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






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.
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.
Graduate students
- Alexis Monae Wilson
- Amina Ly
- Matt Lees
- Rosie Ries
Postdocs
- Camille Pagniello
- Pedro Manuel Monarrez
Faculty
- Paula V Welander
- Ines M. Azevedo
- Krish Seetah
- Rodolfo Dirzo
- Sonia M. Tikoo
- Jef Karel Caers
- Kate Maher
Staff
- Ai Le Tran
- Alyssa Ferree
- Kassie Sharp
- Paula M Wetzel
- Nan Hwa Aoki
- Bianca Dilip Patel
- Amy L Balsom
- Morgan Diamond
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)
- Inês Azevedo, Associate Professor Energy Resources Engineering
- Krish Seetah, Associate Professor, Oceans
- Rodolfo Dirzo, Professor EIPER and Biology
- Sonia Tikoo-Schantz, Assistant Professor Geophysics
- Jef Caers, Professor Geological Sciences
- Kate Maher, Professor of Earth System 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
OMA founder, DEI champion