Experts Guide
Associate Professor
Education 304F
Dr. Smith is the founder and former Director of the TryUMF (pronounced "triumph") program in his hometown of Oakland, CA and formerly served as the Co-Director/Principal of the June Jordan School for Equity in San Francisco.
He has served as a trainer and administrative coach in local school districts as well as a Center Director under the Foundation for California Community Colleges — the system for which he still consults as a trainer for the statewide Professional Learning Network.…
Assistant Professor
Gennifer (Genna) Smith received her BS in electrical engineering with a double major in biology from the University of New Mexico. While pursuing her BS, Gennifer conducted research at Sandia National Laboratories where she worked on a point-of-care device for tuberculosis detection. She then continued to research low-cost medical devices as part of her PhD in electrical engineering at Stanford University. In particular, she developed a portable urinalysis device capable of analyzing the…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Autism spectrum disorder,
Diagnostics,
Applied behavior analysis,
Parent-mediated interventions
Dr. Sneed has worked in the realm of behavioral health treatment for individuals with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) for 17 years. She conducts applied research where she evaluates the efficacy of different models of care, parent-mediated interventions, parental stress, parental self-efficacy, autism spectrum disorder, and investigating psychometric properties of scales for people with I/DD. Dr. Sneed emphasizes the value of person-centered care that accentuates…
Adjunct Professor
Jessica Snow received a BA in art studio from UC Davis and an MFA from Mills College. She also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Université de la Nouvelle-Sorbonne III. Squeak Carnwath, Hung Liu, and Wayne Thiebaud were memorable teachers, to whom she's indebted for their mentoring.
Jessica has had exhibitions at Le Pavé d’Orsay in Paris, Galleri Urbane in Dallas, Jen Bekman Projects in NYC, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, H…
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 302
Expertise: LGBTQ+ Fiction,
Literary Fiction
K.M. (Karl) Soehnlein is the 2024 recipient of the Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation. He has also received a Lambda Literary Award (novel); IPPY Award (LGBTQ+ Fiction); the Henfield Prize (short fiction); and the SFFILM/Rainin Filmmaking Grant (screenwriting).
He is the author of the novels Army of Lovers (2022), The World of Normal Boys (2000), You Can Say You Knew Me When (2005), and Robin and Ruby (2010). He has been published in the…
Adjunct Professor, Theater
Expertise: Acting,
Theater,
Performing Arts
Ken Sonkin is an award-winning actor/director who has worked at American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Rep, SF Playhouse, Magic Theater, Center REP, 42nd Street Moon, Z Space, Sonoma Rep, Broadway by the Bay, San Jose Stage Company, Pacific Resident Theater (LA), Grove Shakespeare Festival (LA), Seacoast Rep (NH), Denver Center, and Pennsylvania Centre Stage. He is a member of PlayGround, Actors’ Equity Association, and the Screen Actors Guild.
Ken was a member of A.C.T.’s acting company and…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Real estate housing research,
Commercial real estate market analysis,
Macroeconomics and monetary policy,
Modern and post-modern portfolio theory
Dr. Souza has over 35 years of experience in the commercial real estate industry and has been teaching college-level courses for the past 25 years at numerous colleges in the Bay Area. Companies he's previously worked at include New York Life Insurance Company/NYLIFE Securities, Charles Schwab Investment Management, Global Real Analytics, and the Quantum Financial Network. He has also held senior positions in strategic portfolio research and analysis with various real estate services firms. Dr.…
Professor
Harney Science Center 333
Tami Spector received her bachelor's from Bard College, her PhD from Dartmouth College, and was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota. She teaches Organic Chemistry I and II, Organic laboratory I and II, and Molecular Gastronomy: The Science of the Food We Eat.
Trained as a physical organic chemist, her scientific work has focused on fluorocarbons, the transformations of strained ring organics, and the molecular dynamics and free energy calculations of biomolecular systems.…
Adjunct Professor
Dr. Andrea McEvoy Spero is an adjunct professor in the School of Education. She currently teaches the Single Subject Curriculum and Instruction course for the Social Sciences. Her research and teaching focuses on engaging youth in the historical and current contexts of race, gender and human rights. As part of the first cohort of the Human Rights Education graduate program, her research explored the use of performing arts to teach human rights. She has developed curriculum and led teacher…