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Farzana Tabitha Adjah
Assistant Professor of Education
BioDr. Adjah is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. She earned her PhD in Clinical-Community Psychology from the George Washington University and completed an APA accredited internship, with a specialization in trauma, at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Adjah’s research examines the influence of racial stressors and culturally relevant practices on the psychological health, academic success, and well-being of Black adolescents and other youth of color. Dr. Adjah uses a strengths-focused and community-based lens in her research to study contextual nuance in the process and benefits of ethnic-racial socialization. She also explores factors in the family, school, and community contexts that can help youth manage the consequences of racial stress and trauma. Her current studies examine the utilization and benefits of ethnic-racial socialization across the school ecology. Dr. Adjah uses her research in each of these areas to inform the development and adaptation of programs and school-based interventions focused on managing racial stressors, eradicating mental health and academic racial disparities, and promoting resilience among historically marginalized and racially diverse children and adolescents. Dr. Adjah is a visiting scholar to the American Psychological Association RESilience Initiative and serves in other positions focused on inclusion, equity and social justice. Prior to coming to Stanford, Dr. Adjah was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and a University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Los Angeles in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, with affiliation in the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.
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Neida Basheer Ahmad
Social Science Research Scholar, Annamma Program
BioNeida Basheer Ahmad, Ph.D., is a Social Science Researcher in the Walkout! Lab for Youth Justice, focusing on a project that aims to understand the education paths that lead to and through incarceration for youth to shed light on the impact of multiple oppressions and intersectional challenges on their lives. She earned her Ph.D. from the Race, Inequality, and Language in Education program in the Stanford Graduate School of Education in 2024. Her research interests include intersectionality, critical policy analysis, language policy, bilingual education, raciolinguistic ideologies, ethnic studies, and culturally sustaining pedagogies. Her research explores the co-naturalization of language and race in language policy making and implementation. She is also concerned about asymmetrical power relationships in research and seeks to create reciprocal relationships with her research participants.
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Abdullah A. Alamer
Affiliate, Domingue Program
Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of EducationBioAbdullah Alamer is an Associate Professor at King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in 2026-2027. Abdullah’s primary research interest lies in the psychology of language learning, with structural equation modeling (SEM) being the dominant method in his work. Abdullah's research has been published in top journals including Educational Psychology Review, Applied Linguistics, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Teaching Research, System, and the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology. He has co-authored papers on SEM with leading statisticians such as Joe Hair, Herb Marsh, Alex Morin, and Jörg Henseler. His co-authored paper with Joe Hair about PLS-SEM received +4000 citations within four years from publication.
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Lupita Cortez Alcalá
Executive Director for Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)
Current Role at StanfordExecutive Director, Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)
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Fernando Amaral Carnauba
Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Education
BioFernando Carnauba received his doctoral degree in Mathematics Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. He earned an MA in Economics at the University of São Paulo and an MA in Mathematics Education at Teachers College. Fernando currently works on deepening teacher education programs with a network of 20 Brazilian universities. In partnership with the Lemann Center at Stanford GSE, this network develops and offers professional development programs in Mathematics and Science to public school teachers in Brazil.
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Je Chun An
Postdoctoral Scholar, Education
BioJechun An is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. Dr. An began his education career as a tenured elementary teacher in a rural area of Korea. After that, He worked as a secondary school principal qualification program coordinator at the National Academy for Educational Administrators at Seoul National University in Korea. Until 2024, He was a lab manager of a federally funded project (The Early Writing Project) to provide professional development for elementary teachers who have students with difficulties in writing. He served as a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities (2024-2026). His major role was managing the data for two federally funded (Institute of Education Sciences; IES) projects that entail large-scale efficacy trials of educational technology focusing on literacy and mathematics.
