Dr. Sharon Nelson-Barber directs WestEd’s Center for the Study of Culture and Language in STEM Education. Her research focuses on understanding how the sociocultural contexts in which students live influence the ways in which they make sense of schooling in mathematics and science. She also focuses on understanding how aspects of cultural knowledge can become visible in assessment and evaluation to ensure that schooling is equitable for allstudents. Her work spans the lower 48 states, Alaska, Micronesia, and many areas of Polynesia. She is co-founder of POLARIS (Pacific Rim Opportunities to Learn, Advance and Research Indigenous Systems), a research and development network that fosters healthy communities; encourages social and educational transformation; and brings an indigenous worldview to new frontiers of knowledge. She has published extensively and serves on a number of national advisory boards in anthropology and education. She earned a doctorate in human development from Harvard University, and completed postdoctoral work at Stanford University as a Spencer Fellow, also teaching at the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity. |
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Tom Kelly joined the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation in December 2012 as vice president for knowledge, evaluation and learning after 13 years managing evaluations at the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore. His work includes the building of internal and grantee evaluation and knowledge-building capacity, evaluation of policy advocacy and community capacity, and foundation performance and results measurement. He also led the evaluation of Casey’s 12-year, 10-city community change initiative Making Connections. Tom is a board member of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and the Dr. Barbara J. Sugland Foundation and is a graduate of Harvard College and The George Washington University. |
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