Experts Guide
Director, Office of Career Services, Adjunct Professor
Kendrick Hall 336
Karren Shorofsky is the Director of the Office of Career Services (“OCS”) at USF’s School of Law. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the School of Law and in USF’s Graduate Program in Museum Studies.
Prof. Shorofsky worked in the General Counsel’s Office of the Museum of Modern Art in New York during law school and then joined Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office as an Associate. At Morrison & Foerster, she handled a wide variety of intellectual property law cases, including…
Faculty Emeritus
Aaron Shurin is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose, most recently The Blue Absolute, from Nightboat Books. Other works include: Flowers & Sky: Two Talks (Entre Rios Books, 2017), The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (University of Michigan Press, 2015), and two books from City Lights: Citizen (poems, 2012) and King of Shadows (essays, 20008). His writing has appeared in over forty national and international anthologies, from The Norton Anthology of…
Professor
Harney Science Center 126B
Expertise: Kinesiology,
Growth, maturation, and motor development
Shannon Siegel teaches courses in the areas of growth, maturation, motor development, and measurement. She researches methods to get and keep youth physically active; much of her current research involves teaching inactive and/or overweight youth to rock climb. Professor Siegel is an active member of both ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine) and NASPEM (North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine). In addition, she is a section editor for the International Journal of Exercise…
Professor
Harney Science Center 440E
Professor Siehr works on energy–based solutions to multiple environmental problems–from local air pollution to global climate change–combining engineering with tools from political economy and organizational analysis. With a geographical focus on China, Japan, and the US, her research and teaching examine energy and carbon saving strategies; emissions inventories; city climate action; environmental and energy policy analysis; urban sustainability, international cooperation; and environmental…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Suicide prevention,
Crisis de-escalation,
Dance
Mehgan Sierra (she/her) graduated San Francisco State University with her undergraduate degree in Latino and Sexual Studies. During undergrad, she was involved in the mental health and primary care setting by volunteering at San Francisco Suicide Prevention and Clinical Martin-Baro.
After finishing undergrad, Mehgan began her career at Edgewood Center for Children and Families, a mental health non-profit organization. She worked in an array of roles and continued to grow in this area from a…
Associate Professor
Harney Science Center 223
Professor Sikes is interested in the evolution and development of regeneration and asexual reproduction in invertebrates, particularly marine and freshwater flatworms. Current research focuses on understanding developmental mechanisms that allow some flatworms to regenerate and the molecular developmental processes that lead to diversification of asexual reproductive strategies.
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 141
David Silver is associate professor and director of the environmental studies program at the University of San Francisco. He teaches classes on urban agriculture, food and culture, and digital storytelling. Since 2012, David has been researching, writing, and building a multimedia history of the farm at Black Mountain College, paying special attention to the social practices on the farm, including collective action among students, faculty, and staff, town-gown collaborations, and challenged…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Cognitive-Behavioral and Solution-Focused Therapy,
Clinical Supervision,
Counseling Law & Ethics
Paul Silverman is a licensed psychotherapist and has been working in the mental health field since 1998. He teaches on the Adjunct Faculty of the Counseling Psychology graduate program at the University of San Francisco and supervises training clinicians at Haight Ashbury Psychological Services. Paul has also served previously as Clinical Director for The SAGE Project, an agency specializing in trauma work and trauma-informed care.
Paul teaches and lectures about counseling issues regularly to…
Faculty Emeritus
Kalmanovitz Hall G58
Dr. Silverthorne is a social/organizational psychologist. He has authored several books and published numerous numerous articles in refereed journals. His recent research has focused on testing the applicability of organizational behavior theories, especially leadership, across cultures. In addition, other current research is exploring the benefits of yoga for brain injured individuals.