Dr. An's research focuses on integrating literacy assessment into data-informed instructional systems to support teachers working with students who experience significant difficulties in literacy (reading and writing) and language. Ultimately, Dr. An's research goal is to develop equitable and instructionally useful approaches that improve literacy outcomes for diverse learners. He is currently involved in projects related to AI-supported coaching model development in Language to Literacy Research Lab (https://langlitlab.stanford.edu/) and computer-adaptive assessment of language and literacy skills (https://roar.stanford.edu/). He is also currently serving as a Principle Investigator (PI) of the project titled "Toward Early and Equitable Identification of Instructional Responsiveness" funded by APA Division 15 Early Career Research Grant ($8,200). -
Joseph ("Jodi") Willie Devail Anderson Jr.
Project Management Specialist - IT, SAL Digital Learning
Current Role at StanfordFirst-year Master's Student in Stanford's Graduate School of Education
Project Coordinator for the Stanford Art's Based Diversion Program
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Subini Ancy Annamma
Associate Professor of Education
BioPrior to her doctoral studies, Subini Ancy Annamma was a special education teacher in both public schools and youth prisons. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. Her research critically examines the ways students are criminalized and resist that criminalization through the mutually constitutive nature of racism and ableism, how they interlock with other marginalizing oppressions, and how these intersections impact youth education trajectories in urban schools and youth prisons. Further, she positions students as knowledge generators, exploring how their narratives can inform teacher and special education. Dr. Annamma’s book, The Pedagogy of Pathologization (Routledge, 2018) focuses on the education trajectories of incarcerated disabled girls of color and has won the 2019 AESA Critic’s Choice Book Award & 2018 NWSA Alison Piepmeier Book Prize. Dr. Annamma is a past Ford Postdoctoral Fellow, AERA Division G Early Career Awardee, Critical Race Studies in Education Associate Emerging Scholar recipient, Western Social Science Association's Outstanding Emerging Scholar, and AERA Minority Dissertation Awardee. Dr. Annamma’s work has been published in scholarly journals such as Educational Researcher, Teachers College Record, Review of Research in Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Theory Into Practice, Race Ethnicity and Education, Qualitative Inquiry, among others.
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anthony lising antonio
Associate Professor of Education
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI study higher education with lenses from the sociology of culture, race, stratification, and inequality. Topic areas include:
--access and equity to higher education: from aspiration to college access programs, high school contexts, college counseling, admissions, and college success
--diversity in higher education: student socialization, peer and friendship networks, faculty of color
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Alfredo J. Artiles
Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education
BioAlfredo J. Artiles is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education and Director of the Research Institute at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity at Stanford University. Artiles studies equity paradoxes generated by educational policies. He examines the protective and marginalizing effects of disability diagnoses and is advancing responses to these differential impacts. He and his colleagues led the federally funded National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems and the Region IX Equity Assistance Center. He uses an interdisciplinary lens to interrogate the ideologies that organize the sociocultural lives of institutions and makes visible the role of power in naming and ordering intersectional identity categories of exception. He also advances comparative analyses of inclusive education models. Current research projects include:
* Examination of socio-historical, institutional and cultural influences in educators’ interpretations and responses to chronic district citations for racial disparities in special education and discipline.
* Re-design of policies and practices that leverage Black family partnerships and interrupt precursors to racial disparities affecting Black learners in a district with chronic disproportionality.
* Analysis of alternative meanings of “disability” and “inclusive education” across institutional contexts and their equity consequences for disparate groups of students.
* Documentation of how disability intersections with other identities (e.g., race, language) become visible or invisible across institutional practices (e.g., referrals, assessment, eligibility meetings) and the consequences for educational opportunities.
* Analysis of equity consequences of inclusive education implementation in Global South contexts.
* Oral history of Larry P v. Riles: An interdisciplinary analysis of disability-race intersections.
* Use of a design-oriented participatory approach to co-create integrated data systems across general education, special education, and bilingual/English learner programs to improve disability identification practices and equity-driven organizational learning
Dr. Artiles has been appointed to consensus panels of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine that produced the reports "Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English;" "Closing the Opportunity Gap for Young Children;" and "the Future of Education Research at the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education." He was a member of the White House Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. Artiles is President of the National Academy of Education, is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and an elected International Fellow of the British Academy. He was elected AERA Vice-President to lead its Social Context of Education Division (Division G).
