Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education


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  • Melody Dailey

    Melody Dailey

    Undergraduate, Human Biology
    Ug Wim Writing Consultant, Writing in the Major

    BioMelody is currently a candidate for a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Biology with a concentration in Neuroengineering and Computation. She intends to pursue graduate studies culminating in a Master’s and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, alongside a Doctor of Medicine degree specializing in Neurology. Her academic and research interests lie at the intersection of biology, engineering, and clinical neuroscience, with a focus on advancing translational innovations to address neurological disorders.

  • Ana De Almeida Amaral

    Ana De Almeida Amaral

    Senior Producer, Contingent
    Staff, Stanford Storytelling Project

    BioAna De Almeida Amaral (she/her) is an award-winning journalist, audio producer, and storyteller from San Diego, California. She's long been passionate about using storytelling as a liberatory tool to document the experiences of queer and Latino communities. Ana graduated from Stanford with a B.A. in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

    Ana produced KQED’s first Latino culture podcast, Hyphenación, and has worked telling stories about the US-Mexico borderlands on Cruzando Líneas. As a journalist, Ana has reported on the oldest lesbian bar in San Francisco, the history of queer policing in the Bay Area, and on state violence in Chile.

    Ana is a Senior Producer at the Stanford Storytelling Project where she oversees production of the State of the Human podcast. She also trains and supports students building audio production and storytelling skills.

  • Tara Dosumu Diener

    Tara Dosumu Diener

    Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric

    BioTara received a Ph.D. in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan in 2016 and a Graduate Certificate in Science, Technology, and Society in 2014. Prior to graduate studies at Michigan, she practiced as a Registered Nurse in obstetrics and pediatrics while earning an M.A. in Bioethics, Humanities, and Society from the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences (CEHLS) at Michigan State University. She has taught courses in creative non-fiction writing, medical, biological, and sociocultural anthropology, international and African studies, global health, political science, and the history of medicine in the US, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. She is an anthropologist and historian of medicine, maternal and infant health and mortality, global health (non)systems, and nursing ethics and practice. She is proficient in both archival and ethnographic methods and her previous projects have focused on the United Kingdom and Sierra Leone.

  • Marvin Diogenes

    Marvin Diogenes

    Associate VP, Director of PWR, Writing and Rhetoric Operations

    Current Role at StanfordAssociate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
    Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
    Director, Writing in the Major

  • Kevin DiPirro

    Kevin DiPirro

    PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Rhetoric of Performance; Multimodal Presentation; Devised Theatre; Art and Technology