Adam, Emma
Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- MA, Public Policy, University of Chicago, 1998
- PhD, Child Psychology, University of Minnesota, 1998
- MA, Applied Developmental Psychology, University of Toronto, 1992
- BS, Psychology, University of Toronto, 1990
Research Interests
Social influences on emotional and physiological stress and sleep quality in children and adolescents and their parents; effects of stress and sleep on emotional and physical health and academic outcomes.
Bonilla, Tabitha
Assistant Professor, Human Development & Social Policy
Degrees
- M.A. Political Science, Stanford University, 2015
- B.S. Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
- B.S. Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
- Ph.D. Political Science, Stanford University
Research Interests
Political communication, identity (race, gender, and intersectionality), political behavior (voting, contact with representatives, etc.) , political attitudes, and measurement of bias.
Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay
Frances Willard Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Vice Provost for Academics and Co-Associate Provost for Faculty
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Developmental Psychology, The University of Michigan, 1981
- BA, Social Relations, Harvard University, Radcliffe College, 1974
Research Interests
Public policy and child and adolescent development; family functioning; health disparities; consequences of poverty and welfare reform on children and families.
Degrees
- PhD, Education, Stanford University, 2001
- MA, Sociology, Stanford University, 1997
- BA, Philosophy, Oberlin College, 1989
Research Interests
Relationship between instructional policy and teachers' classroom practices in urban schools, Relationship between research and policy
Colyvas, Jeannette
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Associate Professor, Learning Sciences
Associate Professor and Executive Board Member, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Associate Professor (by courtesy), Department of Sociology
Associate Professor (by courtesy), MORS, Kellogg School of Management
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Policy Research
Director of Undergraduate Programs, School of Education and Social Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Stanford University, 2007
- MA, Sociology, MA, East Asian Studies, Stanford University
Research Interests
Organizations and entrepreneurship; institutions and networks; comparing public, private, and non-profit forms of organizing; university-industry interfaces; public and private science.
Cook, Fay Lomax
Professor Emeritus, Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Social Welfare Policy, University of Chicago, 1977
- MA, Social Welfare Policy, University of Chicago, 1972
- MA, English Literature, University of North Carolina, 1968
- BA, English, Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, 1965
Research Interests
The interrelationships between public opinion and social policy; the politics of public policy; the effects of public deliberation on political knowledge and participation; and the dynamics of public support for older Americans.
Destin, Mesmin
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Degrees
- PhD, Social Psychology, University of Michigan, 2010
- BA, Psychology and Sociology, Northwestern University, 2005
Research Interests
Psychological processes underlying associations between socioeconomic circumstances and behaviors/outcomes, such as academic motivation and achievement; effects of financial assets on goals and behavior; small classroom-based interventions to improve school outcomes for low-income and minority youth.
Figlio, David
Dean, School of Education and Social Policy
Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995
- MS, Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992
- BS, Business Economics and Public Policy, George Washington University, 1991
Research Interests
Accountability policy; economics of education; teacher quality; teacher labor markets; anti-poverty policy; intergenerational transmission of human capital; evaluation design.
Guryan, Jonathan
*ON LEAVE 9/ 2019 - 8/ 2020 *
Lawyer Taylor Professor of Education and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000
- AB, Economics, Princeton University, 1996
Research Interests
Understanding the sources and consequences of racial inequality and the economics of education.
Haase, Claudia
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences
Associate Professor (by courtesy), Department of Psychology
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- Postdoc, Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 2013
- PhD, Psychology, University of Jena, 2007
- Diploma, Psychology, University of Jena, 2003
Research Interests
Life-span development, emotion, motivation, close relationships, psychophysiology
Hedges, Larry
Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Mathematical Methods in Educational Research, Stanford University, 1980
- MA, Statistics, Stanford University
- BA, Mathematics, University of California at San Diego
Research Interests
Development and application of statistical methods for the social, medical, and biological sciences; evaluation research.
Hirsch, Barton
Professor Emeritus, Human Development and Social Policy
Degrees
- Postdoctorate, Social Ecology, Stanford University, 1981
- PhD, Psychology, University of Oregon, 1979
- BA, Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1971
Research Interests
After-school programs; soft skills and the school-to-work transition; program development, implementation, and evaluation, particularly with respect to positive youth development.
Ispa-Landa, Simone
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Degrees
Research Interests
Race and ethnicity, gender, sociology of education, criminal records, sociology of youth and childhood, stigma, qualitative research methods.
Jackson, Kirabo
Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Economics, Harvard University, 2007
- AM, Economics, Harvard University, 2005
- BA, Ethics, Politics and Economics, Yale University, 2002
Research Interests
Economics of education, labor economics, public finance, applied econometrics, development.
Lewis, Dan
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1980
- BA, Political Science, Stanford University, 1968
Research Interests
Lewis currently heads a large-scale university consortium to study welfare reform efforts in Illinois. In another current project he is developing a new Suburban Action Research Project that will deliver technical assistance to suburbs struggling with social problems. It will concentrate on issues of homelessness and crime prevention in its initial phase.
Logan, Regina
Assistant Professor of Instruction and Adviser
Degrees
- MA, French Language and Literature, University of Wisconsin, 1971
- AB, French Language and Literature, University of Michigan, 1970
- PhD, Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University, 1993
- MA, Teaching & Learning Processes, Northwestern University, 1984
Research Interests
Stability and change over time in adulthood, especially during midlfe and beyond: wisdom, regret and life themes; gender differences in these areas.
Malamud, Ofer
*ON LEAVE 9/ 2019 - 8/ 2020 *
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Economics, Harvard University, 2004
- BA, Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University, 1997
Research Interests
General and vocational education, Technology and child development, Returns to college education
McAdams, Dan
The Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Psychology and Social Relations, Harvard University, 1979
- BS, Psychology and Humanities, Valparaiso University, 1976
Research Interests
Narrative psychology; the development of a life-story model of human identity; generativity and adult development; themes of power, intimacy, and redemption in human lives; modernity and the self; autobiographical memory; psychological biography.
McDade, Thomas
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Director, Laboratory for Human Biology Research
Degrees
- PhD, Emory, 1999
Research Interests
Human biology, biocultural perspectives on health and human development, medical anthropology and global health, ecological immunology, stress, health disparities, laboratory methods.
Mulroy, Quinn
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Assistant Professor (by courtesy), Political Science
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Political Science, Columbia University, 2012
- BA, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2001
Research Interests
Political analysis; policy development and implementation; political institutions (law and courts, regulatory agencies, Congress); civil rights, environmental, and education policy; relationship between state and society/public and private; and American political development.
Nuamah, Sally
Assistant Professor
Degrees
- Ph.D. Political Science and Methodology , Northwestern University , 2016
- M.A. Political Science, Northwestern University , 2013
- BA Political Science and Public Policy, The George Washington University, 2011
Research Interests
Professor Nuamah’s research sits at the intersections of race, gender, education policy, and political behavior. In particular, she uses quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the political consequences of public policies across the United States as well as in Ghana and South Africa.
Her dissertation, and recently completed book manuscript, examines the political effects of mass public school closure on low-income African Americans. Professor Nuamah’s first book, How Girls Achieve (2019), looks across race and gender and illuminates the unequal costs—school closure, sexual harassment, punishment—that poor black girls in the United States, Ghana and South Africa bear while striving to achieve. It then investigates the specific role of schools to combat these abuses and act as conduits of democratic equity.
Professor Nuamah’s newest research seeks to build on this work by investigating the impacts of black women and girls’ disproportionate experiences with punishment on their participation in American democracy.
In the future, she plans to expand this investigation to Ghana and South Africa as well. Her work has been published in academic journals including the American Education Research Journal, the Journal of Urban Affairs and the Urban Affairs Review, and has been featured in popular media including the Washington Post, Salon.com and TEDx. For this work, she was recently awarded the prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, named a Susan Clarke Young Scholar AND Clarence Stone Scholar from the Urban Politic Section of the American Political Science Association.
Percheski, Christine
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Associate Professor (by courtesy), Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Princeton University, 2008
- BA, Dartmouth College, 2001
Research Interests
Changes and variations in families; demography; economic inequality; access to health care resources; parental employment patterns
Peterson, Penelope
Professor Emeritus, School of Education and Social Policy
Eleanor R. Baldwin Professor, Education
Former Dean, School of Education and Social Policy
Former Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Former Professor, Learning Sciences
Degrees
- MA, Psychological Studies in Education, Stanford University, 1976
- PhD, Psychological Studies in Education, Stanford University, 1976
- BS, Psychology and Philosophy, Iowa State University, 1971
Research Interests
Learning and teaching in schools and classrooms, particularly in literacy and mathematics; student and teacher learning in reform contexts; relations among educational research, policy and practice.
Qu, Yang
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Assistant Professor (by courtesy), Department of Psychology
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- Postdoc, Psychology, Stanford University, 2018
- PhD, Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016
- MS, Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013
- MA, Psychology, New York University, 2010
- BS, Psychology, Fudan University, 2008
Research Interests
Psychological and neural mechanisms underlying cultural differences in adolescents’ academic, social, and emotional development; role of parents in adolescents’ beliefs and brain development, with implications for learning and psychological adjustment.
Rogers, Leoandra Onnie
Assistant Professor, Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor (by courtesy), Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Developmental Psychology, New York University, 2012
- BA, Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004
Research Interests
Identity development among children and adolescents in sociocultural contexts; intersectionality and multiple identities; psychosocial and academic development among racially/ethnically diverse youth
Lab website:
D.I.C.E (Development of Identities in Cultural Environments)
Rosenbaum, James
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Professor, Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Sociology, Harvard University, 1973
- MA, Sociology, Harvard University, 1968
- BA, Culture and Behavior, Yale University, 1966
Research Interests
High schools, community colleges, youth transitions to work and adulthood. School and college reform and restructuring. Sociology of education.
Sabol, Terri J.
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Applied Development Science, University of Virginia, 2011
- BA, Psychology and English, University of Michigan, 2004
Research Interests
Individual and environmental factors that lead to healthy child development.
Schanzenbach, Diane
Margaret Walker Alexander Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
Director and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Economics, Princeton University, 2002
- MA, Economics, Princeton University, 1999
- AB, Economics and Religion, Wellesley College, 1995
Research Interests
Early childhood education; accountability policy; economics of education; obesity; anti-poverty policy; education and health.
Schapiro, Morton
Professor
President, Northwestern University
Degrees
- PhD, Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1979
- MA, Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1976
- BS, Economics, Hofstra University, 1975
Research Interests
Economics of higher education, with particular interest in the area of college financing and affordability and on trends in educational costs and student aid.
Spencer, Bruce
Professor, Statistics
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Yale University, 1979
Research Interests
Statistics and public policy with a special focus on the design and evaluation of large-scale statistical data programs.
Spillane, James
Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and Organizational Change
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Professor, Learning Sciences
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Curriculum, Teaching and Education Policy, Michigan State University, 1993
- BA, Education and Geography, St. Patrick's College, National University of Ireland, 1984
Research Interests
Policy implementation; educational policy; organizational change; school leadership; relations between policy and teachers' and administrators' practice.
Teplin, Linda
Owen L. Coon Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Clinical Psychology
Director of the Psycho-Legal Studies Program, Northwestern University Medical School
Degrees
- PhD, Northwestern University, 1975
Research Interests
Epidemiologic studies of psychiatric disorders, juvenile justice, drug abuse, public health policy, HIV/AIDS risk behaviors, correlates of violence (victimization and perpetration).
Wakschlag, Laurie
Professor and Vice Chair for Scientific and Faculty Development, Department of
Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Psychology, University of Chicago, 1992
- MA, Social Work, University of Chicago, 1983
- BA, Psychology, Barnard College, 1980
Research Interests
Translational approaches to elucidating mechanisms and phenomenology of early emerging disruptive behavior.
