School of Humanities and Sciences
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Amy Keohane
Administrative Associate, Language Ctr
BioLanguage Center scheduling assistant and building manager. She is in charge of scheduling the more than 900 courses offered by the Language Center each year, ordering books, and organizing Language Center events. She is also the coordinator for the Chinese Summer Language Program and the building manager for Building 30.
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Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
Doctor of Musical Arts Student, Musical Arts
CCRMA Student Assistant, MusicBioKimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi is an Iranian composer and performer. She writes for hybrid instrumental/electronic ensembles, creates electroacoustic and audiovisual works, builds instruments, and performs electronic music. She explores the unfamiliar familiar while being motivated by how melodies unfold through time; finding ways to play with various musical thresholds and exploring musical extremes is something that she is currently attracted to. Her work experiments with merging Iranian music with the more contemporary classical music aesthetics.
Being a cross-disciplinary artist, she has actively collaborated on projects evolving around dance, film, and theater. She is the co-founder and producer of Fashion x Electronics, a collective focused on creating interdisciplinary works based on fashion and electronic music.
Kimia’s work has been showcased by organizations across the globe and her work has been performed internationally at festivals including Ars Electronica, Festival Ecos Urbanos, Tehran Contemporary Sounds, Sonic Matter Festival, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Sound and Music Conference, and Modulus Festival, among others.
She holds a BFA in Music Composition from Simon Fraser University’s Interdisciplinary School for the Contemporary Arts. Kimia is currently based in San Francisco and is a doctorate candidate in Music Composition at Stanford University. -
Leslie Patricia Luqueño
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2020
Ph.D. Minor, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Graduate Student Worker, Ctr for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE)
Research Assistant for CTL grant, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
DBC Monitor, Hume CenterCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsMy current research lies at the intersection of higher education, immigration, and family studies, with an emphasis on how the children of Latinx immigrants make sense of their higher education trajectories and aspirations. I am particularly interested in the role of families within college choice decision-making and employ both qualitative and data science methods to investigate how familial values and knowledge is employed throughout the college application process for Latinx students.
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Pam Maples
Senior Managing Director, JSK Journalism Fellowships
Current Role at StanfordManaging Director, John S. Knight (JSK) Journalism Fellowships
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Joan Molitoris
Acad Research & Pgrm Officer, Language Ctr
Current Role at StanfordAssociate Director, Stanford Language Center
Lecturer in Spanish, Stanford Language Center -
Holden Moore
Teaching Aide - UG, Symbolic Systems Program
BioStanford University undergraduate student majoring in symbolic systems with a concentration in neuroscience. Pursuing an interdisciplinary degree across diverse fields of study including computer science, mathematics, neuroscience, statistics, philosophy, and psychology.
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Ashkan Nazari
Ph.D. Student in Music, admitted Autumn 2023
Iranian Studies Student Assistant, Iranian StudiesBioAshkan Nazari
Degrees / Education
M.A., Ethnomusicology, Tehran University of Art, Tehran, 2016
B.A., Music, University of Tehran, Tehran, 2012
A Kurdish-Iranian musician, multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, and researcher, Ashkan is currently a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology and a doctoral certificate student in composition at Stanford University. Ashkan’s compositional work draws on the Iranian dastgāh system and Kurdish maqām idioms, while his practice at Stanford engages contemporary and experimental compositional approaches.
Ashkan’s more than 15-year research career has centered on Kurdish classical and folk musics as well as Iranian classical music. At Stanford, his work explores intersections between music and genocide, war, violence, intellectual movements, Islam, and Kurdish identity. He is also interested in developing decolonial ethnographic approaches to maqām as a cultural–musical practice and concept, particularly in relation to ethnicity and racism.
In his quest to explore those realms, Ashkan has already been prolific back home, with two titles: The Concept and Structure of Maqām in Kurdish Music, The Structure of Musical Modes in Hawrāmi Music. His articles have appeared in leading Iranian journals, and he has presented his research at international ethnomusicology conferences.
As the founder and conductor of the first philharmonic orchestra in his Kurdish hometown of Paveh, Ashkan has also taught Iranian music theory and directed Iranian ensembles, and has instructed setār performance and the analysis of Iranian classical music at the University of Kurdistan and the University of Art and Culture in Kermanshah and Sanandaj, respectively. -
Louie Ortiz
Research - Post-Bacc, Ethics In Society
BioLouie is a Research Associate in the Technology Ethics & Policy Rising Scholars Program at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society. Louie works with the Embedded Ethics team to weave ethical reflection into the core computer science courses at Stanford, investigating its effectiveness. He is particularly interested in how institutional frameworks shape underrepresented students’ engagement with ethical reflection in technology, and how research can inform more inclusive approaches to technical education across academic spaces. Louie is a first-generation graduate from UC Berkeley, where he received his bachelor's degree in Data Science with a concentration in Philosophy.
