Faculty Profiles

Sonia Arrison

Sonia Arrison is a fellow of Technology Studies at the California-based Pacific Research Institute (PRI) where she researches and writes on the intersection of new technologies and public policy. Specific areas of interest include privacy policy, e-government, intellectual property, nanotechnology, longevity issues, and telecommunications. She is a weekly columnist for Tech News World and her work has appeared in many publications including CBS MarketWatch, CNN, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, The National Post, Washington Times, and USA Today. A frequent media guest and National Press Club First Amendment Scholar, Ms. Arrison has appeared on National Public Radio's Forum, Tech TV, CBC's The National, and CNN's Headline News. She is author of several major PRI studies including Canning Spam: An Economic Solution to Unwanted Email, Being Served: Broadband Competition in the Small and Medium Sized Business Market, and Consumer Privacy: A Free Choice Approach. Often asked for advice on technology issues, Ms. Arrison has given testimony and served as an expert witness for various government committees such as the Congressional Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce and the California Commission on Internet Political Practices. She received her B.A. from the University of Calgary and an M.A. from the University of British Columbia.

Peter Bishop, Ph.D.

Dr. Peter Bishop is an Associate Professor of Strategic Foresight and Coordinator of the graduate program in Futures Studies at the University of Houston where he specializes in techniques for long term forecasting and planning. He delivers keynote addresses and conducts seminars on the future for business, government and not-for-profit organizations. He also facilitates groups to develop scenarios, visions and strategic plans for the future. Dr. Bishop's clients include IBM, the NASA Johnson Space Center, Nestle USA, the Texas Department of Transportation, Tetra Pak, the Shell Pipeline Corporation, the Defense and Central Intelligence Agencies, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Waitt Family Foundation, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the Center for Houston's Future. Dr. Bishop is also a founding board member of the Association of Professional Futurists, and he is President of his own firm, Strategic Foresight and Development, which offers education and training in futures thinking and techniques to the corporate market.   He received his doctoral degree in sociology from Michigan State University and his bachelor's degree in philosophy from St. Louis University, where he also studied mathematics and physics.

Peter S. Bowen

In 2004, Peter Bowen became the first lay president of Servite High School in Anaheim CA.  As the chief executive officer, Mr. Bowen has overall responsibility for the school’s leadership and its strategic vision, business practices, information technology and facilities.  He previously held the position of ethics officer for the Los Angeles Unified School District where he was responsible for creating the first public education ethics program.  Mr. Bowen has taught at Duke University, the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and North Carolina State University.  He served 11 years as an officer in the United States Marine Corps and is currently a Marine Corps Reserve.  An expert on ethics, leadership and culture, Mr. Bowen has been a guest on national television and radio shows, published papers, and been a featured speaker at academic and professional conferences.  He received his M.A. from Duke University and his B.S. from the University of Notre Dame.

Sandy Boyd, Ed.D.

Dr. Sandy Boyd is a Professor at The College of Marin in Kentfield, California, where she teaches in the disciplines of Administration of Justice, Education, Social Science and Business. She recently retired as a reserve police officer for San Rafael Police Department after almost 25 years. Since 2000, Dr. Boyd has been a consulting associate with Joe Brann and Associates, a national firm that provides assistance to public sector agencies in the areas of community problem solving, policy development, institutional effectiveness, strategic planning and implementation and transition management. She also is the president of her own consulting firm, Seven Point Partners. Dr. Boyd is a charter member of The Futures Working Group, a collaboration that began in February 2002 between the FBI and the Society of Police Futurists International. Dr. Boyd has an Associate's Degree in Criminology from City College of San Francisco; a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice from California State University, Sacramento; a Master's Degree in Education with emphasis in Curriculum and Instruction from Sonoma State University; and a Doctoral Degree in Education with emphasis in Organization and Leadership from the University of San Francisco.

James E. Burke

Jim Burke is the head of the TASC Futures Group of Northrop Grumman, where he creates innovative studies of the future emphasizing ways that early warning signals and trends can be exploited for business and government. Jim’s first career was with the Air Force where he was involved in operations, planning, and analysis of technologies, including industrial base assessments and technology for advanced systems (e.g., space, directed energy, stealth).  Following his Air Force career, he worked for small and large companies doing technical program management, research, analysis, and technology forecasting, with a focus on industry technology trends. Jim has more than 25 years experience conducting futures and forecasting and has directed futures and change management efforts for a wide variety of government, non-profit and commercial clients. His non-profit work covers the future of environmentalism, integrating renewable energy into state power portfolios, and sustainable development.  He has a Masters of Science in Science & Technology Studies, Virginia Tech; Masters of Public Administration, University of Northern Colorado; and Bachelor of Arts, University of Detroit.

