Faculty

Berkeley Changemaker faculty

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

Saul Perlmutter - Professor of Physics, Nobel Prize Winner (2011)

Saul Perlmutter is a 2011 Nobel Laureate, sharing the prize in physics for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe. A professor of physics at UC Berkeley and a senior scientist at Berkeley Lab, he leads the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, the Supernova Cosmology Project, and Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics.

Robert Strand - Executive Director, Center for Responsible Business

Robert Strand is the Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business and Lecturer at the Berkeley Haas School of Business. He is also Executive Director of the Nordic Center at UC Berkeley. His research and teaching compares U.S. and Nordic approaches to sustainable and socially responsible business. Strand teaches the suite of courses “Sustainable Capitalism in the Nordics?” at Haas that leverages his forthcoming book “Nordic Capitalism: Lessons for Realizing Sustainable Capitalism.”

Lisa Armstrong - Faculty, Asst. Professor

Lisa Armstrong is an award-winning journalist with credits in The Intercept, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, The New Yorker, and other outlets. She has reported from several countries, including Sierra Leone, Kenya, and the Philippines.