Changemakers 2024

Interested in environmental justice, art, or community organizing? Want to know how to follow your passions and be a leader in your community?

Changemakers 2024 offered the Stanford community many ways to answer these questions. Changemakers 2024 took place on Thursday, January 18 and featured Stanford alumni Christine Cordero ‘02, Darel Scott ‘17 & ‘18 and Walter Thompson-Hernández ‘14.

The Changemakers series brings together people that are truly dedicated to serving their communities and enacting change for so many people, proving that change can happen at any moment, in so many ways. This year’s Changemakers explored many topics, one being centering your community in your life’s work, while also knowing that we are interconnected, and solidarity with other communities is so vital to create change.

Before the main event began, the Centers for Equity, Community, and Leadership (ECL) held the Community Dinner portion of the event for both attendees and the Changemakers, so students across campus and community members could share space together. When the main event began, Shonté Thomas, Assistant Vice Provost for Inclusion & Community and Executive Director of the Centers for Equity, Community, and Leadership, opened Changemakers with powerful words about the ongoing effects and impacts of colonization, and that through community, wellness, and love we can disrupt these colonial structures.

Changemakers had the privilege of welcoming a student performer, Chidubem Nwosu '27, to the stage. She performed her original poem "5 Senses of a Poem" that was moving and beautiful, and set the stage for the conversation that unfolded thereafter. Watch the recording of Changemakers 2024 on this page to see the inspiring conversation between the 2024 Changemakers.

The Changemakers series is generously funded by The Yvette Lee Bowser '87 Fund.

Changemakers Coordinators

The Centers for Equity, Community, and Leadership was thankful to have three dedicated student staff members that made Changemakers possible this year. They worked hard to create designs that would make a strong visual presence for the event, they created compelling questions and moderated the panel portion of the event, and they marketed the event and created social media graphics in order to bring in an audience that would thoughtfully engage with the series. Introducing, our dedicated Changemakers Coordinators.

Vivian Huynh '24

Changemakers Coordinator & First Generation and/or Low-Income Student Success Center Staff
Sarah Jacob '25

Changemakers Coordinator & Asian American Activities Center Staff
Itbaan Nafi '24

Changemakers Coordinator & Asian American Activities Center Staff