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Tom Nachtigal
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2022
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2022
Master of Arts Student in Political Science, admitted Spring 2024BioTom Nachtigal is a PhD student in the international and comparative education program. She's interested in researching how international organizations influence national civic education policies via promotion of social and emotional learning. Particularly, she's looking at how values of democracy, rule of law, human rights, and national identity are imbued in conflict-affected areas, in light of international education policies informed by SEL. Trained as an international lawyer, she served as a legal advisor in the Israeli government, practicing international law and human rights, an experience that informed her interests in civic education from the lens of international politics.
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Gabe Nitro
Master of Arts Student in Education, admitted Summer 2024
BioGabriel (Gabe) Nitro is a current Master's student at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) in the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP). He is interested in course design in STEM courses, specifically chemistry at the secondary and university level. Gabe holds a B.Sc. degree in Biochemistry with a minor in Science Education from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). As an undergraduate student, he facilitated dozens of STEM courses as a Learning Assistant (LA), an Undergraduate Assistant (UA), and as a Peer Learning Facilitator (PLF). Moreover, he worked as a contracted employee for Macmillan Learning where he reviewed, created, and compiled materials for multiple chemistry-related projects. He conducted research in the Department of Anthropology under Dr. Kremer-Sadlik to investigate emotional work, the neoliberal subject, and pressure in children using ethnographic data from the Sloan Center on the Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) at UCLA. Additionally, he conducted research in the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) under Dr. Boyle to investigate the nature of inflammation and anxiety in older adults. His recent research interests include the intersection of psychological disorders (particularly anxiety disorders), content design, and curriculum implementation in STEM courses at the secondary and university level.
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Sarah Novicoff
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
Other Tech - Graduate, Loeb ProgramBioSarah Novicoff is a PhD student in Educational Policy at Stanford's Graduate School of Education. In her doctoral education, she studies how state policies have affected vulnerable subgroups of K-12 students (e.g., low-income students, English Language Learners, students with disabilities) with a specific focus on early literacy. Prior to graduate school, Sarah worked as a middle school teacher and as a Research Intern at the Brookings Institute Center on Education Policy in Washington, D.C. Sarah holds a B.A. in History with Honors from Brown University where she graduated magna cum laude.
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Arinze Obiezue
MBA, expected graduation 2026
Master of Arts Student in Education, admitted Winter 2025BioArinze is an MBA Candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an MA Education Candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He's passionate about emerging applications of synthetic media in entertainment and education.
Before Stanford, Arinze worked in venture capital across Kenya and Nigeria as part of the investment team at The Fund for Africa's Future (aka. Future Africa), helping drive investments into some of Africa's top startups. He’s also the co-founder and publisher of Kenga, an independent culture publication documenting the ideas, personalities, and cultures shaping African Gen Z communities on the continent and in the diaspora. Arinze started off his career as a content designer at Meta in London, where he worked on product features aimed at limiting the spread of sensitive content on Facebook and Instagram. While at Meta, Arinze co-founded EarlyAdmit, a coaching platform that helped high-achieving students from underrepresented minority backgrounds get admitted to the top MBA programs in the world. EarlyAdmit was acquired in 2023 by Tequire.
Arinze joined Meta after graduating valedictorian of his class at the African Leadership University (ALU) in Mauritius with a first-class honours degree in Business Management, then left Meta to pursue a master’s degree in Global Affairs with a focus on AI Policy at Tsinghua University, where he was a Schwarzman Scholar and a China Oceanwide Fellow. In 2020, he became the first-ever student from an African university to be offered admission to the competitive deferred MBA programs at both Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Arinze currently sits on the Advisory Board of the Queer African Network (QAN), a nonprofit building digital platforms and third spaces for Africa's queer community to find community, resources, and opportunities. He also briefly served as the Managing Editor of 'A Nasty Boy', Nigeria's first LGBTQ+ publication, where he helped bring visibility to the stories of a community thriving against all odds in one of Africa's most violently homophobic countries.
Arinze is a 2017 recipient of The Diana Award and, in 2021, served as a Judge for the prestigious social impact award created in honour of the Late Princess Diana. In 2023, RIVET recognised Arinze as one of the 20 young people in the world, catalyzing the youth revolution through social innovation and entrepreneurship. For his work building Kenga, a creative platform that helps shift the narrative of Africa towards better stories about the African experience, Arinze was also named a 2023 Kekere Storyteller Prize Champion. In 2024, the Skoll Foundation selected Arinze as a Skoll Fellow among a cohort of 33 other global changemakers leading impactful organisations in their communities.
