Colette Patt is the assistant dean for academic success at the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) and also serves as an assistant dean at the Mathematical & Physical Sciences Division (MPS) at the University of California, Berkeley. In her role at CDSS, she leads and supports strategies to make education and careers in computing, data science, statistics, and their intersections with other disciplines more accessible, relevant, and impactful. She works closely with CDSS Dean Jennifer Chayes to build infrastructure at the undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty levels and among college staff. Her scholarly work focuses on academic life and institutional change in higher education. Patt received her bachelor's degree in English and women's studies in 1985 and her Ph.D. in social and cultural studies in education at UC Berkeley in 1995.