Policy Experts

Robin Cox

Research Director and ProfessorResilienceByDesign Research Lab and Royal Roads University

Robin Cox's expertise includes the psychosocial dimensions of disasters, disaster resilience, and traumatic stress and coping.

Seth Jenson, Ph.D.

Senior Director of the Baugh Entrepreneurship InstituteUtah Valley University

Jesnson is an expert in early-stage entrepreneurship, business strategy, innovation ecosystems, and experiential education

Amit Kumar

Assistant Professor of MarketingUniversity of Delaware

Professor Kumar’s research focuses on the scientific study of happiness.

Marsha Lovett

Teaching Professor and Vice ProvostCarnegie Mellon University

Lovett and team help instructors apply learning science and educational technology to create effective courses (in-person + online).

Dr Joseph Yannielli

Lecturer, HistoryAston University

Dr Yannielli’s main fields of interest are slavery and abolition, with a special focus on America during the nineteenth century.

Gina Rippon

Professor Emeritus of Cognitive NeuroimagingAston University

Professor Rippon uses brain-imaging techniques to study sex/gender issues in neurotypical and autistic populations.

Mike Byers

Vice Chancellor of Administration and FinanceWestern Carolina University

Annette Bergeron, P.Eng., MBA, FEC

Corporate DirectorElectrical Safety Authority, Engineers Canada / Ingénieurs Canada

Experience in speaking & media on topics of women in STEM, women on boards, engineering regulation, advocacy, governance, policy, education

Randall Curren

Professor of PhilosophyUniversity of Rochester

Randall Curren is an ethicist who works across the boundaries of moral, political, legal, environmental, and educational philosophy.

Charles Knapp

The Honorable Raymond L. Sullivan Professor of LawUC Hastings College of the Law

Contacts: knappch@uchastings.edu / 415-565-4668 / Office M204-198