As a professor and senior administrator for more than two decades, Ariana González Stokas, a senior associate of PRG since June 2021, has led transformative change in the areas of academic support services, faculty development, and inclusive excellence. Stokas has focused on guiding institutions and nonprofit organizations to create equitable and holistic systems to support the thriving of students, faculty and staff. 

Most recently, she was the inaugural Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Barnard College, where she was instrumental in the creation of Access Barnard. As the inaugural Dean of Inclusive Excellence at Bard College, Stokas contributed to the transformation of how low-income students, first-generation students, and students of color received academic and social support. She was a founding faculty member of Guttman Community College of the City University of New York, where she designed academic support and peer mentoring programs. 

Stokas holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and education from Teachers College, Columbia University; an M.A. in Communication and Education from Columbia University; and a B.A. in philosophy and studio arts from Bard College; and is a Certified Artificial Intelligence Ethics Officer. Her book, Reparative Universities, published by Johns Hopkins Press in 2023, won the American Educational Studies Critics Choice Book Award in 2024. 

Contact: ariana@petersonrudgersgroup.com