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The following is a directory of students currently enrolled in the Doctor of Education Leadership program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Note: This is an opt-in directory, and does not represent every student enrolled in the doctoral programs.
Doctoral Student Directories: Ed.L.D. Students | Ed.D. / Ph.D. Students
Marissa Alberty
Interests: Equity, Race, Community Engagement, Policy, Non-Profit, Executive Management, Adult Development
Marissa Alberty is seeking to develop and support educational leaders through systems and communities that are equitable, collaborative, and yield results for all students.
David Baiz
Interests: Equity, Leadership, Innovation
David Baiz's research is focused on school leadership, innovative school models, mathematics instruction, professional learning communities, and equity.
Tauheedah Baker-Jones
Interests: Equity, Innovation, Policy, Teacher Leadership, Systems Thinking, Strategic Planning
Tauheedah Baker has over 15 years of experience working at all levels in the education and non-profit sectors. She has built her career ensuring that systems are designed using a social justice lens, so that learning for all students improves and opportunity gaps are closed.
Eric D. Becerra
Interests: Equity, Higher Education, First Generation, Social Justice, Retention, Student Success, Students of Color
Eric Becerra has over 15 years of experience working in multiple capacities within the education sector. Throughout his career he has maintained a focus on serving low-income, traditionally disadvantaged student populations with an emphasis on access, equity, and success. Having served as a k-12 and college counselor, he is especially interested in increasing college going and persistence rates for young men of color.
Eyal Bergman
Interests: Equity, Family & Community Engagement, Culturally Responsive Schooling
Eyal Bergman's experience is in building trust between educators and the communities they serve, and developing systems within school districts to promote these efforts.
Hassan Brown
Interests: Social Innovation, Equity and Inclusion, Investments, Community Engagement, Business Development, Philanthropy, Technology
Hassan Brown's expertise is in community-building, program management, and strategy and operations. He has extensive classroom and business experience, as a NYC Teaching Fellow and an Education Pioneers alum. He is also a member of the board of directors for the Institute for Child Success.
Kevin Bryant
Interests: Virtual Reality and Instruction, Entry and Succession Planning, School Turnaround, Equity, Career and Technical Education, Dual Enrollment, Secondary Education
Kevin Bryant's expertise is in school turnaround, teacher development. His CTE Interests are in augmented reality as an instructional tool, school and district turnaround, and ensuring impactful practices despite change in leadership (succession planning).
Steven Chambers
Interests: Social Emotional Learning, Counseling, College Access, Race, Equity, Parent Engagement, Community Partnership
Steven Chambers' expertise and research interests are in the areas of college and career readiness, social emotional supports, community partnerships, and counseling services.
Adriana Chavarin-Lopez
Interests: School Leadership, Bilingualism, Race, Equity, Female Leaders, Latinx Education,
Adriana Chavarin-Lopez is interested in the role of adult development and its impact on education leadership, leader identity (both race and gender) and student outcomes.
Christine Dahnke
Interests: Prek-12, School District Leadership, English Learners, Bilingual Programming
Christine Dahnke is currently in her third year of the Ed.L.D. program and serving as a resident in Orange County (FL) Public Schools. She is interested in large, urban, public school district executive leadership with a focus on educational equity, ELs and bilingual programming.
Matt Dreier
Interests: Policy, Higher Education, Information Management, Change Management
Danielle Duarte
Interests: School Counseling, College and Career, Social Emotional Learning
Having worked in the field of school counseling, Danielle Duarte is passionate about supporting the whole child in education — their academic success, college/career exploration and readiness, and social/emotional development — through prevention and data-driven intervention.
Amanda Dudley
Interests: School Leadership, Elementary Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Equity, Adult Development
Amanda Dudley is interested in how school districts and organizations can transform how adults learn in order to impact instruction in schools.
Des Floyd
Interests: Equity and Racial Equity, Curriculum and Practice, Literacy, Youth Advocacy, Professional Learning, School Improvement, Innovation
Des Floyd is a system-level practitioner with a passion for leading learning and transforming systems. He has over 15 years of work experience in education from PK-12, central office leadership, state education agency, and at the university level coaching school principals.
Crystel Harris
Interests: Education, Policy, Teacher Development, Teacher Support, Equity, K-12, Teacher Recruitment
Crystel Harris has 12 years of experience working at the NYC Department of Education as a teacher, teacher trainer, program manager, and recruitment director. She is interested in large education systems, considering how to implement change at scale.
Alison Harris Welcher
Interests: Urban Schooling, Equity, Principal Leadership, Management and Organizations, Professional Development
Alison Harris Welcher's practice area expertise includes K-12 school transformation, school leader/teacher leader development, and change management.
