School of Humanities and Sciences
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Lukas Lopez-Jensen
Master of Arts Student in Public Policy, admitted Winter 2022
Research Asst - UG, Economics
Outdoor Center Rental Specialist, Recreation Adventure ProgramsBioLukas is a member of the class of 2023 majoring in Economics, minoring in Italian, and coterming in Public Policy. He is interested in working in economic policy analysis at the intersection of the public and private sectors.
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Cordy McJunkins
Master of Arts Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
Master of Public Policy Student, Public Policy
Other Tech - Graduate, Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA)
Other Tech - Graduate, Initiative Program StaffBioCordy McJunkins is currently a graduate school student at Stanford University pursuing a master’s in education policy, organization, and leadership and a second master's in public policy. His interests focus on education system reform, more specifically, how the education field can be more collaborative in its efforts rather than competitive. In the future, Cordy hopes to work on the legal aspects of education and find new ways to provide equitable outcomes for all students.
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Jackson Smith Parell
Master of Arts Student in Public Policy, admitted Winter 2020
BioMy name is Jackson Parell – I'm a Senior Majoring in Economics and Co-Term in Public Policy. In 2021, I walked 7500 miles through 21 states over America’s three major scenic trails (the Appalachian Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, and the Pacific Crest Trail). I bore the heat of the Mohave desert and spoke with the ranchers and farmers that, for generations, have made the best of their arid landscapes. I crossed the blue ridge mountains and spent time with folks who have fallen into a the widening chasm of poverty in the rural south. I walked through hundreds of small towns – I saw the signs in storefront windows pleading for more workers or, worse yet, announcing yet another small business closure. I witnessed massive swaths of farmland and forest become engulfed in wildfires in the West. I caught a snapshot of country reeling from an unprecedented health crisis, reckoning with centuries of racial trauma, and on the verge of cascading climate disasters. My hiking partner and I finished our journey on a road in the foothills of the Trinity Alps in Northern California. We set a world record as the youngest to complete the CDT, PCT, and AT in under a calendar year. (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-19/how-2-stanford-students-conquered-the-triple-crown-of-hiking).
Rural poverty, labor and supply shortages, the economic effects of climate change – these were all topics I had explored at length as an undergraduate. But that was theory. Last year, traveling the US on foot, I saw those issues manifested in the lives of folks across the country. I came back to Stanford with a renewed commitment to sustainable economic development. The work that I am pursuing now and will continue to pursue as I finish my master's degree will focus both on measuring and quantifying the effects of climate change and implementing policy and economic solutions at the local level to directly address those effects.