Wartella, Ellen
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Professor, Communication and Psychology
Degrees
- Postdoc, Developmental Psychology, University of Kansas
- MA, Mass Communication, University of Minnesota
- BA, Communication, University of Pittsburgh
- PhD, Mass Communication, University of Minnesota
Research Interests
Effects of media on children and adolescents, impact of food marketing in the childhood obesity crisis.
Albaugh, Michelle
Assistant Director of Coaching
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change (MSLOC)
Michelle Albaugh is a highly regarded leadership and effectiveness coach. She joined the MSLOC faculty in September, 2015, after she earned her PhD in Human Development & Social Policy, from the School of Education and Social Policy here at Northwestern. She received a bachelor’s degree in music, magna cum laude, from DePaul...
Alexander, Masha
Senior Consultant Specializing in Organizational Change, Culture and Employee Engagement, University of Chicago Medicine
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Masha Alexander is a senior consultant specializing in organizational change, culture and employee engagement at the University of Chicago Medicine. In this role, she is responsible for improving how the healthcare system approaches large change initiatives and the employee experience.
Prior to joining UChicago Medicine, Masha founded and led Social Good, a four-person consultancy focused on transformational projects for visionary nonprofits. Clients included the Millennium Reserve, the Illinois Library Association, the Chicago Dance Festival, and Northwestern University Center for Public Safety among others. She began her consulting career as a project manager and strategist at Lipman Hearne, a full-service marketing agency focused on the nonprofit and government sector.
Masha received an MS in Learning and Organizational Change and a BA American History from Northwestern University. She was a member of the inaugural cohort of Northwestern’s Designing for Organizational Effectiveness Certificate Program.
Bayma, Kim
Customer Success Leader, LinkedIn
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Kim Bayma is a senior Customer Success leader at LinkedIn. She's spent over six years helping LinkedIn Talent Solutions build and evolve their methodology to ensure customers achieve their desired outcomes while using LinkedIn's products and services. Kim leverages design thinking, learning, and strategic change to help LinkedIn's customers drive global change and adoption of new technologies and processes. She currently leads a global team of Customer Success Managers and Analysts who consult the world's largest companies on their talent strategy. Kim also leads multiple go-to-market cross-functional projects and helped develop LinkedIn's Customer Maturity Index.
Prior to working at LinkedIn, Kim spent seven years at Towers Watson and Aon Hewitt consulting organizations on their employee engagement, culture, total rewards, and performance management strategies. Early in her career, Kim worked in Talent Acquisition at Accenture.
Kim earned her BS in Business Administration and Marketing at the Louisiana Scholars' College at Northwestern University and her MS in Learning and Organizational Change from School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern.
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimbayma/
Blesoff, Dorie
Chief People Officer, Relativity
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Dorie Ellzey Blesoff currently serves as Chief People Officer for Relativity, a rapidly-growing e-discovery software development company based in Chicago. Before she began this lap in her career track, Dorie ran her own independent consulting practice that focused on developing leaders and designing and implementing sustainable strategic and culture change. In that capacity, she worked primarily with family-owned businesses, non-profits and healthcare organizations. Prior to that her work as an internal HR/OD professional in healthcare, manufacturing and professional services enabled her to hone in on her areas of most passion: learning and change!
Dorie utilizes practical approaches and tools to help leaders imagine and create desired change in their organizations. Through partnering with key stakeholders she has helped to design and serve as faculty for middle management and executive leadership development programs. She has also established corporate universities in companies of varying size in multiple industries. She facilitates a variety of participatory processes that embody her watchword phrase, “people are more committed to what they help to create.” Examples include: appreciative inquiry, scenario planning, and world café dialogues.
In her current role as a strategic HR leader, she contributes to the evolution of a healthy culture in an organization growing from start-up to mid-size. Her oversight includes ensuring values are weighed equally with technical talent and encouraging learning and continuous improvement throughout the employment life cycle. With an HR vision to promote a “happy, healthy and engaged workplace community,” she finds many opportunities to connect MSLOC topics and colleagues to help with the learning curves.
Dorie has served as Adjunct Faculty in the School of Education and Social Policy’s Learning & Organizational Change curriculum since 1996. In addition to MSLOC 441, she teaches a course at the undergraduate level, “Learning Organizations for Complex Environments.”
Dorie’s academic background includes a Masters in Organization Development from Loyola University, Chicago, and an undergraduate degree in Political Science and Religion from American University.
Bohle-Carbonell, Katerina
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Katerina Bohle Carbonell earned her Master degree (Cum Laude) in Management of Learning from Maastricht University, Netherlands (2009), where she also completed her interdisciplinary PhD in a Organizational Behavior and Education (2016). She teaches online and face-to-face for numerous years at Maastricht University and conducts research on innovative learning environments, and knowledge sharing networks. Her main research interests are team, innovation,and social network analysis. She was a 2016 Experimental Teaching and Learning Analytics Fellow at Northwestern, and finalist for the Universidad Madrid- Accenture Award (2011) and the Wharton People Analytics Conference Case Competition (2016). She has provided workshops on "Networks for Personal and Organizational Learning" for organizations and professionals. She maintains the website of the Network for Learning group (networkforlearning.wordpress.com) in addition to her personal blog (www.katerinabc.com)
Burokas, Cecelia
Principal, Working with Groups at Work
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Cecelia Burokas is an independent consultant whose company, Working with Groups at Work, specializes in strategic planning, change management, coaching, and nonprofit board development. Prior work includes Consulting Practice Leader for the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, consultant with Hewitt Associates' Organizational Effectiveness global practice, and Vice President, Learning and Development with Talman Home Federal Savings. She is currently a certified career coach with The Five O’Clock Club, a national outplacement and coaching firm.
In addition to teaching and coaching in the MSLOC program, she currently leads undergraduate classes in Organizational Change. She holds an AB degree from Vassar College and an MAT from Reed College. She also completed the one-year program and practicum in Client-Centered Counseling at the Chicago Counseling and Psychotherapy Center. More recently she has studied at the University of Minnesota Split Rock Arts Program and Lill Street Art Center in Chicago.
She has served on a number of not-for-profit boards including Community TV Network, serving Chicago’s most at-risk youth by teaching video production and workplace skills through hand-on experiences, and Gang of Toes, a dance ensemble (of which she is a member) that performs interactive programs for nursing home residents. She loves/hates the Cubs, learns every day about group dynamics and conflict resolution from her adopted parrots, and designs and makes one-of-a-kind jewelry that she exhibits locally and online.
Cockrell, Kourtney
Founding Director of Student Enrichment Services, Northwestern University
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Kourtney Cockrell is the Founding Director of Student Enrichment Services at Northwestern University, an office that works with students coming from first-generation, lower-income, and/or undocumented backgrounds. Kourtney has spent 20 years working with organizations to increase access and opportunity for marginalized students and young professionals across higher education and the nonprofit and private sectors. Kourtney recently co-founded the FGLI Consortium, a national organization, providing leadership, expertise, and resources around the experience of first-generation and/or lower-income college students at highly selective universities and colleges. Kourtney has also provided consulting services with Johns Hopkins University and Washington University in St. Louis.
Prior to working with Student Enrichment Services, Kourtney worked with The Posse Foundation as the National Director of Career and Alumni Programs, served as an Admissions Officer with the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and acted as National Diversity Recruiting Manager with McMaster-Carr. Kourtney has expertise in college access, social justice education, organizational change, nonprofit management, and talent management.
Kourtney earned her BA in African-American Studies and Sociology at the University of Michigan and her MS in Learning and Organizational Change from the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern.
Corbett, Bob
Executive Coach, EY
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Bob is an executive coach and member of EY's Americas Coaching Practice (ACP). He has 20+ years of executive coaching, consulting and HR experience across multiple industries and in 10+ countries. Previously he was a vice president with Ernst & Young Application Services prior to its acquisition by Cap Gemini. Bob has a BA in Psychology, an MS in Industrial Relations and an MS in Organization Development from Loyola University Chicago. He received his coaching training from the Hudson Institute of Coaching, a certified professional coaching school. Bob is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation, the global organization that certifies the training and capabilities of professional coaches.
Bob has coached leaders and teams in large organizations in the consumer goods, health care and financial services industries, including the C-Suite level and those reporting to the C-Suite. The range of coaching assignments has included individual development, team alignment and performance, and onboarding/transition coaching. Additionally, Bob has conducted individual development coaching for people of color who are leaders in large organizations.
Deng, Lina
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Dr. Deng's research focuses on organizational status and management innovations in the context of top executive hiring's, strategic alliances, and other network forms. She has published her work in collaboration with others at top journals like Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Management Studies. She teaches in the areas of management and organization, strategic management, organization design and change, entrepreneurship, and international business.
Professional Activities
Dr. Deng is a member of Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, and American Sociological Association.
Desai, Samir
Vice President of Talent Management and Organization Development, NorthShore University Health System
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Samir Desai is the Vice President of Talent Management and Organization Development for NorthShore University Health System. In this role, he is responsible for developing the skills and capabilities of NorthShore team members - physicians, nurses, other clinical and administrative staff. His goal is to create health care teams who can better lead and care for themselves, so that they can better care for patients.
His team, as part of Human Resources, drives this through leadership development, engagement, wellbeing, high impact learning programs, and performance management.
Prior to this, Samir led Learning and Organization Development for Northwestern University. In this role, he led the architecture of a leadership development curricula at all levels, the first ever staff engagement survey, reinvented performance management to be simpler and stronger, implemented digital learning through a new LMS and online learning capabilities, and led diversity and inclusion efforts including a comprehensive curricula to drive more inclusive teams.
Before joining Northwestern, he was the Managing Director for Talent Development at Accenture, responsible for the onboarding, learning, performance management, and career development of over 300K employees worldwide. This capped a career journey that spanned systems consulting, project management, learning design and development, technology-enabled learning, learning and leadership development, and talent management. He is the co-author of Return on Learning, Accenture's re-invention of learning aligned with their business strategy.
Samir has a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Northwestern University, which was a cross-discipline program with cognitive science and education, working at the forefront of using artificial intelligence for adult learning.
Dessain, Nicole
CEO, talent.imperative inc
Mentor, Designing for Organizational Effectiveness Certification
Nicole Dessain is a talent management and HR "nerd". She loves to blow up long-held beliefs that stop us from preparing our organizations for the future of work. She feels lucky to have had an amazing corporate HR and consulting career that she recently turned into her own start-up, talent.imperative inc, a talent experience design consultancy. Her second, not-for-profit business, DisruptHR Chicago, was launched in 2016 and has inspired more than 1,000 HR and business leaders in the Chicago area. Nicole is honored to serve as an IDEO U coach and as talent and culture blogger for HuffPost. View Adobe Acrobat PDF file
Doctors, Eric
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change
Eric Doctors is the SVP of Learning and Organizational Development at Leo Burnett and Publicis Communications, North America. His career includes 22 years at Towers Perrin as a consulting pension actuary and head of the Retirement Practice's learning and development function where he provided consulting services to organizations in a wide range of industries (healthcare, manufacturing, consumer goods, financial services, and pharmaceuticals) and pioneered a talent system to develop consulting actuaries. He also has had stints at Wyatt, Abbott, Abbvie and as an independent consultant in a number of people and organizational development roles with both US and global reach.
