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2024-2025 Graduate Student Scholars in Residence

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2024-2025 Graduate Scholars in Residence

Marie Tano (She/Her) | Linguistics - Her research centers on Al bias and ethics. In her research, Marie examines how language reinforces racial and gender categories in multimodal Al systems. Her dissertation also investigates how linguistic cues signal racial identity, shaping racial profiling patterns and contributing to linguistic discrimination against African American Vernacular English (AAVE) speakers in social contexts. Marie is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow, a Stanford Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Fellow, and a Stanford Research, Action, and Impact through Strategic Engagement (RAISE) Fellow. She also interned with Google's Responsible Al team and recently completed a Stanford HAI Tech Ethics Fellowship, gaining policy experience at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where she researched exploitative data annotation practices in the global South.


Obumneme Godson Osele (He/Him) | Mechanical Engineering - His research involves designing mechanically compliant growing robots to manipulate objects with significant payloads for applications ranging from patient transfer to aerial manipulation.  He holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University. Outside of research, Godson is passionate about doing work to equip students that are underserved within academia with tools to find success in what they want to do with their lives. He has been involved in numerous community efforts focused on bolstering early engagement with higher education for racially minoritized students at high schools that do not typically get this attention. He is a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, Stanford Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Fellow, GEM FellowSystemX Robotics DEI Fellow, and Stanford Research, Action, & Impact through Strategic Engagement Doctoral Fellow. 


Victoria Osanyinpeju (She/Her) | JD candidate at Stanford Law School - With a deep passion for sustainable economic development in Africa, Victoria came to law school to explore how legal frameworks can promote development on the continent. Before attending Stanford Law where she currently serves as Internal Vice President of the Black Law Students Association, Victoria was a Regents' and Chancellor's Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. She majored in Conservation and Resource Studies and minored in Global Poverty and Practice. Her senior honors thesis focused on large-scale land acquisitions in Lagos, Nigeria, her family's country of origin, highlighting the complexities in cross-border economic development. As a Graduate Student Scholar in Residence at the Black House, Victoria is excited to foster connections among Black students, staff, and alumni and create a vibrant community on campus.