Regent Lark Park

Lark Park has been the Executive Director of the California Education Learning Lab, a state-funded program in the Governor’s administration, since its launch in 2018. Under her leadership, Learning Lab has committed more than $55 million to 120+ projects across 114 higher education institutions to promote innovation and collaboration in student success and learning. The program has reached thousands of faculty across the UCs, CSUs, and California community colleges and positively impacted learning for hundreds of thousands of students through its funded projects.

Prior to launching Learning Lab, Ms. Park previously served as Governor Jerry Brown’s senior advisor on higher education and deputy legislative affairs secretary on health and human services issues, shepherding key policy changes such as the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and making recommendations on several hundred bills over an eight-year period.

Prior to that, she worked on policy issues for both the California State Senate and Assembly, writing and negotiating changes to law in health, human services, childcare, and business professions; she reported on technology startups and venture capital as a business/technology journalist; and also served as a writer in the Clinton White House.

Ms. Park has a humanities background, with both a Bachelors and Master’s in English. She is an alumna of UC Berkeley and Georgetown University, and has served as a Regent of the University of California since June 2017, championing innovation, technology transfer, and entrepreneurship across broad fields, as well as increasing access to healthcare in underserved areas, and adopting innovations in teaching and learning.

Ms. Park was appointed by Governor Brown to a term expiring in 2029.