Mr. Barber is a retired attorney and development professional with extensive experience in the management of non-profit and fundraising organizations, and in the planning and implementation of fundraising campaigns. He currently serves as a board member or advisor for several non-profit organizations.
Since 2017, Mr. Barber has served as a member of the Board of Regents of Samuel Merritt University. He is also currently a member of the Advisory Board for the Division of Earth and Life Science of the National Academy of Sciences. From 2017 to 2020 he served as Treasurer of the...
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...
Atousa Pahlevan-Duprat was born in Iran and immigrated to Canada in 2002. She earned a master's in mathematics from the University of Waterloo and a Ph.D. in software engineering from the University of Victoria. Her area of expertise is in service search and discovery, and improving relevance and ranking on search engines. Atousa's most recent job was as a software engineer for Uber, responsible for improving relevancy on the platform's internal search function. She also previously worked for IBM. Atousa is highly involved with the high-tech community in both Canada and the...
Kathryn was born in England and grew up in Waterloo, Ontario. Following an interest in nations, geographical networks and identity, she completed a B.A. and M.A. in History at the University of Toronto. She maintains active connections with academia through hosting a salon series featuring speakers from universities across North America.
Kathryn has been living in the Bay Area since 2013. In that time she has worked with with a variety of organizations, from non-profits with one employee to large international corporations. These include the urban planning organization SPUR, Leadership...
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, with an historic high of $81.4 million in FY19) and alumni relations (a global alumni network and volunteer leadership in 41 countries).
Prior to working at Cal, David had served in a variety of fundraising and non-profit leadership positions in the Canadian higher education, healthcare and social services sectors (in Ontario, Nova...
Chris Lorway is the president and CEO of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta, Canada. He was born on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. He completed his undergraduate degree in music, and received an M.A. in arts administration from Columbia University. Chris has held leadership posts at arts organizations on both sides of the US-Canada border, including the Lincoln Center and Massey Hall, and also consulted globally for major organizations such as Carnegie Hall, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the San Francisco Opera. Prior to his current position, he was...