Margaret Sena *17 HIS
First-Gen Educator, Proud Latina, Advocate
Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Associate Director of Graduate Student Engagement, El Centro Chicano y Latino, Stanford University
Margaret Sena was born and raised in Los Angeles and was the first in her family to attend college. She earned her B.A. in history at the University of California-Berkeley, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history at Princeton. Her research focused on religious politics and the history of Catholicism in early modern Britain. She has taught courses on European and comparative religious history as a lecturer but found her true passion working in student affairs. She brings her background as a researcher and instructor, along with a deep commitment to the development of the graduate student community, to her work at El Centro Chicano y Latino at Stanford, where she has been creating programs and directing the Graduate Scholars in Residence Program since 2009. Sena is actively involved with Berkeley’s Chicano Latino Alumni Association. She has served as president, vice president and board member for the Association of Latino Princeton Alumni, as a member of the governing board of the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni and, most recently, as a member of the Committee to Nominate Alumni Trustees.