Experts Guide

Sara Marinelli grew up in Italy, where she received her PhD in Anglophone Literatures from the University of Rome, "La Sapienza." After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at UC Santa Cruz, she decided to make the Bay Area her home, and earned an MFA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.  She is a fiction and nonfiction writer, a Teaching Artist at the San Francisco Opera, and the 2024-2025 Brown Handler Writer in Residence at the San Francisco Public Library. Sara is also an…

Professor Mark’s history with USF spans 37 years. After graduating from the BSN program in 1987, she enjoyed a 30-year nursing career as a medical surgical staff nurse in a local hospital. She then earned an MSN from UCSF as a geriatric clinical nurse specialist, and when an opportunity opened up to teach at her undergraduate alma mater as a clinical instructor, she jumped at the chance. This sparked a love and passion for teaching nursing, and she has continued to teach at USF for almost 30…

Lauren Markham writing regularly appears in outlets such as Guernica, Harper's, Orion, Zyzzyva, Freeman's, Lithub, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine and VQR, where she is a contributing editor. She is the author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, which was the winner of the 2018 Ridenhour Book Prize, the Northern California Book Award, and a California Book Award Silver Prize; it was also named a Barnes & Noble Discover…

Bradley R. Marsh is Co-Managing Shareholder of the San Francisco office of Greenberg Traurig and focuses his practice on tax controversy matters, including property, sales, payroll, business license, employment, franchise, parcel, district, documentary transfer, transient occupancy, utility user, income, parking, gift and estate taxes. He serves as a co-chair of the U.S. State and Local Tax (SALT) Practice. Brad represents clients in audits, litigation and administrative hearings, as well as…

Dr. Amy Martin, a member of the USF Mission Council and McGrath Graduate Fellowship Committee, has over twenty years of experience as an administrative leader in the areas of nonprofit management, human resources, and healthcare. Her areas of research interest include the intersections of gender, culture, and ethnicity as both ways of knowing and making meaning of leadership and leading. Her dissertation, entitled Making Meaning of Leadership: A Phenomenology of Italian-American Women Leaders,…

Marc Martin comes from a diverse experiential and practical background. He holds a BFA in painting from USF and has completed graduate work both in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and in printmaking from San Francisco State University. He studied mediation and negotiation at the Harvard Law School and has been trained in arbitration by the American Arbitration Association. He currently maintains a family mediation practice, continues his painting and lithography, and teaches…

Dr. David A. Martinez completed his PhD in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Health Psychology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a Post-doctoral fellowship at the Medical School of Brown University. Prior to his post-doc he was a Psychology Intern in the Behavioral Medicine Program at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. He was awarded a pre-doctoral National Research Service Award (F31) from the National Institute of Mental Health to explore the barriers and facilitators to…

Gilbert Martinez adjunct professor in the Professional Communication program, is a public relations veteran with more than a decade of communication experience in corporate, nonprofit and government settings. Today, he is a public information officer for the County of Sonoma. He has assisted in implementing communication plans for wildfire recovery,  the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2023 winter storms and communications related to homelessness in Sonoma County.