Faculty

Berkeley Changemaker faculty

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.

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

Rhonda Shrader (MBA 96) Rhonda is Executive Director of the Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship Program as well as the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps program for the Bay Area Node. She has founded or was an early stage team member of start-ups in biotech, behavioral health, retail, non-profit and AI. She served as a long-time mentor for UCSF’s Idea to IPO course, is an active advisor for NASA spinoff BrainAid, and recently lead the winning teams for both the Health Tech Forum Codeathon and the San Francisco MedHack 2.0 Hackathon.

Andrew Reddie - Associate Research Professor of Public Policy

Andrew Reddie is an Associate Research Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. He works on projects related to cybersecurity, nuclear weapons policy, wargaming, and emerging military technologies. He is also the founder and faculty director for the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab.

Kirk Bansak - Yardi Scholarship Faculty Director and Professor

Kirk Bansak is the inaugural Faculty Director of the Yardi Scholarship and oversees the Yardi academic program, including the design of the Berkeley Changemaker cohort course and capstone course. He is an Assistant Professor in the Travers Department of Political Science, and also a faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI) and the Immigration Policy Lab (IPL) at Stanford University and ETH Zurich.

Ronald Dahl - Berkeley Changemaker Faculty Director

Professor Dahl is a pediatrician and developmental scientist with more than 30 years of experience working at the interface of research, practice, and policy with the goal of improving the lives of children and adolescents. He is a distinguished professor in the School of Public Health. He served as Director of the Institute of Human Development for 12 years, and was founding director of the Center for the Developing Adolescent.