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Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

People

The Ethics Center's staff includes Ph.D. ethicists and practitioners, lawyers, businesspeople, school principals, religious leaders, scientists, and journalists.

We are guided by an Advisory Board of leaders in the Silicon Valley. The board is comprised of representatives of major Silicon Valley companies, law firms, and nonprofit organizations. A Faculty Ethics Council helps identify ways in which the Ethics Center's resources and programs support the needs of Santa Clara University faculty.

The Center's home at a Jesuit institution that requires ethics courses for all undergraduates gives us access to a faculty with expertise in ethics in many disciplines. More than 80 of those faculty members serve as Center Scholars who assist us in a variety of projects.

Ethics Center Staff

Leadership
Don Heider

Executive Director

Don Heider

408-554-5319
Contact Don Heider

Thor Wasbotten

Managing Director

Thor Wasbotten

408-551-3577
twasbotten@scu.edu

Staff
Tracy Barba

Director, Venture and Equity Ethics

Tracy Barba

tbarba@scu.edu

David DeCosse

Director, Religious and Catholic Ethics

David DeCosse

408-554-5715
ddecosse@scu.edu

 

Monica DeLong

Director, Finance and Administration

Monica DeLong

408-554-7893
mdelong@scu.edu

Debbie Dembecki

Assistant Director, Digital Marketing

Debbie Dembecki

408-554-7891
ddembecki@scu.edu

Joel Dibble

Senior Director, News and Public Relations

Joel Dibble

408-554-5116
jdibble@scu.edu

Johana Engstrom

Program Manager, Fellowships and Internships

Johana Engstrom

jengstrom@scu.edu

Brian Patrick Green

Director, Technology Ethics

Brian Patrick Green

408-554-7890
bpgreen@scu.edu

Jim Kambe

Senior Director, Development

Jim Kambe

jkambe@scu.edu

Leslie Leonetti

Leadership Giving Officer

Leslie Leonetti

408-551-3080
lleonetti@scu.edu

John Pelissero

Director, Government Ethics

John Pelissero

jpelissero@scu.edu

Irina Raicu

Director, Internet Ethics

Irina Raicu

408-551-1814
iraicu@scu.edu

Ann Skeet

Senior Director, Leadership Ethics

Ann Skeet

408-554-5466
askeet@scu.edu

Subramaniam Vincent

Director, Journalism and Media Ethics

Subramaniam Vincent

408-551-7070
svincent@scu.edu

Fellows
Kathy Almazol

Senior Fellow

Kathy Almazol

408 554-5319
kalmazol@mac.com

Charles Binkley

Bioethics Fellow

Charles Binkley

 

 

Kirk O. Hanson

Senior Fellow

Kirk O. Hanson

408-554-7898
kohanson@scu.edu

Joan Harrington

Fellow

Joan Harrington

 

 

Margaret R. McLean

Senior Fellow

Margaret R. McLean

408-554-5319
mmclean@scu.edu

Thomas Reese, S.J.

Senior Fellow

Thomas Reese, S.J.

   

Keith Yocam

Senior Fellow

Keith Yocam

408.551.3531
kyocam@scu.edu