Alumni Stories

  Since April 2018, I have been working at Udacity as part of the Autonomous Systems team. In addition to developing new content for the school, working with our partners in industry, and supporting current autonomous systems students, I am responsible for managing Udacity's self-driving car, Carla. I have continued to dance since graduation and ...

  I work at IDEO, where I am a partner and a Global  Managing Director.  I am also a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Media Lab, and  a Professor of the Practice at Boise State University.

  After graduation, I stayed in the Bay Area working at Salesforce as a UX Designer for a year and a half. Thereafter, I left the enterprise world to work full-time on tabú (www.talktabu.com), an expert-driven discovery platform for sexual health. Our mission is to empower young adults to take control of their bodies, identities, and health ...

  I am living in Washington and have been working for members of congress for nearly a dozen years.  I am currently Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director for Congressman Matt Cartwright.  One fun note, I turned a paper I wrote about kidney donation in an STS class into  legislation that has gained some traction in Congress.  I'm married ...

  I am currently general counsel at Color Genomics,  Inc., a local Bay Area start-up founded by ex-Google and ex-Twitter execs,  focused on democraticizing access to personal genetic data. Our first test  offering, the Color Hereditary Cancer Test, costs a fraction of the  established cancer tests offered by Myriad and Ambry, and has already ...

  Back when I graduated in 1985, STS was called VTSS (kids, ask your parents!) and VTSS wasn't even a major yet, merely a "program."  But it was certainly my intellectual home at Stanford and I would never have correctly resolved my education without the help of Barry Katz, Ray Clayton, Jim Adams, Robert McGinn, Ted Good, and Virginia Mann ...

  I've spent the last 25 years in the renewable energy and green building  education fields.  I've worked for and started non-profit organizations, have  taught solar energy at community colleges, and provide solar engineering  services for architects and homeowners.  I took a little break five years ago  and opened up a wine & whiskey bar in ...

  Clarisse is currently a second year Associate  Consultant at the Southeast Asia Consulting practice of  PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Singapore. Before she was transferred  overseas, Peralta was based in New York, where she worked with the Financial  Services Advisory team and specialized in Banking and Capital markets.  Peralta is learning ...

  I'm living the dream, when it comes to STS that is. I'm a intellectual property law professor, at Santa Clara Law, and get to work on interesting questions at the intersection of law and tech. 2013-15 I served in the Obama administration as White House Sr. Advisor, Innovation and Intellectual Property. Nearly every day, I get to consider, how ...

  I graduated in 2013 and I did the MS&E concentration in the B.S. STS track (back when it was more choose-your-own-adventure). I would strongly encourage new STS students to seriously think about pursuing a honors thesis through the STS honors thesis program - even if you're thinking of going into the business world like I did. I, for one ...

  I graduated in 2003 (BA, STS). After completing my MS in MS&E at Stanford in 2005, I relocated to Oregon (courtesy of Intel) and began working as a UX (User Experience) researcher and later UX designer. I went from Intel to a web design agency, then worked at a small start-up, and now (for the past 6 1/2 years) have been at Autodesk in our ...

  After leaving Stanford, I completed an MSc. and PhD. in science and technology studies. I then came back to Stanford as a postdoctoral scholar in Bioengineering. I am now a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh's Department of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies.

  Steven Q. Singleton, '10 is currently working to develop and execute customer care strategy for Google's flagship hardware product, the Pixel phone. The team he belongs maintains incessant focus on elevating the customer's voice into the product and on improving the customer care experience. Most recently, he has spent his "20% time" ...

  Following graduation from Stanford, I attended law  school at Berkeley (Boalt Hall).  I practiced in large law firms in the Bay  Area for over 20 years, putting my interdisciplinary VTSS education to work  as I focused on intellectual property litigation.  I recently took a position  as a career law clerk to a federal magistrate judge.

