Shohreh Bozorgmehri is the divisional director of Student and Academic Services at the University of California Irvine’s Office of Information Technology (OIT). She focuses on transformative technologies that elevate students’ and faculty’s academic experience through strategic partnership and innovative methods. Shohreh is an advocate of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), founder of Women in Technology at UCI (WIT UCI), and an inaugural member of the systemwide UC Women in Technology Committee. She received UCI’s 2020 Dynamic Womxn Award and an honorable mention for launching OIT’s Accelerating Innovation initiative through the University of California’s 2020 Larry L. Sautter Award Program. Shohreh has delivered presentations about Inclusiveness in Tech at the 2019 University of California Technology Conference titled, “Transformation Strategies to Diversity, Retrain, and Grow Workforce by Advancing the Most Junior Talent” and “Supporting Inclusive Teams: Tools and Practices”.
She served as the chair of the University of California Educational Technology Leadership Committee during 2018-2019 and has presented at the 2018 University of California Technology Conference and 2019 Educause international conference on accelerating innovation strategies. Shohreh has completed the 2020 UC Women’s Initiative leadership development and completed the 2019 IT Leadership Academy Certification through the Paul Merage School of Business Executive MBA Education. In 2017, Shohreh completed the University of California’s IT leadership, Innovation, and Collaboration Program which was taught at the University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business.
In her spare time, Shohreh enjoys gourmet cooking, yoga, hiking in nature, and reading.
What I would like to accomplish as an Advisory Board member is…
From the start, we created a diverse advisory board of faculty and staff and included both men and women representing different areas of UCI including Central IT, Academic Schools, and Health. With that diversity in mind, we are focused on innovative methods to increase awareness around gender disparities and enhance practices or processes that create more opportunities for women to thrive in Technology.
The change I would most like to see WiT@UCI drive is…
Make UCI known for creating a workplace friendly for all Women and minorities.