Christopher Nguyen-Pheneger

Christopher Nguyen Pheneger serves as Director of Strategic Partnerships and Community Engagement at UC Davis, where he leads initiatives to promote inclusive leadership, institutional capacity-building, and employee engagement. His professional and research interests include equity-centered organizational change, shared governance in higher education, and leadership development. Through the CANDEL program, Christopher aims to explore how public universities can institutionalize structures that sustain meaningful engagement across diverse stakeholder groups.