Meet the DEI team

Meet the people who are making this work a priority for Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.

DEI faculty leaders

Directors for Diversity and Inclusion (DDI) 2024-2027

The DDI faculty serves as a DEI champion and ambassador for their respective Doerr School department and program. The DDI is a school-wide leadership position that also functions as a bridge between the departments/program and the schoolʼs DEI team. In this role, faculty will have the opportunity to learn about the current best DEI practices and research within a cohort of other faculty who share their interest in making the school and our educational environment more inclusive. This leadership role provides the DDI with the tools and the platform to impact and elevate the DEI efforts within their own communities and among their peers. 

• Ilenia Battiato, Associate Professor, Energy Science Engineering
• Leo Hollberg, Professor, Physics and Geophysics 
• EIPER (TBD) 
• Civil Environmental Engineering (TBD) 
• Giulio De Leo, Professor, Oceans
• Erik Sperling, Associate Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Anne Dekas, Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Science 

Student & postdoc DEI liaisons

A program to support leader students and postdoctoral researchers to expand DEI opportunities in their departments/programs. 

Meet our DEI Liaisons

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.

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.

• Arun Majumdar, Dean for Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability 
• Paula Welander, Associate Dean for DEI 
• Lupe Carrillo, Assistant Dean for 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 

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