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Jorge Ramos Jr
Associate Director for Environmental Education, Jasper Ridge
Current Role at StanfordAssociate Director for Environmental Education, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University
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Michelle Reddy
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2014
Research Assistant, Ethics In SocietyBioMichelle Reddy is a PhD candidate in International and Comparative Education. Her work has largely focused on Sub-Saharan Africa, taking a comparative and mixed-methods approach to examining community education and participation in development and humanitarian assistance. Michelle also studies the emergence of third sector organizations, particularly in education and in health, in developing countries.
Michelle received a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award for 2017-2019 for her research in West Africa. She also received the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship by the U.S. Department of Education for two years in a row (2016-2018). In 2016 she received the Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace by Middlebury College to study Portuguese. From 2015-2017 she was a fellow at the Stanford Center for International Conflict Resolution. Michelle received an MA in Political Science from Stanford in 2017.
Prior to Stanford, Michelle worked on research, communications and program design and management for universities, NGOs, and the United Nations for 6 years in Paris, Dakar, and New York. Relevant experience includes creating a multi-disciplinary global network of 24 universities for Sciences Po (Paris), being part of the team that launched the Paris School of International Affairs, and the design and management of a mediation program in West Africa with the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office. Additionally, Michelle co-taught and designed an undergraduate level course entitled "International Actors in Africa: Globalization, Development and Security" at Sciences Po, Paris. Research experience includes a deliberative polling project in Senegal with the West African Resilience Innovation Lab (Stanford University and the Université Cheiklh Anta Diop), an evaluation of aid to education (Swedish External Aid Evaluation Board and Stanford University) analysis on peacebuilding and security in the West African Subregion (UNOWA), and needs assessments on MDG targets in Sub-Saharan African cities (Earth Institute, Columbia University).
Michelle holds two master’s degrees in International Development (Education) and Organisation and Leadership (Higher Education) from Columbia University. She also has a BA from Boston College with a double major in Political Science and History, and a minor in French.
