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ICE Alumni Testimonials

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Sebastián Guevara, IEPA MA, 2019

My parents are educators. Since I was young, they rooted interest in education on me, a curiosity towards how learning can improve our realities. As an undergrad, I majored in Political Science at ITAM, in Mexico City, and I began researching the Mexican education system. The more I learned... Read more

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Isabel Sacks, ICE MA, 2019

One of the central factors in my choice to pursue a Master’s in education was impact. When I think of the impact I hope to have, I think of social impact (I would imagine this might be different for some fields - impact might mean innovation, scientific discoveries, influencing the direction of... Read more

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Darion Aaron Wallace, IEPA MA, 2019

As I was explaining the graduate programs that I had been accepted to during a university’s MA admit day, an undergraduate student asked me “what is your philosophy of education?”. After giving an answer that I was not completely satisfied with this question illusively sat with me as I entered... Read more

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Joanna Shruti Sundharam, IEPA MA, 2019

In 2013, I started my journey in the education-social development space as a Teach for India fellow. I spent 2 years teaching a class of 40 bright-eyed girls in a government school located in New Delhi. As a teacher in the school, I got an insider's view of how government policy influences the... Read more

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Audra Wingard, IEPA MA, 2018

My interest in International Education began as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley where I studied Anthropology and Education. After graduating from UC Berkeley, I became a Fulbright Fellow during which I taught English at a secondary school in Malaysia. After returning from Malaysia, I applied... Read more

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Alex Ugorji, IEPA MA, 2018

My journey into the field of education started in Shanghai, China. I was a young undergraduate interning at a consulting firm, Parthenon—Ernst & Young. It was during this internship that I was first exposed to China’s vast education ‘industry.’ I say ‘industry’ because education in China is... Read more

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Saloni Gupta, IEPA MA, 2018

I graduated last year from the IEPA MA Program and started working at Central Square Foundation (CSF) in New Delhi. In this last one year, I have been able to shape a policy initiative for one south Indian state. This policy recommendation has evidence rooted in other developing countries (... Read more

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Hechunzi Wang, ICE MA, 2018

I came to Stanford and the Graduate School of Education with an aspiration. As a student majoring in Chinese (specialty in Sino-foreign culture exchange), I’ve often been asked why I chose to study education in graduate school. My answer is simple and always remains the same: changing the world... Read more

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Emily Schell, ICE MA, 2018

Since middle school, I have been curious about how educators, policymakers, and community members can improve the education that marginalized immigrant populations receive in the U.S. and abroad. Although my work started stateside with the founding of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Promise for Preschool... Read more

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Akshay Jain, IEPA MA, 2018

My firm belief in the transformative power of education is rooted in my own educational journey. At an impressionable age of fourteen, I received a scholarship to leave my hometown New Delhi and enroll in an innovative high school program in Singapore. Thereafter, I enrolled at the National... Read more

What you need to know

Admission requirements

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Financing your education

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