Graduate School of Education
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Guadalupe Valdés
Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsValdés is the Founder and Executive Director of "English Together" a 501(c)(3) organization. The organization creates rich connections between ordinary speakers of English and low-wage, immigrant workers by preparing volunteers to provide one-on-one “coaching” in workplace English.
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Maria Del Socorro Velazquez
Social Sci Res Scholar
BioMaria is an IDEAL Provostial Fellow/Academic Staff Researcher in the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Her research examines housing, educational opportunity, educational policy, and place. She draws on qualitative methods and uses an interdisciplinary framework to draw attention to the socially constructed nature of inequities in schools and school communities. Relatedly, her work considers the efforts parents, educators, and community members take to contest and disrupt inequities in schools and school communities towards creating transformative opportunities for youth.
Maria’s collaborative research and publications contribute to scholars’ and educational leaders’ understanding of the housing-school nexus, school-prison nexus, and school organizational policies and practices that contribute to categorical inequalities. Maria holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a B.A. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. -
Tuomas Vesterinen
Postdoctoral Scholar, Education
BioTuomas Vesterinen is a philosopher of science specialized in psychiatry and ethics of artificial intelligence with additional interests in philosophy of mind and anthropology. His interdisciplinary research at Stanford focuses on the ethical, conceptual and social consequences that arise from employing artificial intelligence in psychiatry and mental healthcare organizations. His dissertation in philosophy “Socializing Psychiatric Kinds” (University of Helsinki, 2023) is on the role of social factors and non-epistemic values in the classification and explanation of psychiatric disorders.
Tuomas is affiliated with the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) and the anthropology department. He’s also a member of the Robophilosophy, AI Ethics and Datafication (RADAR) research group and the Centre for Philosophy of Social Science (TINT) at the University of Helsinki. (https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/tuomas-vesterinen)
