Tina is executive director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars (KHS) at Stanford University, which cultivates and supports a multidisciplinary and multicultural community of graduate students from across the university, and prepares graduates to address complex challenges facing the world. She is also director emerita of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, where she served as executive director, faculty director, and professor of the practice in the Department of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E). She has taught courses on leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship at KHS, MS&E and at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford.

 

Tina earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Stanford University School of Medicine where she studied neuroplasticity. She has also worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, and launched two multimedia companies. She has been honored for her work with the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the SVForum Visionary Award, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the Richard W. Lyman Award, and the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Legacy Award. Her work was also featured in a 10 part TV series in Japan, produced by NHK.