In his current role at Leo Burnett, he is architecting and driving efforts to implement an employee-centric talent system that empowers employees to be designers of their careers, equip them with the tools and resources they need and invite them to co-create their learning activities and experiences. The broad portfolio of programs and a highly experimental approach is ever evolving and spans everything from Leo Leaps, a 60-day passion learning project experience
In addition to Eric’s professional pursuits, he is a ceramic artist, who has exhibited nationally, founded and owned Chi Healing Center, a multi-disciplinary healing arts, learning center and art gallery, and has served on the boards of local not-for-profits, Architreasures and Literature For All Of Us.
Douthit, Mindy
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Mindy Douthit brings both professional and academic expertise in the areas of organizational development and change and social network analysis. She spent several years with Anderson Consulting working in the areas of organization analysis and design, human-computer interaction, and training design and...
Field, Marina
Lecturer, Teachers College
Lecturer, Columbia University
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Marina is a seasoned professional and has experience in a wide variety of areas including: leadership development, change management, performance management strategy, and talent management. She has enhanced the effectiveness of organizations and their people by driving the execution and delivery of leadership assessments, designing and facilitating strategic planning meetings, crafting competency models to improve employee development, and developing change management strategies for organizations in transition. Marina has held a series of corporate management and consulting positions at several professional service firms and Fortune 500 companies including Talent Management Manager at the Port Authority of NY & NJ, Director of Learning & Organizational Development at IFF and People & Change Consultant at PwC. She currently serves as a lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University and as an advisor at Northwestern University. She holds a Ph.D. in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and is a DDI Certified Facilitator.
Flournoy, Corey
Global Head of Inclusion and Diversity, Groupon
Founding Partner, Consultant and Trainer, Creative Outreach Consulting LLC
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Corey Flournoy brings 30+ years of experience and recognized leadership in diversity and inclusion programming, strategy development, executive coaching and employee engagement for multi-national corporations, non-profits and educational institutions. Since 1995, Corey has been a founding partner, consultant and trainer for Creative Outreach Consulting LLC. In 2019, Corey became a Certified Professional Diversity Coach through CoachDiversity Institute, accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). In addition, he has served as Groupon’s Global Head of Inclusion and Diversity. Corey oversees the company’s I&D team and works to sustain a culture of inclusion, integrity and respect at Groupon offices around the world. Prior to Groupon, Corey was the Vice President and Associate Director of Global Talent Development for FCB Worldwide, contributing to the strategic development, planning and implementation of global diversity and equity and inclusion initiatives to improve the culture of FCB’s advertising agencies. In addition, Corey served as the founding director of the Illinois Center for Urban Agricultural Education and founding partner, consultant and trainer for Creative Outreach Consulting LLC. During his 30-plus years of experience in agricultural education, he served as the first African American and non-rural president of the National FFA Organization and its 450,000-plus membership.
Fridman, Eric
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Eric Fridman, principal of Fridman Associates LLC, has spent the better part of his 30-year professional career as a marketing, communications, and strategy executive helping high-technology companies and universities tell their stories of who they are, what they do, how they’re different, and why that matters. He now teaches, consults, and maintains an executive coaching practice, supporting individuals and organizations who want to develop skills and behaviors that will make them more successful and their work more fulfilling and meaningful.
For 15 years Fridman held senior leadership positions at Northwestern University, including assistant dean of marketing and communications for the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, managing director of marketing and communications for the Kellogg School of Management, and assistant dean of marketing for the Kellogg School’s executive education and executive MBA programs. Prior to his years at Northwestern, Fridman spent 20 years working for telecommunications and computer networking companies in a variety of sales, marketing, and strategic planning roles. He graduated from Denison University with a major in European history, earned a master’s degree in humanities from the University of Chicago, and received his MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management. He has taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses at Northwestern and DePaul universities in leadership development, leading high-impact teams, organizational change. Currently, Fridman co-teaches two courses in the MSLOC program: “Accelerating Learning and Performance” and “Building Transformative Client Relationships.” He also serves as an MSLOC ILP coach and supports the Kellogg School’s Executive MBA program as a leadership coach and team facilitator.
A graduate of the inaugural cohort of MSLOC’s Organizational and Leadership Coaching Certification program, Fridman is a passionate student of how adults learn, grow, and build expertise, as well as how models of organization and leadership development evolve in response to shifting organizational priorities and market realities. He has extensive experience in marketing strategy and implementation, executive communications, institutional branding, electronic and social media, business development, team building, strategic planning, and executive coaching.
Fridman serves as president of The Chasing Hope Foundation, an advocate for supportive housing that provides safe and structured living space for children who are suffering from mental illness and are enrolled in therapeutic day schools. He is also on the advisory board of id8TE, a startup that provides research and education mapping wisdom practices to the real-world transformation of business leadership, innovation, communication, engagement, and productivity. Fridman volunteers as a coach with One Million Degrees, an organization that empowers low-income, highly-motivated community college students to succeed in school, in work, and in life. He is married with two adult children and lives in Glenview, Illinois.
Green, Jennifer
Artistic Director, Piven Theater Workshop
MSLOC Coach
Jennifer Green is artistic director at the nationally acclaimed Piven Theatre Workshop, where she was previously director of educational programming and a senior faculty member for the past 20 years. Jennifer has been actively engaged in the Chicago community as a director and teacher working in arts consulting and curriculum development. She was selected as a participant in the Theatre Communication Group’s Leaders of Tomorrow Fellowship and has regularly contributed to Piven Theatre’s professional production season and Performance Lab series.
Harris , Nancy
Founder and CEO, Restart Consulting
Mentor, Leading Equity and Inclusion in Organizations Certificate
Nancy is the Founder and CEO of Restart Consulting.
Restart helps organizations develop inclusive cultures and leaders. We are passionate about disrupting systems in the workplace that have held back women and people of color.
Our approach to change focuses on creating structures that embed diversity into every fiber of an organization and coaching leaders to serve as catalysts for change.
Restart is privileged to work with clients like Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago School for Performing Arts, The Catherine Cook School, ADA Advancing Leadership 2025, Heartland Alliance, and 3M, and John Deere.
Nancy considers herself a “people geek” and is fascinated by how people respond (or not) to change. She is the host of The Intersection podcast and a facilitator at Northwestern's Kellogg Executive Education. When she’s not coaching and consulting clients you can find her dining with family and friends, walking along the lakefront with Tito (her Havanese puppy), or practicing yoga…Namaste.
Kalata, Erica
Health & Wellness Consultant, USANA Health Services
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Erica Kalata is an independent consultant in the Human Resource Development field with more than 15 years of experience. She was previously a manager with Deloitte Consulting in its Human Capital group specializing in organizational effectiveness and change management. She has extensive experience in evaluation, strategic planning, performance improvement, team building, organization design and leadership development. Erica has worked with several Fortune 500 companies including Hewlett Packard, the Walgreen Company, Supervalu, Humana Healthcare, and Quaker Oats. She has also worked across many industries including manufacturing, high tech, retail, utilities, insurance and public sector. Recently, she redesigned and taught an online Organization Development course for the University of Illinois and has been a mentor for students in their online master's capstone course for many years. She also led the design, implementation and evaluation of a Deloitte training program that resulted in significant return on investment.
Erica received a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in Human Resource Development with a concentration in Evaluation and Training. She also earned her BS in Industrial Organizational Psychology and her MEd in Human Resource Development from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Erica’s in-depth research on the relationship between business strategy and human resource development in high performance companies earned her several awards and international recognition from the American Society for Training and Development and the Academy of Human Resource Development.
Kaleel, Sonya
Mentor, Leading Equity and Inclusion in Organizations Certificate
Founder and Principal , The Inclusion Practice
Sonya Kaleel is a leadership coach/facilitator, inclusion practitioner and change leader with nearly 30 years in learning and talent development. She supports organizations around the globe in capacity building to cultivate inclusive environments, lead transformational change and develop as global leaders. Her expertise is leading initiatives and facilitating conversations that foster awareness and bridge differences across diverse styles and beliefs so we can work together, better
As the founder and principal of The Inclusion Practice, she develops experiential learning practices and self-guided tools that enable individuals and teams to create the equitable and inclusive workplaces they hope to see. As a leadership coach/facilitator for The Holdsworth Center, she supports Texas public school leaders in an immersive action learning program designed to transform public schools through capacity building at the individual, team and system level and achieve sustainable growth, excellence and equity in schools. As a Mentor and adjunct faculty member for Northwestern MSLOC’s Leading Equity and Inclusion certificate, she supports graduate students in developing an understanding of how individual identities and institutional/structural inequities impact experiences in organizations.
Prior to launching her own practice, she was the director of learning and delivery at Aperian Global, where she designed learning experiences that meet an organizations' needs for global consistency, local customizations and delivery across geographies. As a seasoned coach and facilitator, she engaged hundreds of leaders in Fortune 500 companies on topics such as inclusion, equity and diversity; inclusive leadership; global teaming; cultural proficiency; and people management.
She is active in her community serving on the board of the Austin Council PTA (ACPTA) which serves as a link between Austin Independent School District (AISD) and parent members of PTAs, teachers and the community. In her volunteer role as Advocacy Chair, she aspires to create a culture of advocacy in Austin public schools by collaborating with community leaders, engaging with legislators and enabling families to be a voice for all children within the public education system.
Sonya holds a Master of Science in Learning and Organizational Change from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois (2018) and a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Bradley University (1987). She has lived in five countries on four continents, traveled to over 30 countries and resides in Austin, Texas with her multiracial family. She aspires for a world of inclusion, participation and belonging and is committed to cultivating sustainable communities in Austin and beyond.
Khanna, Roma
Senior Director, Office of Organizational Strategy and Change, Northwestern University
Instructor, M.S. Learning and Organizational Change Program
Roma Khanna specializes in the design and implementation of large-scale transformations across multiple organizational contexts. In her current role, Roma serves as a director in Northwestern’s Office of Change Management, whose mission includes a focus on advancing a culture of organizational change and improvement across the University and on facilitating transformative changes that have broad institutional impact.
Prior to joining Northwestern in 2016, Roma worked at Deloitte Consulting where she specialized in advising executives on organizational strategies designed to enable business strategies across numerous industries, including extensive experience with large-scale transformations for healthcare providers. Before becoming a management consultant, Roma worked as a journalist at a number of newspapers and magazines including the Houston Chronicle, Chicago magazine, and Mother Jones. Roma served primarily as an investigative journalist focused on criminal justice and government affairs, and her reported effected change in local and state government.
Roma is a dual graduate of Northwestern, with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a Master of Science degree in Learning and Organizational Change.
Kurtz, Judah
Personal & Executive Coach + Leadership & Learning Consultant, Judah Kurtz | Coaching & Consulting
ELOC Coach Educator | MSLOC/OLCC Lecturer & Coach
Judah Kurtz is a trusted advisor, coach, facilitator, strategist, and consultant, who is passionate about driving transformative growth and sustainable change. With a career spanning over 25 years, he has partnered with a broad array of individuals, senior leadership teams, and organizations around the globe seeking clarity of focus, forward...
Lewis, Maggie
Leadership Team Member, Palantir.net
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Maggie Lewis is a member of the leadership team at Palantir.net , a digital consultancy, and a graduate of the MS Learning & Organizational Program at Northwestern University. Combining theory and practice, Maggie employs principles of design thinking, learning and strategic change to increase organizational effectiveness.
Looi, Pi Wen
Manager, Ernst & Young, People Advisory Practice, Ernst & Young
Instructor, Master of Science in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Pi Wen plays in the intersection of strategy, research, and design. She is passionate about design thinking and human-centered service design. As an experienced consultant, she has helped clients turned employee insight into action, facilitated action-planning workshops, and provided guidance to leaders for successful organizational changes.
Currently, Pi Wen is a manager at Ernst & Young’s People Advisory Practice in New York. She uses a lean six-sigma and design thinking methodology to help clients find innovative solutions, improve efficiency, and business results.