Tyler Hester
Interests: Leadership, Well-Being, Burnout, Retention
Tyler Hester's research focuses on educator sustainability and well-being, and district and non-profit leadership.
Kentaro Iwasaki
Interests: Mathematics, English Learners, College and Career, Teaching and Learning, Asian-American Leadership, Reciprocal Accountability, Teacher Professionalization
Kentaro Iwasaki's past experiences include associate director of learning for a non-profit supporting College and Career Pathways and a secondary math teacher with an English language focus. He is an Asian-American leader, interested in instructional impact, teacher professionalization, and reciprocal accountability.
Angela Jackson
Interests: Philanthropy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Higher Education, Workforce, Career-Readiness
Angela Jackson's research is focused on using strategic capital deployment to increase the pool of diverse entrepreneurs. She is also an entrepreneur-in-residence at New Profit, a Boston based venture philanthropy firm where she provides due-diligence and deal support.
Shahara Jackson
Interests: Equity, Diversity, Urban Education, Charter Schools, Women in Leadership
Shahara Jackson's research focuses on district/school level executive coaching.
Aaron Jennings
Interests: Social Work, Cross Sector Collaboration, Student Support Services, Wraparound Services, Students of Color, Communities, Government
Aaron Jennings is a seasoned system-level leader with practice interests and expertise at the nexus of education, community, and social work. Jennings has state and local experience developing and improving cross sector collaborations for children, youth and families that include government, communities and school districts; whole-child student support services; and mentoring children and youth.
Leslie Jimenez
Interests: School Turnaround, Continuous School Improvement, Strategic Planning, Elementary and Secondary Education, Charter Management Organization, Urban School District,
Through the Ed.L.D. program, Leslie Jimenez plans to build on her prior experiences in both the charter and district sectors to address the systemic challenges that prevent disadvantaged students from receiving a quality education.
Erica Jordan-Thomas
Interests: School Leadership, Race, Equity, Policy, District Strategy, Leadership Development
Erica Jordan-Thomas' interests and expertise are in the areas of change management, principal development and sustainability, and school turnaround.
Mark Kabban
Interests: Refugees, Education Entrepreneurship
Mark Kabban is interested in strengthening the social cohesion of refugee youth in the U.S.
Stefan Lallinger
Interests: Equity, Integration, Innovative School Models, Traditional School-Charter School Collaboration, Urban K-12 Education
Stefan Lallinger is a former principal, assistant principal, and teacher in New Orleans, LA. He has worked extensively with urban school districts and community programming. His areas of expertise are in school integration and diversity, urban education, and 21st century school district governance.
Bonnie Lo
Interests: School Systems, Leadership Teams, Equity-Based Cross-Sector Networks, Strategy, Continuous Improvement, Education Entrepreneurship
Bonnie Lo is passionate about transforming PreK-12 education by building school systems through the power of collaboration. As director of principal leadership in San Francisco, she served over 1,000 classrooms and 80 school administrators, and increased the capacity of leadership teams.
Bobbi Macdonald
Interests: School and District Design, Project Based Learning, Reggio Emilia, Arts Integration, Social Emotional Learning, Constructivist Education, Equity
Bobbi Macdonald is interested in school and district design that is student centered, teacher powered, and focused on a continuous learning and improvement cycle. She hopes to continue creating school environments that evoke belonging and love.
William Marroquin
Interests: Public Education, System Leadership, Change Management, Innovation, Coaching
William Marroquin is interested in system level leadership and the change management process in public educational organizations.
Shaun McMurtrie
Interests: Union, Certification, Mathematics, Curriculum, Professionalism, Rural Education
Shaun McMurtrie's primary focus is on teachers' unions, professionalism, and certification. His experience is in curriculum and instruction, specifically in mathematics and rural education settings.
James Mercer
James Mercer's research is interested in the study of education leadership.
Thomas Milaschewski
Interests: District Leadership, Special Education, Family Engagement, Data, Equity, Higher Education, Principal Leadership
A former teacher and school principal, Thomas Milaschewski is a doctoral student in the Ed.L.D. Program at HGSE. He is interested in systems-level leadership that leads to positive outcomes for all students.
Tim Moriarty
Interests: Career and Technical Education, Authentic Learning, Leadership
Tim Moriarty's practice interests include, career and technical education, authentic learning, and systems leadership.
