Core NEP Staff
Dr. Noreen Yazejian
Principal Investigator
Dr. Donna Bryant
Co–Principal Investigator
Dr. Iheoma Iruka
Co-Principal Investigator
Dr. Sandra Soliday Hong
Research Scientist
Dr. Laura Kuhn
Advanced Research Scientist
Dr. Ping Chen
Social Science Research Methodologist
Gisele Crawford
Research Specialist
Kalen Donahue
Research Assistant
Keil Jones
Applications Specialist Programmer
Barbara Lowery
Program Assistant
Nupur Mishra
Programmer
James Peak
Applications Specialist
Linda Soto
Research Assistant
Project Contact
Educare National Coordinating Office Research Team
Dr. Amanda Stein
Managing Director, Research and Evaluation
Dr. Rachel Katz
Senior Research Scientist
Dr. Demi Siskind
Senior Research Scientist
Local Evaluation Partners
Arizona
Dr. Jeanne Wilcox
Dr. Tiffany King
Arizona State University
Atlanta, GA
Dr. Gary Bingham
Dr. Meghan Pendergast Dean
Georgia State University
California at Silicon Valley
Dr. Kim Carpenter
Applied Survey Research
Central Maine
Dr. Alan Cobo-Lewis
University of Maine
Chicago, IL
Dr. Dionne Dobbins
Todd Jackson
Start Early
Denver, CO
Carly Landgraff
Clayton Early Learning Institute
Flint, MI
Dr. Ann-Marie Faria
Harmony Research, LLC
Dr. Lisa White
American Institutes for Research
Dr. Jill Claxton
HighScope Educational Research Foundation
Kansas City, KS
Dr. Dale Walker
Dr. Gabriela Guerrero
University of Kansas
Lincoln, NE
Dr. Helen H. Raikes
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Los Angeles at Long Beach, CA
Dr. Traci Shirachi
The Mark USA
Miami, FL
Dr. Daryl B. Greenfield
University of Miami
Milwaukee, WI
Dr. Karen Stoiber
University of Wisconsin
Dr. Tonya Hameister
Next Door Milwaukee
New Orleans, LA
Dr. Katherine Theall
Dr. Julia Fleckman
Tulane University
Oklahoma City, OK
Dana Collie
Sunbeam Family Services
Omaha, NE
Dr. Jolene Johnson
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Seattle, WA
Dr. Paméla Raya- Carlton
Puget Sound Educational Services District
Springfield, MA
Dr. Rachel Chazan Cohen
University of Connecticut
Tulsa, OK
Dr. Diane Horm
University of Oklahoma - Tulsa
Washington, DC
Dr. Brenda Jones Harden
Columbia University
Dr. Zachary Price
Towson University
West DuPage, IL
Dr. Sarah Rasher
OER Associates LLC
Winnebago, NE
Dr. Kate Gallagher
University of Nebraska