  I finished my 5th year in 1983, taking a degree in Political Science.  It was a narrow choice over Physics, but I rarely dwelt in that department.  I was an early honors program graduate in Values-Technology-Science & Society, the precursor to STS.  The values component was very important to me, and emphasized in the work I did with Walter ...

  Zinnia is a Product Operations Lead at Facebook,  where she researches ways to improve the user experience and partners closely  with various teams to implement new features and experiments.  After  graduating with a B.S. in STS, she joined Google where she began her career  and primarily focused on developing user products within the mobile  ...

I've been working in Washington, DC on policy and management issues related  to emerging technologies for over 25 years--starting soon after finishing at  Stanford! Along the way, I worked in market research and strategy consulting  for international telecommunications and IT firms, advised government  agencies in the U.S. and abroad on public ...

  As a Product Marketing Manager (PMM) at Facebook, Kaitlin works on developing the consumer product marketing strategy for Facebook products. Part of her time at Facebook was spent on Internet.org, driving the go-to-market strategy and launch plans for Free Basics’ first 30 country launches. She is now a PMM on Facebook's Social Good team ...

  I'm currently the Technology Chief of Staff for Trōv, an InsurTech startup in Danville, CA.  I'm leading and growing the Technology team as we build  mobile and web systems to make insuring the things you love easy and  painless.  I spend my time hiring new team members, mentoring folks who are  here, and working out difficult business and ...

  I am back in school as a Ph.D. student at UC San  Diego's department of Communication with a minor in Science Studies. I am in my first year, and just gave my first conference talk titled "Press Start:  Intersectionality, Digital Games, and Identity." In addition to tracing the  societal impact of video games, I am also interested in studying ...

  I'm currently a Senior Associate at a venture capital  firm called Maveron. We invest in direct to consumer tech brands. I live in  San Francisco with my husband J.J. (class of 2010) and dog Milan (did not attend Stanford).

  Since graduating, I helped build out Google’s first office in sub-Saharan Africa. As part of a 2-person office that eventually grew to 6 offices and 100+ team members, I had a hand in multiple office build-outs and led an array of deployment projects within Google's Corporate Engineering and Technical Services organizations. Now back in the ...

  What are you doing now? I live in the Bay Area with my wife and two daughters (both under the age of 2!). I am a Salesforce Administrator at Bluewolf, an IBM company. I help support my company's Sales, Marketing, and Operations departments. In addition to my work at Bluewolf, I also serve as a pastor for Kingsway Community Church. Lastly, I ...

  Currently establishing a media company in South  Africa after eight years as a reporter with the Wall Street Journal and Dow  Jones Newswires in London and Johannesburg.

  Since July of 2011, I've been the Director of the Hagley Library (www.hagley.org), an independent research library in Wilmington, Delaware, and the largest research collection on the history of American business, technology, and industrial design. Before that, I taught the history of technology, American history, and world history at Drexel ...

  I currently work for one of the largest investors in  infrastructure assets globally.   I buy critical assets like bridges,  utilities, ports, airports, landfills, and power plants.  Infrastructure  investing demands both an engineering and finance mindset as well as an  active approach to stakeholders (like regulators, politicians, and users ...

  Living in Minnesota, with my amazing wife and 2  beautiful daughters, 3 and 1 years old. I've been working as an SAP Functional  Analyst for Patterson Companies for the past 5 years, specializing in distribution and logistics.

  I am happily working as an entrepreneurial software  engineer, specialising in multilingual websites, internationalization, and  straightforward software development. The thematic concentration of my  undergraduate STS program was titled "Cross-Cultural Aspects of Technology".  It was laced with a stiff shot of Anthropology. And cross-cultural ...

  After graduating from Stanford in 2014, Julia Landauer moved to Charlotte,  NC, where she is pursuing her professional auto racing career. In addition to  winning a NASCAR Track Championship in 2015 and becoming the highest  finishing female in the history of the NASCAR K&N Pro Series (West), Julia  has been building her brand and platform ...

  Assistant Women's Basketball Coach at Stanford!