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Pamela Burdman is a Program Officer with the Education Program, primarily responsible for grants related to California’s community colleges. She has a long-standing interest in issues of access, equity, and quality in higher education. Prior to joining the Foundation, she worked as a journalist, initially as a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer and subsequently as a freelance journalist contributing to publications including the New York Times, Lingua Franca, Salon, the Far Eastern Economic Review, California Journal, National Crosstalk, and Black Issues in Higher Education. Though her primary focus has been higher education policy in California and other states, she has written on a variety of subjects, including immigration and US-China relations. She has received numerous awards for her reporting, including the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, for Bitter Voyage, a 1994 series of articles on immigrant smuggling. She also has an interest in media analysis, having served as associate producer for the public television show Media Matters, and taught a course on the news media at San Francisco City College. Prior to entering journalism, she taught Mandarin at UC Berkeley and led a program for undergraduates in a village near Shanghai. She holds an M.B.A. and M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.A. in Philosophy and East Asian Studies from Princeton University | 