particular focus of hers, with an emphasis on how new advancements impact people’s identity, creativity, and autonomy. Lydia is both an avid reader and poet, and hopes to bring more attention to the harmful effects of generative AI in various writing-based fields.
Lydia Cayer
2025 Summer/Fall Intern
Data Dignity and Bioethics Research
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