Douglas Haynes

Douglas M. Haynes, Ph.D., is vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion at the University of California, Irvine. He is also the chief diversity officer at UCI and its medical center. Dr. Haynes leads UCI’s quest to be a national model of inclusive excellence for its nearly 30,000 undergraduates, 7,000 graduate students and 16,500 faculty and staff. He oversaw the creation of the Office of Inclusive Excellence in 2016 and was a founding faculty member of UCI’s Department of African American Studies in 1996 – where he still teaches till this day. Recently, he led the launch around the campus' Black Thriving Initiative, an ambitious and groundbreaking approach that recognizes and responds to anti-Blackness as an existential threat the university's mission. Dr. Haynes is a recognized thought leader on the topics of equity, diversity and inclusion, anti-blackness and racism, free speech, confronting extremism, modern medicine and race and organizational change/leadership. A values-driven researcher, educator and leader for institutionalized inclusive excellence, he is committed to fostering an environment that maximizes every student and faculty member’s capacity to be their best and most authentic selves. Douglas Haynes is a San Francisco native and a graduate of Pomona College and the University of California, Berkeley.