Aisha Ivette Jackson
Chief Information and Digital Strategy Executive, Ed.D.
Office of Information and Digital Strategy | Chancellor's Office
University of California, Davis
Dr. Aisha Jackson serves as the first Chief Information and Digital Strategy Executive (CIDSE) at UC Davis. In this role, she provides strategic guidance, coordination, and oversight of information technology across UC Davis and UC Davis Health and is charged with developing an integrated IT strategic plan, implementing a digital risk governance framework, aligning campus and health system IT governance structures, and establishing cross-campus partnerships that advance the UC mission.
Dr. Jackson has more than 20 years of higher education technology leadership experience. She most recently served as Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at UC Santa Cruz, where she led the Information Technology Services division with a focus on delivering exceptional, modern, accessible, and secure services. Prior to UC Santa Cruz, Aisha served at the University of Colorado Boulder, as the Assistant Vice Provost and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Technology and Student Success. In this role, she bridged academic and administrative domains, providing operational oversight for academic technology, student portals, student-success analytics, and web management systems. She began her IT career at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago, where she later served as a faculty member in the School of Education and Open Campus.
Dr. Jackson holds a doctorate in education from the University of Colorado Denver; a master’s in curriculum and instruction from the University of Florida, Gainesville; and a bachelor of arts in elementary education from Flagler College.
Charron Andrus, MAG
Associate Chief Information Security Officer
Information Security Office
University of California, Berkeley
Charron Andrus has over two decades of experience in IT and cybersecurity, spanning private and public entities and clinical and academic organizations. Charron has been with the University of California system for 14 years, serving at both the Davis Health and Berkeley campuses, and currently serves as the Associate Chief Information Security Officer at UC Berkeley. Charron holds an M.A. in Gerontology from the University of Southern California and a B.S. in Organizational Leadership from Biola University.
Charron is a member of the REN-ISAC Steering Committee, the co-founder of the Black Leadership Alliance Council at the University of California (BLAC@UC), Co-lead of the EDUCAUSE Diversity in IT Community Group, and the most recent Past Chair of University of California Womxn in Technology (UC WIT). She is an appointed Sacramento City Independent Redistricting Commissioner and an officer on the Executive Board of Directors of the nonprofit Hearts with Haiti.
She has been honored with numerous awards over the years, including the ITSMF Technology Leader on the Rise award, the UC Berkeley Excellence in Management award, the UC Davis Chancellor’s Achievement award for Diversity and Community, and was recognized with a 13th Congressional District of California Special Recognition for Community Advocacy Charron’s focus is on advocating for a diverse, inclusive, and equitable faculty, staff, and student body, and her passion centers on creating meaningful relationships within higher education and broader communities.
Charron is the mother of one amazing son who married an equally remarkable woman, and they have blessed her with a wonderful grandson. In her spare time, she enjoys writing, having published a book of poems, Words That Occur in the Absence of Love, as well as a Planner, Journal, and Goal Tracker: Simplicity & Joy Planner.