Experts Guide

Wendy has over 20 years of healthcare experience, with strategic and operational consulting, performance improvement, and project leadership expertise across the provider industry.

Adjunct Professor Frank Lindh, former general counsel of the California Public Utilities Commission and now a sole practitioner, has been a practicing lawyer in the field of energy law for nearly 40 years, initially in Washington, D.C., and since 1991 in San Francisco. Lindh is former president of the Western Chapter of the Energy Bar Association, and has also served on the Energy Bar Association's national board of directors. He also has been a member of the board of directors of the Conference…

Jackson Lindsay is a Project Manager based in the East Bay, designing single-family and multi-family residential projects. Through graduate school, he focused on the link between architecture and US housing policy and developed research and designs oriented around the commons and communal living.

Andrea Lingenfelter is a poet, scholar of Chinese literature, and a widely published translator of contemporary Chinese-language fiction (Farewell My Concubine,Candy) and poetry by authors from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Her translations have appeared in Manoa, Push Open the Window, Chinese Literature Today, Pathlight, Chicago Review, Frontier, Taiwan, Time Asia, and Foreign Policy, to name a few, and she composed the subtitles for Chen Kaige’s film, Temptress Moon. Her translation of…

Jules Litman-Cleper (they/she) is a New Media Artist and Educator born and raised in the Bay Area (the unceeded land of the Ohlone). Their work seeks to understand our sensory and cognitive inter-dependency on technological and ecological systems. They enjoy working with Spatial Simulation, Natural Computation and Generative Algorithms. They have exhibited work at Krowswork, Aggregate Space, New York Studio School, with performances at The Lab, ATA, SFEMF, CCRMA and Gray Area Center for the…

Wan Liu received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. She specializes in Chinese poetry, literary culture of the Tang and Song periods, gender and women. Among her favorite subjects of teaching are the relations among painting, calligraphy, and poetry.

Elena Liveris teaches Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis. Professor Liveris has practiced as a litigator for over fifteen years, with a focus on complex and class action litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts. She served as counsel in significant class action lawsuits on behalf of employee and retiree participants of 401(k) and employee stock ownership plans with claims under ERISA. Professor Liveris has also taught writing courses at Santa Clara Law and Berkeley Law.…

Michael Llewellyn-Williams is the founder and principal at BrandMechanics® in San Francisco. He has worked in advertising, brand consulting, and market research for over forty years in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, and Asia. Elected to membership of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising in London in 1985, he received the IPA Marketing Award for Innovation in 1990. The same year, he was admitted as a member of The Marketing Society, also in London. A conference chair…