Experts & Mentors

Experts & Mentors

Meet Our Experts & Mentors

To support students from across campus in the design, development, testing, evaluation, and scaling of their projects, experts and mentors from Stanford and Silicon Valley share their experience using leading-edge technologies, like Virtual Reality + Artificial Intelligence, as well as research-based teaching methodologies, like Problem-Based Learning, gamification and simulation, to promote learning and community building.

Keith Bowen
Keith Bowen, Ph.D.

Program Director
Learning Design Challenge
Stanford Accelerator for Learning

Jodi Anderson, Jr.
Jodi Anderson, Jr.

Project Manager
Learning Design Challenge
Stanford Accelerator for Learning

Kristen Blair, Ph.D.
Kristen Blair, Ph.D.

Director of Research
Digital Learning Initiative
Stanford Accelerator for Learning

Isabelle Hau
Isabelle Hau

Executive Director
Stanford Accelerator for Learning
 

Karin Forssell
Karin Forssell, Ph.D.

Program Director
Learning Design & Technology
Graduate School of Education

Paul Kim
Paul Kim, Ph.D.

Education Technology Entrepreneur
Former Associate Dean
Graduate School of Education

Kyle Wong
Kyle Wong

CEO
StartX
 

Joy Chen
Joy Chen, Ed.D.

Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Stanford Accelerator for Learning
 

Dylan Arena
Dylan Arena, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President
Chief Data Scientist & AI Officer
McGraw Hill

Piya Sorar
Piya Sorcar, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO
TeachAIDS
 

Sergio Monsalve
Sergio Monsalve

Founding Partner
Roble Ventures
 

Susie Wise
Susie Wise, Ph.D.

Founder, K-12 Lab
d.school
 

Judi Fusco, Ph.D.
Judi Fusco, Ph.D.

Director, Emerging Technologies
& Learning Sciences
Digital Promise

Andre Nudelman
Andre Nudelman

Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Stanford Accelerator for Learning
 

Glenn Kleiman
Glenn Kleiman, Ph.D.

Senior Advisor
Stanford Accelerator for Learning
 

Cathy Chase
Cathy Chase, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scholar
Stanford Accelerator for Learning
 

Esteban Sosnik
Esteban Sosnik

General Partner
Reach Capital
 

Monique Malcolm-Hay
Monique Malcolm-Hay

Venture Investor
Rethink Education
 

Matthew Rascoff
Matthew Rascoff

Vice Provost
Digital Education
Stanford University

Heidi Change
Heidi Chang

Director
Professional Learning
Graduate School of Education

Sujata Salem
Sujata Salem

Director, Engineering
Khan Academy
 

Chris Bennett
Chris Bennett

Founder & Director
Game Design Thinking
 

Doris Chin
Doris Chin, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scholar
Graduate School of Education
 

Enyi Okebugwu
Enyi Okebugwu

VC/Impact Investor
Imaginable Futures
 

Glenn Fajardo
Glenn Fajardo

Lecturer
d.school
 

Alix Gallagher
Alix Gallagher

Director, Strategic Partnerships
Policy Analysis for
California Education

Alex Malebranche
Alex Malebranche

Global Engagement Lead
GitHub for Startups
 

Latha Ramanan
Latha Ramanan

Senior Vice President
Strategic AI Initiatives
Merlyn Mind

She-Rae Chen
She-Rae Chen

Founder & CEO
SpringSpot
 

Josh Weiss
Josh Weiss

Director
Digital Learning Solutions
GSE-IT

Wilson Wang
Wilson Wang

Assistant Director, Data Science &
Cloud Architecture
GSE-IT

Rachel Wolf
Rachel Wolf, Ph.D.

Research Scholar
Graduate School of Education
 

Anna Queiroz
Anna Queiroz, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
School of Communication
University of Miami

Miguel Cardona
Miguel Cardona

Designer Advocate
Education
Figma

Mia Kagianas Healy
Mia Kagianas Healy

Higher Education Consultant
Canva
 

Reuben Thiessen
Reuben Thiessen

Emerging Technology Lead
GSE-IT