David 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.
Gabriela López
Op-Eds Editor
Gabriela López has 10-plus years of teaching experience and a master’s in education. She has a range of work from early education to graduate level and experience as a paraprofessional assistant, art instructor, bilingual classroom teacher, teacher’s union representative, student mentor, prison educator, teacher supervisor, adjunct professor, and school board commissioner. Elected to the San Francisco Board of Education at 28, she is the youngest woman ever elected and was president for two terms during her tenure. She is now in a Ph.D. in Education program at Stanford University.
Nina Carbuccia
Assistant Editor, EdP Research Fellow
Nina Carbuccia is a second-year undergraduate studying Earth Systems and Art Practice. With a background in community-focused policy work, she is interested in equitable access to education for marginalized communities in the Bay Area. Her interests include public health, school privatization, access to the arts, and alternative education models.
Howard Chiu
Assistant Editor, Policy Briefs
Howard Chiu (M.Ed.) is a PhD student in the Graduate School of Education’s Developmental and Psychological Sciences program at Stanford University. Prior to coming to Stanford, Howard worked in Singapore as an educational psychologist in the Ministry of Education’s Special Educational Needs Division. His interests include neuroimaging methods, developmental differences, early childhood education, as well as evidence-based intervention and policymaking.
Maria Jose
Assistant Editor
Maria Jose is a doctoral student whose research interests center on access and equity. Specifically, their work aims to explore/questions how we can better support low-income, first-generation, immigrant students with physical and learning differences as they transition to and navigate the U.S. higher education system. Specifically, their work aims to explore/questions how we can better support low-income, first-generation, immigrant students with physical and learning differences as they transition to and navigate the U.S. higher education system. Maria Jose seeks to advance policies and practices that address and remove barriers and foster inclusive pathways for all students thrive and pursue their college aspirations. Maria Jose is a doctoral student whose research interests center on access and equity.
Kyle Park
Assistant Editor, EdP Research Fellow
Kyle Park is a junior studying Philosophy with Honors in Ethics in Society. He is interested in political philosophy and passionate about advancing civic education access at the high school and college levels. Kyle is actively involved in Stanford Democracy Day and the Youth Civic Impact Collective (YCIC)––a nonpartisan network to expand class-free Election Days and improve civic engagement programming across the country.
Faculty Sponsor
Alfredo J. Artiles
Dr. Artiles is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education. Professor Artiles studies how protections afforded by disability status can unwittingly stratify educational opportunities for minoritized groups and is advancing responses to these inequities. He and his colleagues have led national and regional technical assistance initiatives at the state and school district levels to address these equity paradoxes. Artiles edits the book series "Futures of Disability in Worlds of Difference" (Harvard Education Press). He has served on several consensus panels of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Artiles is President of the National Academy of Education, was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and is a Fellow of AERA. He served for five years on the White House Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. Dr. Artiles was a Resident Fellow at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences.
