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Melanie Macdonald
Events / DLCL Administrator, Division of Literatures, Cultures & Languages
Current Role at StanfordAdministrative Associate in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL), as assistant to Professor Dr. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.
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Geoffrey McGhee
Web And Graphics Associate, Bill Lane Center for the American West
Staff, JSK Journalism Fellowships
Casual - Non-Exempt, Woods InstituteBioGeoff McGhee specializes in interactive data visualization and multimedia storytelling. He is a veteran of the multimedia and infographics staffs at The New York Times, Le Monde and ABCNews.com. Geoff spent a Knight Fellowship year at Stanford in 2009-2010 researching data visualization, which resulted in the acclaimed video documentary “Journalism in the Age of Data,” which has been widely used in classrooms.
At the Bill Lane Center for the American West, Geoff is responsible for the Center’s websites and digital publications such as the ‘...& the West’ blog he co-produces with Felicity Barringer, and the EcoWest series of environmental data trackers on wildfires, drought, and snowpack, among others. Geoff has also worked on Center projects like Water in the West, a joint program with the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and the Center’s Rural West Initiative, which conducted research and reporting on the alternative energy boom, as well as retracing a 100-year-old survey of country life originally commissioned by President Theodore Roosevelt. He also contributed a chapter on rural broadband internet issues to the Rural West Initiative’s 2015 book, Bridging the Distance: Common Issues of the Rural West.
Geoff oversees the Center’s Western Journalism and Media Fellowships program, which brings journalists to the Center for brief collaborations and supports travel and research expenses for work on critical western issues.
Previously, Geoff worked as the multimedia editor at Le Monde in Paris from 2008-2009 and at The New York Times from 2000 to 2008 as Graphics Editor, Enterprise Editor, Chief Multimedia Producer and Video Journalist. He also worked at ABC News from 1999-2000. He was the lead writer on National Geographic’s “Data Points” column on information visualization in 2015-16.
He received his master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1999.
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Bella Meyn
Stanford Student Employee, Communication
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate EducationBioI was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil but moved to the United States at the beginning of my freshman year of high school. I attended Emma Willard School in upstate NY until my sophomore year, then moved to Lake Oswego, Oregon with my family where I remained until graduating.
For the past two summers, I have worked at the Translational Neuroeconomics Laboratory of the Oregon Health Sciences University studying impulsivity in animal models. I also served as the Business Lead and Project Manager of FIRST Tech Challenge team 9907 DON'T PANIC and Always Carry A Towel while working weekends at my local Trader Joe's. -
Perla Garcia Miranda
Academic and Student Services Administrator, Center for Latin American Studies
BioPerla Miranda, Academic and Student Services
Perla received her B.A. in Politics and Latin American and Latino Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz and her M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests are in indigenous language revitalization, with a particular focus on Valley Zapotec from Oaxaca, Mexico. Before joining CLAS, Perla has been program manager at the Santa Cruz headquarters of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science, graduate program coordinator for the sociology department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and graduate program coordinator for the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. In all these roles, she has used her own experience as a first-generation college graduate to help students navigate academic systems and advise a diverse student population. Currently, she is developing a Zapotec Master-Apprentice Language Learning plan in her hometown of San José, California. In her free time, Perla enjoys watching movies, going to concerts and music festivals, traveling, and playing rummikub. -
Joan Molitoris
Acad Research & Pgrm Officer, Language Ctr
Current Role at StanfordAssociate Director, Stanford Language Center
Lecturer in Spanish, Stanford Language Center