Prior to EY, Pi Wen was the founder and president of Novacrea Research Consulting, a boutique consulting firm specialized in employee engagement surveys and action planning. She was named one of the most important voices in employee engagement by TechnologyAdvice and the head judge of the first-ever employee experience Hackathon in San Francisco.
McBratney, Bruce
President, McBratney Consulting, Ltd.
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Bruce McBratney is the founder and President of McBratney Consulting, Ltd., a firm that develops executives into the leaders they want to become, and that their organizations need them to be.
Bruce is an active member of the Duke Corporate Education’s Global Learning Resource Network, and consistently receives high marks as an educator, orchestrator, and coach. He has worked with more than 17 client companies, in more than 35 distinct programs, and delivered in North and South America, Asia, and Europe. Client companies include Fidelity Investments, Sun Life Financial, The Nature Conservancy, Altera, PwC, Norwegian Shipowners Association, and Microsoft. His areas of expertise include strategic thinking, organization design, leadership communication and collaboration. Bruce is the co-author of “How Leaders of Multi-business Groups Can Add Value,” published in Strategy & Leadership.
In his coaching practice he works with leaders from the Director level on up through the C-suite. He helps clients develop critical leadership behaviors. He also helps recently promoted clients understand the expectations of their new roles, and reduce the time it takes for them to be fully effective. His clients include executives at several global pharmaceutical companies, a global player in industrial distribution, a leading global executive search firm, a leading global advertising agency, a global packaged foods company, and one of the largest retailers in the US.
Before starting his own firm in 2000, Bruce was the Vice President for Management & Organization Development at RR Donnelley & Sons, one of the world’s largest printing and media services companies. Bruce was responsible for succession planning, executive search, management development, sales training, performance management, and executive team effectiveness. He worked closely with three executive teams – the CEO’s, the COO’s, and the SVP of Manufacturing’s – facilitating their work in developing strategy, rationalizing corporate initiatives, and building the change plan for introducing six sigma.
Prior to that, with Amoco Corporation, he developed and taught case discussions, simulations, and lectures on strategic thinking and building organizational capabilities, for the top 3,300 executives and managers of the corporation, as a member of a ground-breaking executive education faculty team that built Amoco’s executive development center from the ground up.
Also at Amoco, as a director of Amoco’s internal consulting firm, he lead a team of consultants and developed and delivered high impact organization effectiveness consulting projects ranging from business process redesign to leadership team alignment and coaching, for the Marketing, Refining, and Logistics sectors of the company.
Earlier in his career, as a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group, he provided research, analysis, and facilitated decision-making for clients setting marketing strategy, assessing acquisition targets, and integrating acquired operations. With The Forum Corporation, a leading provider of management and sales training, Bruce developed new products, built new client relationships as an account executive, and managed large custom projects.
McCann, Renetta
Chief Talent Officer, Leo Burnett U.S.
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Renetta McCann is one of the leading innovators and most influential executives in the advertising industry, with a global reputation for not only building brands, but also the organizations and leadership to sustain them.
As Chief Talent Officer at Leo Burnett, she heads up the agency’s People & Culture department. She plays a key role in ensuring that the company retains, attracts and arms the best and brightest minds in business today, with oversight of the agency's U.S. recruitment, training, benefits and talent management.
Renetta is no stranger to the Publicis family. She began her career at Burnett, and, after a long tenure, became the CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group Worldwide. After two years as CEO, she assumed the role of Chief Talent Officer of VivaKi. Renetta then took a break from agency life and worked as an executive coach and organizational change consultant before rejoining Leo Burnett in 2012.
Since her return, Renetta has worked tirelessly on organizational transformations, including shifting the agency’s talent focus to leadership development. She builds innovative partnerships for the future, constantly on the hunt for opportunities that promote learning and development for employees. Renetta isn’t afraid to try out new models for employee engagement or test new programs to enhance success. She believes that these efforts broaden perspectives and promote creativity.
Renetta also works to elevate the impact and reach of the agency’s employee resource groups, including Women’s Leadership Network, MERG (our multicultural ERG) and ParentKind (a group for mothers and fathers). She believes that building community into the company and fostering employees’ diverse interests brings people together in new ways and helps them solve problems.
A champion for women and for the development of minorities in the advertising industry, Renetta dedicates her time outside the office to organizations like Viva Women, the Publicis Groupe internal women’s network, and No.2six6, an organization launched in 2013 to advance the hiring rate of minorities in advertising.
Over the course of her career, Renetta has been a frequent name in the press. She was named one of the “100 Most Powerful Women” by Forbes and a woman to watch by both Fortune and The Wall Street Journal. She was awarded the title “Corporate Executive of the Year” by Black Enterprise magazine and was selected by Ebony as one of the “57 Most Intriguing Blacks.” Essence named her one of “50 Women Who are Changing the World,” and she has appeared on the pages of Advertising Age, BusinessWeek and Chicago magazine. The American Advertising Federation honored her with a Diversity Achievement Award for her contributions as an Industry Influential, and she’s the recipient of the 4A’s Pantheon award.
Renetta holds an M.S. in Learning and Organizational Change from Northwestern University, where she will begin as an adjunct faculty member in 2016.
She lives in Chicago with her husband Kevin and is the proud mother of Ella and Alexander. She serves as an Honorary Trustee for The Ancona School and in her spare time enjoys golf, knitting, bridge, Legos, reading in all genres and yoga.
Merrell, Jeff
Associate Director, MS in Learning & Organizational Change Program
Instructor, MS in Learning & Organizational Change Program
Jeff Merrell is Associate Director of the Master's Program in Learning & Organizational Change (MSLOC). He teaches MSLOC 430 Creating and Sharing Knowledge, which focuses on understanding organizational knowledge sharing and the role played by collaboration technology. Jeff also co-leads the project-based course MSLOC 460 Discovering and...
Micari, Marina
Director, Academic Support & Learning Advancement
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Marina Micari is Director of Academic Support & Learning Advancement at Northwestern, and a Capstone advisor in MSLOC. She is also an associate director at the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching. Marina oversees academic-support and enrichment programming for undergraduates and works with faculty who seek to improve teaching and learning. Her recent research projects address the experiences of less-prepared students in small-group learning environments and the impact of faculty engagement with students. Outside of academia, she spent nearly 10 years as a writer and editor, working in adult education as well as employee communications and workforce diversity. She has taught courses on learning in the organization, facilitating small-group learning, cross-cultural communication, multicultural education, educational research methods, and program evaluation.
Mitchell, Cassandra
Principal, Executive Coaching Connections, LLC
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Cassandra Mitchell uses her executive coaching and organizational consulting skills to develop great leaders and teams. She has more than 20 years of experience in helping clients achieve their business goals by delivering a range of services from one-to-one leadership coaching to large-scale organizational design.
Cassandra has provided executive coaching, needs assessment, leadership development, program design and development for educational institutions, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and CPG. Her coaching and development work has helped leaders and teams at Astellas, Aurora Health Care, Baxter International, Kraft Foods, Classic Residence by Hyatt, Charter Manufacturing, ITW, Scot Forge, Scholle IPN, University of Chicago. US Foods and Zurich Financial.
Cassandra is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University. She teaches Coaching for Learning and Performance and Coaching Fieldwork for the Master’s program in Learning and Organizational Change. In addition, she is adjunct coaching faculty for the Kellogg School of Management.
Prior to consulting, Cassandra worked for Bank One, the sixth largest bank-holding company in the U.S. with over 75,000 employees. During her 14-year tenure at Bank One, she held a variety of positions including assignments in the Commercial Banking and Credit Card Divisions. As first vice president and national learning design manager, she oversaw a team of instructional and web-based designers responsible for management, leadership, and professional development curricula based on leadership competencies and organizational business goals. Prior to Bank One, Cassandra worked in training and organizational development at Loyola University and Medical Center, impacting employee and student development.
Nguyen, Ngoc
Diversity & Inclusion Program Manager, Wintrust Financial Corporation
Mentor , Leading Equity and Inclusion in Organizations Certificate
Ngoc Nguyen is a Diversity & Inclusion Program Manager at Wintrust Financial Corporation, a $30 billion enterprise of chartered community banks and other specialty financial services. In this role, she focuses on executing the One Wintrust Diversity & Inclusion Roadmap by developing and managing programs in partnership with internal stakeholders from across the organization. Ngoc is committed and passionate about creating an inclusive environment where employees can feel happy, engaged and empowered in the workplace.
Prior to this role, she spent 11 years in commercial insurance property and casualty sales, underwriting and operations at Travelers and CNA Insurance . Ngoc holds a Masters in Learning and Organizational Change from Northwestern University and Bachelor of Science in Finance and minor in Asian American Studies from the University of Minnesota. She has also completed the Organizational and Leadership Coaching Certificate at Northwestern.
O'Connor, Kathleen
Owner, Kathleen O'Connor Coaching, LLC
MSLOC Coach
Kathleen O’Connor is an independent consultant specializing in the identification and development of leadership talent. She has more than 20 years' experience in corporate education and organizational change as an external consultant and previously as an internal consultant at Hewitt and Motorola.
O'Connor has personally coached hundreds of leaders from a variety of functions, nationalities and roles. Her leadership coaching experience has been at both the individual level, especially related to 360 assessment data, and at the group level, as part of action learning team coaching. She guides leaders in identifying strengths and development opportunities, while continuously acknowledging organizational realities facing each leader. She believes in the value of continuously improving self-awareness while harnessing individual strengths and interests.
In addition to coaching individual leaders, O'Connor advises organizations on broader strategies for identifying and developing high potentials, as well as designs and facilitates programs and resources for developing targeted leadership skills.
She earned a BBA from the University of Notre Dame and holds a master’s degree in education (Organization Development and Workplace Learning) from Northwestern University. She is also certified in assessment instruments from Personnel Decisions International, the Center for Creative Leadership, Hogan Assessments and Korn Ferry Voices 360.
Olivo, Janet
Director of Diversity & Inclusion, Northwestern University
Mentor, Leading Equity and Inclusion in Organizations Certificate
Biography
Janet Olivo is the Director of Diversity & Inclusion at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Her career includes over 20 years of professional experience in the corporate sector and in higher education. She leverages her MSLOC degree and consulting experience to lead her team and implement her organization’s diversity and inclusion strategy. In the fall of 2020, she will launch the inaugural Sustained Dialogue program for Staff, which aims to create a brave learning space for Feinberg staff to discuss challenging topics, including race and racism.
She is certified in the Intercultural Development Inventory assessment, which she uses to coach and support individuals, teams, and organizations in building intercultural competence.
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justjanet/
Plager, Debbie
Vice President of Talent & Organizational Development at HUB International
Instructor and Coach, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Debbie Plager is the Vice President of Talent & Organizational Development for HUB International - an International Insurance Brokerage Firm. As the head of Talent, Debbie and her team are accountable for designing and supporting the overall employee experience and providing strategic organizational consulting. Debbie leads the coaching service at HUB and provides internal coaching for executives and executive teams. Prior to HUB, Debbie was the Global head of Talent at Relativity (a rapid growth technology company) and an Assistant Vice President and Sr. HR Business Partner with Unum Group. Debbie is an ICF Accredited Coach and is certified in several assessments including the Hogan Leadership Suite and Change Style Indicator. Her expertise and interests include organization and leadership development, executive and team coaching, culture transformation, and creating and driving people-related strategies. In addition to several years as an internal executive coach, Debbie has her own external coaching practice, The Plager Group | Elevating Performance through Purpose.
