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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.
Q&A: Stanfordâs engagement with the community
The leaders of Stanfordâs Office of Community Engagement, Megan Swezey Fogarty and Preeti Hehmeyer, discuss the vision for the new office, the universityâs engagement with its neighbors and the officeâs initial work.
By Joel Berman
When Megan Swezey Fogarty was appointed Stanfordâs first associate vice president for community engagement on March 1, she could not have foreseen how local, national and global events would shape the work of her new office.
Megan Swezey Fogarty (left) and Preeti Hehmeyer are leading the new Office of Community Engagement. (Image credit: Joy Leighton; courtesy Preeti Hehmeyer)