Experts Guide
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Sepsis Coordinator, Mercy Hospital of Folsom and Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital,
Registered Nurse, North 1 Emergency Department Annex, UC Davis Medical Center,
Adjunct Faculty, University of San Francisco,
Travel Registered Nurse, American Mobile Network Healthcare,
Registered Nurse, Observation and Medical Telemetry Units, St. Joseph Hospital,
Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit, White Memorial Medical Center
Professor Knapp has over ten years of experience working as a registered nurse in multiple community hospitals and large teaching facilities. She's had the opportunity to work as a Registered Nurse in the intensive care unit, emergency department, medical telemetry and observation units as well as a sepsis coordinator for two community hospitals.
She has an interest in medication-assisted therapy for opioid use disorder, and her DNP project centered on the development and implementation of…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Scholarly Writing and Evidence-based Practice,
Quality and Patient Safety
Dr. Mary Lynne Knighten is a board-certified nurse executive with nearly 35 years of progressive management experience leading patient care operations, ensuring legal and regulatory compliance, developing staff, building clinical programs, improving patient satisfaction and quality outcomes, mitigating cost inefficiencies, controlling budgets, conducting research, and negotiating contracts for major medical centers and teaching hospitals.
Dr. Knighten is a self-motivated leader, published…
Professor
Malloy Hall, Room 327
Expertise: Member of the Board of Trustees, Downtown College Preparatory School (San Jose) (2016-current)
Professor of Accounting John Koeplin shows his deep commitment to USF’s core values through teaching students. As a rigorous academic and devoted educator, Koeplin's work centers on ethics in accounting and the teaching of Jesuit and Catholic business education.
Prior to his arrival at the University of San Francisco in 1998, Koeplin worked at Hood and Strong, Certified Public Accountants, as a tax accountant at ROLM Corporation, and as an accounting instructor at Santa Clara University. With…
Dean, School of Education
Education 108
Shabnam Koirala-Azad explores social and educational (in)equities through a transnational lens. Through ethnography and participatory research, her work critically examines the experiences of South Asian students and families in schools and society, as they experience shifting identities and navigate through structural inequities in various geographic, social and political spaces. By examining their realities in both home and host country contexts, she offers new ideas for transnational social…
Adjunct Professor
Judge Victoria Kolakowski became the first openly transgender trial court judge of general jurisdiction when she was elected in Alameda County, California in 2010. She is passionate about ensuring access to justice and is the California Council of Churches' appointee to the California Access to Justice Commission. She is a former president of the International Association of LGBTQ+ Judges (2015-2017), and she has spoken widely internationally on LGBT issues, especially transgender legal issues.
Associate Professor
Education 220
Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon is an Associate Professor in the Leadership Studies department in the School of Education and the Faculty Director of the Center for Humanizing Education and Research. Her research focuses on educational law and policy as a site of political, economic, and cultural contestation and explores the ways that education law and policy further or impede efforts to create a more just society. Her passion and commitment to public education are informed by her work as an educator,…