River , Beau
Leadership Development and Talent Management Consultant at Vantage Leadership Consulting
MSLOC Coach
Throughout his career, Beau River has focused on accelerating the development of individuals, teams and organizations. Insights into people, systems and group dynamics gained through years of assessment experience allow him to match leadership behaviors with the strategic imperatives that drive operational success. Particular areas of focus include executive selection, executive development and senior team performance.
With a background as a professional squash player and member of the United States Squash Team, Beau helped NCAA Division One athletes overcome psychological barriers, enabling them to augment their natural abilities with positive psychological behaviors that lifted their performance to new levels. He develops executive talent in a similar fashion, combining existing business capabilities with programs that promote new leadership competencies, confidence and grace under pressure to facilitate exceptional execution. Consulting with a Fortune 500 energy giant has provided Beau with a unique opportunity to work with executives from all functional disciplines across different organizational levels of a highly decentralized environment. He has also worked in the following industries: government, law enforcement, medical device, home building, metals, processed and packaged goods, executive education, and nonprofit.
Beau completed his undergraduate education at Dartmouth College, and went on to receive his MA and PsyD from the Adler School of Professional Psychology. In his spare time, Beau enjoys yoga, biking, and building Legos with his sons, Theo and Wynn
Roche, Terrence
Vice President, Professional Services, Ounce of Prevention
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Terrence serves as Vice President of Professional Services at The Ounce of Prevention Fund, a national nonprofit whose mission is to advance quality early learning for families with children before birth through their earliest years to help close the opportunity gap. At The Ounce, Terrence leads efforts to develop and scale a portfolio of early-childhood workforce professional development offerings across the United States.
Previously, Terrence was Senior Vice President for Strategy & Operations at Kellen, a global professional services organization that specializes in working with nonprofit associations. In this role, he led an organizational change and operational excellence program while managing company operations that helped staff support the success of clients, including Strategy, Technology, Education, Internal Communications, Customer Service, and Office Services. Prior to Kellen Company, Terrence held a variety of roles over 12 years at YMCA of the USA, the national office for the largest nonprofit in the U.S. leading functions related to strategy, product development, quality improvement, change management, project management, program evaluation, and grantsmanship.
Terrence is a decorated veteran who served as an Officer in the United States Marine Corps with an overseas deployment supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. He also was an Advanced General Manager at Cintas Corporation. Terrence earned a Master of Science in Learning and Organizational Change from Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy and holds a Bachelor of Science in Management from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. Terrence is a volunteer for Race Conscious Dialogues, and in addition to teaching in SESP, he also teaches two courses at Northwestern's Philanthropy and Nonprofit Organization's Certificate Program.
Ross, Kelly
Coach, Ross Associates
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Kelly Ross is a MSLOC Coach and Coaching Fieldwork Supervising Coach, and teaches Coaching Fieldwork (MSLOC 454). In her independent practice, Kelly is a coach, learning strategist and facilitator with global experience. Kelly’s work is in leadership development and talent management. She works with individuals in one-on-one leadership coaching engagements, with teams to clarify goals and increase effectiveness, and with organizations to build and implement learning strategies. Kelly brings experience working in more than 20 countries, with individuals and organizations across industries and sectors, and nearly a decade of experience at McKinsey & Company.
Kelly’s work as a coach is to help individuals make a change of some sort. Are you a leader in a new position or trying to decide how you want to lead others? Are you in a new role or leading a different part of your business? Perhaps you are considering or are in the midst of a career or personal change and struggling to make new behavior stick? Career changers or professionals in search of the right next step may work with Kelly as they navigate the path of deciding what is next. Expatriates often value a thought partner like Kelly, who “gets” the complexity of living and working abroad.
Kelly’s work as a facilitator seeks to hear all the voices in the room. Typically, the participants of a training, workshop or strategic planning session come to the conversation with experience and questions; Kelly believes in tapping into the curiosity and authenticity of participants and accomplishes this through dialogue, purposeful examples, and interactive exercises.
Kelly’s work as a learning strategist helps organizations and teams to articulate the skills and behaviors needed to be successful, and then to determine the best way to build those skills or manage through the change while retaining their star talent.
However you engage with Kelly, you will find her to be invested in your journey. You can expect a keen listener who is non-judgmental while challenging you to be the best version of yourself. Kelly wants the best for her clients and herself, and shows up honoring her values of authenticity, curiosity, integrity and self-development.
Kelly’s broad understanding of business needs, cultural differences, and the global marketplace aid her in developing great leaders and teams. Her MS (Learning and Organizational Change, Northwestern University), coaching and Master Coach certifications (Hudson Institute) and Professional Certified Coach (PCC) accreditation (International Coach Federation), certification in several assessments (Myers-Briggs (MBTI), Hogan, Creatrix, Conflict Dynamics Profile, and, VOICES 360 and PDI Profilor 360) and global work experience bring an array of resources and ideas to support you on your journey.
Kelly loves being outside hiking, cycling, and skiing. Traveling and photography are passions of Kelly’s.
Ruda Seiden, Vanessa
Partner, RHR International
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Vanessa Ruda Seiden is a Partner at RHR International specialists in management and leadership development. Her client base covers a variety of industries; both small firms and fortune 500 companies. Her area of expertise includes executive selection and promotion, executive coaching and development, and team-building. Dr. Ruda Seiden has taught courses on negotiation skills at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. She is currently an instructor in Northwestern's MSLOC program. Her research and publication focuses on effective negotiation strategies and can be found in several psychology journals.
Scott, Kimberly
Director, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Assistant Professor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Kimberly Scott is Assistant Professor and Director of the Master’s Program in Learning & Organizational Change (MSLOC) at Northwestern University. She came to Northwestern with over 10 years of management and consulting experience in a variety of mid-sized and Fortune 500 companies. Her work focuses on improving workplace environments and...
Simerson, B.K.
Independent Consultant & Coach
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
B. Keith Simerson has provided consultation to professional services firms and to corporate clients spanning 18 industries (including the financial, consulting, health care, architecture, and engineering professions and automotive, industrial supplies, paper, rubber, heavy machinery, petrochemical, hospitality, food processing, business-to-business merchandising and electronics industries), as well as to branches of the U.S. military and foreign governments. He has consulted throughout the U.S. and in Iraq, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Germany, Italy, Singapore, England, Bermuda, France and the Netherlands.
Simerson helped develop and implement a five-year strategic plan for a leading professional services firm; led integration teams for the merger of two petrochemical industry giants; helped develop the consulting framework and electronic consulting “toolkit” for a leading professional services firm; established consulting organizations in two regional health care systems; and has served as an HR leader in a top-tier professional services firm.
Simerson earned his EdD from UNC-Greensboro and MA from Appalachian State University.
Simerson and Aaron Olson's book, Leading with Strategic Thinking, was released by John Wiley & Sons in April, 2015. Simerson is also the author of Strategic Planning: A Practical Guide to Strategy Formulation and Execution (ABC-CLIO, 2011) and the co-author of The Manager as Leader (Praeger Publishers, 2006), Fired, Laid Off, Out of a Job: A Manual for Understanding, Coping, Surviving (Greenwood, 2003) and Evaluating Police Management Development Programs (Praeger Publishing, 1990).
Slattery, Shaun
Director of Change Management,, LumApps Software
Mentor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Shaun Slattery helps organizations — from start-ups to globally-recognized brands — transform to create better employee and customer experiences. For the past decade, he's been leading strategic business and digital transformation planning, design, execution, change management, and success measurement, often through technology implementations. With a Ph.D. in Communication and specializations in usability, digital collaboration, and change management, Shaun brings a knowledgeable perspective on the cultural, technical, and business factors surrounding transformation initiatives.
Smerek, Ryan
Associate Professor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Assistant Director of Academic Affairs, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Over the last decade, Ryan has researched, taught, and published in the areas of learning and new executives, decision-making, innovation, and organizational learning. He is the author of Organizational Learning and Performance: The Science and Practice of Building a Learning Culture (Oxford University Press). In the book, Ryan...
Smith, Brad
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Brad partners with clients who strive to "lead what's next" by establishing sustainable organizational conditions for the business and its people to thrive today and shape a successful tomorrow.
In his 25+ years as an HR leader and organization design and effectiveness consultant, Brad has successfully managed large-scale organization effectiveness and change initiatives across a spectrum of industries, geographies and business scenarios. Brad also designs and delivers customized leadership development programs focused on equipping current and emerging leaders with the capabilities needed to lead what's next in a rapidly changing world.
Brad's recent clients include: Beam Suntory, Inc., Heath Care Services Corporation, McDonald's Corporation, Omaha Public Power District, SP Plus Corporation, Union Pacific Railroad, and W.L. Gore and Associates.
In his non-consulting roles, Brad has served as the leader of Global Talent Planning from Takeda Pharmaceuticals, and leader of Global Talent Management at Fiserv, Inc.
Brad received an MBA degree in Organizational Behavior and Marketing from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Marquette University.
Sullivan, Margaret
Senior Consultant & Coach, Elliott Sullivan
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Margaret Sullivan is an independent consultant who has a passion for dovetailing the needs of individuals and organizations. She specializes in helping individuals, groups, and organizations identify, clarify, design, and implement an effective, sustainable path forward. Using a range of services, from one-on-one coaching to company-wide strategy design, her clients have included individuals, not-for-profits, and small to large corporations.
Prior to launching her consulting practice, she was the Senior Advisor – Organizational Effectiveness at Wiss, Janney, Elstner and Associates, Inc. for seven years, responsible for designing programs and structural changes to make the organization more effective; identifying, designing, and implementing leadership development initiatives; and advising on organization development strategies.
She began her career at Accenture where she worked for twenty-two years as both an external and internal consultant. While at Accenture, she gained an extensive background in developing strategic plans; reorganizing/reinventing teams to meet emerging strategic needs and opportunities; instilling a sense of community; change management; knowledge sharing; delivering high-performance service in dynamic, diverse business environments; and coaching and mentoring professionals at many levels.
Her expertise and interests include organization and leadership development, decision processes, knowledge sharing, community building, sustainable changes, and career transitions. She is a Certified Professional Facilitator and is certified in Hogan Assessments and MBTI.
Tallman, Lisa A.
Senior Director, Knowledge Management, YMCA of the USA
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Lisa Tallman is a knowledge management and enterprise social networking strategist dedicated to social good. As Sr. Director of Knowledge Management at the YMCA of the USA, the national resource office for YMCA across the nation, she ensures Ys have access to knowledge, tools, and resources to collaborate to strengthen their local communities. Prior to joining the Y, Lisa worked for Grant Thornton, an accounting and advisory firm, where she was part of a team that instituted KM from scratch- developing processes, training team members to manage knowledge, and building a new technology platform. She has spent almost 15 years defining and shaping knowledge management for both for-profit and non-profit organizations. Lisa earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Master's Degree in English focused on Technical Communication from Eastern Michigan University. At Chicago Booth, she was chair of a nonprofit student group that provided consulting services for nonprofits. This experience coupled with her work at the Y has allowed her to see how knowledge management adds value to large and small nonprofits alike.
Terry, Karen
Owner, Karen Terry - Transitions Coaching
Adjunct Faculty, The Wright Foundation
ELOC Coach Educator
Coach, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Karen came to Northwestern and MSLOC after an initial career in marketing and communications where she was an award-winning scriptwriter and video producer. Since 2008 she has been a life and human effectiveness coach, working with individuals to become better leaders, partners, team members, and employees. A lifelong learner herself, Karen is dedicated to fostering the systems, services, and conversations that support adults to stay meaningfully engaged in the world; she is president of the Board of Directors at The Village Chicago, a non-profit committed to helping Chicagoans successfully navigate the new longevity. She is also a human emergence coach with the Wright Foundation and adjunct faculty at Wright Graduate University. Karen completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan; she has advanced degrees from Northwestern (MA) and Wright Graduate University (MA, Ed.D.)