James Dator, Ph.D.

Professor Jim Dator is the Director of the Hawai'i Research Center for Futures Studies, Department of Political Science, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.  The Center is also an Affiliate Campus of the International Space University in Strasbourg, France, where Dr. Dator is the co-director.  Before coming to the University of Hawaii in 1969, he taught at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan; Virginia Polytechnic Institute; and the University of Maryland.  His three major area of specialization are: futures studies, especially the design of new political institutions for space and Earth settlements, the futures of law, education, and technology; the political-economic futures of North America, East Asia, and the Pacific Islands; and the politics of media.  Dr. Dator has been a futures consultant for the Federal Judicial Center and several Federal district courts; numerous state judiciaries; the national judiciaries of New Zealand, Singapore, and the Federated States of Micronesia; the American Bar Association and other legal organizations. He is editor or editorial board member of the following journals: Foresight, Futures, Futures Research Quarterly, Journal of Futures Studies, On the Horizon, Technological Forecasting and Social Change.  His most recently published books are Democracy and Futures (2006), Fairness, Globalization and Public Institutions: East Asia and Beyond (2006), and Advancing Futures: Futures Studies in Higher Education (2002).  Dr. Dator earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from The American University.

Joe Domanick

Joe Domanick is an award-winning investigative journalist and author.  Currently, Mr. Domanick is a Senior Fellow in Criminal Justice at USC Annenberg’s Institute for Justice and Journalism as well as a Senior Fellow at the Center on the Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. He also teaches journalism at the School of Journalism of USC Annenberg’s School of Communications.  His latest book is Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics Of Crime in America’s Golden State -- which the San Francisco Chronicle named one the “Best Books of 2004.” His previous book, To Protect and to Serve: The LAPD’s Century of War in the City of Dreams, won the 1995 Edgar Allan Poe Award for “Best True Crime” non-fiction book. Mr. Domanick’s first book, Faking It In America, has been bought by New Line Cinema to be made into a feature film. Currently he is working on a book about California’s prison system to be published by USC Press in 2009.  His feature articles and opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Maxim, Playboy, Los Angeles Magazine, the L.A. Weekly, Ms., Spin, The San Francisco Chronicle, New York Daily News, Los Angeles Daily News, and the Washington Journalism Review.  Mr. Domanick holds graduate degrees in social science from Hunter College, CUNY; in sociology and education from Columbia University; and in broadcast journalism from USC Annenberg School of Journalism.

Chris Dreisbach, Ph.D.

A college professor since 1980, Christopher Dreisbach is chair of the Department of Applied Ethics and Humanities for the Division of Public Safety Leadership in Johns Hopkins University’s School of Education. He is Professor of Moral Theology at The Ecumenical Institute of Theology, St. Mary’s Seminary & University. He is also a frequent lecturer on ethics for federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. He received his M.A. degree in 1981 and his Ph.D. in 1988 from Johns Hopkins University. He is the author or co-author of books, articles, and software in logic, education, ethics, the philosophy of dreams, and the philosophy of R. G. Collingwood. His book Ethics in Criminal Justice is forthcoming from McGraw-Hill, and his book The Moral Dimensions of Art in the Thought of R. G. Collingwood is forthcoming from Susquehanna University Press.

Marnie Green

Marnie Green is the founder of the Management Education Group, and specializes in designing and delivering organizational development and training solutions that focus on the role of managers.  With more than 20 years of experience in both the public and private sector, Ms. Green is a dynamic and engaging trainer, speaker, and consultant. Ms. Green is the author of Painless Performance Evaluations: A Practical Approach to Managing Day to Day Employee Performance, recently published by Pearson/Prentice Hall (2006).  Her clients include dozens of municipalities, counties, and government agencies of all types.  She also served on an international team of trainers, course developers, and medical doctors to create a system-wide change program for the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and the Egyptian Ministry of Health.  She continues to consult on an international basis, with clients on four continents.  Ms. Green holds a bachelor’s degree in Personnel Management and a Master’s degree in Business Administration-Finance, both from Arizona State University.

