CPR - Key Persons


A. Cuenca

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Accreditation Processes / Ex - Officio / Executive Director of Student Success
  • Member of Committee

Adam Luhman

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager

Adam Maltese

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee
  • Professor, Curriculum and Instruction

Alethia Russell

Job Titles:
  • Project Associate

Alicia Swafford

Job Titles:
  • Financial Administration Specialist

Allison BrckaLorenz

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Amy Hackenberg

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Curriculum and Instruction

Amy Stevens

Job Titles:
  • Client Services Senior Analyst, YouGov Sport

Anastasia Morrone

Job Titles:
  • Dean, IU School of Education

Andrew Manna

Job Titles:
  • Member of the McCarthy Institute Advisory Committee
  • Partner, Law Firm of Church, Church, Hittle, & Antrim
Andrew Manna represents clients in matters associated with labor and employment law, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and other matters. He engages in the defense of school corporations against claims under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), First Amendment and other constitutional and civil rights law matters. He also represents schools with respect to general school policy review.

Andy Allen

Job Titles:
  • Principal

Andy Bosk

Job Titles:
  • Director of Career Connections, IU School of Education

Angie Miller

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist

Anne Leftwich

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice President, Learning Technologies

Ariana Jehl

Ariana Jehl joined the Overseas Program as a guest student from IPFW (now PFW). She student taught in an elementary school in Quito in the Spring of 2017. "Ecuadorians are the most accepting and welcoming people I have ever come across. My host family brought me to multiple family events making me feel like I belonged."

Arman Zhumazhonov

Job Titles:
  • Project Associate

Bethany Gross

Job Titles:
  • Financial Administration Specialist

Brendan Dugan

Job Titles:
  • Research Analyst

Bret Syrek

Job Titles:
  • Director of Development, IU School of Education

Brigid Phillips

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

C. Davis

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Carl Darnell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee
  • Assistant Dean for Advocacy and Belonging
  • Assistant Dean, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / Ex - Officio
Awards Martha Dawson Award for Outstanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Achievements (ODEI)

Cassie Summer

Job Titles:
  • Center Technician

Chad Christensen

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Cheryl Martin

Job Titles:
  • Advancement Associate
  • Advancement Associate, IU School of Education

Cheyenne Smith

Job Titles:
  • Project Associate

Chris Finley

Job Titles:
  • Director

Christen Priddie

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Chairman of the Diversity Committee
  • Research Scientist

Cindy Ann Kilgo

Job Titles:
  • Director

Cindy Hmelo-Silver

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor Associate Dean for Research and Development

Colin Prince

Job Titles:
  • Director of Development
  • Assistant Director of Development / IU School of Education

D. Wyatt

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Staff

Daniel Hickey

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor, Learning, Design, and Adult Education

David Goldberg

Job Titles:
  • Center Manager

Deborah Ferguson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of Finance and Administration

Derek Black

Job Titles:
  • Member of the McCarthy Institute Advisory Committee
  • Professor of Law, Ernest F. Hollings Chair in Constitutional Law, University of South Carolina
Derek Black is one of the nation's foremost experts in education law and policy. He focuses on educational equality, school funding, the constitutional right to education, segregation, and the federal role in schools. He has published over thirty scholarly articles in the nation's top legal journals, including the flagship journals at Yale, Stanford, New York University, California-Berkeley, Cornell, Northwestern and Vanderbilt. He began his career in teaching at Howard University School of Law, where he founded and directed the Education Rights Center. Prior to teaching, he litigated education cases at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Donna Stevens - CHRO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Human Resources

Dorothea Irwin

Job Titles:
  • Retired Assistant Superintendent

Dr. Laura Stachowski

Job Titles:
  • Director

Edwin Darden

Job Titles:
  • Member of the McCarthy Institute Advisory Committee
  • Senior Program Officer With the Bill
  • Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ELA Member
Edwin Darden is a Senior Program Officer with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Washington, D.C. As the state lead In New York State and New York City, he is responsible for devising the policy, advocacy and communications strategy for both K-12 and higher education.

Ella Chamis


Emily Clark

Job Titles:
  • Admin and Procurement Rep

Erik Tillema

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
  • Member of Committee

F. Pawan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee

Filiz Akyuz

Job Titles:
  • Project Associate

Gamze Ozogul

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Learning, Design, and Adult Education Department Chair

J Adam Scribner


J. Pyles

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Student / Student

Jade Barcus

Job Titles:
  • Center Technician

Jakki Petzold

Job Titles:
  • Research Analyst

James S. Cole

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager
  • Research Analyst

James S. Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Board Vice President / Vice President, Community Education Coalition

James Sturgeon

Job Titles:
  • Systems Administrator

Jayla Langford

Job Titles:
  • Project Associate

Jeff Butts

Job Titles:
  • Member of the McCarthy Institute Advisory Committee
  • Superintendent, MSD Wayne Township, in
Dr. Jeff Butts is a proud graduate of Millikin University (BS), Illinois State University (MS), and Purdue University (PhD). He began his career as a public educator in 1992 and over the past 27 years has held positions as a bus driver, coach, teacher, athletic director, principal, assistant superintendent, and now superintendent of the M.S.D. of Wayne Township since 2011. Dr. Butts is currently a Broad Fellow Candidate at the Yale School of Management.