Prof. Artiles is editor of the book series Futures of Disability in Worlds of Difference (Harvard Education Press). Artiles was a Resident Fellow at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. He received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Göteborgs (Sweden) and was Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham (UK). He delivered AERA’s 2011 Wallace Lecture and the 2017 Brown Lecture. Artiles has received numerous awards such as the Palmer O. Johnson Award for the most outstanding article published in an AERA journal and AERA’s Review of Research Award. Dr. Artiles has received mentoring awards from the Spencer Foundation, AERA’s Division on Social Contexts of Education, and Arizona State University. He was selected Distinguished Alumni from the University of Virginia School of Education. -
Elizabeth Backus
Operations and Finance Director, SAL Early Childhood Education
Current Role at StanfordOperations and Finance Director of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood
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Jeremy Bailenson
Thomas More Storke Professor, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Education
BioJeremy Bailenson is founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Thomas More Storke Professor in the Department of Communication, Professor (by courtesy) of Education, Professor (by courtesy) Program in Symbolic Systems, and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication for fifteen years. He earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1994 and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Northwestern University in 1999. He spent four years at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and then an Assistant Research Professor.
Bailenson studies the psychology of Virtual and Augmented Reality, in particular how virtual experiences lead to changes in perceptions of self and others. His lab builds and studies systems that allow people to meet in virtual space, and explores the changes in the nature of social interaction. His most recent research focuses on how virtual experiences can transform education, environmental conservation, empathy, and health. He is the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Stanford. In 2020, IEEE recognized his work with “The Virtual/Augmented Reality Technical Achievement Award”.
He has published more than 250 academic papers, spanning the fields of communication, computer science, education, environmental science, law, linguistics, marketing, medicine, political science, and psychology. His work has been continuously funded by the National Science Foundation for over 25 years.
His first book Infinite Reality, co-authored with Jim Blascovich, emerged as an Amazon Best-seller eight years after its initial publication, and was quoted by the U.S. Supreme Court. His most recent book, Experience on Demand, was reviewed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Nature, and The Times of London, and was an Amazon Best-seller.
He has written opinion pieces for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, CNN, PBS NewsHour, Wired, National Geographic, Slate, The San Francisco Chronicle, TechCrunch, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and has produced and directed six Virtual Reality documentary experiences which were official selections at the Tribeca Film Festival. His lab has exhibited VR in hundreds of venues ranging from The Smithsonian to The Superbowl. -
Lakshmi Balasubramanian
Academic Prog Prof 3, Research Staff - Other
Current Role at StanfordLecturer & Sr. Researcher
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Arnetha F. Ball
Charles E. Ducommun Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsLanguage, Literacies, and Studies in Teacher Professional Development; research on the writing and writing instruction of culturally and linguistically diverse students; preparing teachers to teach diverse student populations in culturally and linguistically complex classrooms; linking sociocultural and linguistic theory to educational practice; and using the linguistic resources present among culturally diverse populations to enhance curriculum and instruction. She is currently conducting research on the implementation of her "Model of Generative Change" (Ball 2009) in pre-service teacher education, inservice teacher professional development, and a secondary pipeline program designed to "grow our own next generation of excellent teachers for urban schools." Over the last few years she has been collecting data in New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, and the United States on the preparation of teachers to work with historically marginalized populations. Her research on the use of writing as a pedagogical tool to facilitate generative thinking is ongoing and her most recent project looks at the development of blended online learning environments that are designed to prepare teachers to work effectively with diverse student populations in transnational contexts.
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Jon Ball
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2020
Ph.D. Minor, Computer ScienceBioHi! I'm a 3rd year PhD Student in Education Data Science dedicated to improving information accessibility.
