Graduate School of Education
Chance Carpenter IV is a PhD candidate in Educational Linguistics-SHIPS in the Graduate School of Education and is pursuing his MS in Community Health & Preventative Research in the Stanford Prevention Research Center. He is passionate about understanding the intersectional dynamics of education, health prevention, and aspects of sustainability tied to social ecologies among the rural-urban dynamic for Indigenous diasporas. His dissertation research focuses on the historical and contemporary effects of mis- and disinformation within information ecologies or infospheres on Indigenous diasporas as a vulnerable population. He is also exploring the role of information in upstream narratives that shape downstream outcomes in health, education, and sustainability. Chance utilizes his traditional ecological knowledge from his shared California Northwest Tribal cultures to assist in informing how to exist responsibly in the 21st century, whether that be at the level of self or at different levels of the social ecology as represented in different applicable models.