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OUR TEAM

Our GPL researchers represent multiple academic disciplines, practitioner and methodological expertise, and inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches to research and policy change. GPL advocacy, practice, and field research is aligned with the disciplines of counseling, curriculum studies, economics, educational policy, gender studies, government, Indigenous studies, law, leadership studies, public health, social work, and sociology.

DIRECTOR

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Melinda Lemke, Ph.D.

AFFILIATES AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

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Affiliate

Tasha Austin,

Ph.D.

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Affiliate

Sherri Castillo,

Ph.D.

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Affiliate

Jennifer L. Clark-Saboda, Ph.D.

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Affiliate

Laurie Cook Heffron, Ph.D.

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Affiliate

Ngo Hna,

MPA

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Affiliate

Megan M. Iantosca, Ph.D. 

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Research Associate

Joyce Jekayinoluwa, M.A.

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Affiliate

Katheryne T. Leigh-Osroosh, Ph.D.

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Affiliate

Hollie Mackey,

Ph.D.

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Affiliate

Cheryl Matias,

Ph.D.

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Affiliate

Ana Luisa Muñoz-García, Ph.D.

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Affiliate

Nadine Shaanta Murshid, Ph.D.

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Affiliate

Amanda B. Nickerson, Ph.D., NCSB

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Affiliate

Tia Palermo,

Ph.D., MSc

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Affiliate

Jaylene T. Patterson, Ph.D. 

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Affiliate

Sarah A. Robert,

Ph.D.

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Affiliate

Michelle D. Young,

Ph.D.

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Research Associate

Danielle Zack Smith, Ed.M.

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