Career Services Team

Karren Shorofsky, JD, MA

JD, MA, Senior Director and Adjunct Professor

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Karren Shorofsky is the Director of the Office of Career Services (“OCS”) at USF’s School of Law.   She is also an Adjunct Professor at the School of Law and in USF’s Graduate Program in Museum Studies.  Prof. Shorofsky graduated from Yale Law School.  She received her BA in Art History from Brown University and her MA in Art History from San Francisco State University.

Prof. Shorofsky worked in the General Counsel’s Office of the Museum of Modern Art in New York during law school and then joined Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office as an Associate.  At Morrison & Foerster, she handled a wide variety of intellectual property law cases, including copyright, patent, trademark, unfair competition and right of publicity claims.  She continued her intellectual property practice as an Associate and Partner at Steinhart & Falconer in San Francisco (now part of DLA Piper), where she developed additional expertise related to the media, the arts, emerging technology and online marketing and advertising.  She subsequently joined Pillsbury in San Francisco as Of Counsel.  Over the years, her practice encompassed litigation, transactional and counseling work.  Her clients ranged from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups and museums.  She also represented numerous community organizations on a pro bono basis.

Prof. Shorofsky has had extensive experience on nonprofit boards, primarily in the areas of arts and education.  She served as President of two different boards and helped lead capital campaigns and other development and marketing initiatives.

In 2013, Prof. Shorofsky began teaching at USF’s newly created Graduate Program in Museum Studies. In 2017, she joined the adjunct faculty of the School of Law.  Courses she teaches regularly include Copyright Law, Art Law, and Museums and the Law.  She also taught the graduate internship course in the Museum Studies program, and prior to her current role as Director of OCS supported many graduate and law students in their career searches. 

In 2021, Prof. Shorofsky was recognized with the School of Law’s Hon. Ira A. Brown Adjunct Faculty Award.  In 2022, she received USF’s Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award.

Email: kmshorofsky@usfca.edu

Hon. Sanya Hill Maxion, JD, JSM

JD, JSM, Associate Director

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Sanya Hill Maxion recently retired as a federal Administrative Law Judge for the Social Security Administration, Office of Hearings Operations after working in that position for over 13 years in its San Jose, Oakland and Stockton offices. Prior to working as an Administrative Law Judge, She worked as a Senior Trial Attorney at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC” or “Commission”) and worked in that capacity for approximately eighteen years.

Prior to working at the EEOC, Judge Hill Maxion worked with the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit as a Staff Attorney and subsequently as a law clerk to the late Honorable Cecil F. Poole.

Judge Hill-Maxion has taught at numerous law schools around the San Francisco Bay Area as an adjunct professor, including but not limited to Stanford Law School, where she was a Teaching Fellow; Boalt School of Law (UC Berkeley); Golden Gate University School of Law and the University of San Francisco Schools of Law and Education. Judge Hill Maxion received her BA degree in English and Political Science from the University of San Francisco, her JD degree from NYU School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden Fellow for Public Interest Law, and her JSM degree from Stanford Law School. She currently serves on the USF Black Alumni Society Board and has also served as Chair of that Board.

Email: sphill@usfca.edu

Cancion SotoRosen 

JD, Associate Director

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Cancion SotoRosen has over twenty years of experience as a public interest and public sector attorney, legal clinic director, and mentor to law students and new attorneys. She earned her BA from Columbia University and her JD from UC Davis School of Law.

Ms. Sotorosen worked as a Deputy Public Defender in Alameda County for fifteen years, where she handled a wide range of misdemeanor and felony matters in both juvenile and adult court. In these formative years she learned the fundamentals of legal practice and also the importance of being a client-centered advocate.

Prior to joining USF, Ms. SotoRosen served as a legal clinic director and lecturer at Berkeley Law and the East Bay Community Law Center. As Co-Director of the Education Defense and Justice for Youth Clinic and Director of the Youth Defender Clinic, she led a team of attorneys, social workers, and law students providing holistic representation to youth navigating both the juvenile legal and education systems. She also taught clinical seminars and supported law students in developing their professional identities and long-term career goals.

Ms. SotoRosen is deeply committed to supporting law students and alumni in developing practical skills, exploring different areas of law, and finding their path in the legal profession.

Email: csotorosen@usfca.edu

Sara Hundt

JD, Associate Director

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Sara Hundt (she/her) is a former direct services attorney whose focus has spanned immigration and post-conviction relief at several SF Bay Area nonprofits since 2018.

She started her legal career as a post-bar fellow at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office in their Immigration Defense Unit & Criminal Defense Unit. She then worked briefly as a Staff Attorney with the Immigration Project at Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach, and spent several years with Centro Legal de la Raza as an Immigrants' Rights Staff Attorney, focusing on a mix of non-detained removal defense and affirmative USCIS petitions. Sara's work also spans socio-legal research, having worked at the California Institute on Law, Neuroscience, and Education—a collaboration between UC Law SF, UCLA, and UCSF. There, Sara focused on health equity, disability rights, and juvenile justice research and policy.

She most recently served as a Staff Attorney with East Bay Community Law Center's Clean Slate Unit. Sara is fluent in Spanish and speaks conversational Brazilian Portuguese.

Sara received her BA degree in Spanish from Cornell University and her JD degree from University of California Berkeley.

Email: shundt@usfca.edu

Jordan Kass

JD, Associate Director

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Jordan Kass (he/him) has a combined decade of experience as a practicing attorney in international law firms and as a judicial law clerk. He earned his BA in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis and his JD from NYU School of Law.

Jordan started his legal career as a litigator in the New York office of Willkie Farr & Gallagher and the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he advised clients in a wide range of commercial disputes.  He also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Paul C. Huck in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.  As a judicial clerk, Jordan's responsibilities included analyzing legal briefs, conducting legal research, and drafting orders deciding issues before the court.

Most recently, Jordan practiced as a transactional real estate attorney at Goodwin Procter in San Francisco.  His work included representing real estate investment companies in acquisitions, dispositions, financings and joint ventures throughout the United States as well as hotel management companies in negotiating hotel and resort management agreements in the U.S. and abroad.  Throughout his career, Jordan has served as a mentor and coach to attorneys and law students and was recognized as a Goodwin Procter Most Valuable Mentor during his time with the Firm.

Email: jkass@usfca.edu