Bob Harrison

Bob Harrison, the course manager for the California Law Enforcement Command College, has been a facilitator and instructor in educational and public safety settings for more than 17 years.  He served more than 30 years as a peace officer, completing his career in 2004 as a Chief of Police. Since that time, he has worked as a consultant for leadership development, strategic planning and instructor development. In 2006, Bob completed a two-year fellowship at California Peace Officer Standards and Training after implementing facilitation skills development training for the state’s 3,500 academy instructors.  He holds two Masters Degrees and has completed significant coursework towards his Doctorate Degree in Educational Leadership. He was the 1993-94 Fulbright Fellow in Police Studies to the United Kingdom, completing work on the British system of leadership development training for police managers.  Extensively published in police periodicals, his latest article was published in October 2007 in Police Chief magazine entitled Gamers, Millennials and Generation Next: Implications for Policing. The article is the first of its kind, linking the impact of game technology to the issues of the emerging police workforce. He also authored Writing Your Command College Article and was the primary author of the Instructor’s Guide to Learning Activities for the state’s police academies.

John R. Hoyle, Ph.D.

John R. Hoyle is Professor of Educational Administration at Texas A&M University and specializes in Leadership Training and Assessment and Future Studies.  He is one of America’s leading reformers in administrator preparation programming and training and is an authority on future studies.  In a 2004 survey, Professor Hoyle was selected by his peers as one of four “exceptional living scholars” in educational leadership.  In 2007, a new “Hoyle Leadership Award” was established by the Administrative Leadership Institute at Texas A&M University and The Texas Association of School Administrators to be awarded to a Texas school leader selected for his/her outstanding service to the children and youth of Texas.  His interests in the study of the future have developed from living, studying, and teaching in England, Germany, Greece, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, Turkey, and South Africa.  Professor Hoyle has delivered numerous keynote addresses and distinguished lectures for conventions and universities, given papers on various topics for education, futurism, business, and agriculture-related conferences, and conducted management development seminars for corporations which include Tenneco, Trajan, and Philip Morris.  He has authored or co-authored more than 150 publications which include books, articles, book chapters, and papers.  One of his books, Leadership and Futuring: Making Visions Happen, was a best seller and selected as The Book of the Month for August 2007 by the National Association of Career and Technical Education.

David W. Jamieson, Ph.D.

David W. Jamieson is President of Jamieson Consulting Group, Inc. (JCG). Prior to forming JCG, he was a partner with MRG Associates, a management consulting firm. He has been consulting since 1971, with a generalist orientation and an emphasis in organization strategy, design and change.  Prior to his consulting career, Dr. Jamieson worked in production and methods management with Schramm, Inc., an air compressor manufacturer, in industrial engineering with Lukens Steel Company and as Assistant to the Dean, Office of Student Affairs at Drexel University.  He combines an in-depth knowledge base with practical experience in formulating strategy; designing organizations; evolving desired cultures; creating and facilitating change strategies; managing for high performance, quality and service; creating diversity-friendly organizations; building effective teams; and developing leaders for the future.  He holds a Ph.D. in Management from UCLA and a B.S. in Business Administration from Drexel University.  Dr. Jamieson is a respected author, with numerous publications on organization alignment, organization development, managing workforce diversity, developing teams and team-based organizations, and consultation. He is co-author of the best-selling book Managing Workforce 2000: Gaining the Diversity Advantage and co-author of The Complete Guide to Facilitation: Enabling Groups to Succeed and The Facilitator’s Fieldbook.

Bernard H. Levin, Ed.D.

Bud Levin is the Department Head of Psychology at Blue Ridge Community College in Weyers Cave, Virginia; Commander of the Waynesboro (VA) Police Department's Policy and Planning Bureau; and vice-chairman of the PFI/FBI Futures Working Group. He has published articles for The Police Chief, Police Research & Management, Law Enforcement Technology, Crime and Justice International, and the FBI National Academy Associates Magazine. He has presented papers at meetings of the Police Executive Research Forum, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the World Future Society, and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, among others.  He received his Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Virginia Tech in 1985.

Greg Mathison, Ph.D.

