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Fatemeh Khalkhal

Dr. Khalkhal is an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at SFSU. She has a BSc and MSc in Chemical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran) and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (Quebec, Canada, 2012) and has served as a postdoc fellow at Yale University (2012-2013) and UC Berkeley (2014-2016). Her research interest is in extending the understanding of the physics of soft matter and the development of the structure-property relationship in complex fluids.

Edward J Rovera

Edward J. Rovera graduated from the University of California Irvine with a BA in Psychology and earned his MS Ed (emphasis in Educational Technology Leadership) from the California State University Hayward (now CSU East Bay). He joined the San Francisco State University School of Nursing in 2008 as a Nursing Informatics Specialist and is currently the Simulation Educator there. He was certified by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare as a Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) and a Healthcare Simulation Operations Specialist (CHSOS) in 2015. Mr.

Constance Gordon

Constance Gordon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University. She is a core faculty member and advisor in the transdisciplinary Climate Change Certificate Program and is a member of SF State’s Climate Justice Leaders Initiative. She currently serves as the Art Director for Cultural Studies and is on the Editorial Board for Environmental Communication.

Christopher Koenig

I am a communication scientist with training at the intersection of linguistics, sociology, and communication studies. My research seeks to understand communication about health and illness through investigating language as a discursive social process. Overall, my work shows how communication can encourage culturally sensitive care, to facilitate holistic well-being, and to foster thoughtful reflection about the roles of health and illness in society.

Leticia Hernandez

Leticia Hernández-Linares is a bilingual, interdisciplinary, award winning, writer, artist, and racial justice educator. The first-generation U.S.

Nicole Salazar Velmeshev, Ph.D.

BS in Chemistry - Florida International University (2008)

PhD in Cancer Biology - University of Miami (2014)

Post-doc - Stanford University, Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research (2018)

Mark Ciotola

Mark Ciotola is a Lecturer in the School of Design since 2001. He has also taught at Monash University, U. of New Hampshire, Swinburne University of Technology and Singularity University. He brings together design, technology, business and law to advance innovative endeavors. He has worked in technical roles (as an employee or contactor) at NASA, Genentech, Applied Biosystems, and Intuit. He has worked in design/market service groups at Monster Cable Products, Levi-Strauss and the Kessler Group.

Rashmi Gupta

Rebecca L Toporek

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My main emphases are career and college counseling, multicultural competence, and social justice and advocacy. These are the arenas in which I live and breathe. I am challenged to continually develop myself both personally and professionally in these areas and hope that I can share that challenge with my students.

Lara Cushing

Lara Cushing’s research focuses on social inequalities in exposure to environmental hazards, and race and class determinants of environmental health disparities. Her work has investigated questions of environmental justice in the context of hazardous industrial facilities, prenatal exposures to harmful man-made chemicals, urban greenspace, oil and gas drilling, and global climate change. Dr. Cushing holds a M.P.H. in Epidemiology and a B.S. in Molecular Environmental Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.

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