Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Alice Petty
Associate Dean for Residential Academic Advising, Academic Advising Operations
Current Role at StanfordAssociate Dean of Residential Advising, the office of Academic Advising (VPUE)
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Kathleen Phillips
Student Service Officer 4, Academic Advising Operations
Current Role at StanfordLead Undergraduate Advising Director
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Sarah Pittock
Associate Director for COLLEGE, Stanford Introductory Studies Operations
BioSarah Peterson Pittock PhD recently joined Stanford Introductory Studies as the Associate Director for COLLEGE to support teaching excellence in the first year requirement. Previously, she taught in Stanford’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric developing courses that intersect writing with ethics, education, and medicine. From 2013-2015, she served as Associate Director of the Hume Center, supporting a writing-enriched curriculum through tutor education, writing workshops, graduate writing and speaking programming, and writing pedagogy consultations. From 2017-2022, she also directed Bing Honors College, a September program that accelerates rising seniors' progress on their honors research and writing. Her work has been published in Women's Writing, the WAC Journal, Writing Center Journal, and edited collections.
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Laura Quirarte
Academic Services Coordinator, Bing Overseas Studies
Current Role at StanfordAcademic Services Coordinator
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Lisa Moore Ramee
Assistant Director, Student Services PWR, Writing and Rhetoric Operations
Current Role at StanfordAssistant Director of Student Services, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
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Cheryll Ramirez
Director of Operations, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
BioCheryll Ramirez is the Director of Operations in the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE) Office. She has been with VPUE & Stanford since 2008. She currently oversees VPO's operation and facilities.
Prior to Stanford, Cheryll spent a good chunk of her career as the Financial Analyst at Pepperdine University supporting graduate programs in Education and Psychology. Cheryll is passionate in supporting education but also finds time to spend with family and friends. -
Adriana Ramirez-Kubo
Assistant Director, Sophomore College and Student Staff Development, Stanford Introductory Studies Operations
Current Role at StanfordAssistant Director, Sophomore College and Student Staff Development
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Brandon Marcellino Reynante
Director of Community Engaged Learning - Environmental Sustainability, DCEL
BioMy work focuses on designing, managing, and assessing learning experiences that empower people to create more just and sustainable futures.
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Lisa Rodriguez
Financial Analyst, Academic Advising Operations
Current Role at StanfordFinancial Analyst
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Leonard Schmieding
Overseas Studies - Berlin, Bing Overseas Studies
BioI studied English, American Studies, History, and History Education at universities in Germany (Freiburg im Breisgau, Leipzig) and the U.S. (Indiana). In 2011, I received my PhD from the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on hip-hop culture in communist East Germany. Since then, I have been a researcher, educator, and public historian in the San Francisco Bay Area, Washington, DC, Münster, and Berlin. While I continue to be interested in youth cultures, migration, and public memory, I am now focusing on building networks between museums, memorials, archives, schools, and universities to use the power of history for active citizenship in our societies in Germany and the U.S. I bring together scholars, curators, and educators in partnerships and professional development, and I work with students, both in secondary schools and at university, to use museum resources for deep historical learning.
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Laura Selznick
Undergraduate Advising Director, Academic Advising Operations
Current Role at StanfordUndergraduate Advising Director
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Parna Sengupta
Director and Associate Vice Provost, Stanford Introductory Studies, Stanford Introductory Studies Operations
BioParna Sengupta is Associate Vice Provost and Director of Stanford Introductory Studies (SIS), under the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE).SIS curricular programs include: Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE) first-year requirement; The ESF (Education as Self-fashioning) program for first-year students; SLE and ITALIC, residential program for first-year students; the Introductory Seminars program offers 230+ seminars for first- and second-year students each year; Sophomore College and Arts Intensive which offer intensive seminar courses each year for returning sophomores during the first three weeks of September.
Parna arrived at Stanford in 2008 from Carleton College, where she was an associate professor in South Asian history. Parna’s book, Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal (UC Press, 2011), reveals the centrality of missionary models of schooling on the development of modern education, an influence that resulted in the reinforcement of religion and religious identity in colonial India. Her most recent project is on the early twentieth century feminist thinker Rokeya Hossain. -
Emily Shewmaker
Assistant Director, Programs and Grants, VPO PGP Operations
Current Role at StanfordAssistant Director of Programs & Research
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Haein Shim
Introsems Course Support, Freshman and Sophomore Programs (FSP)
Ida Content Intern, Institute for Diversity in the Arts
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate EducationBioHaein Shim is a passionate women's rights activist, documentary producer, and freelance journalist who is deeply committed to women's rights issues. She served as an executive board member (communications) for the National Women's Political Caucus San Gabriel Valley from 2023 to 2024.
