Stanford University
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Valerie Garcia
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2025
BioValerie García is a linguist, educator, and researcher whose work centers on heritage language education, teacher development, and identity development. Currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Education at Stanford University, Valerie brings a strong interdisciplinary background bridging applied linguistics, pedagogy, and sociocultural analysis to her teaching and research.
She earned her M.S. in Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University, where she contributed to projects at the Assessment and Evaluation Language Resource Center (AELRC) and co-authored publications in The Modern Language Journal and the Institute of International Education. Her research has examined heritage language learner identity, multilingual education, and the impacts of language policies across the U.S., including her thesis on the differing perceptions of heritage language programs among administrators and teachers.
As a Spanish teacher and curriculum developer, Valerie has taught at Mountain House High School, Summit Charter Schools, and La Escuelita, where she integrates project-based and culturally responsive instruction aligned with state standards. Her teaching is grounded in linguistic justice and equitable access to world language education.
Valerie’s scholarship has been presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and the National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC) conferences, and her visual research work has been featured in leading textbooks such as Second Language Research and The Art of Language Teaching and the Science of Language Learning.
Fluent in both English and Spanish, Valerie combines her expertise in linguistic research and pedagogy with her commitment to empowering multilingual learners and advancing equity in education. -
Jorge Luis Garcia Perez
Master of Arts Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2025
Graduate Program Assistant, SAL Early Childhood EducationBioJorge is a Fulbright-García Robles Scholar, recipient of the SECIHTI (Mexican Ministry of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation) scholarship for graduate studies abroad, and the Claudio X. González Fellowship at Stanford University, where he is pursuing a master’s degree in Global Comparative Education. He has over six years of experience as a public school teacher and two additional years as a teacher educator in Mexico. He is deeply committed to bridging the gap between classroom realities and policy decisions, striving to improve both the quality and equity of education.
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Shelley Goldman
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and for Student Affairs and Professor (Teaching) of Education, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsUse and integration of digital technologies for teaching and learning; learning in informal settings, especially learning mathematics and science within families; bringing the tools and mindsets of design thinking to K-12 classrooms and to broadening STEM participation.
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Meline Grigoryan
Affiliate, Lemons Program
BioMeline Grigoryan, PhD, is a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar and Researcher at Stanford University. Her research explores the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education and inclusive learning, with a particular focus on leveraging AI-driven tools for personalized learning and accessibility.
With extensive experience in inclusive education, education management, and curriculum development, Dr. Grigoryan has contributed to educational innovations and reforms aimed at fostering equitable learning environments. She has served as an Education Programs Manager and Researcher, designing and implementing strategies to enhance learning outcomes for diverse student populations.
At Stanford, Dr. Grigoryan collaborates with scholars and AI experts to explore how technology can advance accessibility, adaptive learning, and inclusive pedagogies worldwide. -
Pamela Grossman
Nomellini-Olivier Professor of Education, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsStudy of classroom practice in middle school English Language Arts (with Susanna Loeb), funded by the Carnegie Corporation;
Study of pathways into teaching in New York City Schools (with Don Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and Jim Wyckoff).
Cross-professional study of the teaching of practice in programs to prepare teachers, clergy, and clinical psychologists (funded by the Spencer Foundation). -
Patricia Gumport
Professor of Education
BioAs a sociologist of higher education, Dr. Gumport has focused her research and teaching on key changes in the academic landscape and organizational character of American higher education. She has studied the dynamics of academic change in several arenas — illuminating what facilitates change and what impedes it — across and within different types of colleges and universities. Extending core concerns in the sociology of knowledge and institutional theory, Dr. Gumport has analyzed how organizational, intellectual, political, economic, and professional interests redefine the content, structure, and relative legitimacy of academic fields. Specific studies include: the emergence and institutionalization of interdisciplinary fields; graduate education and professional socialization across academic disciplines; organizational restructuring and selective investment; the ascendance of industry logic in public higher education; forces that promote and inhibit academic collaboration; decision-making about appropriate organizational forms to support new ideas; and leading organizational change for optimal effectiveness with internal and external stakeholders. Her research within the United States and Europe examines how universities that are ostensibly competitors determine when and how to collaborate. Her analyses include implications for academic leaders who pursue strategic initiatives, manage environmental pressures and stakeholder interests, and seek leadership development opportunities.
