NDTAC regularly facilitates and hosts presentations from experts in the N or D field. Here you can find out more about these individuals and review their presentations from previous Webinars, Conferences, and Q&A calls. 

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Tarek Anandan

Tarek Anandan, Senior Advisor to NDTAC, supports the project's technology and evaluation activities.  He is also a member of the Center's Expert Panel.  Beginning in 2004, he helped NDTAC redevelop its website and establish an online communications plan.  He also helped the Title I, Part D program develop its National evaluation framework including its performance and efficiency indicators; led numerous technical assistance efforts; and contributed to the program's PART review. He previously served as NDTAC's Director (2007-2008)and Deputy Director (2005-2007) and also led the Center's marketing and technology work (2004-2008). He has a background in public policy and Internet communications.

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Robert Bakke

Robert Bakke currently works for the California Department of Education's California Alternative Schools Accountability Model (ASAM).  He has also been the lead program consultant in the development and implementation of the California State-mandated Alternative Accountability System since February of 2001.  Before that, Mr. Bakke managed the Office of Research and Development for the School of Graduate, International, and Sponsored Programs at California State University, Chico.

 

Thomas Blomberg

Thomas G. Blomberg is dean and Sheldon L. Messinger Professor of Criminology in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University. Since 1998, he has served as principal investigator of the Juvenile Justice Educational Enhancement Program (JJEEP). He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He has published widely with more than 100 books, articles, and monographs. His most recent books include Punishment and Social Control: Enlarged Second Edition (2003), Data Driven Juvenile Justice Education (2001), and American Penology (2000). He is an expert in juvenile delinquency, corrections, and evaluation research and policy. His current research is focused on identifying and validating best educational practices for delinquent and other at-risk youth.

 

David Brown

David E. Brown is the executive director of the National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC), a nonpartisan network of more than 250 youth employment, training, and development organizations dedicated to promoting policies and initiatives that help youth succeed in becoming lifelong learners, productive workers, and self-sufficient citizens. Since joining NYEC in 1998, Brown has been responsible for spearheading NYEC's policy and advocacy efforts, tracking the implementation and reauthorization of the youth provisions of the Workforce Investment Act, and leading an effort to connect youth employment and juvenile justice. Prior to joining NYEC, Brown was a senior policy analyst with the National Governors' Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices. During his 6-year tenure at NGA, he focused on youth-related State policy issues, including youth development, school-to-work, employment and training, National and community service, and juvenile justice.

 

Sherese Brewington-Carr

Sherese Brewington-Carr is a system’s change agent with more than 20 years experience in the field of correctional management, correctional program development, implementation and evaluation, community/volunteer development and professional consultation. Her work has garnered her local and National recognition for contributions to the criminal justice field and community service. To date, she has worked in the States of North Carolina, Connecticut, and Delaware in multiple positions, including, but not limited to State juvenile services director, warden, associate warden, and treatment services superintendent. She has held appointed political positions in Democratic, Republican, and Independent Party administrations.

 

Sandy Brown

Mr. Paul Sanders (Sandy) Brown is a program analyst in the Department of Education’s Student Achievement and School Accountability Programs office. As a program analyst, he oversees the allocations of Title I funds and works on program policy issues. Title I is the largest elementary and secondary education program in the Federal Government with a budget of over $12.7 billion (fiscal year 2005). The program serves approximately 15.8 million students in more than 13,200 school districts and 51,000 schools in all 50 States. Prior to coming to Title I, Sandy served as a program and budget analyst in the Department’s Budget Service for 14 years working on Title I and vocational and adult education issues. His career in Government started in 1975 when he joined the staff of the first elected City Council for the District of Columbia under DC Home Rule as an executive and legislative assistant for Councilperson Julius W. Hobson and later for Councilperson Hilda Mason.

 

Mike Bullis

Dr. Michael Bullis is the interim dean of the College of Education at the University of Oregon and the Sommerville-Knight Professor of Education. He also is the director of the college’s Secondary Special Education and Transition Research Unit and Director of the National Post-School Outcomes Center, a Technical Assistance and Dissemination Center funded through OSEP. Dr. Bullis has conducted both quantitative and qualitative longitudinal studies of the school-to-transition experiences of adolescents with disabilities, directed community-based vocational programs for adolescents with extreme emotional and antisocial behaviors, and developed transition skills assessment instruments. Most recently, he directed statewide studies of the facility-to-community transition experiences of incarcerated youth returning to their home communities. He serves as the research and evaluation consultant for Trillium Family Services, the largest residential treatment center for children and adolescents with mental illness in the Pacific Northwest and for the Oregon Youth Authority, the State’s juvenile correctional system. Dr. Bullis teaches doctoral level research design courses in the College of Education and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders and Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin.

