Experts Guide
Visiting Professor of Practice
Steve Varholik is senior counsel at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission where he works in the Division of Enforcement’s Asset Management Unit. In addition to his work there, Steve has served as special counsel in the Division of Trading and Markets. Prior to joining the Commission, Steve practiced in law firms in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. In private practice, Steve represented clients in securities regulatory enforcement matters, securities arbitrations and mediations,…
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 252
Expertise: Work,
Organizational theory,
Medicine and health,
Sustainable design,
Economic sociology
Professor Vasquez is the founder and director of Herderin, the design adviser to Fibershed, and a part-time adjunct faculty in the sociology department at The University of San Francisco. She has been working for the last six years to develop a socio-emotional model for regenerative and sustainable design theory and practice. She earned a PhD in sociology from Brandeis University in 2019.
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Estate Taxation,
Trust and Probate Law
Jon Vaught is a partner in the firm of Vaught & Boutris, LLP in Oakland, California. His practice is focused on counseling and litigation in the areas of tax, estate planning, probate and trust administration and asset protection. Mr. Vaught received a B.A. degree with honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Davis, School of Law in 1984 and an L.L.M. degree in tax law from Golden Gate University, School of Law in…
Faculty Emeritus
John Veitch, Professor of Finance, and Director of the M.S. in Financial Analysis program, is an esteemed faculty member with over two decades of academic and chief administrative service to the university. Specializing in financial analysis and risk management, Dr. Veitch is the co-author of a number of articles on country risk in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and South Africa due to contributing factors of financial integration, currency devaluation and currency contagion. Professor Veitch served…
Professor
Harney Science Center G30
Expertise: Cosmology,
Cultural astronomy,
Dark sky advocacy,
Impacts of satellite constellations,
STEM partnerships with indigenous communities, indigenous knowledge
Aparna Venkatesan is an astronomer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of San Francisco, and co-Director of USF's Tracy Seeley Center for Teaching Excellence. She works on studies of the first stars and quasars in the universe, and on numerous cultural astronomy and space policy projects. She also serves as co-Chair of the American Astronomical Society's Committee to Protect Astronomy and the Space Environment (COMPASSE). Dr. Venkatesan has been recognized…
Associate Professor
McLaren Conference Center 110
Expertise: Metrics to Detect Gerrymandering,
Analyzing Redistricting Protocols,
Isoperimetric Inequalities on Graphs
Ellen Veomett is a mathematician and computer scientist whose research has involved metric geometry, graph coloring, and graph isoperimetric inequalities. Recently, her research has focused on mathematical and computational techniques to address gerrymandering, and the geometry of redistricting. She and her collaborators designed the GEO metric, which has garnered national attention in analyzing redistricting maps created since the 2020 census. Dr. Veomett is committed to supporting students…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Healthcare Leadership,
Project Management,
Ambulatory Leadership Practice,
Ambulatory Neurology,
Finance Management
Jeremy Yves Vergara has 23 years of nursing experience in adult critical care, pediatric and adult neurology, peri-operative practice, and hospital and ambulatory leadership. Jeremy is a doctoral prepared nurse with specialization in healthcare systems leadership. He is fueled by a vision to improve clinical practice and processes and accomplished in determining the most optimal operational practices — achieving objectives to improve organizational and patient outcomes through structural…
Professor
Cowell 424
Expertise: Global health,
Public-private partnerships,
Anti-corruption,
Health policy and management
Dr. Vian is a public health scholar and academic leader whose work is guided by the belief that all people have the right to access quality health care without having to experience financial hardship. She is dedicated to practice-based teaching and the development of emerging public health leaders eager to work with communities to address the underlying social determinants of health. Through her research and scholarly work, she has furthered efforts to control corruption in the health sector,…
Associate Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 376
Rakhel has published articles and book chapters in Hispania, Crítica Hispánica, Revista Iberoamericana de Lingüística, Teatro: revista de estudios culturales and Palgrave MacMillan on twentieth-century Spanish Theater, Hispanic Linguistics, Comic and Tragic discourses, as well as on Gender and Social Mediation. Her latest publication is the co-edited volume, Manifestaciones de lo trágico en la cultura moderna peninsular, published on The Hispanic Issues Online (2020), where she focuses on the…
Professor
Malloy Hall, Room 226
Expertise: Consumer Behavior,
Media Behavior,
Identity and Branding,
Culture and Marketing,
Research Methodology
Professor Ricardo Villarreal De Silva brings to USF years of experience in consumer behavior research and methodology. He was the lead researcher on two large consumer behavior studies that brought together experts in the advertising industry with his research expertise. That expertise started in multicultural marketing, where his theory of ethnicity provided great insight into understanding U.S. Hispanics’ consumer behavior. Recently, his work has focused on applying sophisticated statistical…