Recent projects include:
Natural Language Processing: language analytics for Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Graph ML: modeling citation networks of computer science publications (OJS/arXiv)
Social Network Analysis: clustering of philanthropic partnerships for the Jim Joseph Foundation (SF) -
Adam Banks
Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of African and African American Studies
BioCommitted teacher. Midnight Believer. A Slow Jam in a Hip Hop world. Cerebral and silly, outgoing and a homebody. Vernacular and grounded but academic and idealistic too. Convinced that Donny Hathaway is the most compelling artist of the entire soul and funk era, and that we still don't give Patrice Rushen enough love. I'm a crate digger, and DJ with words and ideas, and I believe that the people, voices and communities we bring with us to Stanford are every bit as important as those with which we engage here at Stanford.
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, I come to Stanford from the University of Kentucky, where I served on the faculty of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies and prior to that, from Syracuse University, as a member of the faculty of the Writing Program. In addition to these appointments I served as the Langston Hughes Visiting Professor of English at the University of Kansas and, jointly with Andrea Lunsford, as the Rocky Gooch Visiting Professor for the Bread Loaf School of English.
My scholarship lies at the intersections of writing, rhetoric and technology issues; my specialized interests include African American rhetoric, community literacy, digital rhetorics and digital humanities. My most recent book is titled Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age, and my current digital/book project is titled Technologizing Funk/Funkin Technology: Critical Digital Literacies and the Trope of the Talking Book. -
Ralph Banks
The Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Professor, by courtesy, of Education and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution
BioRalph Richard Banks (BA ’87, MA ’87) is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Professor, by courtesy, at the School of Education. A native of Cleveland, Ohio and a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School (JD 1994), Banks has been a member of the Stanford faculty since 1998. Prior to joining the law school, he practiced law at O’Melveny & Myers, was the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School and clerked for a federal judge, the Honorable Barrington D. Parker, Jr. (then of the Southern District of New York). Professor Banks teaches and writes about family law, employment discrimination law and race and the law. He is the author of Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone. At Stanford, he is affiliated with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and the Ethnicity, the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. His writings have appeared in a wide range of popular and scholarly publications, including the Stanford Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He has been interviewed and quoted by numerous print and broadcast media, including ABC News/Nightline, National Public Radio, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, among others.
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Brigid Barron
Margaret Jacks Professor of Education
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCurrent projects include the longitudinal documentation of learner pathways to engagement, studies of families as technology-supported learning teams, and the roles that personal learning networks play in catalyzing and sustaining interest-driven learning She is founder of the YouthLAB at Stanford, and a co-lead of TELOS, a Stanford Graduate School of Education Initiative to investigate how technologies can provide more equitable access to learning opportunities.
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Samantha Basch
Postdoctoral Scholar, Education
BioSamantha Basch is a Jim Joseph Postdoctoral Fellow in the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Her research examines the cultural practices caregivers enact to promote young children’s learning. She is particularly interested in how communities support children's participation in recurring routines and rituals, including religious rituals. Samantha earned her PhD in Developmental Psychology from UC Santa Cruz in 2025.
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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. -
David Timothy Bates
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2022
BioDavid 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.
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Shawn Bernardo
Program Manager, Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)
Current Role at StanfordPACE Program Manager
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Eric Bettinger
Conley DeAngelis Family Professor, Professor of Education, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Professor, by courtesy, of Economics at the Graduate School of Business
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEric's research interests include economics of education; pathways into the labor market; development of socio-emotional skills; student success and completion in college; the impacts of online education; the impacts of financial aid; other determinants of student success in college; effects of voucher programs on both academic and non-academic outcomes. His research focuses on using rigorous statistical methods in identifying cause-and-effect relationships in higher education.
