Kristy Lobo, MA
Stanford University, Senior Program Director, Public Service Leadership and Community Partnerships

Kristy directs the Haas Center's leadership development activities including the Public Service Leadership Program and Issue Area Coordinators Program. In the courses she teaches and in the programs and cohort experiences she facilitates, her goal is to develop students' understanding of ethical and effective service principles and their skills related to public service pathways. Kristy also manages community partner engagement, events, and communication. Previously, she directed the Haas Center's advising and outreach team.

Tom Schnaubelt, PhD
Stanford University, Lecturer and Senior Advisor on Civic Education, Deliberative Democracy Lab

Tom Schnaubelt joined CDDRL in August 2022 and serves as a Lecturer and Senior Advisor on Civic Education at the Deliberative Democracy Lab. Prior to joining CDDRL, Tom served as Executive Director of the Haas Center for Public Service (2009-2022) and was the Associate Vice Provost for Education. Tom’s work in higher education focuses on democratic engagement, place-based and experiential learning that fosters civic identity, and fostering the capacity to engage constructively across differences. He has extensive experience creating university-community partnerships, and his experiences span geographic, disciplinary, and institutional boundaries. 

Luke Terra, PhD
Stanford University, Associate Director and Director of Community Engaged Learning and Research

Luke directs the Community Engaged Learning and Research (CELR) division at the Haas Center for Public Service. The CELR team supports faculty and students in connecting teaching and research to broader public concerns through service-learning courses, community-engaged internships, and community-based research. His research focuses on teaching and learning in secondary history and civics classrooms. 

Educating Undergraduates for American Democracy: The Third Way Civics Approach
Authors: Trygve Throntveit, Anand R. Marri, Ronald Mahurin and David J. Roof

Presented by Trygve Throntveit, PhD, who is the Director of Strategic Partnership at the Minnesota Humanities Center in St. Paul, MN, where he directs the Third Way Civics initiative. Trygve received his bachelor’s degree in History and Literature and his master’s and doctoral degrees in History from Harvard University, where he subsequently served as Lecturer and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in History. Over the past decade his research and programmatic interests have expanded to include historical and contemporary movements for civic renewal in aspiring democracies, with a special focus on the civic reconstruction of higher education in the United States.

Civic Learning through a Lens of Racial Equity
Authors: Christina Santana, William Cortezia, Gene Corbin, John Reiff

Presented by John Reiff, PhD, who has worked with service-learning and civic engagement for over 40 years. He is Director of Civic Learning and Engagement for the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education, where he works with the 29 community colleges, state universities, and campuses of the University of Massachusetts system to help them build civic learning and engagement into their students’ college experiences. Using a community organizing approach, his primary focus currently is on braiding together civic learning and engagement with a commitment to racial equity.

Cultivating a Civic Identity Using a Feminist Cohort Model: An Analysis of Tulane’s Newcomb Scholars Program
Authors: Aidan Smith, Ryan McBride, Anna Mahoney, and Agnieszka Nance

Presented by Anna Mahoney, PhD, who is the Executive Director of the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth College. Her research interests focus on the intersection between identity and representation. She is the author of Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures: The Creation of Women’s Caucuses (Temple University Press, 2018). She obtained a PhD in Political Science from Rutgers University, an MA in Women’s Studies from the University of Alabama, and a BA in Mass Communications from Loyola University-New Orleans.

Defending Democracy: What We Can Learn about Civic Identity from Peer Educators Involved in Nonpartisan Political Engagement
Author: Alexander Kappus, PhD

Presented by Alex Kappus, PhD who champions student success at Credo Higher Education Consulting and serves as a current fellow for the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. Alex has led student engagement efforts in a variety of contexts in four different states and several functional areas including residence life, new student programs, financial aid, leadership development, and student success. A devoted scholar-practitioner, Alex’s scholarly work focuses on civic engagement and program assessment in higher education. He received a PhD in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education from Michigan State University, a MEd in College Student Affairs Administration from the University of Georgia, and a BA in Political Science from Emory University.

The Lens of Civic Identity: A Developmental Model for Undergraduate Education
Authors: Langdon J. Martin, Annie Jonas and Brooke Millsaps

Presented by Langdon J. Martin, PhD who is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Department of Chemistry & Physics at Warren Wilson College. He previously served as Director of General Education. This work and his interests in experiential and community-engaged learning drew him to work in civic identity development.

Becoming Entrepreneurs of Connection: How community partnerships shape engagement across difference and anti-poverty commitments
Authors: Laura Elizabeth Martin, Albert Benson Nylander and James Robert Love II
Presented by Laura E. Martin, PhD, who serves as Associate Director of the Grisham-McLean Institute for Public Service and Community Engagement, a center at the University of Mississippi that fights poverty through education, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Laura directs M Partner, a place-based community engagement initiative, and guides implementation of the North Mississippi VISTA Project. Laura’s research interests include student identity development, organizational capacity building, and affordable housing.

How College Students Can Depolarize: Evidence for Political Moderation Within Homogeneous Groups
Authors: Yasmeena Khan and Alice Siu

Yasmeena graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Symbolic Systems (human-centered artificial intelligence). While at Stanford, she performed research with the Deliberative Democracy Lab in the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. Her scholarly interests include the study of group polarization within politics and the ethics of artificial intelligence. She is currently a consultant at McKinsey & Company in Washington D.C.

Alice Siu is Associate Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab and Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. She is a lead collaborator on the Stanford Online Deliberation Platform, a partnership with the Crowdsourced Democracy Team at Stanford. On Deliberative Polling, she has advised policymakers and political leaders worldwide. Her research interests in deliberative democracy include what happens inside deliberation, such as examining the effects of socio-economic class in deliberation, the quality of deliberation, and the quality of arguments in deliberation