Joyce Burrell

Joyce Burrell is currently the Deputy Commissioner of the Division of Rehabilitative Services for New York's Office of Children and Family Services. From 2002 to 2007, Ms. Burrell served as NDTAC's Project Director and as a Principal Research Analyst with the American Institutes for Research (AIR). During her time at AIR, Joyce made countless contributions to NDTAC's products and activities, including the establishment of its technical assistance systems. Earlier in her career, she served as a leader for 2 large urban systems, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia, PA. Combined, she brings more than 20 years of experience in the field of juvenile justice.

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Tim Canter

Tim Canter has provided transition and educational services to youth between the ages of 11 and 24 for over nine years. He is currently employed by the Springfield School District to work with at risk and adjudicated youth as a Community Transition Specialist. Before working for Springfield School District, he served in the Marine Corps and a reserve program for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Mr. Canter is also a foster parent for the State of Oregon.

Terry Cash

Terry Cash, Ph.D., is the Assistant Director of the National Dropout Prevention Center, College of Health, Education, and Human Development, at Clemson University in South Carolina. His responsibilities include research, grant writing, and program evaluation for a wide range of intervention strategies designed for youth at-risk of school failure and dropping out. He also serves as an adjunct instructor in the Clemson University School of Education, Educational Leadership Department. Dr. Cash has over two decades of experience as a teacher, principal, and district level administrator in North and South Carolina. He has been a foster parent for “difficult to control” adolescents and has developed and implemented multiple programs in the public school domain that serve students at-risk. His professional background also includes experience with the South Carolina Department of Education as the Director of Volunteerism and Training Coordinator for at-risk youth mentoring programs across South Carolina.

 

Marcia Calloway

Since 2002, Marcia Calloway has been the Title I Consultant at the Nevada Department of Education.  She serves as the State Director for Title I, Part D, Subparts 1 and 2 and Assistant State Director for 21st Century Community Learning Center program (CCLC).  She is an Education Specialist and holds a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction.

 

Jack Catrett

Mr. Catrett has been employed with the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) as the director of special education for the last 10 years. Prior to this appointment, he served as a special education teacher in a DJJ institution and as a teacher and principal in local school systems in Georgia. Mr. Catrett began his college studies at Jacksonville State University in Anniston, AL, and he currently holds an education specialist degree. He serves on a statewide special education advisory committee.

 

Anne Charles

Anne Charles is currently the project director of the Corrections Learning Network (CLN)and a distance learning instructor with Educational Service District 101's (ESD 101) telecommunications division in Spokane, Washington. During her 14-year tenure with ESD 101, Anne has conducted program development activities including site expansion efforts resulting in an increase of more than 2209 percent in national site participation with CLN over a 5-year period. Concurrently, Anne shares her talents, developing and implementing curricula for the workplace preparedness classes she teaches via satellite. As a 28-year classroom educator, corporate trainer, curriculum developer, public speaker, and satellite teacher, Anne delivers a message of motivation and significance to dislocated workers, youth and adult offenders, and young adults preparing for the workplace.

 

Arlene Chorney

Dr. Chorney has been with the Rhode Island Training School for 16 years, prior to which she was an administrator at Johnson & Wales University. She began as a reading teacher and was promoted to the position of principal in 1985. She is the immediate past president of the State Directors for Correctional Education and was elected to the delegate assembly of the Correctional Education Association to represent juvenile education. Dr. Chorney is currently in her second year of that term.

Bryant Claiborne

Bryant Claiborne has worked in the field of Human Services for over 15 years providing youth and families with counseling, mentoring and advocacy. In addition, he has coordinated and directed several best practice youth prevention programs. Throughout his career he has received several citations and acclamations from families, community organizations, public officials for his professionalism, energy, commitment, and level of integrity rendered to the lives of many youth and their families located in Baltimore City

Mr. Claiborne is currently the Director of the Community and Family Center (CFRC), a community -based initiative dedicated to strengthening families and the community by providing information, education and support to families, especially those children who have been involved in or at risk of entering the Juvenile Justice Center.