Jesse Oakes

Job Titles:
  • Director of Education Technology Services

Jessica McClain

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Research Scientist

Jewel Bezy

Job Titles:
  • Finance Manager

Jillian Kinzie

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, NSSE Director, NSSE Institute

Joshua Danish

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Diversity Committee

K. Engebretson

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Kalani Craig

Job Titles:
  • Department of History

Kamia Slaughter

Job Titles:
  • Post - Doctoral Fellow

Karen Wohlwend

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Curriculum and Instruction

Karyn Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Elementary Education Major With a Concentration in Mathematics
When she began learning about all the different technologies and machines that the MILL has to offer, Karyn instantly fell in love with the space and began spending the majority of her free time in there, learning and gaining experience on the different machines.

Kathrine Harder

Job Titles:
  • Systems and Services Administrator

Katie Smock

Job Titles:
  • Director of Stewardship and Annual Giving
  • Director of Stewardship and Annual Giving, IU School of Education

Keith McCorvie

Job Titles:
  • Senior System Analyst / Programmer

Kelli Paul

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee
  • Research Scientist

Kevin Brown

Job Titles:
  • Member of the McCarthy Institute Advisory Committee

Kyungbin Kwon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Learning, Design, and Adult Education

Laporte Site

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator

Laura Fonseca

Job Titles:
  • Member of the McCarthy Institute Advisory Committee
  • Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Laura Fonseca, M.A., serves as Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as well as Adjunct Faculty at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Fonseca previously served as Director of Career Services for Maurer Law School. She is also an alum of the Education Law Certificate program in the IU School of Education.

Leonard Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Director

Lindsey Arnold

Job Titles:
  • Director of Enrollment Management, IU School of Education

Lucy LePeau

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
  • Director

M. Doles

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee
  • Student

M. Manifold

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

M. Park Rogers

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education

M. Sharipov

Job Titles:
  • Student

M.B. Hines

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Maria Jensen

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Affairs Coordinator
  • Staff

Martha McCarthy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the McCarthy Institute Advisory Committee
  • Presidential Professor, Loyola Marymount University and Chancellor 's Professor Emeritus, Indiana University
Martha McCarthy, Ph.D. is a Presidential Professor in Educational Leadership at Loyola Marymount University and Chancellor's Professor Emeritus in Education Leadership and Policy Studies at Indiana University. Her research focuses on reform in leadership preparation programs and educational law and policy, including First Amendment issues pertaining to church/state relations and expression rights of students and school employees.

Mary Dwyer

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations
  • Executive Director, Development and Alumni Relations, IU School of Education

Mary Richardson

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Associate

Meera Deo

Job Titles:
  • Director

Megan Humburg

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow

Melissa Medin

Job Titles:
  • Project Associate

Michael Reece

Job Titles:
  • Teacher and Football Coach, Westfield High School

Michael Wells

Job Titles:
  • Director

N. Boatner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee
  • Staff

O. Effner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee
  • Student

Olivia Copeland

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Olivia LaRocco

Job Titles:
  • Student
Olivia LaRocco student taught in English classrooms, working with primary and secondary school children in Thesaloiniki during the Spring of 2019. "My absolute favorite part of Greece's culture was the hospitality and warmth I received from the people there. People really went out of their way to not only make me feel like I wasn't an outsider, but that I was actually an accepted and appreciated member of the community."

Park Tudor

Job Titles:
  • Retired English Teacher

Patricia Scribner

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to the Dean

Q. Wheeler-Bell

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

R. Kunzman

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Richard S. Melvin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the McCarthy Institute Advisory Committee
  • Law Emeritus, Maurer School of Law
Kevin Brown, J.D., is the Richard S. Melvin Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and the Mitchell Willoughby Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. A 1982 graduate of Yale Law School, Professor Brown's research interest for the past 35 years is primarily in the area of race, law and education.

Robert Berry

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Dean and Professor

Robert M. Gonyea

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Research and Data
  • Senior Research Scientist, Co - PI

Ronald Davis

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Ryan Lentz

Job Titles:
  • Project Management Specialist

Sarah Lubienski

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean
  • Executive
  • Executive Associate Dean / Ex - Officio
  • Executive Associate Dean, IU School of Education

Scott Caulfield

Job Titles:
  • Owner

Scott Witzke

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marketing and Communications
  • Director of Marketing & Communications, IU School of Education

Shimon Sarraf

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director for Survey Operations and Project Services

Soheli Farzana Jony

Job Titles:
  • Project Associate

Stacia Dirks

Job Titles:
  • Technology Specialist

Steven Feldman

Job Titles:
  • Project Associate

Taylor Lehman

Job Titles:
  • Marketing and Project Assistant

Thalia Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Director of Finance and Business Affairs

Thomas Brush

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Learning, Design, and Adult Education

Toni Bacigalupa Albaum

Job Titles:
  • Project Associate

Tulli Ariyaratne

Job Titles:
  • Student in Science Education

V. Vellanki

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee

Victor M. H. Borden

Job Titles:
  • Director

Walter Albert Jessup

Job Titles:
  • First Dean, Summer 1912 )

Wendell W. Wright

Job Titles:
  • Education Building

Wendy Walter

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director

William Lowe Bryan

Job Titles:
  • Acting Dean, June 23, 1908 - 1912 )

Yih Tsao

Job Titles:
  • Project Associate

Yoo Young Ahn

Job Titles:
  • Student in Literacy, Culture and Language Education