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VPGE Academic Achievement Awards for the Centers for Equity, Community, and Leadership

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The VPGE Academic Achievement Awards for the Centers for Equity, Community, and Leadership honors affiliated graduate students who demonstrate exceptional academic achievement and serve as role models to undergraduate and graduate students. Awards are given in collaboration with Stanford's Centers for Equity, Community, and Leadership. Each center determines its own selection process and criteria.

2023 Recipients

VPGE Graduate Scholar Award for The Markaz Resource Center

Rahemeen Ahmed, Civil and Environmental Engineering


VPGE Research Teaching Award for the Asian American Activities Center

Ankita Deb, Art and Art History


    VPGE Academic Achievement Award for the Stanford Queer Student Resources

    Kerry Guerin, Law


    VPGE Academic Achievement Award for the First Generation and/or Low Income Student Success Center

    Riasoya Jodah, Medicine


    VPGE Academic Achievement Award for El Centro Chicano y Latino

    Jorge Meraz, Civil and Environmental Engineering


    VPGE Graduate Feminist Scholar Award for the Women’s Community Center

    Kemi Oyewole, Education


    VPGE Graduate Scholar Award for the Native American Cultural Center

    Keoni Rodriguez, Earth Systems


    BCSC & VPGE Distinguished Scholar Award for the Black Community Services Center

    Matt Randolph, History