Irene Bryant

Irene Bryant is the instructor for the Stanford e-Entrepreneurship Japan Program and a Curriculum Writer for the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE).

She has authored the discussion guides “Biosecurity”, “Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide”, and “International Security and DPRK’s Nuclear Program”, which are part of a video curriculum series on Introduction to Issues in International Security. She has also authored the teacher's guide for The Wall and co-authored the teacher's guides for Far West: The Hidden History and The Partition.

Prior to joining SPICE, she worked as Assistant Director for Stanford’s US-Asia Technology Management Center (US-ATMC), as well as Program Administrator for the China Program at Stanford’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. She has experience working in human resources, venture capital, as well as in Montessori. She was also a Coordinator for International Relations in Sendai, Japan on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme.

Irene received a BA in East Asian Languages and Literatures from Smith College as well as an MA in Japanese Studies from SOAS University of London. A San Francisco native, she has lived in Taiwan, Japan, and the UK, and is passionate about empowering students to become future change-makers in their communities and beyond.