Experts Guide
Faculty Emeritus
Claire Castro received her BA in Botany from UC Berkeley and her PhD in Organic Chemistry from UCLA. Her dissertation work focused on the synthesis of nucleoside analogs as anti-viral agents. After a short stint as a lecturer and post-doctoral scholar at UCLA, Claire joined the faculty at USF in 1994. Although she formally retired in 2017, she continues to teach on a part-time basis in the organic chemistry curriculum (the Medicinal/Synthetic Track). In addition, she, continues to work with her…
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Juvenile Justice,
Victims of Crime,
Trauma
Professor Gena Castro Rodriguez is a psychologist and licensed marriage and family therapist (CA #49717) who holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Sacramento State University, a master’s in counseling psychology from the University of San Francisco, and a doctorate in clinical psychology from the California Institute for Integral Studies. In clinical private practice, she specializes in trauma and young women using a control mastery and relational framework.
Professor Castro Rodriguez…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Health Systems Research and Transformation,
Strategic Planning,
Program & Product Management
Adjunct Professor Lisa Catanzaro is a public health researcher with expertise in the planning of innovative initiatives supported with technology. Her focus is in the areas of health policy, prevention, and population health informatics, and her scholarship focuses on environmental, lifestyle, and psychosocial health determinants that influence the rising levels of non-communicable disease. In 2012, Lisa was the recipient of grant funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services for…
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 156
Professor Thomas Cavanaugh teaches medical ethics, a first-year seminar entitled What is Wisdom? (for which he received an NEH Enduring Questions grant), and, more recently, in the Honors College where he offers a course entitled Wisdom’s Lovers: Ancient and Medieval Philosophers. His most recently completed project concerns the Hippocratic Oath, which founds medicine as an exclusively therapeutic practice that especially excludes deliberately injuring patients. In 2018, Oxford University Press…
Professor
101 Howard St., Suite 430
Expertise: Leadership,
Critical thinking,
Media and sports
Dr. Cellini teaches the first class in the Sport Management program across all cohorts, Leadership and Critical Thinking. He also teaches the Internship in Sport Management course as well as an elective, Media and the Sport Industry. He is currently in his 25th year at the University of San Francisco.
Adjunct Professor
Andrea studies the built environment at the intersection of the industrial and urban, where borders and edges are blurred. She is most interested in what is left behind when the industrial use has waned or disappeared and how this affects the fabric of our cities, towns, and rural landscapes. Through photography, both abstract and representational, she aims to capture these intersections and document their relevance.
In addition to teaching architecture, she is a registered architect and has…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Asset valuation,
Utility rate design,
Utility business models,
PPA structuring,
Distributed energy resource economics
Michele Chait is an electricity sector professional with nearly 30 years of experience. Her expertise focuses on the nexus of asset valuation, finance, utility business models, and utility rate design. This work integrates multi-disciplinary factors such as regulatory structure, policy, wholesale market operations, and asset techno-economic characteristics. She is frequently engaged as an expert witness in utility rate case proceedings.
Michele has consulted on electricity issues for…
Professor
McLaren 113
Dr. Chakraborty received her PhD at the University of Minnesota. Her areas of specialization include: applied macroeconomics, international macroeconomics, international finance, and development economics. Dr. Chakraborty has published research articles in the Journal of International Business Studies, Economics Letters, and the Journal of World Economic Review.
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Creative direction,
Copywriting,
Interpretive dance
Clark Chamberlin is an award-winning copywriter and creative director who, in 2021, was named to Adweek's Creative 100 list alongside Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Lil Nas X. His career has spanned some of the best advertising agencies in the country, including Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Arnold Worldwide, MullenLowe, and currently, AdAge Small Agency of the Year, Erich and Kallman. Clark has written ads for brands in virtually every category, from luxury German cars to nacho cheese snack…
Adjunct Professor
XARTS
Expertise: Urban infill projects,
Zoning regulations,
Density bonus law,
Affordable housing,
Modular/prefabricated housing,
Adaptive reuse design,
Project management,
Feasibility study,
Architectural design,
Visual studies,
BIM model,
Construction administration
For the past few years, Amy Chang has focused her career on multifamily housing projects, particularly affordable housing, and modular construction. She’s passionate about creating equitable housing that enriches people's everyday life while contributing to the well-being of the planet. She believes that the heart of a multifamily building is the sense of community, and it is important for a design to promote a shared community experience, whether it's in the form of open, flex space for…