She has worked with numerous international media outlets, including TIME, The Economist, NPR, and Vice, in publishing more than 50 articles worldwide. Leading global news platforms, such as Al Jazeera English and CNN, have interviewed Shim regarding women's rights issues in South Korea. She is currently working as a documentary producer with an award-winning production team from Austria, focusing on global femicide in 12 different countries. She is also a researcher for an upcoming book being written by the BBC's first Gender and Identity Correspondent.
Her feminist artwork "I'm not a doll, I'm a person" was displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2023, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2024, and now at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
She was awarded the Women's March Foundation's Woman of the Year Award in 2024 for her resilience and dedication to women's rights issues.
Shim graduated summa cum laude from Pasadena City College in 2023 and is currently pursuing her undergraduate degree at Stanford University, where she was awarded a 2024-2025 fellowship by the Institute for Diversity in the Arts as a filmmaker. Her current documentary project, We The People (2025), focuses on the lives of first-generation, low-income students' lives at Stanford.
She is also working as an Undergraduate Researcher at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford. -
Almendra Louisa Staffa-Healey
Overseas Studies - Madrid, Bing Overseas Studies
BioALMENDRA STAFFA-HEALEY, is an ICF Certified Coach, an Intercultural Trainer & International and Experiential Learning Educator. She teaches 'Integration into Spanish Society: Service Learning and Professional Opportunities' in the Bing Overseas Studies Program in Madrid. She was born in Granada, Spain to US American parents, and has lived extensively in both countries as a child and as an adult. Over the past twenty years she has worked in the field of international and intercultural education and business. Almendra’s professional focus is cross-cultural understanding through coaching, education and training. She co-authored En clase, en el trabajo, entre la gente, a book commissioned by the European Union's Leonardo da Vinci Mobility Programme on perfecting foreign language, interpersonal and intercultural skills through internships abroad. Almendra is a Qualified Administrator (QA) of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI ®), one of the most widely used tools for assessing and developing intercultural competence at the individual, group, and organizational levels. She is also a Senior Facilitator of the cross cultural and transitions methodology Personal Leadership, Making a World of Difference®. Almendra holds a Bachelor's degree from New York University in Art History, an MBA from the Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles, an institution associated with the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and the Madrid Stock Exchange, as well as an MA in Social Anthropology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has served as the SIETAR Spain President. SIETAR is the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, and international network of professionals dedicated to the intercultural field.
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Matthew D. Stephen
Overseas Studies - Berlin, Bing Overseas Studies
BioMatthew studied political science, history and classics at the University of Otago (2003-2006, B.A. (Hons), M.A., 2007-2008) before writing a PhD at the Free University Berlin (2009-2013) where he graduated summa cum laude. He is currently a Senior Researcher at the Department of Global Governance at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and held Visiting Professorships at the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg in 2018-2019 and 2021. His research focuses on international power shifts and international institutions, and has been published in journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, Global Governance, International Studies Review, and International Studies Quarterly. He is fascinated by Berlin, where he has lived since 2009.
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Deborah Stevenson
Associate Vice Provost and Dean of Academic Advising, Academic Advising Operations
BioDeborah comes to Stanford from Gonzaga University, where she served as the founding Director of the Center for Student Academic Success. Deborah created the Center to be a one-stop-shop of integrated essential academic services and resources such as academic advising, supplemental learning support, and disability services. In addition to providing leadership and strategy for student success, Deborah taught first-year experience and academic recovery courses, provided consultation to faculty on course design and classroom management, and served as a regional accreditation evaluator.
As a first-generation college student who struggled mightily during her undergraduate education, Deborah is naturally drawn to the work of student success in higher education. She is driven by her desire to create equitable and adaptive learning environments where students are empowered to be active and independent learners.
Deborah holds an undergraduate degree in political science and a master’s degree in organizational leadership, both from Gonzaga. -
Melissa Stevenson
Student Service Officer 4, Academic Advising Operations
Current Role at StanfordLead Undergraduate Advising Director