Torres, Teresa
Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk
Instructor, M.S. Learning and Organizational Change Program
Teresa Torres is a product discovery coach who helps teams gain valuable insights from their customer interviews, run effective product experiments, and drive product outcomes that create value for their customers and their businesses. She teaches teams how to connect the dots between their research activities and their product decisions, inspiring confidence that they are on the right track. Recent clients include Allstate, Capital One, The Guardian, and Snagajob.
Before becoming a coach, Teresa spent the majority of her career leading product and design teams at early-stage internet companies. Most recently, Teresa was VP of Products at AfterCollege, an Internet startup that helps college students find their first job. She was CEO of Affinity Circles, an online community provider for university alumni associations and a social recruiting service used by Fortune 500 companies. She also held product and design roles at Become.com and HighWire Press.
Teresa has a BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and an MS in Learning and Organizational Change from Northwestern University.
Turnley, Melinda
Assistant Director, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Assistant Professor, MS in Learning & Organizational Change Program
Melinda Turnley is Assistant Director of the Master of Science in Learning and Organizational Change Program. Most recently before joining MSLOC, she was director of education at a professional association for residential real estate agents. The majority of her experience, however, has been as a teacher and administrator in higher education working with faculty and curriculum development, communication strategy, and instructional and collaborative technologies.
Turnley received her PhD from Purdue University with a dissertation focused on critical frameworks for engaging instructional media in the teaching of writing. Melinda has published and presented on topics such as gendered assumptions about teacher technology training, potential problems with the notion of transparency in interface design, student access and success in mobile pedagogies, technology in service learning projects, improvisation and teaching, and professional persona in the age of social media.
Weiley, Kelly C.
Instructor, MS in Learning & Organizational Change Program
Founder & Principal, CoAct Consulting
Kelly C. Weiley founded CoAct Consulting 12 years to continue the work of cultural competency, diversity, equity, and inclusion outside the traditional classroom setting. Kelly holds a Master of Science degree in Social Responsibility from St. Cloud State University where she also taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in Human Relations and Multicultural Education. Kelly currently serves as a lecturer for Northwestern University in the School of Education and Social Policy and has previously taught at the University of Minnesota and the University of St. Thomas. Kelly draws upon her classroom experiences to root her trainings in research and theory, but always circles back to how principles apply to individuals, urging them to practice skills that improve connection, foster growth, and nurture effective leaders.
Kelly currently serves on the National Advisory Board for Equity in the Center, an initiative that works to shift mindsets, practices, and systems within the social sector to increase racial equity. Previously, Kelly facilitated award-winning residential service-learning experiences for high school students and staff at the Civic Education Project (CEP), and partnered with six Boston public schools and a career center to connect struggling young people to employment opportunities through the Year 13 program. In her 18+ years of working with individuals of all ages and from diverse backgrounds, she has trained over 25,000 people on topics ranging from creating social change, diversity, and intercultural competency, to navigating difficult conversations, creating inclusive spaces, and facilitating controversial issues.
Bang, Megan
Professor of Learning Sciences
Degrees
- Political Science with Political Theory concentration, Williams College, 1997
- PhD, Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, 2009
Research Interests
Dynamics of culture, learning, and development broadly with a specific focus on the complexities of navigating multiple meaning systems in creating and implementing more effective and just learning environments in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics education; reasoning and decision-making about complex socio-ecological systems in ways that intersect with culture, power, and historicity.
Degrees
- PhD, Education, Stanford University, 2001
- MA, Sociology, Stanford University, 1997
- BA, Philosophy, Oberlin College, 1989
Research Interests
Relationship between instructional policy and teachers' classroom practices in urban schools, Relationship between research and policy
Collins, Allan
Professor Emeritus, Learning Sciences
Degrees
- PhD, Cognitive Psychology, University of Michigan, 1970
- MA, Communication Sciences, University of Michigan, 1961
Research Interests
Technology and education, teaching and learning, scientific inquiry.
Colyvas, Jeannette
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Associate Professor, Learning Sciences
Associate Professor and Executive Board Member, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Associate Professor (by courtesy), Department of Sociology
Associate Professor (by courtesy), MORS, Kellogg School of Management
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Policy Research
Director of Undergraduate Programs, School of Education and Social Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Stanford University, 2007
- MA, Sociology, MA, East Asian Studies, Stanford University
Research Interests
Organizations and entrepreneurship; institutions and networks; comparing public, private, and non-profit forms of organizing; university-industry interfaces; public and private science.
Cytrynbaum, Solomon
Professor Emeritus, Education
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Director for Education, The Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, Psychology Graduate Program
Degrees
- PhD, Psychology, University of Michigan, 1971
- MA, Child Development and Family Relations, Cornell University, 1962
- BA, Arts and Sciences, McGill University, 1959
Research Interests
Group dynamics, organizational assessment and change, family systems, gender and authority in group and organizational life, organizational consultation, evaluation of school reform and school academic/technology systems, research methods, application of group and systems theory and research to school change.
Easterday, Matthew
Associate Professor, Learning Sciences
Degrees
- PhD, Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University, 2010
- MS, Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004
- BA, Psychology and Mathematics, Reed College, 1999
Research Interests
Technology for the new civics – producing scientifically supported educational technology to create informed and engaged citizens who can solve the serious policy problems facing society such as poverty, global warming and militarism. Training such citizens requires us to understand how competent citizens analyze policy, communicate issues, and organize to make change. It also requires us to design more effective educational technology that can teach the knowledge, skills and dispositions citizens need.
Degrees
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984
Research Interests
Artificial intelligence, specifically qualitative reasoning, spatial reasoning, analogical reasoning and learning, and inference engine design; in cognitive science, understanding how analogy and similarity work; in education, using AI techniques to create educational software and activities; in human-computer interaction, the use of sketching as an interface modality; the role of AI in computer game design.
Fuson, Karen
Professor Emerita, Learning Sciences
Degrees
- PhD, Mathematics and learning; cognitive development, University of Chicago, 1972
- MAT, Mathematics, University of Chicago, 1967
- BA, Mathematics, Oberlin College, 1965
Research Interests
Mathematics teaching and learning; cognitive development; design of teaching/learning activities.
Gentner, Dedre
Professor, Learning Sciences
Professor, Psychology
Degrees
- PhD, University of California, San Diego, 1974
Research Interests
Learning, reasoning, and conceptual change in adults and children, especially processes of similarity; metaphor, and analogy; mental models; acquisition of meaning.
Degrees
- PhD, Stanford University, 2007
- MS, Stanford University, 2003
- BA, Dartmouth College, 1998
Research Interests
Design and innovation work practices.
Haroutunian-Gordon, Sophie
Professor Emeritus, Education and Social Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Philosophy of Education, University of Chicago, 1976
- MA, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1966
- BA, Music, Religion/Philosophy, Cornell College, 1965
Research Interests
Philosophy of education, teacher education, interpretive discussion, philosophy of psychology.
Degrees
- PhD, Developmental Psychology, Emory University, 1996
- MA, Cognitive Psychology, Emory University, 1993
- BA, Psychology, Reed College, 1990
Research Interests
Object representation, number and spatial relationships.
Horn, Michael
Associate Professor and Program Coordinator, Learning Sciences
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Degrees
- PhD, Computer Science, Tufts University, 2009
- MS, Computer Science, Tufts University, 2006
- ScB, Computer Science, Brown University, 1997
Research Interests
Design of educational technology, learning in museums, computer programming, tangible interaction.
Lam, Eva
Associate Professor, Learning Sciences, Asian American Studies
Degrees
- PhD, Education in Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of California, Berkeley, 2003
Research Interests
Multilingualism and cultural diversity in education, digital literacy and learning in new media environments, multilingual and multimodal literacy, language and identity, language socialization, learning in transnational contexts of migration.
Lee, Carol
Professor Emeritus, Learning Sciences
Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy
Professor, African American Studies
Degrees
- PhD, Education (Curriculum and Instruction), University of Chicago, 1991
- MA, English, University of Chicago, 1969
- BA, The Teaching of Secondary School English, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1966
Research Interests
Cultural contexts affecting learning broadly and literacy specifically; teacher preparation and development; classroom discourse; urban education.
Matthews, Jolie
Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences
Degrees
- BA, Concentration in Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, New York University
- PhD, Learning Sciences and Technology Design, Stanford University
- Master of Professional Writing, University of Southern California
Research Interests
Learning and behavior norms in online communities, social media production and consumption practices, sources and credibility, historical consciousness, fandom, digital technologies and the creative process, inquiry in digital spaces.
Degrees
- PhD, University of South Dakota, 1968
Research Interests
Learning, reasoning, and conceptual change in adults and children, mental models; acquisition of meaning, culture and education.
Munson, Jen
Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences
Degrees
- PhD, Teacher Education, Stanford University, 2018
- BS, Elementary Education, University of Maine, 2000
Research Interests
Mathematics teaching and learning; coaching and professional development; teacher education
Novak, Michael
Adjunct Faculty, Learning Sciences and MSEd Programs
Researcher, Center For Connected Learning
Degrees
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992
Research Interests
Instructional materials design, professional development of teachers, professional learning communities, scientific modeling, and agent-based modeling.
Degrees
- PhD, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, 2016
- MS, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, 2012
- BA, Computer Science and Spanish, Colby College, 2007
Research Interests
Design of technology-enabled learning experiences, educational games and playful learning, growth mindset interventions, connected classroom ecosystems.
Ortony, Andrew
Professor Emeritus, Learning Sciences
Degrees
- PhD, Computer Science, University of London, 1972
- MA, Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, 1966
Research Interests
Emotion and cognition; knowledge representation and figurative language comprehension; human-computer interaction and interface design.
Peterson, Penelope
Professor Emeritus, School of Education and Social Policy
Eleanor R. Baldwin Professor, Education
Former Dean, School of Education and Social Policy
Former Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Former Professor, Learning Sciences
Degrees
- MA, Psychological Studies in Education, Stanford University, 1976
- PhD, Psychological Studies in Education, Stanford University, 1976
- BS, Psychology and Philosophy, Iowa State University, 1971
Research Interests
Learning and teaching in schools and classrooms, particularly in literacy and mathematics; student and teacher learning in reform contexts; relations among educational research, policy and practice.
Pinkard, Nichole
Associate Professor, Learning Sciences
Faculty Director of the Office of Community Education Partnerships
Degrees
- PhD, Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, 1998
Rapp, David
*ON LEAVE 9/ 2019 - 8/ 2020 *
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence
Professor, Learning Sciences
Professor, Department of Psychology
Degrees
- PhD, Experimental Psychology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2000
- MA, General Psychology, New York University, 1996
- BA, Psychology, State University of New York, Albany, 1994
Research Interests
Reading comprehension; memory following learning experiences; updating prior knowledge; the acquisition of accurate and inaccurate information; translation of cognitive science research to educational settings; multimedia learning; visualizations as learning tools.
Reiser, Brian
Professor, Learning Sciences
Degrees
- PhD, Cognitive Science, Yale University, 1983
- MA, Psychology, New York University, 1979
- BA, Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 1977
Research Interests
The design of learning environments and curriculum materials for science that support authentic practices including explanation, argumentation, and designing investigations. His research examines the cognitive and social interaction aspects of scientific inquiry, principles for scaffolding practices in software and curriculum materials, teaching practices, and curriculum design frameworks.