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Roberto S. Gutierrez
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2025
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2025BioRoberto Gutierrez is a PhD student in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education (CTE), specializing in Science, Engineering, and Technology Education. He is also pursuing a cross-area specialization in Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE).
Roberto has a variety of research interests that stem from his decade long teaching experience. A primary focus is the intersection of ethics in science education spaces. This includes the implications in teacher development, curriculum customization and AI integration in science classrooms. -
Nicholas Haber
Assistant Professor of Education
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI use AI models of of exploratory and social learning in order to better understand early human learning and development, and conversely, I use our understanding of early human learning to make robust AI models that learn in exploratory and social ways. Based on this, I develop AI-powered learning tools for children, geared in particular towards the education of those with developmental issues such as the Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, in the mold of my work on the Autism Glass Project. My formal graduate training in pure mathematics involved extending partial differential equation theory in cases involving the propagation of waves through complex media such as the space around a black hole. Since then, I have transitioned to the use of machine learning in developing both learning tools for children with developmental disorders and AI and cognitive models of learning.
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Edward Haertel
Jacks Family Professor of Education, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsFunctions of test scores in discourse about education; how testing shapes ideas of success and failure for students, schools, and public education as a whole.
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Eghosa Obaizamomwan Hamilton
STEP Secondary English Clinical Associate, Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP)
BioDr. Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton (https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6189-6418) is a first-generation Nigerian and Clinical Associate in Stanford’s Teacher Education Program (STEP). Co-founding editor of the Black Educology Mixtape (Journal) and co-founder of Making Us Matter, her work seeks collective liberation and visibility for the most historically excluded and is dedicated to transformative education. Her scholarship focuses on the construction of interlocking identities, with a particular emphasis on Black hair and teacher pedagogy. Her scholarship investigates the intersection of race, identity, and education and has been published in Harvard Educational Review, Equity & Excellence in Education, and Race Ethnicity and Education. Her current work centers on Black methodologies, critical pedagogy, Black identity, and racial affinity spaces. With over 16 years of experience in education—her writing, teaching, and research meet at the intersections.
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Eric Hanushek
Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor, by courtesy, of Education
BioEric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and one of the world’s leading scholars in the economics of education. His influential research has shaped education policy globally, with widely cited studies on teacher effectiveness, school accountability, class size, and the economic returns to educational quality. In 2021, he received the Yidan Prize for Education Research, the field’s most prestigious international award. With the prize money he founded the Africa Fellows in Education Program, a capacity-building program focused on improving education policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has authored or edited 26 books and more than 300 articles, and he serves as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the area coordinator for Economics of Education of the CESifo Research Network. He is a fellow of both the Society of Labor Economists and the American Educational Research Association. He previously held academic appointments at the University of Rochester, Yale University, and the U.S. Air Force Academy. His public service includes roles as a commissioner on the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity and Excellence Commission, chair of the National Board for Education Sciences (2008–2010), Deputy Director of the Congressional Budget Office (1983–1985), and member of the National Assessment Governing Board (2019–2023). A member of the National Academy of Education and the International Academy of Education, he earned his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after graduating as a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. https://hanushek.stanford.edu/
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Elizabeth Finlayson Harris
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2023
BioElizabeth Finlayson Harris is a PhD student in Curriculum and Teacher Education at Stanford University, specializing in science, engineering, and technology education with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research examines epistemology, affect, and feminist perspectives in science education, with particular attention to pre-service teacher learning. She has published in Science Education, Emotion, Space and Society, and Studying Teacher Education, and her current projects explore humor, laughter, and epistemic affect in science classrooms. A former high school physics teacher and instructional designer, Liz brings a commitment to equity, joy, and critical inquiry in both her teaching and scholarship.