Dr. Greg Mathison is a psychologist, professor, seminar speaker, and author who has invested most of his career working with abused/neglected children and families, persons with developmental disabilities or mental illness, and other vulnerable individuals. He began his counseling work in southern Minnesota and was promoted into senior administrative positions directing health and human services agencies in Minnesota, Florida, and Missouri. Later, he led Verizon Business’s healthcare, education, and government vertical practice team--maximizing technologies to improve delivery of those services. As a consultant to the State of Minnesota, Dr. Mathison wrote several books to enhance child protection and family services. For more than twenty years, he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses and facilitated seminars on leadership and teamwork, group dynamics, personal development, ethics, and other facets of organizational behavior. Throughout his career, Dr. Mathison has been privileged to work alongside law enforcement personnel. His foster son is a police officer and his other children are educators. In addition to the California Command College, he facilitates leadership seminars for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Criminal Justice Executive Institute. As a volunteer and advocate he has helped numerous organizations for children and families. He and his family live in Orlando.

Matthew E. May

Matt May is the founder of Aevitas Learning, which was a preferred business partner with Toyota from 1999 to 2006 and the only non-Toyota entity certified to teach Toyota methods by the University of Toyota. Aevitas Learning teaches organizations how to build culture and discipline around innovation.  Matt is a superb speaker with years of experience inspiring new ideas and teaching the most effective process for innovation in industry today. He offers audiences invaluable practical guidance on how to make continuous and companywide innovation a reality. Matt is the author of an important book on innovation, The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation and is a contributing author of the Financial Times Handbook of Management.  Matt earned an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University.

Cyrus Mistry

Cyrus Mistry is a Senior Manager specializing in corporate strategy and business development at Google, the world’s largest diversified internet company.  Prior to working with Google, he was the Senior Manager of Pricing, Business Insight & Improvement at the Walt Disney Company, parent company of Disney media, theme parks and related products.  Mr. Mistry has worked with more than 40 Fortune 500 companies and launched multiple start-up businesses. His multi-lingual international expertise spans a number of major industries including IT, Retail, Automotive, Financial Services, Hospitality, Entertainment, Communications, Education, and Healthcare.  He holds an M.S. in Computer Science, M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, B.S. in Computer Science, and a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Jonathan Porteus, Ph.D.

Dr. Jonathan Porteus is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Nationally Certified Addictions Counselor. He is the Deputy Director / Director of Clinical Services at The Effort - a large multi-service health and behavioral health agency in Sacramento.  He is also a tenured professor at CSU, Sacramento.  Dr. Porteus has worked extensively with the criminal justice system and law enforcement.  He has provided mental health and addictions treatment for the Federal and State courts in New York, developed prison-based addictions treatment programs within the CDCR in California, and worked closely with Drug Court, and various other treatment diversion and prison-community re-engagement programs in New York and California.  He has also provided consultation to the New York / New Jersey High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) and to the Sacramento Police Department.  In addition, he has worked for the United Nations Office of Drug Control Policy and created and implemented the Community-based Drug Treatment system for the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Dr. Porteus earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Adelphi University.

Moshe F. Rubinstein, Ph.D.

Professor Moshe F. Rubinstein is a professor at the University of California Los Angeles School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and is Director of the A-B-C Corporate Network at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. He is an internationally renowned authority on problem solving and creativity in organizations; is widely respected for his insights, expertise, and ability to infuse organizations with tools for decision making and innovation; has been a consultant to many major corporations; and has been invited to lecture all over the world.  Professor Rubinstein is a Fulbright Hays fellow and has received numerous awards for his outstanding teaching, including the UCLA Academic Senate Award, the UCLA Alumni Award, and the Anderson School Executive Education Teaching Award. He has written ten books, including Patterns of Problem Solving, Tools for Thinking and Problem Solving, Concepts in Problem Solving, The Minding Organization, and more than 100 articles. His books have been translated into several foreign languages. Professor Rubinstein was named in January 2000 one of the top twenty professors of the century at UCLA.

Joseph A. Schafer, Ph.D.

