Staff

Maxwell Vanderwarker is HEAL’s Operations Officer. He received his BA in English from UC Berkeley, where he was involved in LGBT+ leadership with Oscar Wilde House, the LGBT+ theme house in the Berkeley Student Cooperative, as Network Manager and Social Coordinator. After graduation, he transitioned into Human Resources and finance and worked with a variety of small tech startups in the Bay Area, and at the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley. Most recently, he was the Administrative Manager of UC Berkeley’s Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI), an interdisciplinary research unit focused on social change scholarship, and the Technology Coordinator of LavenderCal, UC Berkeley’s LGBT+ staff and faculty professional organization.