Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Melisa Osborne
Melisa Osborne is a trained biochemist and research assistant professor in the Daniel Segrè Lab at Boston University. She developed and teaches the course BI/BF510 Institutional Racism in Health and Science in the Department of Biology and Graduate Program of Bioinformatics at Boston University. At BU Wheelock, she is the primary instructor for WED SC […]
Ola Ozernov-Palchik
Dr. Ola Ozernov-Palchik is a research assistant professor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and core faculty at the AI & Education Initiative. She is also a research scientist at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Dr. Ozernov-Palchik’s multi-disciplinary research centers on the cognitive neuroscience of language and literacy development, with […]
Ingrid Ristroph
Ingrid Ristroph is a postdoctoral research associate at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on supporting teachers in cultivating engaging mathematics classrooms that center student thinking. She works with Meghan Shaughnessy (PI) on the MPACT project and Julie Cohen (PI) of University of Virginia on the SimSE project; both […]
Carla Romney
Dr. Carla Romney is the director of research for CityLab, a pre-college biomedical sciences program that develops and implements laboratory-based curriculum supplements that are intended to inspire young people to pursue STEM and health professions careers. As a principal investigator on CityLab’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) Science Education Partnership Award grants, she is responsible […]
Alejandra Salinas
Dr. Alejandra Salinas is a clinical associate professor of mathematics education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She teaches both mathematics content and methods courses, as well as acting as the field experience coordinator for the program. Her scholarship and teaching are aimed at training highly qualified math teachers to teach […]
Stacy Scott
Dr. Stacy Scott is a senior lecturer in educational leadership & policy studies at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. His research focuses on innovation, intuition, equity, and storytelling, as well as bringing concerns of equity in education to light. His career has included being a middle school teacher, director of diversity, […]
Rebecca Shangraw
Dr. Rebecca Shangraw is a senior lecturer in the Applied Human Development program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on identifying and investigating recommended teaching practices to use when instructing physical education students or athletes who have specific learning disabilities, ADHD, or autism. Recent News
K’Nadja Sims
K’Nadja Sims is a doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology & Applied Human Development program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development on the counseling psychology track. K’Nadja’s research interests include Black identity development and academic achievement. At Boston University, she works as an assistant to BU’s Sankofa Scholars program and is […]
Julia Spiegelman
Julia Donnelly Spiegelman is a part-time instructor of second language acquisition in the Language & Literacy Education program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research and activism focus on the intersection of power, identity, and ideology in K–16 world language classrooms, seeking to document, understand, and oppose the workings of […]
Kaylene Stevens
Dr. Kaylene Stevens is a clinical assistant professor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research interests lie in teacher education, civics and social studies education, and pedagogy and curriculum in K–12 classrooms. She works on several grants and research studies that study how to bring civic education and discourse into […]