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Jo Boaler
Nomellini and Olivier Professor in the Graduate School of Education
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsStudying the Impact of a Mathematical Mindset Summer Intervention, HapCaps: Design and Validation of Haptic Devices for improving Finger Perception (with engineering & neuroscience) The effectiveness of a student online class (https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Education/EDUC115-S/Spring2014/about) (NSF). Studies on mathematics and mindset with Carol Dweck and Greg Walton (various funders). Studying an online network and it's impact on teaching and learning (Gates foundation)
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Hilda Borko
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Charles E. Ducommun Professor in the Graduate School of Education
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsToward a Scalable Model of Mathematics Professional Development: A Field Study of Preparing Facilitators to Implement the Problem-Solving Cycle
The Problem-Solving Cycle (PSC) model of mathematics professional development encourages teachers to become part of a collaborative and supportive learning community. As they participate in the PSC, teachers think deeply about both mathematics content and instruction, and they explore their instructional practices with their colleagues through the use of video and other classroom artifacts. One iteration of the PSC consists of three interconnected professional development workshops, all organized around a rich mathematical task. During Workshop 1, teachers collaboratively solve the mathematical task and develop plans for teaching it to their own students. Shortly after the workshop, the teachers implement the problem with their own students and their lessons are videotaped. In Workshop 2 teachers explore the role they played in implementing the problem. In Workshop 3 teachers critically examine students’ mathematical reasoning.
The Problem-Solving Cycle model provides a structure for mathematics teachers to work together and share a common mathematical and pedagogical experience. Our previous research suggests that it is a promising model for enhancing teachers’ knowledge and supporting changes in classroom practice.
In our current project, initiated in Fall 2007, we are working with a group of middle school mathematics teachers in a large urban district to foster their leadership capacity, and specifically to prepare them to facilitate the Problem-Solving Cycle. We will provide 2½ years of preparation and support for teachers who have been designated as “mathematics instructional leaders.” These instructional leaders will in turn implement the PSC with the mathematics teachers in their schools. We will document the range and quality of the instructional leaders’ implementation of the PSC. We will also analyze the impact of the professional development process on the mathematical knowledge and classroom teaching of the instructional leaders and the mathematics teachers with whom they work. In addition, we will analyze the impact on their students’ mathematics achievement. By the conclusion of the project, we anticipate that the participating schools will have the infrastructure and capacity to carry out the PSC indefinitely, using their own resources. In addition, the project will produce a highly refined set of PSC facilitation materials—with a strong emphasis on supporting a linguistically and culturally diverse student population—that can be widely disseminated. -
Keith Bowen
Director, Learning Design Challenge, SAL Digital Learning
BioFor 20+ years, I have worked in the fields of international relief, development, and conflict resolution, building capacity in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, South Africa, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, as well as educating students in the U.S., Europe, and other countries who aspire to work in these fields.
Academics & Film
I've worked as an academic and filmmaker, creating educational documentaries on liberation movements around the world, which I've then used with university students in my classrooms. I've had several programs distributed by the Discovery Channel, which has been rewarding, but what has been especially remarkable to me is the response of my students. I've come to appreciate the power of narrative and immediacy of film to transform students' perceptions of the world and their place in it.
Learning Design
Along with an emphasis on narrative and immediacy, I've designed interactive programs that draw students into learning through exploration and discovery - with a dynamically shifting experience based on student choice and response. I've also designed learning programs featuring advanced multiplayer simulations with both live and online interaction.
Scale
I've taken this work to scale. In my work for the U.S. Government and international humanitarian organizations, I've designed courses that have been completed by tens of thousands of students and practitioners, not only at the State Department, USAID, relief agencies, and universities in the U.S., but also at comparable institutions in other countries, and even in internet cafes and refugee camps around the world. I've earned about a dozen awards for these efforts and have delivered presentations on them for the Under Secretary of State, the Senate Appropriations Committee, representatives of the the 57 countries of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the 35 countries of the Organization for American States, and others.
Virtual Exchange & "Wicked" Global Problems
I am continuing this work at Stanford. My focus now is designing media and technology programs to bring university students in the U.S. and other high-income countries into extended contact with counterpart students in fragile states and zones of conflict to address complex problems that no single country can solve on its own. As students work collaboratively to address these "wicked" problems, we measure advances in learning and shifts in attitude through qualitative and quantitative methods.