 

Melva Clarida

Melva Clarida is the educational facility administrator (principal) of the Illinois Youth Center at Harrisburg, one of the largest boys’ prisons in that State. She has been there as first a teacher and then an administrator since 1990. This center (IYC-Harrisburg) houses about 400 adjudicated boys between 13 and 21 years. IYC-Harrisburg does many innovative programs, among them Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS).

 

Greta Colombi

Greta Colombi, Technical Assistance Task Leader of NDTAC, is responsible for the Center's technical assistance activities. Since joining the Center in 2007, she has been overseeing responses to direct assistance requests related to Title I, Part D, the launch of peer-based, problem-solving communities of Title I, Part D administrators and practitioners; and the coordination and development of web-based conferences on a variety of ND-related topics. She has a background in program monitoring and reporting, technical assistance, and research in both the education and health and human services fields.

Zelma Cooper

Zelma Cooper is the administrator for the Title I, Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk Children and Youth Program for the Los Angeles Unified School District. She has worked as a teacher of elementary, secondary, and special education in Los Angeles. Previously she worked as a special education teacher for the Grand Rapids, Michigan public schools. In 1997, Ms. Cooper was selected by the superintendent of public instruction for the State of California to serve as a member of the Title I Committee of Practitioners. In 2001, she was selected to serve as its co-chair. Ms. Cooper serves on several committees in Los Angeles County that link and coordinate services for foster youth, probation, and camp returnees. She brings 23 years of experience in providing academic support to ensure that children and youth in out-of-home placement have the same opportunity to graduate from high school as all other students.

 

Carol Cramer-Brooks

Carol Cramer-Brooks is the director of Program Development and Support for the Michigan Department of Human Services, Bureau of Juvenile Justice. She is responsible for the education, training, quality assurance, policy and the juvenile assignment units for the State-run confinement facilities and community-based programs. Mrs. Cramer-Brooks has participated in juvenile confinement education and programming since 1982. Prior to her current position, Mrs. Cramer-Brooks was the principal of the Kalamazoo County Juvenile home Schools in Kalamazoo Michigan, where she also was special education teacher for sixteen years. Mrs. Cramer-Brooks is the former director of Training and Confinement Education for the National Juvenile Detention Association’s Center for research and professional development.

 

Michael Cummings

Since 1996, Michael Cummings has been the juvenile detention transition coordinator for the prevention/intervention program for at-risk youth in the cities of Bridgeport, Hartford, and New Haven, Connecticut. He extensively reviews the transitional systems currently in place in each of these three cities and also examines those in place in other States. He provides leadership in developing collaborative transition systems between juvenile centers and their community schools in Bridgeport, Hartford, and New Haven, and works with each city’s advisory committee in developing a systematic model of service delivery to effectively transition youth back into local schools.

 

Mary Beth Curtis

Mary Beth Curtis's expertise in developing reading strategies for at-risk and delinquent populations was honed during her tenure as director of the Girls and Boys Town reading center in Nebraska, where she helped develop the Boys Town Reading Program. She is the author of numerous books and articles including Adolescent Reading: Trends in Recent Research and Implications for Instruction, which reviews her study of instruction methods for teaching reading skills.

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Karen Denbroeder

Karen Denbroeder is a Senior Educational Program Director for the Florida Department of Education's Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Service. Ms. Denbroeder, now responsible for the oversight of the education programs of all the juvenile justice facilities in Florida, was instrumental in making the push for a common assessment instrument for the State of Florida. She was also responsible for developing the assessment reporting format for the juvenile justice programs. Her work has led to a State law mandating a single test, as well as implementation of this law in Florida.

 

Nicole Deschenes

Nicole Deschenes, M.Ed., B.Sc., is the director of the National Technical Assistance Center on Youth Transition, which dedicates itself to improving practice, systems, and outcomes for youth and young adults with emotional and behavioral difficulties. Ms. Deschenes is also a faculty member in the department of child and family studies, at the Louis de La Parte Florida Mental Health Institute in Tampa, Florida. She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the Université de Moncton, Canada, and a master’s degree in education from the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Ms. Deschenes has more than 30 years of experience as a community mental health nurse, educator, consultant, and researcher. Throughout her career, Ms. Deschenes has assisted local, national, and international organizations in developing improved supports and services for individuals with emotional and/or behavioral issues.

