Stanfordâs Office of Community Engagement and its associate vice president Megan Swezey Fogarty recently named Preeti Hehmeyer to its staff.
The Indian American was previously the associate director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West, and was named as assistant vice president for community engagement.
Fogarty, since taking her role last March, has worked with her team to establish the new Office of Community Engagement as part of the Office of External Relations to further connect Stanford with the communities it touches, a university report notes.
OCE was first established by president Tessier-Lavigne as part of the Long-Range Vision process, in response to the identified need for more purposeful and organized engagement between Stanford and external communities, the report said.