Meet the DEI team
Meet the people who are making this work a priority for Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
Meet our DEI office
![DEI Director Lupe Carrillo](https://cdn.statically.io/img/sustainability.stanford.edu/sites/sustainability/files/styles/square_1900/public/media/image/guadalupe-carrillo_1543523829478_0.jpeg?h=b4e301e9&itok=kOCvj_q3)
![Paula Welander](https://cdn.statically.io/img/sustainability.stanford.edu/sites/sustainability/files/styles/square_1900/public/media/image/paula_welander_02-2_0.jpeg?h=7d66a0c3&itok=gc9bGqMn)
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![Tina Wu](https://cdn.statically.io/img/sustainability.stanford.edu/sites/sustainability/files/styles/square_1900/public/media/image/tinawu_compressed.jpg?h=9c22a2b5&itok=HxNdCEv1)
![Sophia Gunning](https://cdn.statically.io/img/sustainability.stanford.edu/sites/sustainability/files/styles/square_1900/public/media/image/headshot_0.jpg?h=5b106714&itok=d3_zj6Sg)
Student & postdoc DEI liaisons
A program to support leader students and postdoctoral researchers to expand DEI opportunities in their departments/programs.
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Excellence in DEI Award
If you work, advise, or study with someone who regularly go above and beyond what is expected to create a more inclusive, just, and welcoming community, you can nominate them for an Excellence in DEI award!
Learn more about eligibility and nomination criteria
DEI councils
The DEI councils are established as a platform for advocacy and partnership-building to address and strengthen Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the school community.
The Councils consist of two related entities – the Advisory and the Governance Council, each one fulfilling different functions and yet overlapping to collaboratively direct the School towards its DEI goals. The overarching roles of the Councils are to (1) provide a voice to the members of our community at the grassroots; (2) act as change agents for and within the School and (3) help institutionalize practices that support and accelerate DEI initiatives.
2023-2024 DEI Advisory Council members
This council acts as an ear to the ground and has a finger on the community's pulse to: Identify inclusion needs, share resources with the broader community, suggest programming, and be a local advocate.
Undergraduate students
- Natalia Armenta
Graduate students
- Rebecca Grekin
- Rosie Ries
- AyoOluwateso (Teso) Coker
Postdocs
- Mengze Li
Faculty
- Paula V Welander
- Nicholas Ouellette
- Krish Seetah
- Erik Sperling
- Ilenia Battiato
- Leo Hollberg
- Rob Jackson
Staff
- Alyssa Ferree
- Yvonne Lopez
- Paula M Wetzel
- Nan Hwa Aoki
- Bianca Dilip Patel
- Amy L Balsom
- Morgan Diamond
- Sophia Gunning
- Tina Wu
- José Rubio-Zepeda
DEI Governance Council members
This council implements the mission and values of the DEI action plan and engages with the advisory council to: Track progress & metrics, allocate resources, determine awards, and uphold a respectful and inclusive behavior policy.
- Paula Welander, Associate Dean for DEI
- Lupe Carrillo, Director of DEI
- Amy Balsom, Senior Associate Dean
- Sue Crutcher, Associate Dean for Human Resources and Faculty Affairs
- Alyssa Ferree, Assistant Dean for Student and Postdoctoral Affairs
- Scott Fendorf, Senior Associate Dean for Integrative Initiatives
- Jonathan Payne, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
- Lynn Hildemann, Senior Associate Dean for Education
Additional DEI leaders
Associate Chairs for Diversity and Inclusion (ACDI)
- Ilenia Battiato, Associate Professor, Energy Science Engineering
- Leo Hollberg, Professor, Physics and Geophysics
- Rob Jackson, Professor, EIPER
- Nicholas Ouellette, Professor, Civil Environmental Engineering
- Krish Seetah, Associate Professor, Oceans
- Erik Sperling, Associate Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Paula Welander, Associate Professor, Earth Systems Science
More faculty DEI leaders
- Page Chamberlain, Professor of Geological Sciences
Stanford's principal investigator for the NSF Research University Alliance - Jerry Harris, Professor Emeritus Geophysics
Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) founder, DEI champion