Staff
Irene Dennison
Irene Dennison is the associate director of BU/BPS academic partnerships at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. In this role, Ms. Dennison splits her time between BU Wheelock’s Strategic Partnerships & Community Engagement Office and Boston Public Schools’ district central office, to support and develop new and existing co-created academic credit-bearing programs. […]
Arielle Derival
Arielle Derival is the director of the GEAR UP program at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Before this role, Ms. Derival worked for American Student Assistance as an education and career specialist and worked for the Boston Private Industry Council as a career specialist. Ms. Derival believes in making sure students are well […]
Tchorzky Eugene
Tchorzky Eugene is the academic resource counselor for Upward Bound and Upward Bound Math Science at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Mx. Eugene has experience in numerous pre-college programs and expertise in cultivating supportive environments for student development. Mx. Eugene has an innate passion for empowering communities across all demographics toward […]
Kerry Fargnoli
Kerry Fargnoli manages the Jumpstart program at Boston University. She recruits, trains, coaches, and supervises up to 40 Boston University students throughout their year of service as Jumpstart AmeriCorps members. In her role, she works closely with student employment, early childhood faculty, Jumpstart national staff, and Boston community preschools to foster key relationships and promote […]
Sara Feit
Sara Feit is an environmental educator who is currently serving as project manager and research scientist on the GLOBE Mission Earth project at BU Wheelock. She uses her background in early childhood education and passion for environmental science to aid teachers throughout the Greater Boston area as those educators bring data-driven science to their learners. […]
Clare Fitzgerald
Clare Fitzgerald is the undergraduate program manager for College Access & Student Success (CASS). Ms. Fitzgerald works with CASS’s 640+ undergraduate students across BU’s schools and colleges, who come to campus via Boston University’s partnerships with school districts and community-based organizations with a college access focus, to bring underrepresented students to enroll in and thrive […]
Morgan Fleming
Morgan Fleming is a predoctoral research assistant at the Wheelock Educational Policy Center, working primarily with Professor Olivia Chi on a research partnership with Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Before joining WEPC, Ms. Fleming worked as a research assistant at Trinity College Dublin, focusing on a project about neighborhood-level effects of short-term rentals […]
Ben Freeburn
Dr. Ben Freeburn is a research scientist on the Simulations for Learning and Assessing in Teacher Education (SimulaTE) project team at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. His research centers on mathematics teaching practices and how teachers learn to teach mathematics. Dr. Freeburn collaborates with researchers to design and study the use […]
Jelonid Fuentes
Jelonid Fuentes is a program coordinator at the Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is also a data collector coordinator for the Nuestros Niños Program. In her role, she provides administrative and logistical support for both the institute and program. Her research interests include multilingual […]
Chad Garner
Chad Garner is an administrative coordinator at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development.