Richards , Jennifer
Research Assistant Professor
Degrees
- PhD, Science Education, University of Maryland, 2013
- MEd, Secondary Science Education, University of Maryland, 2008
- BA, Biology, Political Science, University of Delaware, 2006
Research Interests
Teacher learning and professional development design; responsiveness to students' and educators' thinking and practices
Degrees
- PhD, Stanford University, 1974
Research Interests
Natural-language understanding, case-based reasoning, authorable learning-by-doing environments, critiquing tools for education.
Sherin, Bruce
Professor, Learning Sciences
Degrees
- PhD, Science and Mathematics Education, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
- MA, Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1989
- BA, Physics, Princeton University, 1985
Research Interests
Conceptual change in science; computational linguistics applied to natural language data; programming environments for learning; external representations in science and mathematics.
Degrees
- PhD, Science and Mathematics Education, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
- MA, Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, 1987
- BA, Mathematics, University of Chicago, 1985
Research Interests
Mathematics teaching and learning; teacher cognition and teacher education.
Spillane, James
Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and Organizational Change
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Professor, Learning Sciences
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Curriculum, Teaching and Education Policy, Michigan State University, 1993
- BA, Education and Geography, St. Patrick's College, National University of Ireland, 1984
Research Interests
Policy implementation; educational policy; organizational change; school leadership; relations between policy and teachers' and administrators' practice.
Stevens, Reed
Professor, Learning Sciences
Degrees
- PhD, Cognitive Studies in Education , University of California at Berkeley, 1999
Research Interests
Learning and activity in a wide range of places and situations; design of learning tools curriculum, activities, and technologies.
Swanson, Hillary
Research Assistant Professor
Degrees
- PhD, Science and Mathematics Education, University of California at Berkeley, 2015
- BA, Physics, Colorado College, 2002
Research Interests
Science education, the nature of scientific theory building, the role of intuitive knowledge in conceptual change, constructivist instruction and constructionist learning environments, computational thinking
Degrees
- PhD, University of Michigan, 1989
Research Interests
Mental representation, cognitive development, spatial cognition, early symbolization.
Vakil, Sepehr
Affiliated Faculty member, Cognitive Science Program
Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences
Affiliated Faculty member, Science in Human Cultures Program
Degrees
- PhD, Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology, University of California Berkeley, 2016
- M.S, Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, 2007
- B.S, Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, 2006
Research Interests
intersections of technology, race, ethics, and learning; STEM education; participatory design and community-engaged research methodologies; historical and sociopolitical analyses of engineering and computer science education across global contexts; philosophy and history of education
Vossoughi, Shirin
Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences
Degrees
- Post-doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University & Exploratorium, 2014
- PhD, Education, University of California, Los Angeles, 2011
- EdM, Education , University of California, Los Angeles, 2006
- BA, History and International Development, University of California, Los Angeles, 2002
Research Interests
Ethnographic study of teaching, learning and educational equity; social, cultural, historical and political dimensions of human development.
Degrees
- PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1985
- MA, Johns Hopkins University, 1981
- BS, University of Pennsylvania, 1976
Research Interests
Language and conceptual development, early cognitive development, language and thought.
Wilensky, Uri
*ON LEAVE 9/ 2019 - 8/ 2020 *
Lorraine Morton Professor of Learning Sciences and Computer Science
Professor, Learning Sciences
Professor, Computer Science
Affiliated Faculty member, Buffett Center for Global Studies
Director, Center for Connected Learning & Computer-Based Modeling
Executive Board Member, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Professor (by courtesy), Department of Philosophy
Faculty member, program in Cognitive Science
Faculty member, program in Technology and Social Behavior
Faculty member, Segal Design Center Research Council
Faculty member, Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology for Drug Abuse/HIV
Affiliated Faculty member, Center for Interdisciplinary Astrophysics
Degrees
- PhD, Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993
- MA, Mathematics, Harvard University, 1980
- BA, Mathematics and Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1977
- MA, Mathematics and Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1977
Research Interests
Mathematics and science education in the context of computation, connected learning, constructionism, computer-based modeling, agent-based modeling and complex systems and education.
Wolf, Michael
Professor, Medicine and Learning Sciences, Associate Division Chief - Research , Division of General Internal Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine
Degrees
- MPH, Public Health, Northwestern University , 2002
- PhD, Social Policy, University of Illinois, 2000
- BS, Psychology/English , Valparaiso University, 1993
- MA, Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, 2006
Research Interests
Health literacy, risk communication, medication safety and adherence
Degrees
- MS, Computer Science, Stanford University, 2014
- PhD, Learning Sciences and Technology Design, Stanford University, 2014
- BA, Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University, 2007
- BS, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 2007
Bloland, Dagny
Instructor, Master of Science in Education
English Teacher, Whitney Young Magnet School
Degrees
- MA, English, Northwestern University
- PhD, English Education, New York University
- BS, Education, Northwestern University
Research Interests
English teachers' constructs of teaching English
Bridgman, Terrie
Adjunct Lecturer, Master of Science in Education Program
Literacy Interventionist, T. Bridgman & Associates
Degrees
- EdD, Reading and Language, National-Louis University, 1994
- MAT, Elementary Teaching, National College of Education, 1982
- BA, Political Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1972
Research Interests
Word study, reading comprehension, professional development for teachers
Calvert, Eric
Associate Director, Center for Talent Development
Instructor, Master of Science in Education
Degrees
- MSE, Educational Psychology - Gifted Emphasis, Purdue University
- BSE, Secondary Education, University of Central Missouri
- EdD, Leadership Studies, Bowling Green State University
Campbell, Marcus
Adjunct Lecturer, Master of Science in Education Program
Degrees
- BS, University of Illinois
- MS, DePaul University
Cardenas-Lopez, Elizabeth
Adjunct Lecturer, Master of Science in Education Program
Degrees
- Ph.D., Reading and Language, National-Louis University
- B.A., Education, Northeastern Illinois University
- M.A., Bilingual, Multicultural Education, Chicago State University
Research Interests
K-12 Language and Literacy, Dual Language Education, Education of English Learners, Literacy Intervention and Supports fo Striving Learners.

Danny M. Cohen
Associate Professor of Instruction
Corwith, Susan
Associate Director, Center for Talent Development
Instructor, Master of Science in Education
Degrees
- PhD, Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
- MS, Curriculum & Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997
- BS, Secondary Education, English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994
Crawford, Sarah
Adjunct Lecturer, Master of Science in Education
Degrees
- MAT, Reading with Reading Specialist Certification, Concordia University
- B.S. in Elementary Education, Loyola University Chicago
Research Interests
Equity and diversity in teaching, school culture and climate, middle school ELA and social science
Dohrer, Timothy
Director, Master of Science in Education Program
Assistant Professor, School of Education and Social Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Curriculum and Instruction, Penn State University, 1999
- MA, English, Northwestern University, 1995
- BA, English and Journalism, Indiana University, 1990
Research Interests
Leadership development, curriculum and instruction, and curriculum integration.
Fadda-Ginski, Fabiola
Adjunct Lecturer, Master of Science in Education
Degrees
- M.A., Education Leadership, American College of Education
- Diploma in Translation, Interpretation and Foreign Correspondence, Scuola Superiore Interpreti e Traduttori, Rome, Italy
- M.A., Urban Teaching, Columbia College
- B.A., Organizational Management, Concordia University
- M.A., Reading, Northeastern University
- Ph.D., Reading and Language, National Louis University
Research Interests
Language acquisition and teacher evaluation systems.
Gordon, Alison
Adjunct Instructor, Master of Science in Education Program
Degrees
- EdD, Education Leadership, National Louis University, 2008
- MS, Education Leadership, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1984
- BS, Education, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1977
Hooper, Paula
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Degrees
- AERA/IES Postdoctoral Fellowship, TERC, 2005
- Ph.D in Epistemology and Learning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998
- M.Ed. Early Childhood Education, Kent State University, 1984
- Bachelor of Arts: Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts, Hampshire College, 1983

Michael Horn
Associate Professor and Program Coordinator, Learning Sciences
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Larison,Sarah
Adjunct Lecturer, Master of Science in Education
Lynn, James
Adjunct Lecturer, Master of Science in Education
Adjunct Lecturer, SESP Undergraduate Program
Executive Director of High School Development, University of Illinois at Chicago
Degrees
- MA, Educational Leadership, Northeastern Illinois University, 2004
- MEd, Secondary Education, DePaul University, 1994
- BS, Civil Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1989
- BS, English, University of Notre Dame, 1989
Degrees
- PhD, Sociology, University of Chicago, 2007
- MSEd, Advanced Teaching, Northwestern University, 1997
- BS, Elementary Education, University of Illinois, 1993
Research Interests
Teacher education, mentoring, and induction; clinical preparation; features of preparation that promote candidate learning and teacher effectiveness
Degrees
- MAT, Secondary Science with Middle-Level Learning Endorsement, National Louis University
- MS, Entomology , University of Illinois- Urbana/Champaign
- BA, Biology, Boston University
Research Interests
Design of scientific curriculum materials, professional development and cooperative learning
Morgan, Janis
Adjunct Faculty, Master of Science in Education Program
Degrees
- BS, Exceptional Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- MS, Educational Administration, Northern Illinois University
- EdD, Educational Administration, Northern Illinois University
- MS, Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Research Interests
Social-emotional learning, diverse learners, instructional practices
Mulligan, Martha
Adjunct Lecturer, Master of Science in Education
Adjunct Lecturer, SESP Undergraduate Program
Degrees
- MEd, Curriculum and Instruction, National-Louis University
- BA, Dance and Education, Denison University

Jen Munson
Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences

Muskin, Carol
Adjunct Lecturer, Master of Science in Education

Nelsen, Matt
Adjunct Lecturer, Master of Science in Education
Novak, Dawn
Adjunct Lecturer, Master of Science in Education
Degrees
- M.Ed., Curriculum and Instruction, American College of Education
- B.S., Elementary Education (Mathematics); Certificate in Science, Business and Language Arts, University of Iowa
Research Interests
Instructional coaching and how to develop strong professional learning communities.
Novak, Michael
Adjunct Faculty, Learning Sciences and MSEd Programs
Researcher, Center For Connected Learning
Degrees
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992
Research Interests
Instructional materials design, professional development of teachers, professional learning communities, scientific modeling, and agent-based modeling.
O'Connor, John
Adjunct Lecturer, Master of Science in Education
Degrees
- PhD, English, University of Illinois at Chicago
- AB, Philosophy/English, University of Chicago
- MAT, English, University of Chicago

Pitvorec, Kathleen
Adjunct Lecturer, Master of Science in Education
Reiser, Brian
Professor, Learning Sciences
Degrees
- PhD, Cognitive Science, Yale University, 1983
- MA, Psychology, New York University, 1979
- BA, Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 1977
Research Interests
The design of learning environments and curriculum materials for science that support authentic practices including explanation, argumentation, and designing investigations. His research examines the cognitive and social interaction aspects of scientific inquiry, principles for scaffolding practices in software and curriculum materials, teaching practices, and curriculum design frameworks.
Roloff, Anne
Adjunct Lecturer, Master of Science in Education
Degrees
- PhD in Education Administration, University of Iowa, 2000
- MS in Educational Administration, Western Illinois University, 1991
Research Interests
Leadership development and curriculum & instruction
Sahebi, Bahareh
Adjunct Faculty, Master of Science in Education
Degrees
- Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, The Family Institute at Northwestern University, 2019
- Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, Illinois School of Professional Psychology, 2017
- Predoctoral Psychology Internship (APA accredited), The State of Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, 2017
- M.A., Marriage and Family Therapy, Adler University, 2012
- B.A., Psychology, Sociology, Northern Illinois University, 1999
Research Interests
Dr. Sahebi is a trained scholar practitioner and has a vast interest in translational sciences related to intimate partner relationship health outcomes, cross-cultural psychological and family studies, and culturally-informed parenting practices. More recently, Dr. Sahebi has been involved in publications related to clinical practice and training efforts during the COVID-19 global pandemic. A number of Dr. Sahebi’s scholarships have also focused on program development and expansion efforts within mental health agencies as well as in corporate settings.
