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Spring Quarter: Letter from the Director

Dear Friends,

I hope you are all well! We have so many exciting courses in our lineup this quarter to talk about, but before getting into the details, I wanted to take a moment to welcome Nita Singh Kaushal to the Stanford Continuing Studies team as our business curriculum coordinator, leading the development of our business course lineup each quarter.

Nita brings a wealth of leadership experience and industry knowledge to the role. She graduated from Stanford with a degree in electrical engineering and has taught a variety of business leadership, engineering, and management courses through Continuing Studies and the Stanford School of Engineering.

She is the founder of Miss CEO, a company that empowers students and women with world-class leadership training, mentorship, and career exploration opportunities. Nita is also the founder and principal of NSK Leadership LLC, which specializes in professional development through tailored workshops, keynotes, coaching, and webinars. Nita has held senior product management, engineering, and operations roles at Yahoo and Intel.

Nita is already inspiring all of us at Continuing Studies with the innovative ideas and powerful vision she’s bringing to our program. Stay tuned for a wide range of new business offerings to come! Nita will also continue to teach regularly with us. This spring, you might consider taking her terrific course, “Leadership Skills for Women in the Workplace: Aim High and Achieve Impact.”

A few other courses in our lineup worth highlighting are “Geopolitics in the 21st-Century Middle East,” a speaker series featuring Stanford scholars, led by Freeman Spogli Institute visiting fellow Amichai Magen; “Vincent van Gogh and His World,” taught by Stanford art historian Alexander Nemerov; and our “Stanford Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series,” which will include talks by Stanford historians Caroline Winterer, James Campbell, and Martin Lewis, along with Stanford political scientist Larry Diamond.

Finally, we have pulled together a collection of spring-themed courses that we hope you will enjoy:
 

• “Drawing Flowers: An Introduction to Botanical Art” with Erin E. Hunter
• “Nature Photography at Jasper Ridge: A Field Workshop” with Joel Simon
• “Spring Serenades: Music Inspired by Birdsong and Blossom” with Nurit Jugend
• “Designing the Life We Want: Self-Renewal in Spring” with Mark Nicolson

Looking forward to seeing you in class!

Warmly,