I have also launched and serve as Director for the Stanford Learning Design Challenge, which supports students across campus who seek to leverage research in the learning sciences, methodologies in human-centered design, and breakthroughs in emerging technology to change what’s possible in teaching and learning. https://edtech.stanford.edu/
This is an extraordinary time for those who design media and technology solutions for teaching and learning. Blended in smart combinations, especially with traditional in-person learning, the new tools we have are powerful:
- Visual narrative, through its expression in digital cinema
- Expanding and interconnecting networks of lifelong learners
- Complex human interaction, including multiplayer games and simulations
- Complex machine interaction, including generative AI, dynamically responsive to user needs
- Statistical data analysis, upon which to base informed, iterative human-centered design
- Worldwide electronic distribution, especially to inexpensive mobile devices
If we do this right, the world will be much better for it. -
Julie Brosnan
Senior Communications & Engagement Manager, SCALE, SAL Policy
Current Role at StanfordCommunications & Engagement Manager, National Student Support Accelerator
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Bryan Brown
Kamalachari Professor of Science Education and Senior Associate Vice Provost, Stanford Provostial Fellows Program
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Brown's current research examines issues of stress, culture, and language. His work examines how science is taught is ways that may alienate urban students due to the approach to language instruction. This work includes experimental work involving technology based education and inner city teaching practices.
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Eamonn Callan
Pigott Family School of Education Professor, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCivic and moral education; ethical and civic dimensions of educational policy; multicultural education and minority rights in education.
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Samuel Enrique Camacho
Masters Student in Civil and Environmental Engineering, admitted Autumn 2025
Graduate Program Assistant, Domingue Program
Research Intern, Program-Osman, K.BioNative of Maracaibo, Venezuela. I am a nonprofit leader, a graduate research assistant, a perennial intern, and a recovering investment banker. After working in banking and helping early-stage startups in the sustainability space navigate funding rounds, I decided to pursue graduate studies in environmental engineering to expand my technical foundation in sustainability and renewable energy technology.
My previous research focused on traditional energy, and I have presented at over 10 economic conferences. I have also interned at a YC-backed startup, in consulting, banking, venture capital, corporate, and various nonprofits and universities. In my spare time, I co-lead a Latin American education and arts nonprofit in Houston. Other interests include worrying about Venezuelan inflation, visiting small towns in the U.S., coding in Stata, and hiking. -
Brandi Cannon
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
Graduate Program Assistant, Ctr. Sup. Exc. in TeachingCurrent Role at StanfordPhD Candidate
Teaching Assistant
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Alee Lee Capps
Casual - Non-Exempt,
Staff,BioAlee (Alexandra) Lee Capps is an early childhood educator and Stanford University affiliate working with the Graduate School of Education to support research in local Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) classrooms. She has worked in early childhood education for more than 15 years and currently serves as Director of The Learning Tree Preschool, a family-run preschool in Fremont, California, that has served the community since 1980.
Alee’s connection to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community is more recent and deeply personal. She is the hearing mother of a Deaf child born with bilateral microtia and atresia. Since her daughter’s birth, Alee and her family have been learning American Sign Language (ASL) and navigating early language access, education, and services for DHH children and their families. These experiences have made early language access and the prevention of language deprivation especially important to her.
At The Learning Tree Preschool, Alee has worked to make the early childhood environment more accessible and inclusive for DHH children and families, including creating opportunities for ASL and spoken English to be part of the school community. She is also a co-founder of Growing Peace Enrichment, which provides inclusive enrichment and after-school opportunities for children, and founder of Born to Belong, a community initiative focused on creating more inclusive and accessible opportunities for children and families.
Alee approaches her work in the Deaf community as a hearing parent and educator who is still learning. She strongly believes in Deaf leadership and that the voices, expertise, and lived experiences of Deaf people should guide work intended to serve Deaf children and communities.
Alee is especially interested in early language access, preventing language deprivation, and creating more inclusive early childhood experiences for DHH children and their families. Through her work at Stanford, she hopes to contribute her perspective as an early childhood educator and parent while continuing to learn from Deaf educators, researchers, families, and the broader Deaf community. -
Janet Carlson
Associate Professor (Research) of Education, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) for teaching science, design of professional learning for teachers including equity, core practices, teacher leadership, research-practice partnerships
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Martin Carnoy
Lemann Foundation Professor
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearching econometric models of quality of education in Latin America and Southern Africa. Studying changes in university financing and the quality of engineering and science tertiary education in China, India, and Russia.
