Media Room
Media Kit
- 2025 DCI Annual Report – Engaging for Impact
- Discover Stanford DCI (video)
- Stanford DCI Connections (video)
- Profiles of Impact – pursuits and projects of DCI Alumni
- Stanford DCI Program Overview (graphic)
- The Origin of Stanford DCI
Media contact:
Kristin Goldthorpe, Stanford DCI Communications Manager
DCI in the News
- Phil Pizzo (Founder, Stanford DCI) on transitions & lifelong learning , Lizness School (podcast), February 5, 2026.
- Sara Singer (DCI Faculty Director), 4-Quarter Lives (podcast), October 1, 2025.
- Katie Connor (DCI Executive Director) on Mentoring, Lizness School (podcast), September 11, 2025.
- Higher Ed Adjusts to the Unretired, April 2, 2025, Next Avenue.
- Bridging Generations Stanford DCI Fosters Lifelong Learning, February 7, 2025, Stanford Daily.
- Ex-Execs Go Back to University, November 25, 2024, Financial Times.
- And Now for My Second Act, March 2024, Stanford Magazine.
- The Rise of Mid-Life Transition Programs on College Campuses, January 29, 2024, Higher Ed Jobs.
- “Back to School: Distinguished Careers Institute Brings Experience Professionals to Campus”, January 16, 2024, Stanford Daily.
SPOTLIGHT:
Related Conversations
- Architects Over 80 Still Shaping the World, Insights, January 2026.
- What Advisors can Learn from Midlife Transition Programs, Advisor.com, July 17, 2025.
- Reimaging Education in the Age of Longevity, School’s In podcast, Stanford Graduate School of Education, June 13, 2025.
- Senior Academy Supports Faculty Transition to Retirement, Stanford Report, November 13, 2024.
DCI’s Virtual Bookshelf
Published works by DCI Fellows & Alumni
BOOKS
Susan Golden (DCI 2016)
Stage Not Age
Craig McNamara (DCI 2018)
Because Our Fathers Lied
Bruce McEver (DCI 2017)
Many Paths
James White (DCI 2018)
Anti-Racist Leadership
Jim Wetrich (DCI 2015)
Stifled: Where Good Leaders Go Wrong
PODCASTS
Liz Dolan (DCI 2024)
Lizness School
Season 1: Various experiences and insights during Liz’s DCI year.
Season 2: Transitions & lifelong learning.
Susan Nash (DCI 2017) and Donna Slade (DCI 2017)
Take Ten – interviews with various DCI authors
Steve Leeven (DCI 2016)
America the Bilingual
David Payne (DCI 2020)
Somebody Somewhere
OTHER
Jason Hoffs (DCI 2019)
Debris (TV show)
Ron Katz (DCI 2016)
The Sleuthing Silvers (online series)
Click to view the entire DCI Virtual Bookshelf
Frances Edmonds (DCI 2018)
Repotting Your Life
Ann Bennett Spence
Nancy|Nianci: A Story of Wars
Kate Jerome (DCI 2015)
Educational children’s books (200+)
Steve Leeven (DCI 2016)
America’s Bilingual Century
The Little Guide to your Well-Read Life
Kevin Salwen (DCI 2016) and Kent Alexander
The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle
Abhi Padwardhan (DCI 2017)
Angel Wings: Paw-prints on 3 Continents
Leslie Blodgett (DCI 2018)
Pretty Good Advice for People Who Think Big and Work Harder
Frits van Paasschen (DCI 2020)
Disruptor’s Feast
Jake Schlesinger (DCI 2020)
Shadow Shoguns: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Postwar Political Machine
View additional written works by DCI Fellows and Alumni on The Vault.