Graduate School of Education
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Emily Schell
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2018
Ph.D. Minor, Psychology
SU Student - Summer, Damon Program
Research Assistant - Academic Wellbeing Initiative, VPO PGP OperationsBioEmily Schell is a Doctoral Candidate in Developmental and Psychological Sciences at Stanford's Graduate School of Education (GSE). Prior to starting doctoral study, Emily received her double bachelors (with honors) from Brown University in East Asian Studies and International Relations. She also served as a Fulbright English Teacher in Taiwan and received her masters in International Comparative Education from the Stanford GSE.
Emily's research interests concern how colleges and universities can shift their student affairs services and pedagogical approaches to support their increasingly diverse student bodies. Her dissertation studies how universities can create culturally sustaining advising systems for minoritized international and immigrant students. In addition to her research, Emily has been the primary or co-instructor for multiple seminars and community engaged learning courses at Stanford. As a result of her "individualized support of students, innovative use of technology, and passion for community engaged learning," she was the 2021 graduate student recipient of the Walter J. Gores Award, Stanford's highest teaching honor. -
Tamara Nicole Sobomehin
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
Ph.D. Minor, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Other Tech - Graduate, GSE Dean's OfficeBioI celebrate the principle of Ujima - collective work and responsibility. Centering this idea, my life vision is the pursuit of purpose-driven passion. My mission is to create joyful opportunities that strengthen the sustainability of communities through the transformative power of academic and social engagement and enterprise.
After graduating with my BA in psychology in 2002 from Stanford University, I married my college sweetheart - Olatunde Sobomehin - and we started our fantastic family of six. I took a long-term sabbatical from industry work to co-homeschool our four children - Tayo, Temi, Tati, & Taiye - through their preschool and early elementary years. During that time, I co-founded two social ventures - Esface, Inc. and Team Esface Basketball Academy - and worked with local organizations like Kapor Center, The Primary School, The Nueva School, Live In Peace, Inc, RAFA, SMASH, and Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula. In 2017 I co-founded StreetCode Academy, a nonprofit with a vision of "Innovation for Everyone." As the Chief Education Officer at StreetCode Academy, I co-design educational experiences that help students develop creative confidence and technical skills in coding, entrepreneurship, and design.
In 2018 I was elected to serve as a trustee for the Ravenswood City School District, where I currently am the presiding Vice President of the Board. I also returned to school to pursue graduate studies earning an MEd in Educational Leadership and Education Policy from the University of Texas at Arlington. I felt the call to return to school again during the pandemic. I applied and was accepted to the Stanford Graduate School of Education PhD program, where I am currently cross-specializing in Learning Sciences and Technology Design and Curriculum & Teacher Education. As a learning scientist, I examine the intersection of learning, innovation, technology education, and joy to create scholarship, tools, and services that promote critical care, connection, and creation in learning experiences. I hope to progress conversations within the learning sciences concerning joyful learning as a generative approach to more holistic, restorative, enlivened learning environments. I believe in pedagogies of love as a solution for peace within ourselves and with one another, and I view the education sector as a powerful resource to call attention to experiences of inequity and opportunities for positive societal change. -
Mary Allison Steel
Master of Arts Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2023
Other Tech - Graduate, Yeatman ProgramBioIn pursuit of understanding education’s nexus to policy and law, I am obtaining a Master of Arts in International Education Policy Analysis at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. As an international educator specializing in refugee education, I worked alongside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Sweden and as a Fulbright Scholar in the Canary Islands off of Western Africa. In my aspirations to collaborate with policymakers to reconceptualize equitable educational outcomes that support cultural competencies within our increasingly interdependent globe, I have partnered with Reach The World, Save The Children, and the U.S Department of Cultural Affairs as an EducationUSA ambassador, and the Comparative and International Education Society. In our zeitgeist, I believe a culturally responsive curriculum will become imperative as we prepare our children to cohesively work worldwide to address issues of war, poverty, environmental health, and human rights. Alongside this, my research interests encompass inclusive educational policies, refugee education equity, and international and comparative 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.
