Denise Lucy has 44-years of experience in higher education as an educator and executive; first at the University of San Francisco for 12 years where she served in multiple roles including Associate Dean and Director of Marketing and Corporate Development in USF’s College of Professional Studies.

She is celebrating her 31 st year at Dominican University of California since 1993 where she has served as Dominican’s Chief Academic Officer in the role of Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of Liberal and Professional Studies, Associate Dean of Dominican College, and Director of Pathways’ Mid-career Professional degree programs. Dr. Lucy founded Dominican’s Institute for Leadership Studies in 2004 as Executive Director and the Leadership Lectures Series in partnership with Book Passage. She leads and serves on several academic committees at the Barowsky School of Business at the University level.

As a tenured Professor, Dr. Lucy teaches in leadership and team development, organizational change, negotiation and conflict management, business communications, business, and society. Her research interests include leading small business export enterprises, leadership development, micro-finance poverty reduction, business education and civic engagement.

Her community commitments are many, including her board trusteeship at 10,000 Degrees, Marin Health, Dominican University of California’s, Women Leadership and Philanthropy Council. Dominican’s rep for North Bay Leadership Council, Co-President of the Pt San Pedro Road Coalition. Some community memberships include American Association of University Women, League of Women Voters and the International Women’s Forum.

Kelly McDermott is an integrative health researcher and adjunct faculty in public health at the University of San Francisco and California State University in Sacramento. She received a BA in Religious Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University, an MA in Health Policy and Bioethics from George Washington University and a PhD in Health Services Research from University of Washington. She completed postdoctoral training in Integrative Medicine Research at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. McDermott has worked at a range of public and private institutions including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Veterans Affairs and Omada Health, Inc., a San Francisco based company focusing on digital health solutions for obesity related chronic illness.

Her interests are in development and diffusion of traditional and integrative approaches to health and addressing root causes of health inequities. Towards this, she has worked in community academic research partnerships to build a robust evidence base around coming of age rites of passage experiences as a potential pathway to health and wellbeing for youth and communities, over the lifespan and intergenerationally.

Meghan Kehoe has 16 years of experience in the fields of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking response and prevention. Meghan holds a master’s degree in Nonprofit Management and has led various initiatives to support survivors and foster violence prevention.

Prior to her work in the Bay Area, Meghan served as the Director of Valley Crisis Center in Merced, California, and managed the Victim Witness Services Division at the Mariposa County District Attorney’s Office. She has collaborated extensively with college campuses, including Gonzaga University, UC Merced, Merced College, Dominican University, and College of Marin, to implement prevention programs and address gender-based violence on campus.  In addition to her domestic efforts, Meghan has contributed to international programs in Peru and Africa, working to support survivors of violence worldwide.

Wayne de Fremery works at the intersection of information science, artificial intelligence, bibliography, business, design, and literary studies. Before taking his current position, Wayne spent more than twenty years living and working in South Korea. A member of ISO JTC1/SC34 (Document Description and Processing Languages) as part of the Korean National Body between 2017 and 2023, Wayne is the first non-Korean expert to represent South Korea on an ISO committee. The author of a growing number of academic publications, including Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants: Bibliographical Foundations of Information Science (MIT Press, 2024), Wayne holds several patents and has won significant awards in several fields, such as a Citation of Merit from the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism for research on deep learning approaches to automated Korean text encoding.