Experts Guide
Adjunct Professor
Masonic 209
Mark Rafael (aka. Truitt) has been a professional actor for the past 25 years. His Bay Area appearances include Ted Kaczinski Killed People with Bombs, Schrodinger's Girlfriend, and Joe Goode's Body Familiar for the Magic Theatre, The Best of Playgrounds 9 & 11, Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes, ReOrient Festival, and the Bay Area Playwrights' Festival. He has also appeared regionally at Yale Repertory, American Stage, Wisdom Bridge, and Northlight Theatre, among others. Film and…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: UI/UX,
Web Programming,
System Design,
Public Speaking
Jon Rahoi is a rare emulsion of software engineer, public speaker (he emcees MMA, boxing, and corporate events, and was in USF's College Players as an actor), entrepreneur (including a few companies with USF Alums) and teacher (in both CS and Public Speaking).
He loves learning human languages, making, analyzing, and playing games, and telling people what it was like to grow up in central Alaska.
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 352
Prof. Shannon Raintree was raised in San Francisco and Hawaii. She has lived, studied, and traveled extensively in Latin America and the Basque Country.
Retired Faculty
Expertise: Jewish Studies,
Queer Studies,
Queer and Jewish Intersectionality,
Body-Centered Meditation,
Creative Writing
Eli Andrew Ramer, a regular guest speaker in courses offered by the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice, was a previous faculty member for many years. An ordained maggid (a sacred storyteller in the Jewish tradition), he is the author of five books of Jewish stories — Queering the Text, Torah Told Different, Deathless, Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud, and Texting with Angels — as well as many other acclaimed books. A writing instructor, editor, and long-time movement and…
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 352
Expertise: Modern and Contemporary Literature (Spanish, French, German, and English),
Poetry and Lyrical narratives,
Interdisciplinary Studies ,
Transnational and Postcolonial Studies
Virginia Ramos is a Spanish and American poet, and scholar. She earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University and is the former Managing Editor of Mantis, A Journal of Poetry, Criticism and Translation. Her essays, poems and reviews have appeared in several publications in the US and Europe. Earlier in her career she worked for the Global Fund for Women and continues to support and fight for human rights globally. Her overall research interest centers on multi-genre texts,…
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Stream and Riparian Ecology,
Plant Mating-System Evolution,
General Ecology,
Wildlife Conservation
April Randle's research is broadly focused on how ecological factors shape the behavioral and morphological traits of species and influence species' distributions and interactions. She has conducted research on a range of taxa including: tropical trees (forest restoration), primates (foraging behavior), temperate flora (plant ecology, mating system evolution, plant-pollinator interactions), marine mammals (population size estimation of large cetaceans), tropical freshwater fish (adaptations to…
Associate Professor
Education 304e
Professor Ruchi Rangnath received a doctorate degree from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a Bay Area native and has taught in elementary schools across San Jose and New York City. Her research focuses on critical literacy, humanizing practices, Ethnic Studies, and social justice teaching and learning in elementary classrooms.
Her recent books include Planting the Seed of Equity: Ethnic Studies and Social Justice in the K-2 Classroom, Preparing to Teach Social Studies for Social…
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 202
Angelika Rappe has a BA in Liberal Arts and an MA in English with a concentration in TESOL from San Francisco State University. She has experience teaching Academic English at all levels. She taught at the American Language Institute at San Francisco State University and at Cañada College in Redwood City. She has taught Academic English at the University of San Francisco since 2008 and she currently also teaches at the Academy of Art University in downtown San Francisco. She also worked for many…
Professor
101 Howard St., Suite 430
Expertise: Sports Economics,
Sports Finance,
Sports Valuation,
Sports Antitrust
Dr. Rascher has taught sports economics and finance, business research methods, and master's project. As President of SportsEconomics, his clients have included organizations involved in the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, NCAA, NASCAR, MLS, PGA, WTA, media, sporting goods and apparel, professional boxing, mixed martial arts, minor league baseball, NHRA, AHL, Formula 1, Indy Car racing, American Le Mans racing, Premier League Football, NASL, women’s professional soccer, professional cycling & swimming,…
Adjunct Professor
Adjunct clinical faculty for BSN Hilltop Campus. Junior 1-Community and Mental Health.