Dr. François Barnes Bonnell is the director of the United States Army Women’s Museum, and an expert in the history of women’s contributions to the U.S. military. Since 2006, she has overseen the daily operations of the facility and research center, and directed the museum’s programming and education. She is a peer reviewer for the American Alliance of Museums accreditation program, and a committee member for the American Association of State and Local History. Dr. Bonnell has been an adjunct faculty member for various universities and colleges since 1994, including the University of Guam...
Pavan Dhillon is the founder and principal attorney at Dhillon Immigration Law, a boutique law firm based in San Francisco that specializes in Canadian business immigration. She provides expert advice in securing a variety of Canadian temporary and permanent resident visas for her international clientele. Based in the United States, Pavan has cultivated a unique expertise in cross border business immigration. For over ten years, she has served as Canadian immigration counsel to global corporations, regional companies, and startups seeking to expand into the Canadian market. Prior to launching...
Dr. Atousa Pahlevan-Duprat was born in Tehran, Iran, and immigrated to Canada in 2002. She holds a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo and a Ph.D. in software engineering from the University of Victoria. Her expertise lies in search technologies and improving relevance and ranking on search engines. Currently, Atousa works as a systems engineer at Intel. Previously, she worked as a software engineer at Uber, where she was responsible for enhancing relevancy in the platform's internal search function. Prior to that she worked at IBM. Atousa is actively...
Kathryn was born in England and grew up in Waterloo, Ontario. She spent the last decade in the Bay Area working with a variety of non-profit organizations, including the urban planning policy group SPUR, Leadership San Jose, and the Digital Moose Lounge, a Canadian community bridging group. Now back in Canada, Kathryn works as Senior Research Officer at the School of Cities, University of Toronto, where she focuses on research and partnership engagement in infrastructure, transit-oriented communities, and equitable development.
Her passion is creating opportunities for people to...
Dr. Rosann Greenspan is the former executive director of Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society, with which she was affiliated for 20 years until her retirement in 2019. She has also held positions as research officer at the Law Reform Commission of Canada, postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, US Supreme Court fellow, research director at the Police Foundation in Washington, DC, and lecturer in Legal Studies at U.C. Berkeley, inter alia. Her most recent publication is the edited volume, The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice: Studies Inspired by the Work of...
David retired from UC Berkeley in 2020, where he had held the position of Assistant Vice Chancellor, International Relations for ten years. During his time at Cal, he led a team responsible for international fundraising (averaging over $45M annually) and alumni relations (a global alumni network and volunteer leadership in 41 countries).
Prior to working at Cal, David served in a variety of fundraising and non-profit leadership positions in the Canadian higher education, healthcare and social services sectors (in Ontario, Nova Scotia and Western Canada) for over 20 years.
Iris Nemani is the McMurtry Family Director at Stanford Live. Stanford Live presents a wide range of the finest performances from around the world, fostering a vibrant learning community and providing distinctive experiences through the performing arts. With its home at Bing Concert Hall and Frost Amphitheater, Stanford Live draws on the breadth and depth of Stanford University to connect performance to the significant issues, ideas, and discoveries of our time.
Iris has worked in arts and culture for more than 30 years, bringing her expertise and leadership to a...
Dr. Katherine Richardson is an urban and economic geographer, and a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at San José State University. Her research specializes in the mobility and retention of the internationally highly skilled, and how highly skilled foreigner professionals may influence the growth and change of urban systems. Specifically, Professor Richardson’s work focuses on transnational migrations of highly-skilled immigrants between the Americas and Asia-Pacific. Her book, Knowledge Borders: Temporary Labor Mobility and the Canada-US Border Region, examines...
A Canadian-born designer and creative director, Rhonda Rubinstein combines her passions for nature, photography, storytelling and design to produce compelling experiences in all media.
As the Creative Director of the California Academy of Sciences— a museum and research center renown for its aquarium, planetarium, rainforest, and architecture— she orchestrates how design, photography, typography and information converge in the public experience as exhibitions, environmental graphics, and print, digital and interactive communications. Resonant with the Academy’s mission, Rhonda co-...
