Cardinal Service Stories

To celebrate 10 years of the Cardinal Quarter program, former fellow Riya Mehta shares her trajectory in food and agriculture policy.

To celebrate 10 years of the Cardinal Quarter program, former fellow Alisha Zhao talks about the impact of her fellowships.

To celebrate 10 years of the Cardinal Quarter program, former fellow Tanner Christensen shares reflections from his four Cardinal Quarter fellowships.

To celebrate 10 years of the Cardinal Quarter program, former fellow Melissa Loupeda shares how her fellowship jumpstarted her career before leaving Stanford.

To celebrate 10 years of the Cardinal Quarter program, former fellow Chiamaka Ogwuegbu shares how his fellowship helped shape his career path.

Through his fellowship with Climate Resilient Communities, Austin gets a deeper understanding of the importance of community in environmental justice efforts.

Calista Ordas, '25, MS '26 spent a summer developing an air quality monitor deployment tool with Rise South City in South San Francisco.

Alaska’s housing crisis showed the power of service and inspired a deep commitment to equity and justice.

DACA recipients are more than plaintiffs—they are real people with real lives.

Is it better to die in a fire and pollute the world with ashes or to rot underground for a thousand years and poison the land?

A student-led sprint to boost voter turnout became a lasting civic engagement movement at Stanford.

Organizing youth for climate justice in Hawai‘i helped me find purpose and community at home.

Chloe learned new advocacy skills and approaches while working for the the Colombia office of The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.

Using technology to address social issues.

Service offers people many benefits beyond the satisfaction of helping others.

Sophia tutored at Hope House, a residential recovery program for women, and volunteered at The Last Mile, which teaches coding skills to incarcerated individuals.

Amy worked on a team dedicated to urban sustainability at the U.S. Green Building Council.

As a Donald Kennedy Fellow, Brain worked with high school students to propose and develop innovative solutions to problems they had discovered within their communities.

Erica provided services to the Tenderloin community in San Francisco by volunteering with GLIDE Memorial Church.

Arnelle spent a summer serving low-income high school students with Wishbone.