About Me

Hi! I’m GP (short for George Philip, my two grandfathers’ names) and I’m glad you’re here! Here’s a bit about me:

I’m the founder and CEO of didametic, an educational consulting firm that helps students get into college, schools develop outcome-driven classes and programs, and organizations expand their reach.

Most recently, I helped build Polygence.org, an online mentorship platform that helps students turn their passions into tangible and rewarding research projects with the help of PhD-level experts. I joined in 2021 as the Head of Partnerships, building a lean, mean B2B sales org from scratch. I grew this channel 5.6x in 2 years before becoming Head of Strategic Initiatives, where I led our internal education and policy research, fed evidence-based pedagogy into our product development, and served as Director of the non-profit scholarship program.

I hold a Ph.D. from Stanford in the History of Art & Architecture with a dissertation on an 1869 photography survey of the Arctic. I studied the role of museums in civil society on a Fulbright Grant in Switzerland. And I served for two years as the Research Program Manager at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), the Digital Humanities lab at Stanford University. My academic work includes publications on art history, photography, and climate change. I make exhibitions like this, teach classes like this, and write things like this, this and this.

I’m a native Mainer and now part of an 8th generation California family. In my spare time, I love cycling, hiking and large format photography. With my college a cappella days behind me, I’m in a Disney hits cover band with my two daughters.

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Education

Ph.D. History of Art & Architecture (Andrew Mellon Dissertation Fellow)
Stanford University

MBA Candidate (Finance and Management)
Santa Clara University

Ignite Certificate (Venture and Entrepreneurship)
Stanford Graduate School of Business

M.A. History of Art & Architecture (Annual Clark Prize Winner)
Williams College and the Clark Art Institute

B.A. Art History, French, Italian (Cum Laude, College Scholar)
Middlebury College

Experience Highlights

Founder & CEO @ didametic

Head of Strategic Initiatives @ Polygence.org
Led Research Division, publishing 5 White Papers on Education, Policy, and Technology; Director of nonprofit Scholarship Program
July 2022 to June 2024

Head of Partnerships @ Polygence.org
Grew B2B Sales Channel 5.6x in 1.5 years
March 2021 to June 2022

Curator for Digital Initiatives and Research Program Manager
Center for Spatial & Textual Analysis, Stanford University
September 2018 to July 2020

Communications and Strategy, mARkt (Mixed Reality Startup)
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Ignite Program
June 2018 to July 2018

Graduate Consultant for Pedagogy
Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, Stanford University
September 2014 to June 2016

Research Scholar, U.S. Fulbright Commission
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
September 2009 to June 2010

Traits & Languages

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