All DCI Fellows and Partners have advisors who provide guidance as needed over the course of the year in all aspects of their program including their purpose pathways, introductions to faculty and programs, and planning for the next phase of their lives.

Tom Byers
Entrepreneurship Professor in the School of Engineering, Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
BIO

Karen Cook
Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity and the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor Sociology
BIO

Thomas Ehrlich
Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Education, Former Dean, Stanford Law School
BIO 

Kevin Grimes
Co-Director of The Spark Translational Research Program, Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology
BIO

Charles “Chuck” Holloway
The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Professor of Management, Emeritus, GSB
BIO

Patricia Jones
Dr. Nancy Chang Professor, Emerita, Biology
BIO

Roberta Katz
Senior Research Scholar, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)
BIO

Julie Kennedy
Professor of Earth System Science, Emerita
BIO

William L. (Scotty) McLennan, Jr.
Lecturer in Political Economy, GSB, Former Dean of Religious Life
BIO 

Fern Mandelbaum
Lecturer in Management, GSB, Managing Partner at Vista Venture Partners
BIO 

Abbas Milani
Hamid & Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies, Adjunct Professor at the Center on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law at the Freeman Spogli Institute
BIO

David Stevenson
Harold K. Faber Professor of Pediatrics, Senior Associate Dean, Maternal and Child Health and Professor, by courtesy, of Obstetrics and Gynecology
BIO