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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 working at the interstice between people, the environment, and the climate. Building on an academic foundation in the social and natural sciences, he has more than 10 years of domestic and international 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 and responding to the impacts of climate change, including: the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Shoshone-Paiute Tribes, the District of Columbia, among others. Basaraba is currently a PhD student 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. 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 the National Climate Assessments.
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Beth Bass
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2024
Research Assistant, GSE Centers and ProgramsBioBeth Bass is a doctoral student in Race, Inequality, and Language in Education at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. Beth is from Dallas, Texas, and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Human Rights, and Political Science from Southern Methodist University, as well as a Master’s in Sociology of Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Beth's work as a youth worker, track coach, and Black studies teacher informs their research on race, space, and histories of Black education.
Beth’s research focuses on Black parent activism, school choice, and history of Black education in Texas. Their work employs oral history methodology, critical race theory, and Black geographies to examine Black schooling contexts.
Beth’s scholarship is supported by the EDGE: Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Fellowship through the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education. -
David Timothy Bates
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2022
Master of Arts Student in Sociology, admitted Autumn 2025BioDavid T. Bates is currently a PhD candidate in the History of Education program at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. His research focuses on the institutional change of universities owing to the emergence of the human sciences from the Progressive Era to the Cold War. As part of this research agenda, his dissertation explores how computer science became an undergraduate major. Previously, he worked in civic education and taught in elementary schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Boston, Massachusetts. He has degrees from the University of Rochester, the University of Chicago, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
