Ananda Marin MPES 2 Cohort 1, Multidisciplinary Program in Education Sciences Annenberg Hall Room 330 2120 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-0001

Ananda Marin is a second-year doctoral student in Learning Sciences. She earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Yale University and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she took courses in education and native nation building. Prior to coming to Northwestern, Ananda served as the Assistant Dean of Student Services at Harry S Truman College where she worked closely with the Office of Instruction on classroom redesign projects and from time to time taught courses for the Social Science Department. Before working at Truman, Ananda was employed at the Chicago Children's Museum in the Community Services Department. At the Museum, Ananda participated in the exhibit development process and co-facilitated a supplemental reading program with partner schools.

Ananda’s research interests include culture and cognition, teacher beliefs, and informal learning. She is currently working on a community based curriculum design project with Doug Medin. The goal of the project is to improve science learning for Native American students by designing learning environments that build on students’ community based repertoires of practice and to simultaneously explore basic cognitive research on knowledge construction and knowledge organization.