Daphne Martschenko

Martschenko at The Boat Race 2018

Daphne Martschenko (born November 6, 1992 in London) is an American student athlete and academic.

Early life and education

Martschenko was born in London, to Alex, a U.S. foreign service officer of Ukrainian heritage, and Oluwatoyin ("Toyin"), originally from Nigeria. She has three sisters and lived in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine while young. She attended Oakton High School in Vienna, Virginia, where she was a member the crew team her freshman year.

She later attended Stanford University in Stanford, California, where she majored in Slavic languages and anthropology. In 2014, she enrolled at the University of Cambridge, where she obtained a PhD, focused on the impact of behavioral genetics on the education system.

Rowing career

While at Stanford, she earned two gold medals, one in the NCAA Division I Rowing Championship.

She represented the United States at two World Rowing U23 Championships.

While at the University of Cambridge, she competed in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race and was elected president of the Cambridge University Women's Boat Club for the 2018 boat race campaign. She is currently an assistant professor at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.