Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Emily Rose Southerton
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2018
Grad Writing Tutor, Hume Center
Student Employee, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Other Tech - Graduate, Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP)BioAs a learning scientist, Emily Southerton studies youth agency & social justice efforts and how they relate to educational writing technologies & curricula. She has expertise in applying quantitative, qualitative, & participatory methodologies in community with research participants. She is advised by John Willinsky and Sarah Levine and is a member of the Poetic Media Lab at Stanford's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis as well as a researcher with the Language to Literacy Lab and the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET) within the GSE. She is a graduate student writing tutor at the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking, mentors at the GSE Makery, and TAs in Qualitative Methods, Technology for Learners, and Curriculum and Instruction in Stanford’s Teacher Education Program (STEP). Before coming to Stanford, she worked in the field of education for eight years in which she taught middle school Humanities and Computer Science and created the Poet Warriors Project, a digital publishing platform that amplifies the work of youth poets from low-income schools across the country: www.poetwarriorsproject.com.
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Almendra Louisa Staffa-Healey
Overseas Studies - Madrid, Bing Overseas Studies
BioALMENDRA STAFFA-HEALEY, is 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 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.