Meet the Students

Clara Long graduated from Brown University and the London School of Economics with degrees in Development Studies. With an internship at San Francisco's NPR station, KQED, under her belt, she moved to Caracas, Venezuela to start freelancing. As a freelance foreign correspondent, she has contributed to NPR, The Times of London, and The Associated Press.

Cliff Glickman was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. In between high school and college, he spent a post-graduate year studying at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. After graduating from Claremont McKenna College with a BA in Government, he worked as a high school water polo coach before becoming a political consultant with the Tucker Group and the Merrill Strategy Group. Cliff has also worked as an intern with special projects at NBC11, the San Francisco Bay Area affiliate, the associate producer of a documentary on Japanese-American internment during World War II (Dreams to Dust), and a researcher on the documentary An American Witch Hunt. After graduating from Stanford University's Masters Journalism Program Cliff plans on covering campaigns, government politics, and lobbying.

David Smydra comes to Stanford from Shambhala Publications in Boston, Mass., where he worked in marketing and publicity. Before book publishing, David wrote freelance articles for the Boston Globe, as well as the African American National Biography Project, which was edited at Harvard University's Du Bois Institute. David has served as Assistant Editor of Boston Review, and has completed internships at Transition Magazine and The Kenyon Review. He was also a Research Assistant for the online peer-reviewed journal Postmodern Culture. David earned an M.A. in English from the University of Virginia in 2002, and an A.B. in English (Honors) from Kenyon College in 2001. In June 2007, David will join the Half Moon Bay Review as a staff reporter. He was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan.

Dian Wei Tang, 2006-2007 Knight Fellow,Stanford University. He was born in the southern part of China. He earned master's degree in Chinese Literature at Wuhan University and began his journalism career in 1989, as a reporter at China News Service, a major state-owned wire service based in Beijing.
He was sent to New York as the United Nations correspondent in 1993. In May of 1996, he was on board with World Journal, the largest Chinese language daily newspaper in North America.
With World Journal, he moved up from a reporter, to bureau chief in its Manhattan office, to a deputy city desk editor in the metropolitan area of New York. He published a book in New York and Hong Kong in 1996; it's about China's Great Cultural Revolution.

Eric Jacobs is a senior studying Communications, Psychology, and Economics at Stanford. His interests include new media, marketing, virtual communities, and how they will affect consumption of traditional media in the future. He is fascinated by Silicon Valley's technologically-oriented start-up culture, and aspires to start a venture of his own some day. Eric enjoys music, sports, playing the bass guitar, and reading blogs related to the aforementioned interests.

I did my undergraduate work, majoring in English, in China, and came to Idaho State University (ISU) in 2001 to study Educational Administration. During the course of the studies, I became to realize that book knowledge is not as useful as real-life experiences for building school leadership, and decided to pursue education further afterward. Fortunately, after the end of the ISU program in 2003, I was able to start my studies, with a major in educational measurement, here at Stanford University. I have recently got very interested in media and journalism, and this is the first course I have taken in this area. What I particularly like about the course is that it is oriented toward the project of building iStanford--the new website for the journalism department, full of actions.

Jenna Colley is a journalism graduate student at Stanford University. After graduating in June, she will work as an intern at the San Diego Union-Tribune www.signonsandiego.com in the metro section.

Jenna spent the past eight years as a business reporter for various publications. Most recently, she covered government and law for the Houston Business Journal http://www.bizjournals.com/houston, a weekly newspaper in Houston. She has also written about arts, culture and architecture for a variety of publication.

She is currently managing editor of countrywatch.com, a subscription-based online publication that covers the changing political, economic and social conditions of nearly 200 countries recognized by the U.S. State Department.

Jenna earned a Bachelor’s in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. After graduation, she worked as a technology and law reporter for the Austin Business Journal.

Jessica C. Lee was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA and is currently a junior at Stanford University, majoring in Communication and minoring in African & African-American Studies. Following her interest in publishing and fashion, Jessica interned in the summer of 2005 with a global fashion marketing firm based in Shanghai, China where she worked primarily on campaign events for the September 2005 launch of VOGUE China.

That experience inspired her to learn more about global pop cultures, and the following summer she returned to China through the support of Stanford's Undergraduate Research Programs as a Chappell-Lougee scholar. In an effort to contribute to organizations like The Hip Hop Archive and The World Hip Hop Project, both founded and run by Stanford Professor of Communication Marcyliena Morgan, Jessica conducted field research on Chinese hip hop culture in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Her research will continue in September 2007, with the final hopes that her work will help form a more complete picture of the global hip hop community.

Jessica also enjoys travel, surfing, Bikram yoga, and war movies. At Stanford, she is an active member of Kappa Alpha Theta and Stanford Women in Business.