Yasmene Mumby
Interests: Community Organizing, Community Engagement, Equity, Policy, Culturally Responsive Teaching, Urban Education, Inclusion
Yasmene Mumby, MAT, J.D. began her decade long career in education as a social studies teacher turned organizer in Baltimore, MD. To date, her work in schools is at the nexus of community agency, power, and social impact.
Mariel Novas
Interests: Race and Identity, Teacher Diversity, Community Engagement, English Learners, Immigrant Youth, Liberatory Education, Politics and Policy
Mariel Novas is an equity practitioner with a focus on talent and leadership development, teacher diversity, and immigrants' rights advocacy.
Tina Owen-Moore
Interests: School Culture, Bullying, LGBTQ, Coaching, Leadership, Restorative Practices, Social Emotional Learning
Tina Owen-Moore's research and practice centers around making schools safe and inclusive places where all students can grow and learn. She addresses the topics of bullying, supporting LGBTQ students, coaching school and district leaders, and facilitating the sharing of promising practices between schools.
Adam Parrott-Sheffer
Interests: Early Childhood, Systems Change, Network Improvement Communities, Communication, Political Empathy, Arts Integration
Adam Parrott-Sheffer is an Ed.L.D. student and Saul Zaentz Fellow in Early Education. His interests include networks for leadership development, communication as leadership, and re-imagining the education sector through role redesign and technology enhancements.
Lyndsay Pinkus
Interests: Policy, Organizational Effectiveness, Strategy, Systems, Data, Leadership, Equity
Lyndsay Pinkus is a multi-disciplinary systems thinker with local, state and national experience working to improve organizational effectiveness to support more equitable and sustainable outcomes.
Matt Presser
Interests: Innovation, Equity, Urban Education, Higher Education, College Access, Prison Education
Matt Presser is an accomplished educator passionate about expanding opportunity for disconnected students.
Keri Randolph
Interests: Innovation, Personalized Learning, STEM, Teacher Preparation, Collective Impact, Teacher Leadership
Keri Randolph is interested in the role of collective impact in improving educational outcomes for students, innovative school models, and public-private partnerships.
Sarah Rogers Tucker
Interests: School Turnaround, School Improvement, New Schools, Culture, Teacher Coaching
Sarah Tucker's research focus is in school design and redesign.
Cyn Rosario
Interests: Race, Equity, Growth Culture, Multilingual, K-12, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Cyn Rosario's research interest is in using adult development theory as a foundation to create deliberately development education systems.
Linda Rosenbury
Interests: School Design, Gender Equity, Racial Equity, Arts Integration, Middle School, Social Emotional Learning, Sustainability Education
Linda Rosenbury served as a turnaround principal in NYC and the founding principal of an intentionally-diverse, community-based charter school focused on sustainability.
Michele Rudy
Interests: Organizing, Undocumented, DACA, Migrant, Immigrant, Trauma
Michele Rudy's practice focus is in organizing and in equity issues pertaining to immigrant students, particularly undocumented students and unaccompanied minors.
Ray Schleck
Interests: Innovation, School Design, Tutoring
Timothy Sippel
Interests: Leadership, Urban Education, Equity, School Districts, Secondary Reform, English Language Learners, Deeper Learning
Timothy Sippel has committed his life to ensuring that urban public schools provide equitable opportunities for all students.
Courtney Van Cleve
Interests: Rural Education, Human Capital, Equity, Diversity, Leadership, Prek-12
Courtney Van Cleve is an advocate for rural education. Her firm belief in the power of human capital to transform American preK-12 education is rooted in experience partnering with teachers and instructional coaches to turnaround organizational performance.
Michael Vea
Interests: Teaching, Learning, Strategy, Innovation, Early Childhood
Michael Vea studies strategy and innovation, teaching and learning, and early childhood education.
Christopher Williams
Interests: Social Emotional Learning, Chronic Absenteeism, MTSS, Teacher Student Relationships, RTI, Family and Community Engagement
Christopher Williams research interest is in social emotional learning and teacher student relationships as a lever to improve engagement, resulting in stronger school climate and improved student outcomes.
Jamaal Williams
Interests: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Achievement Gap, Literacy, Prek-12, Instructional Core
Jamaal Williams is an Ed.L.D. student with 9 years of experience in urban, suburban, district, and CMO settings. He loves kids and is passionate about improving his ability to lead system-wide improvement efforts in the education sector.
Danila Crespin Zidovsky
Interests: Policy, Early Childhood Education, Equity, Literacy, Politics, Chronic Stress, Adverse Childhood Experiences
Danila Crespin Zidovsky is passionate about expanding access to high-quality early learning opportunities to every child in America. Danila has experience in the governmental and political arenas, as well as the nonprofit sector.