college Experts

Rick Relyea

Director, Darrin Fresh Water Institute; Director, Jefferson Project; & David M. Darrin ’40 Senior Endowed ChairRensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Researches community ecology, ecotoxicology, phenotypic plasticity, forest inputs to wetlands, disease ecology, and invasive species

Manoj Viswanathan

Associate Professor of LawUC Hastings College of the Law

Contacts: viswanathanm@uchastings.edu / 415-565-4694 / Office 314-200

Xilei Zhao

Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Xilei Zhao focuses on developing and applying data and computational science methods to tackle problems in transportation and resilience.

Ted Petersen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor | School of Arts and CommunicationFlorida Tech

Dr. Petersen teaches journalism and media courses at Florida Tech.

Chris Keller

Lecturer of JournalismLoyola Marymount University

Rayid Ghani

Distinguished Career ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Rayid Ghani designs and deploys AI systems with governments for health, housing and justice and advises them on AI governance & evaluation.

James K. Stoller, MD, MS

Chair, Education InstituteCleveland Clinic

Cleveland Clinic's leading expert on physician leadership development offers provocative ideas and new perspectives to your audience

Lisa Fazio

Associate Professor of Psychology and Human DevelopmentVanderbilt University

Expert on how people process true and false information, and how to mitigate the effects of reading and sharing false information.

Graham Beattie

Associate Professor and Chair of EconomicsLoyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Clark Freshman

Professor of LawUC Hastings College of the Law

Contacts: freshman@uchastings.edu / 415-581-8804 / Office 330-200