Stanford University
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Alexander Basaraba
Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources, admitted Autumn 2024
BioAlex Basaraba (he/him) is an interdisciplinary social scientist, practitioner, educator, and science-informed visual storyteller with more than 10 years of experience in the climate adaptation field. His experience includes supporting communities domestically and internationally, as well as organizations and governments at different scales (federal, state, Tribal, city, and county) in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from the impacts of climate change. This includes supporting the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the State of Colorado, USAID, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Shoshone-Paiute Tribes, the United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth Development Organization (FCDO), the District of Columbia, among others. His work has been featured in the New York Times, NBC News, CNN, NPR, Reuters, and more. Basaraba is currently a PhD candidate at Stanford University in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) at the Doerr School of Sustainability. His current research is focused on transformative climate adaptation using community-engaged research methods in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California. Beyond publishing dozens of white papers, policy reports, government plans, academic journal articles, and popular media articles, Basaraba has served as a contributing author, chapter graphic design lead, and review editor on multiple National Climate Assessments.
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Bethany D. Bass
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2024
Master of Arts Student in History, admitted Summer 2026
Graduate Program Assistant, GSE Centers and Programs
Research Assistant-2, GSE Centers and ProgramsBioBethany D. Bass is a PhD student studying Race, Inequality, Language and Education & History of Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Her work focuses on the relationship between historically Black schools and Black communities, chronicling Black education in South Dallas, Texas, from the late 1930s to the present. Their work uses Black geographic thought, digital humanities, and oral history to listen to how Black elders and young people create sites of Black livingness (McKittrick 2021, Quashie 2021) and learning inside and outside of formal school settings.
Their scholarship is supported by the EDGE: Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Fellowship and The Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF) through the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education.