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Djordje Padejski
Associate Director, JSK Journalism Fellowships
Current Role at StanfordAssociate Director | Lecturer
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Jorge Ramos Jr
Executive Director, Jasper Ridge
Current Role at StanfordExecutive Director, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma), Stanford University
Lecturer, Department of Biology, Stanford University
Member, Lab Safety Committee, Department of Biology, Stanford University
Council member, Environmental Justice Working Group, Stanford University
Chapter Advisor, ESA SEEDS Chapter, Stanford University
Chapter Advisor, SACNAS Chapter, Stanford University
Member, Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging Committee, Dept of Biology, Stanford University (2020-2022) -
Nancy Rico-Mineros
Master of Arts Student in Music, admitted Autumn 2024
CCRMA Student Assistant, Music
Templeton Project Assistant, MusicBioNancy Rico-Mineros is a second-year graduate student at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Prior to Stanford, Nancy received a Bachelor of Music from New York University where she majored in Music Technology.
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Tracey Riesen
Student Services Officer, Language Ctr
BioTracey is the Student Services Officer for the Stanford Language Center. She is responsible for all undergraduate and graduate student-related activities in the Language Center; this includes language advising, certification of the Language Requirement, academic records for the 6000 students who take foreign language courses each year, language credit transfers, and administration of the Advanced Proficiency Notation. She is the primary contact person for students, as well as for language program coordinators within the Language Center. She also manages the English for Foreign Students (EFS) summer intensive English program for incoming international graduate students and visiting scholars. She greatly enjoys being of service to Stanford students and values working in such a diverse and dynamic community.
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Elizabeth Sáenz-Ackermann
Associate Director, Center for Latin American Studies
Current Role at StanfordElizabeth provides administrative leadership for the Center. She oversees Center programming, administering various fellowship and grant programs and visiting professorships, including a U.S. Department of Education National Resource Center grant, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships, and the Tinker Visiting Professorship. She directs undergraduate and graduate degree programs, manages the Center’s budget, fundraising, and outreach, and supervises the administrative staff. She supports and advises the Director in developing and setting program priorities, in policy and decision making, in liaising with other units on campus, and in representing the Center on and off campus. She serves as an academic advisor for LAS degree candidates and co-teaches the LAS graduate writing seminar.
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Kyoko Sato
Associate Director, Science, Technology and Society
BioKyoko Sato is Associate Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University. Her research examines technoscientific governance in Japan and the United States. Her areas of research include: the politics of expertise; nuclear politics; narratives and representation of nuclear technology and radiation protection; and Covid-19 governance. She co-edited (with Soraya Boudia and Bernadette Bensaude Vincent) Living in a Nuclear World: From Fukushima to Hiroshima, a 2022 interdisciplinary post-Fukushima reflection on the development of the global nuclear order. She has conducted fieldwork in various areas affected by nuclear technology (e.g., Fukushima, Hiroshima, Nagasaki; communities surrounding TMI, Hanford site, and other facilities; Church Rock) to examine the dynamics and relationships among global and national nuclear governance, expertise, and democratic citizenship. Her previous work examined interdisciplinary knowledge production in the United States and the politics of genetically modified food in France, Japan, and the United States. She has published in journals such as Science, Technology and Human Values; East Asian Science, Technology and Society; Theory and Society; and 科学技術社会論研究 (Journal of Science and Technology Studies; in Japanese) and book chapters on the Fukushima disaster both in English and in Japanese. She worked as a journalist in Tokyo before pursuing her PhD in sociology from Princeton University.
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Elena Vlahu Scott
Academic - Staff Hourly, Language Ctr
BioBorn and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece but the Bay Area is my home for many years. UC Berkeley BA in Classical Languages, University College London, MSc. in Social Anthropology.
Research on "Agia Kore: The Modern Demeter and Persephone", a story of a small church in Mount Olympus that resembles its story with Demeter and Persephone. MSc. Thesis and Fieldwork on Muslim minority population in Northern Greece. -
Everett Randall Smith
Academic Staff - Hourly - CSL, Language Ctr
Current Role at StanfordLecturer in American Sign Language (ASL) - Part-Time
