Faculty

Berkeley Changemaker faculty

Francesca LeBaron - Professional Faculty, Center for Impact Leadership | Center for Social Sector Leadership | Entrepreneurship & Innovation | Management of Organizations

Francesca LeBaron is a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business where she teaches courses such as “DEI Leadership Lab: Managing Conflict in Diverse Workplaces,” and “Difficult Conversations: Conflict Lab.” She is a certified public mediator, conflict coach, restorative justice practitioner, executive coach, and inclusive leadership trainer. She also serves as a DEI consultant and inclusive leadership trainer with the Center for Impact Leadership at UC Berkeley. She also served as the chairwoman for the founding student advisory board for the Center.

Dacher Keltner, Ph.D. - Founding Director of the Greater Good Science Center and Professor of Psychology

Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Dacher is the host of the Greater Good Science Center’s award-winning podcast, The Science of Happiness and is a co-instructor of the GGSC’s popular online course of the same name.

Bree Rosenblum - Professor, Global Change Biology

Bree Rosenblum is a Professor of Global Change Biology at UC Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Bree’s research focuses on understanding the biological diversity of our planet. Her research crosses scales from genes to ecosystems, and takes place from the White Sands desert in New Mexico where new lizard species are evolving, to the rainforests of South America where amphibians are threatened with extinction.

Rhonda Shrader - Executive Director and Professional Faculty Entrepreneurship & Innovation Entrepreneur, Educator, STEM commercialization expert

Rhonda Shrader is the Executive Director of the Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program and the NSF I-Corps Northwest. She teaches three graduate-level Innovation & Entrepreneurship courses: Lean Transfer, Startup Disco and Introduction to Commercializing Quantum Information.

Mark Brilliant - Associate Professor Margaret Byrne Chair in American History

Mark Brilliant is an Associate Professor and Margaret Byrne Chair in American History. He is contributing faculty for the Openness to Opposing Views course.

Solomon "Solly" Fulp - Professional Faculty, Haas School of Business - Sports Business & Management

Solly is a Professional Faculty Member at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business - Sports Business & Management. Before to his tenure at UC Berkeley, Solly was the Conference Vice President for IMG College, leading the multimedia rights business for seven PAC-12 universities, including Cal, Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Arizona, Arizona State, UCLA, as well as the Rose Bowl.

Susan Houlihan - Lecturer at Haas School of Business, Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, and Berkeley Executive Education

Susan is a continuing lecturer in Leadership, Communications & Coaching across the EWMBA, EMBA, MBA, and Undergraduate Programs at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. She also teaches in the Masters and PhD programs at the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, within the UC Berkeley School of Engineering. Additionally, Susan is an instructor for “High Impact Leadership” and “Advanced Executive Presence” for UC Berkeley Executive Education, and has taught in many of their custom programs.

Ben Hermalin, Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost, Professor of Economics, and the Thomas & Alison Schneider Distinguished Professor of Finance at Berkeley Haas

Benjamin E. Hermalin is the University of California Berkeley's executive vice chancellor and provost (EVCP), and holds professorships both in the Economics Department and at Berkeley Haas. In the latter, he is the Thomas & Alison Schneider Distinguished Professor of Finance.

Nicole Holliday, Associate Professor, Linguistics

Nicole Holliday is a sociophonetician, specifically interested in how people use linguistic variation to perform and construct their social identities and to understand the identities of others through differences in their use of properties related to intonation and voice quality.

Ingrid Gavshon, Professional Faculty, Haas School of Business and Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership

Ingrid Gavshon teaches Leadership Communications and Authentic Leadership at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership. She also serves on the faculty of UC Berkeley Executive Education