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Merve Cerit
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2020
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research aims to understand digital behaviors and their relationship with well-being through computational models and in-situ behavior change interventions. For my research, I have been working on a large-scale smartphone dataset, Screenome. I work closely with Nick Haber and Roy Pea from the School of Education and Nilam Ram and Byron Reeves from the Communication Department.
In my work, I mostly use machine learning and human-centered design principles. -
Joanne Chan
Masters Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2025
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCo-designing play-filled and culturally-sustaining social and emotional learning experiences for marginalized children and their caregivers.
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Anne Harper Charity Hudley
Associate Dean of Educational Affairs, Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education and, Professor, by courtesy, of Linguistics and of African and African American Studies
BioAnne H. Charity Hudley, Ph.D., is Associate Dean of Educational Affairs and the Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education at Stanford University and Professor of African-American Studies and Linguistics by courtesy. She is affiliated with the Center for Comparative Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) and the Symbolic Systems Program. She also serves as the Jan Barker Alexander Resident Fellow for the Ujamaa House. Her research and publications address the relationship between language variation and educational practices and policies from preschool through graduate school. She has a particular emphasis on creating high-impact practices for underrepresented students in higher education. Charity Hudley is the co-author of four books: The Indispensable Guide to Undergraduate Research; We Do Language: English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom; Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools; and Talking College: Making Space for Black Linguistic Practices in Higher Education. Her fifth book, Talking Faculty: Professional and Linguistic Choices for Black Faculty Thriving in U.S. Higher Education, will appear in 2026. She is the co-editor of several collections, including Inclusion in Linguistics and Decolonizing Linguistics.
Her other publications have appeared in Language, The Journal of English Linguistics, Child Development, Language Variation, and Change, American Speech, Language and Linguistics Compass, Perspectives on Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations, and many book collections, including The Handbook of African-American Psychology, Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Literacy Education, Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics, and Oxford Handbook of Language in Society. She has been an invited speaker for numerous keynotes and academic meetings, provides lectures and workshops for K-12 teachers, and generously contributes to community initiatives and public intellectual work.
Dean Charity Hudley is a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her contributions have been recognized with a Public Engagement Award from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, an award from the Linguistic Society of America, and funding from NIH, NSF, the Mellon Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, among others. Professor Charity Hudley has served on the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America; the Standing Committee on Research of the National Council of Teachers of English; as a consultant to the National Research Council Committee on Language and Education; and to the NSF’s Committee on Broadening Participation in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Sciences. In addition, she has served as an Associate Editor for Language and on the editorial board of Language and Linguistics Compass and the Linguistic Society of America Committee on Linguistics in Higher Education.
Dean Charity Hudley was previously the North Hall Endowed Chair in the Linguistics of African America at U.C. Santa Barbara. At UC Santa Barbara, she also served as the Director of Undergraduate Research, Vice-Chair of the Council of Planning and Budget, and a Faculty Fellow for the Center for Innovative Teaching, Research, and Learning (CITRAL). -
Catherine Chi Chase
Senior Scholar, SAL Digital Learning
BioCathy Chase is a senior scholar working for the Stanford Accelerator for Learning. Cathy has 20 years of experience doing research and design in the Learning Sciences, with an interdisciplinary focus on cognition, STEM education, and educational technology. Cathy has expertise in exploration and discovery-oriented learning activities, technologies like generative AI, educational games, and intelligent tutoring systems, and psychological constructs like transfer and motivation. She currently works on genAI-supported student creation and sustainability education.
Prior to joining the Accelerator, Cathy was an assistant professor of Cognitive Science in Education at Columbia University’s Teachers College. She is also a proud alum of the Learning Sciences and Technology Design program at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She began her career in education as an elementary and middle school science teacher in Brooklyn, NY.
