“Maestra, are you rich?” a little girl named Lola asked me. I did not know how to respond. I was a brand new teacher in East Palo Alto at the start of the dot com revolution in the Silicon Valley...Read more
The following story appeared in the Stanford Dish. Cory Booker encourages students to use their moral imaginations to work for good At 46, CORY BOOKER has an impressive list of academic and...Read more
The following story appeared in The Stanford Daily following the first Open Office Hours series program "Responding to Climate Change," held Thursday, Nov. 19 on Stanford's campus. OpenXChange talks...Read more
The following letter was recently issued to members of Stanford's campus community from President Hennessy and Provost Etchemendy affirming the university's commitment to inclusion and diversity...Read more
The following blog post was written in response to the recent OpenXChange co-sponsored performance by Anna Deavere Smith of "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" at Stanford. Most of Dr. King’s most...Read more
The Stanford Admissions process annually asks each prospective student to articulate “What matters to you, and why?” After almost four years at The Farm, I have discovered how much authentic...Read more
Stanford Daily staff writer Sophie Stuber authors an article on OpenXChange, appearing in the Friday, Oct. 2 issue. "In response to last year’s dramatic shift in campus climate, Stanford has...Read more
I sometimes feel as if I live in a bubble within a bubble. I spend my days at the Haas Center for Public Service and my evenings at Branner Hall, Stanford’s public service dorm. I’m surrounded by...Read more
You go into senior year with a lot of expectations. You’re going to get your degree, make some amazing memories, take your first steps on the path to that nebulous thing we call “your future”, and...Read more
It was my dream to come to Stanford. I cried when I read my acceptance letter and cried again when I called my parents to tell them the news. I still find it hard to believe, but four years as an...Read more
