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Alexandrea R. Henry
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2023
Graduate Program Assistant, GSE Dean's OfficeBioAlexandrea Henry is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Education in the Race, Inequality, and Language in Education and Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education programs. They earned a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a minor in education from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. Alexandrea’s research draws on Black studies, Critical Pedagogy, and studies of Carceral Logics in education to examine how young people make sense of power through disciplinary practices at school. Moreover, she is interested in centering the experiences and expertise of K-2 students in the fight for liberatory learning spaces. While at Stanford, Alexandrea has worked on the Accessible Ethnic Studies, Newberry Institute, and Juvenile Justice and Alternative Education projects. She has also taught in San Bruno Jail and served as a Systems Navigator with the Santa Clara Public Defender's Office. Previously, they were a public school teacher and union organizer in North Philadelphia, a preschool teacher in Oakland, and has worked on district-level projects related to equity and professional development. Ultimately, she believes in advocating for and co-creating worlds where every person is free, from the River to the Sea.
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Rachel Herring
Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources, admitted Autumn 2024
BioRachel Herring (Choctaw Nation) is investigating pathways towards a Just Transition as an E-IPER PhD student. Previously, she has recommended policy alternatives for domestic mining with the Department of Energy’s Indian Energy Program, and has explored impacts of critical mineral extraction on Native land as a Kathryn Wasserman Davis Conflict Transformation Fellow. Additionally, as a Fulbright Fellow and National Geographic Explorer, Rachel continues to investigate the intersection between the clean energy transition and the depopulation crisis in rural Japan. She was named a Next Generation Photographer by the 2024 Japan Photo Award in Kyoto, and her work has appeared in the New York Times. She holds an MA in International Environmental Policy from the Middlebury Institute, and a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
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Susannah Herz
Ph.D. Student in Earth and Planetary Sciences, admitted Autumn 2023
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in investigating the impacts of ocean anoxia through the end Permian mass extinction. My work utilizes a variety of isotope geochemistry techniques, including investigations of the sulfur, calcium, and thallium systems through both modeling and lab-based approaches.
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Mathis Heyer
Ph.D. Student in Energy Science and Engineering, admitted Autumn 2024
BioMathis Heyer, from Kiel, Germany, is pursuing a Ph.D. in Energy Science & Engineering at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree in Process Systems Engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, as well as a master’s degree in Management Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing.
His research in the Environmental Assessment and Optimization Group at Stanford (https://eao.stanford.edu/) focuses on advancing the understanding of complex energy and process systems through mathematical modeling and optimization. Mathis' work builds on his previous research experiences at the Climate Policy Lab at ETH Zurich and the Sustainable Reaction Engineering Group at Cambridge University. Outside of his academic pursuits, Mathis enjoys volunteering with organizations such as "Engineers Without Borders" and "Europe Meets School" both involved in promoting intercultural exchange.
Mathis has been recognized as a Klaus-Murmann Fellow by the Foundation of German Business (sdw) while at RWTH Aachen and is currently an ERP Fellow with the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and a recipient of the SGF Fellowship. -
Kent Hippler
Ph.D. Student in Management Science and Engineering, admitted Summer 2025
BioKent Hippler is a PhD student in the Decision and Risk Analysis (DARA) Group in Stanford's Department of Management Science and Engineering, advised by Dr. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell. His current research focuses on risk attitudes in AI Decision Support Systems.
Prior to pursuing his PhD, Kent served as a Nuclear Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy, supporting three western Pacific deployments aboard the USS Anchorage and USS Theodore Roosevelt. He later worked as a Systems Engineer at Maxar Technologies and a Software Engineer at Amazon. Kent holds a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering, summa cum laude, from the University of Florida (2016) and an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford (2025), where he worked with the Language Data and Reasoning Lab under the advisement of Dr. Amin Saberi. -
Julia Hirsch
Ph.D. Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2021
Master of Arts Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2025BioJulia Hirsch is a Ph.D. student in the Religious Studies Department at Stanford University, where she focuses on Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. She holds a B.A. from Boston College in Philosophy with minors in Psychoanalytics and Women’s & Gender Studies (2015). She received her M.A. in the History of Art and Archaeology: Religious Arts of Asia from SOAS University of London (2020).
Julia’s current research explores Buddhist material religion and visual culture, power objects, and ritual from an art-historical perspective. Of particular interest are relic cults, funerary rites, and the importance—and soteriological potential—of sensory encounter in South Asian and Himalayan traditions.
Prior to joining Stanford, Julia worked for several years at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, where she continues to serve as a contributing editor covering Buddhist art, film, and publishing.