Dr. Joseph A. Schafer is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director in the Center for the Study of Crime, Delinquency & Corrections at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.  He holds a bachelors degree from the University of Northern Iowa and graduate and doctoral degrees from Michigan State University.  Dr. Schafer has done extensive research on policing, organizational change, leadership, communities and crime, citizen perceptions of police, and futures research in policing.  He was the 2006-2007 President of Police Futurists International, is a member of the PFI/FBI Futures Working Group, serves on the advisory board for the Public Safety Leadership Development Consortium, and was a visiting scholar in the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI Academy (2006-2008).  His recent writings include editing Policing 2020: Exploring the Future of Crime, Communities and Policing (2007), co-editing Policing Mass Casualty Events (2007), and research articles appearing in various academic journals and policing periodicals.

Cary Simon, Ph.D.

Cary Simon is a professor of strategic management and organizational change at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where he teaches International Organization Behavior at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.  During his 18-year career with the U.S. Navy, he was a diver specializing in Explosive Ordnance Disposal, and held senior management positions at two major weapons facilities and Australian and U.S. diver training commands.  Professor Simon has conducted executive strategy seminars for the Ministries of Defense in Colombia (2000-2004), Peru, the Czech Republic and Poland, and facilitated strategy seminars for U.S. Naval Forces Europe, Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command and Joint Munitions Command, California cities of Marina and Porterville, Moss Landing Board of Commissioners and the Defense Language Institute.  Professor Simon holds three graduate degrees including a doctorate in strategic management from U.S. International University in San Diego.

John M. Smart

John M. Smart is president of the Acceleration Studies Foundation (ASF), a nonprofit community for analysis and scholarship in issues and technologies of accelerating change. He co-produces Accelerating Change, a periodic technology futures conference in the San Francisco Bay Area; edits ASF's newsletter, Accelerating Times; and teaches undergraduate and professional courses in Foresight Development. John holds a B.S. in Business from University of California Berkeley, an M.S. in Futures Studies from the University of Houston, and has done post baccalaureate coursework in biological, medical, cognitive, computer and physical sciences at UC San Diego.

Mark Spencer, Ph.D.

Mark Spencer joined StopWaste.Org, the Alameda County Waste Management Authority and the Alameda County Source Reduction and Recycling Board operating as one public agency, in 2007.  He is the senior program manager overseeing the K-12 curriculum, school recycling, and waste prevention education and outreach programs. Mark graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine and has a Ph.D. in Environmental Science Policy and Management from UC Berkeley, where he is a lecturer on environmental issues.

Stan Stojkavic, Ph.D.

Dr. Stan Stojkavic joined the faculty of the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in the Fall 1983, and is Dean of the School as well as Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice. His primary teaching responsibilities are in the areas of public administration, philosophy, criminal justice and criminology. His major research interest is in the area of correctional administration. Dr. Stojkavic has written two textbooks on criminal justice administration, an introductory text on corrections with Professor Rick Lovell, and currently has published a book on crime and justice in the future. In addition, he is coordinator of the California Leadership Institute for the California Department of Corrections.  His research on criminal justice, inmate socialization and leadership development has led to six books, some 50 articles, and hundreds of presentations on the topics. Stojkovic has also co-coordinated a leadership institute for the California Department of Corrections over the past ten years.  He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1984.

Zheng Wang, Ph.D.

Zheng Wang is a Professor in the Criminal Justice Department of the California State University, Long Beach.  He is an expert in many types of forensic investigative techniques, as well as in Asian gangs/organized crime groups that engage in transnational crimes.  In the U.S., he completed over 70 credit hours of intermediate forensic science work in several certificate programs. He also finished advanced courses offered by the International Association for Identification on bloodstain patterns, digital photography, lifting fingerprints from textured surfaces, casting techniques using Microsil, and forensic light sources. As a result of his education and experience, he was certified by the International Association for Identification as a lifetime member.  His research interests include Asian Gangs, Transnational Organized Crime, Comparative Criminal Justice Systems, Digital Fingerprint Comparison, Digital Processing of Firearm Evidence, and Digital Comparison of Handwriting.  He joined the China Criminal Police University in 1982 and worked in Service Courses, Criminal Investigation, and Criminalistics Departments until 1989. As a uniformed faculty member, he completed police training courses in fingerprinting, firearms, trace evidence, and questioned document examinations. His experience also included two years as a lab technician at the University.  Dr. Wang obtained his Ph.D. from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, his M.P.A from Northern Michigan University, and his B.A. from Liaoning Normal University in China.