Stathakis, Rebekah
Adjunct Lecturer, Master of Science in Education Program
Adjunct Lecturer, SESP Undergraduate Program
Degrees
- MA, Educational Leadership, DePaul University, 2007
- National Board Certification, World Languages for Early Adolescence and Young Adulthood, 2007
- BS, Secondary Teaching, Northwestern University, 2002
Research Interests
World languages teaching and learning, teacher education and teacher evaluation
Wadle, Bradley
Assistant Director, Master of Science in Education
Degrees
- BS, Theater, Northwestern University, 1997
- MS, Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, 2003
Walls, Lanee
Adjunct Lecturer, Master of Science in Education
Degrees
- Elementary Education and Special Education Teaching, Saint Xavier University
- M.A., Educational Administration, Governors State University
- B.A., Psychology, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
- M.A., School Psychology, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
- Ed.D., Administration and Supervision, Loyola University Chicago
Research Interests
Instructional Leadership and Principal Preparation, Building Teacher and Leader Capacity, Professional Learning Communities, Intervention-Based Instruction, Including Students with Special Needs, Racial Equity
Aaron, Robert
Executive Director, Assessment & Planning in Student Affairs, Northwestern University
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Higher Education, Indiana University, 2010
- MA, Higher Education & Student Affairs, The Ohio State University, 1996
- BA, Music, University of Rochester, 1993
Research Interests
College student identity development, assessment & evaluation in higher education.
Brehm, Stephanie
Assistant Director for Academic and Strategic Initiatives, The Graduate School, Northwestern
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Religious Studies, Northwestern University, 2017
- MA, Comparative Religion, Miami University, 2011
- BA, Religion and Communication Studies, Florida State University, 2009
Research Interests
American religion and mass media, ethnography and narrative, higher education administration and institutional organization.
Brown-Henderson, Lesley-Ann
Executive Director of Campus Inclusion & Community, Student Affairs, Northwestern University
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Counseling Psychology, Texas A&M University, 2012
- MS, Counseling Psychology, Texas A&M University, 2008
- MS, Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education and Counseling Psychology, Texas A&M University, 2006
- BS, Psychology, University of Miami, 2004
Burke, Peggy
Former Associate Vice President, Student Development, DePaul University
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- MA, History, DePaul University
- PhD, Higher Education Administration, Loyola University Chicago
- BA, Secondary Education, DePaul University
Calkins, Susanna
Senior Associate Director, Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- PhD, History, Purdue University, 2001
- MA, History, Purdue University, 1995
- BA, History & Political Science, La Salle University, 1993
- MS, Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, 2005
Research Interests
Mentoring, conceptions of teaching, student learning, early modern history, world history, learning and teaching in higher education, and the history and philosophy of higher education.
Colyvas, Jeannette
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Associate Professor, Learning Sciences
Associate Professor and Executive Board Member, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Associate Professor (by courtesy), Department of Sociology
Associate Professor (by courtesy), MORS, Kellogg School of Management
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Policy Research
Director of Undergraduate Programs, School of Education and Social Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Stanford University, 2007
- MA, Sociology, MA, East Asian Studies, Stanford University
Research Interests
Organizations and entrepreneurship; institutions and networks; comparing public, private, and non-profit forms of organizing; university-industry interfaces; public and private science.
Friend, Julie
Director, Office of Global Safety and Security
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- MA, English, Michigan State University
- JD, Law, Michigan State University
- BS, Speech Communications, Syracuse University
Gillespie, Joan
Consultant in International Higher Education
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- PhD, English, Northwestern University
- BA, Vassar College
Research Interests
Quality standards and evaluation in international education
Goodman, Adam
Director, Center for Leadership, Northwestern University
Clinical Professor, McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Public Affairs, University of Colorado at Denver
- BS, Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder
- MPA, Public Management, University of Colorado at Denver
Research Interests
Leadership, especially assessment, coaching and development; Teamwork, especially assessment and development; Enterprise level learning software for coaching, leadership and teamwork
Haberaecker, Heather
Former Chief Business Officer, University of Illinois, Chicago
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- MA, Public Administration, University of Illinois at Springfield
- AA, Southwestern Illinois College
- PhD, Higher Education Administration, University of Michigan
- BS, Education, Northern Illinois University
Hayford, Elizabeth
Former President, Associated Colleges of the Midwest
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- PhD, History, Tufts University, 1971
- MA, Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1963
- BA, History, Radcliffe College, 1962
Research Interests
Undergraduate education (particularly the liberal arts college community); international education; sources of leadership in colleges and universities
Holsapple, Matthew
Associate Program Officer, Spencer Foundation
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Higher Education, University of Michigan, 2014
- MA, Education Research Methods, University of Michigan, 2011
- MSEd, College Student Affairs, Purdue University, 2007
- BS, Public Relations, Purdue University, 2001
Julia, Jake
Vice Provost for Administration and Chief of Staff, Northwestern University
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Higher Education Administration, University of Michigan, 1996
- MA, Higher Education Administration, University of Michigan, 1993
- BA, History, Plymouth State University, 1981
Lowe, Eugene
Assistant to the President, Northwestern University
Senior Lecturer, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Union Theological Seminary, 1987
- MDiv, Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, 1978
- BA, Religion, Princeton University, 1971
Research Interests
American religion, social gospel, progressivism, and diversity in higher education.
Meents-DeCaigny, Ellen
Assistant Vice President of Planning, Operations and Assessment, Vice President's Cabinet, Office of the Vice President, DePaul University
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- MA, Counseling and College Student Development, University of Maryland
- PhD, Higher Education, Loyola University Chicago
- BA, Speech Communications, Drake University
Metzger-Mugg, Lisa
Vice President of Program & Operations, Duke of Edinburgh's International Award USA
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- MS, Developmental Psychology, Johns Hopkins University
- PhD, Educational Psychology, Loyola University Chicago
- BS, Psychology, Philosophy, and Humanities, Valparaiso University
Research Interests
Improved educational pathways to college completion for underserved students; issues of access, affordability, and successful degree/career outcomes of low-income and underrepresented minority college students; addressing racial, ethnic, and income disparities in educational outcomes through improved institutional support; community colleges; doctoral education; and event history analysis.
Payne-Kirchmeier, Julie
Vice President for Student Affairs
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Educational Leadership, Administration and Foundations, Indiana State University, 2009
- MEd, Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education, Texas A&M University, 1996
- BS, Genetics, Texas A&M University, 1994
Research Interests
- Student affairs
Prachand, Amit
Assistant Vice President, Information and Analytics, Northwestern University
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- MEng, Management of Technology, Vanderbilt University
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
Research Interests
Data analysis methods, process improvement and change management
Rapp, Kim
Assistant Vice President, International Relations
Instructor, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Degrees
- BA, Communications and International Studies, Juniata College
- MS, Educational Administration, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- PhD, Higher Education Leadership and Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- MA, African Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rosenbaum, James
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Professor, Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Sociology, Harvard University, 1973
- MA, Sociology, Harvard University, 1968
- BA, Culture and Behavior, Yale University, 1966
Research Interests
High schools, community colleges, youth transitions to work and adulthood. School and college reform and restructuring. Sociology of education.
Trautvetter, Lois
Director, Higher Education Administration and Policy
Professor, School of Education and Social Policy
Degrees
- MS, Polymer Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
- BA, Chemistry, College of Wooster
- PhD, Higher Education Administration, University of Michigan
Research Interests
Engineering education research including retention and recruitment of female and underrepresented undergraduate students and faculty, interdisciplinary skills, contextual competence skills, and design and problem solving skills.
Faculty productivity, enhancing research and teaching, faculty motivation, enhancing faculty-student interaction, and new and junior faculty issues.
Student development research that includes holistic and spiritual development of undergraduates.
Gender issues, females in STEM disciplines.
Cohen, Danny M.
Associate Professor of Instruction
Degrees
- MA, Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, 2005
- PhD, Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, 2011
Research Interests
Holocaust and human rights education; The design of informal learning environments; Collective memory and marginalized narratives; Pedagogies for educating about violence and atrocity
Colyvas, Jeannette
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Associate Professor, Learning Sciences
Associate Professor and Executive Board Member, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Associate Professor (by courtesy), Department of Sociology
Associate Professor (by courtesy), MORS, Kellogg School of Management
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Policy Research
Director of Undergraduate Programs, School of Education and Social Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Stanford University, 2007
- MA, Sociology, MA, East Asian Studies, Stanford University
Research Interests
Organizations and entrepreneurship; institutions and networks; comparing public, private, and non-profit forms of organizing; university-industry interfaces; public and private science.
Dohrer, Timothy
Director, Master of Science in Education Program
Assistant Professor, School of Education and Social Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Curriculum and Instruction, Penn State University, 1999
- MA, English, Northwestern University, 1995
- BA, English and Journalism, Indiana University, 1990
Research Interests
Leadership development, curriculum and instruction, and curriculum integration.
Douthit, Mindy
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change Program
Degrees
- PhD, Organizational Theory, University of Chicago , 2000
- MBA, Management, University of Chicago, 1998
- BS, Business, Miami University, 1992
Judice, Cheryl
Adjunct Faculty, SESP Undergraduate Program
Adjunct Faculty, Master of Science in Education Program
Associate Director, Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate
Degrees
- PhD, Sociology, Northwestern University, 2005
Research Interests
Marriage and the family, interracial relationships and marriages.
Logan, Regina
Assistant Professor of Instruction and Adviser
Degrees
- MA, French Language and Literature, University of Wisconsin, 1971
- AB, French Language and Literature, University of Michigan, 1970
- PhD, Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University, 1993
- MA, Teaching & Learning Processes, Northwestern University, 1984
Research Interests
Stability and change over time in adulthood, especially during midlfe and beyond: wisdom, regret and life themes; gender differences in these areas.
Murnane, Kevin
Adjunct Lecturer, SESP Undergraduate Program
Degrees
- MBA, Marketing, Finance, Not-For-Profit Management, Northwestern University, 1982
- BS, Commerce, University of Illinois, 1979
Research Interests
Failure-tolerant strategy; predictive competencies for leadership success; domains of leadership: outcomes, process and connections; succession management; action learning
Rosenbaum, James
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Professor, Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Sociology, Harvard University, 1973
- MA, Sociology, Harvard University, 1968
- BA, Culture and Behavior, Yale University, 1966
Research Interests
High schools, community colleges, youth transitions to work and adulthood. School and college reform and restructuring. Sociology of education.
Shapiro, Lilah
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Degrees
- PhD, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, 2012
- BA, English and Vocal Performance, Oberlin College
- AM, Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Research Interests
Sociology, social psychology. Specific research interests include identity, life story and narrative, ethnicity, religion, assimilation and immigration, ethnicity and biology, race, American culture, diaspora experiences/transnationalism, class and social location, qualitative methods.
Shearer, Mary Ellen
Faculty, Field Studies Program
Director and Bureau Chief, Medill Washington and William F. Thomas Professor
Degrees
- BA, Journalism, University of Wisconsin, 1975
- MS, Interactive Journalism, American University
Solomon, Alexandra
Lecturer, SESP Undergraduate Program
Degrees
- PhD, Counseling Psychology, Northwestern University, 2001
- MA, Counseling Psychology, Northwestern University, 1998
- BA, Psychology & Women's Studies, University of Michigan, 1995