Kristen Sullivan will graduate from Stanford's graduate journalism program in June 2007. Her professional experiences include working as a newspaper reporter for The Vermont Standard, a production coordinator for PBS's documentary film Broadway: The American Musical, a news intern at NBC affiliate WHDH-TV, a senior investment consulting associate at Cambridge Associates and an investment banking analyst at Robertson Stephens. Kristen is interested in business journalism, online publishing and global investments.

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Hello. My name is Mark Lieber and I'm a Masters student in Media Studies here at Stanford as well as a Bachelors student in Human Biology and Film Studies. I have a pretty wide array of interests that run the gamut from Yiddish to international health to animation and documentary film. I spent last summer working for two NGOs in West Africa -- the Ghana Center for Democratic Development and the Togolese League for Human Rights -- on a documentary about Togolese refugees and, this upcoming summer, I will be working with National Geographic Television and Film on a documentary about America's prison system. Ultimately, though, my passion in life is to use media to 1) bring human rights issues to the public's consciousness and 2) bring science/health education to developing countries.

Early in my Stanford undergraduate career I knew I wanted to study the role of access to networking media and how it facilitated and altered people’s identity and a community’s social norms. While I had this passion and sense of urgency, I did not know how to proceed. It later culminated in my pursuit of research opportunities through the GSB and the VHILab. My ability to gain clarity and define a path to my long-term goals guided me toward an undergraduate degree in Communication with a focus on media studies. On my own, I supplemented my degree by studying the digital divide, identity politics as well as captology. As of late I've participated in the creation and birth of the iStanford project, a journalism space that employs web 2.0 tools to enhance the user experience through interactivity.

Nicole Perlroth graduated from Princeton University in 2004 with a dual degree in Political Science and Near Eastern Studies. Prior to enrolling at Stanford, Nicole worked as the Foreign Policy Intern in the Office of Senator Kennedy and later as an analyst with the Corporate Executive Board and Coach Inc. As a freelance writer and reporter, her work has appeared in the New York Post, AARP Magazine and the Manhattan-based website gothamist.com. Nicole is fascinated by ethical issues surrounding the bioscience industry and after completing her Master's degree, hopes to cover the biotech industry in Silicon Valley. True to her Bay Area roots, Nicole enjoys hiking, skiing, and spending time with her dog, Kobey.

Razmig was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt and came to the US at the age of 16. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Political Economy with an emphasis on the European Monetary Union. After graduation, Razmig worked with the Mitchell Madison Group (MMG), a management consultancy, out of their US, UK and Japan offices. In 2001 he helped expand MMG into Tokyo and helped setup the firm’s Asia Pacific wireless services practice. In 2002, he co-founded the Cloverfield Group with five consultants formerly with the BCG, McKinsey, and MMG. Razmig has a keen interest in international development and has led or worked on numerous pro-bono projects for organizations such as Ashoka, the World Bank and the UN, and for countries such as Afghanistan, Armenia, Ghana and Sudan. He is currently a second year MBA student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and is working with a team at Stanford’s Design School on developing a $50 infant incubator for rural Nepal.

Sara Mitchell is currently a first year Master's student in the Computer Science department at Stanford. She is specializing in Human-Computer Interaction. She has a Bachelor's degree with honors in Computer Science from Austin College. Her Bachelor's thesis work was on modeling target and clue words using an object-oriented database that can store paraconsistent values to help with disambiguation in natural language processing. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Chi. She has worked for Google and will intern at Adobe Systems, Inc. this summer.

Ted Boscia grew up in Coudersport, a two-stoplight town of 3,000 people in north central Pennsylvania. He comes to Stanford's M.A. in Journalism Program from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he worked in public relations and internal communications. Before Temple, Ted wrote for Scholastic Action, a classroom magazine, and he covered Major League Baseball for Pirate Report, the official newspaper of the Pittsburgh Pirates. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Communication from Waynesburg College in 2002. While in college, Ted wrote about city politics, education, and high school and college sports for the Uniontown Herald Standard, a 31,000-circulation daily. He also served as editor-in-chief of The Yellow Jacket, his college paper, for two years. At Stanford, Ted has written about Stanford athletics, California’s 2006 General Election, development and local government in Menlo Park, and Silicon Valley’s gaming industry. He and his wife, Amy, an optometrist, plan to return to the East Coast after graduation. This summer, Ted will intern with STANFORD magazine.

Clips:
Stanford volleyball star Klineman won't rest on her ratings
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/06/SP1IRQROI.DT...

Stanford alums all business about joining pro tours
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2007/08/2...

Spotlight: Sam Brenner, '49
Suited to the work
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2007/sepoct/classnotes/brenn...

The Genius
Bill Walsh revolutionized football
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2007/sepoct/dept/walsh.html

Currently, I am a junior studying Science, Technology, and Society. My interests include anything technology related, Politics, International Policy, Skiing/Snowboarding, Basketball, Soccer, Tennis, Golf (beginner), Rollerblading (enthusiast, more comfortable on wheels than feet), and lots more. Over the summer, I start a Market Strategy/Product Management position for Baynote.

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