Graduate School of Education
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Megumi E. Takada
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
Other Tech - Graduate, GSE Dean's OfficeBioMegumi Takada is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. Her research centers around children’s literacy experiences in the early elementary school years, with a special interest in designing literacy instruction that promotes student agency and school belonging. For her dissertation, she will focus on multilingual writing, working with elementary school teachers to design culturally sustaining writing instruction that leverages multilingual students' languages, cultures, and identities. Her work is driven by her former experience as a public school teacher in South Korea and Seattle, as well as her childhood of growing up multilingual in California and Japan. She is a recipient of the Fulbright teaching fellowship and graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in neuroscience and elementary teaching credentials.
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Maria Del Socorro Velazquez
Academic Staff Researcher, GSE Dean's Office
BioMaria is an IDEAL Provostial Fellow/Academic Staff Researcher in the Graduate School of Education. Her research examines housing, educational opportunity, educational policy, and place. She draws on qualitative methods and an interdisciplinary framework that draws on education, (sub)urban sociology, and urban studies to illuminate inequities in schools and communities. Relatedly, her work considers the efforts parents, educators, and community members make to contest and disrupt inequities in schools and community institutions in order to create transformative futures for youth.
Maria’s collaborative research and publications contribute to scholars’ and educational leaders’ understanding of the housing-school nexus, school-prison nexus, and racialized and classed structures of schools. 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.
