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Sosi Day     she.her.any     sosiday@stanford.edu     323.304.1176
EducationStanford Graduate School of Education Class of 2026
  • Learning Design and Technology Program
  • Zaentz Fellowship in Early Childhood Education
Stanford Class of 2025 - Design (BS) - Tau Beta Pi Recipient
Westridge School Class of 2021
Jakarta Intercultural School (2012-2016)



EmploymentIBIC Office, Lead Peer Facilitator (2021-2025)
  • Applying intergroup facilitation skills to lead dialogue identity in residences, student organizations, and other student groups on Stanford campus
  • Teaching facilitation techniques to Stanford peer facilitators and leading activities to build dialogue skills for conversations about social power, privilege, and identity

Bill Lane Center for the American West, Intern (2025)
  • Conducting a self-directed qualitative research and ethnography project on the Armenian diaspora in California
  • Studying assimilation, whiteness, and cultural preservation

Lilliput Preschool, Assistant Teacher (2024-2025)

Stanford d.school Design for Democracy Lab, Junior Designer (2024)
  • Working with the Bay Area Board of Election Officials to increase trust in elections
  • User testing, qualitative interviewing, and iterative prototyping

SPARK Lab (Stanford Project on Adaptation and Resilience in Kids), Research Assistant (2024)
  • Playing interactive learning games with preschool-age children and coding responses to understand how children develop qualities like curiosity, resilience, and creativity

Instituto Marie Manoogian in Buenos Aires, Teacher’s Assistant (2024)
  • Teaching in Spanish with children ages 2 and 3 at an Armenian preschool in Argentina

Kairos Co-op Residence, Residential Leader and Kitchen Manager (2023-2024)
  • Managing a $90,000 budget to place food and supply orders for the house
  • Responsibly keeping track of kitchen finances

Rozae Nichols, Design Intern (2023)
  • Self-designed summer working at a sustainable small fashion business in LA under designer Rozae Nichols

Psych 103F: Introduction to Intergroup Communication Facilitation, Teaching Assistant (2022)
  • Facilitating conversions about power, privilege, and identity
  • Planning lessons and helped with administrative work



    Fellowships and Independent WorkInaugural Recipient of Zaentz Fellowship in Early Education (2025)
    • Conducting focused work during Education Masters on early education; awards a full ride scholarship

    Levinthal Tutorial Recipient (2025)
    • Short story writing intensive under Stegner fellow Rucy Cui

    MINT Fashion Magazine, Writing Director (2024-2025)
    • Editing submissions, reviewing spreads, publishing the magazine

    Qualitative Research on Childcare Providers in the Bay Area (2024)
    • Leading eight in-depth interviews with home daycare workers in the Bay
    • Volunteering in their schools to understand their work better

      Independent Study at Bing Nursery School (2022)
      • Qualitative, independent research on early conceptions of social identity in children ages 3-5 through observation and interaction

      Immigration Hotline Volunteer (2022)
      • Helping immigrants in migration detention centers access mental and physical health resources in Spanish
      • Forming relationships with regular callers 

      Children’s Defense Fund, Research Assistant (2020)
      • Internship researching early childhood education and a UBI pilot program’s impacts on child poverty
      • Presenting findings to Executive Director and CDF Management Team



      Relevant Coursework

      Teaching and Learning






      Design








      Justice and Equity









      Writing

      • PSYCH 103F: Intro to Intergroup Communication Facilitation
      • PSYCH 146: Observation of Children
      • PSYCH 147: Development in Early Childhood
      • EDUC 101: Introduction to Teaching and Learning
      • PSYCH 70: Introduction to Social Psychology
      • EDUC 450A: Qualitative Analysis in Education

      • All core DESIGN classes, including:
      • DESIGN 131: Needfinding
      • DESIGN 60: Visual Expressions
      • DESIGN 121: Human Values in Design
      • DESIGN 101: History and Ethics of Design
      • DESIGN 161A and B: Design Capstone
      • DESIGN 268: Designing for Democracy
      • ARTSTUDI 243: Anatomy for Artists

      • POLISCI 147: Comparative Democratic Development
      • POLISCI 114D: Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
      • HUMRTS 108: Advanced Spanish Language – Migration, Asylum, and Human Rights at the Border
      • ENGLISH 187C: The Evolution of the First-Person Feminist Essay
      • NATIVEAM 126: Mo’olelo Aloha Aina: Hawaiian Perspectives on Storytelling
      • POLISCI 103: Justice
      • ETHICSOC 185M: Contemporary Moral Problems

      • All Creative Writing Minor classes, including:
      • ENGLISH 146W: Iconic Short Stories
      • ENGLISH 190L: Levinthal Tutorial in Fiction
      • ENGLISH 91AI: The Artful Interpreter



      Skills
      Fluent in Spanish
      Proficient in Figma, Excel, and Quickbooks


      Awards
      • Champion of Early Education (2021) - Awarded by California State Senate for my 400+ hours of volunteering at Families Forward Preschool
      • Best Humor Article for the Stanford Daily (2022)








      Last Updated 07.01.25
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