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Derric I. Heck
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2019
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on educational equity, emphasizing the lived experiences of educators, identity development, and culturally sustaining pedagogy. I employ narrative and qualitative methodologies to explore how race and education intersect, centering marginalized youth and communities. My work also examines the interplay between school-community partnerships, teacher agency, and disciplinary practices, contributing to a broader understanding of belonging, wellness, and justice in education.
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Alexandrea Henry
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2023
Graduate Program Assistant, GSE Dean's OfficeBioAlexandrea Henry is a Ph.D. student 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 consider how young people make sense of power through discipline. 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 project, the Newberry Institute project, and the Juvenile Justice and Alternative Education project, 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.
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Christina Hewko
Postdoctoral Scholar, Education
BioChristina Hewko is a postdoctoral fellow in the Stanford Accelerator for Learning’s Equity in Learning Initiative and Dr. Maisha T. Winn’s Futuring for Equity Lab. In addition, she is a Stanford PRISM Baker Fellow. As an interdisciplinary education researcher, she draws on justice-oriented frameworks, the learning sciences, and teacher education to explore co-designed learning environments. She is especially interested in the joint activity and processes that support teachers’ and community members’ learning, well-being, and development of justice-oriented teaching practices. While at Stanford she is exploring possibilities for land-based pedagogies and teacher learning about restorative and Ethnic Studies teaching practices.
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Michael Hines
Assistant Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of History
On Leave from 10/01/2025 To 06/30/2026BioMichael Hines is a historian of American education whose work concentrates on the educational activism of Black teachers, students, and communities during the Progressive Era (1890s-1940s). He is an Assistant Professor of Education, and an affiliated faculty member with the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Bill Lane Center for the American West. He is the author of A Worthy Piece of Work (Beacon Press, 2022) which details how African Americans educator activists in the early twentieth century created new curricular discourses around race and historical representation. Dr. Hines has published six peer reviewed articles and book chapters in outlets including the Journal of African American History, History of Education Quarterly, Review of Educational Research, and the Journal of the History Childhood and Youth. He has also written for popular outlets including the Washington Post, Time magazine, and Chalkbeat. He teaches courses including History of Education in the U.S., and Education for Liberation: A History of African American Education, 1800-The Present.
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Andrew Huckins-Noss
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2025
BioAndrew Huckins-Noss is an interdisciplinary social sciences researcher and educator whose work spans the fields of education, psychology, developmental science, and anthropology to investigate how experiences of discrimination and inequality shape health behaviors and psychological well-being among marginalized students. He received his bachelor’s degree in Anthropology, magna cum laude, from Brown University, followed by his master’s degree in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University. Currently, he is a PhD student in Development and Psychological Sciences at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education, where he was named a 2025 fellow by the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education.
Andrew’s research focuses on cultural adaptations of suicide prevention interventions for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) adolescents and young adults. In particular, Andrew seeks to utilize mixed methods community-based participatory research to inform culturally attuned suicide prevention interventions aimed at promoting belonging and adaptive coping among marginalized students. -
Yan Jiang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Education
BioDr. Yan Jiang is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Center on Early Childhood. She earned her Ph.D. in Education Studies with a specialization in Computational Social Science from the University of California, San Diego. Her research lies at the intersection of research methodology and early childhood education, focusing on computational analysis of text data and equitable access to high-quality early care and education. Using computational, quantitative, and qualitative methods, her work reimagines the conceptions of early care and education quality in global contexts and amplifies the voices of communities historically underrepresented. Her scholarship has been recognized with the Dissertation Funding Award from the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), the Yankelovich Graduate Research Grant, and the International Institute Research Fellowship from UC San Diego. Her research has appeared in leading journals, including Educational Researcher, Review of Educational Research, and Early Education and Development.
