Openness to Opposing Views Contributing 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Chelsea Gregory - Lecturer, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies

Chelsea Gregory (she/her) is a community-engaged artist, educator, cultural organizer, equity and restorative justice practitioner with over two decades of experience working at the intersections of arts and social change. She has collaborated with Urban Bush Women, Cornerstone Theater Company, Guillermo Gomez-Peña/ La Pocha Nostra, Working Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and many other dance and theater companies.