 

MaryAnn Donovan

MaryAnn Donovan is a policy analyst with the Office of Youth Services in the Employment and Training Administration [ETA]. Her responsibilities include representing the Youth Office on the reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act. Prior to coming to the Youth Office, Ms. Donovan was a staff member for 6 years with the Departments of Education and Labor's National School-to-Work Office. She has also worked in ETA's Office of Policy Development, Evaluation, and Research and the Department of Labor's Congressional Affairs Office.

 

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer is an education and mental health consultant who has served children and families and teachers for over 45 years. He is one of the few leaders in school psychology honored with his profession's life-time achievement award. He also received the Tipper Gore friend of children award from the National Mental Health Association. In 2007 he and his wife received a mental health child advocacy award from the state of Maryland's coalition of Families for children's Mental Health. Kevin is on many boards and presently chairs the board of ROOT Inc in Washington, DC to reduce youth and gun violence.

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Steven Ellis

Steven Ellis, M.P.A. is Senior Manager for Research and Evaluation at the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute. He works extensively with education, health care, and economic development initiatives and governmental entities in the areas of customer satisfaction, impact measurement, and organizational and market research. Mr. Ellis has experience with a range of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, including survey research, case study, interviewing, focus groups, and literature review. He has practical experience working with non-profit and quasi-public organizations, public agencies, and private businesses. Mr. Ellis received a master's degree in public administration from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his B.A. from North Adams State College.

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Akin Fadeyi

M. Akin Fadeyi is currently employed by the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA) as the implementation director of the U.S. Department of Justice, OJJDP-funded Performance-Based Standards (PbS) project for youth correction and detention facilities. Mr. Fadeyi provides guidance and assistance to participating sites to implement the PbS goals, standards, expected practices, and processes, and to complete the project’s data collection, reports, and improvement cycle. He also oversees and monitors the consultants who work with participating sites in the project.

 

Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller, M.ED., L.P.C., RPED, currently serves as the manager of the educational liaison department of the Texas Youth Commission in Austin, Texas. Mr. Fuller received his master’s degree from Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas. His career spans 41 years of education-related service. He has been a classroom teacher, a college instructor, a rehabilitation counselor, a special education supervisor, and an assessment specialist. In addition, Mr. Fuller served as the director of special education for 13 years before retiring and taking a position with the Texas Education Agency as a contract monitor. He joined the Texas Youth Commission in 2001 and was promoted to manager in September 2003.

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Diane Gadow

Diane Gadow is currently deputy director of the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections. Prior to her current position, Ms. Gadow was superintendent of Ferris School, the maximum secure care facility for court adjudicated juveniles in Delaware. She was recruited to lead the staff through a new facility design and total program transformation. At the time, Ferris School was under an ACLU lawsuit and noted for lack of adequate programming. The new Ferris School facility and program opened in May 1997. Within 2 years, it was cited nationally as a model program by the Coalition for Juvenile Justice in their Conditions of Confinement Report, 1999. In 2002, Education Disability & Juvenile Justice (EDJJ) recognized Ferris School as a model educational program for youth corrections institutions. Ms. Gadow has assisted other States in developing new facilities and enhancing program design, organizational structure, and implementing a process whereby staff and youth promote and support positive social skill development, treatment, and education.

 

Simon Gonsoulin

Mr. Gonsoulin, NDTAC's Director, brings to the Center 30 years of experience in education, special education, and juvenile justice. He is an expert in issues related to juvenile justice education and administration as well as special education administration. Most recently, as the Deputy Secretary of the Office of Youth Development within the Governor's Cabinet in Louisiana, he served as the lead administrator for the State's juvenile justice system, including its secure care facilities, statewide probation and parole functions, contracted community-based programming, and a newly-created stand-alone State agency of juvenile justice. Prior to that, he served as the State Director of Education for the same office. Earlier in his career, Mr. Gonsoulin worked directly in schools and classrooms as both an instructor and principal.

 

Heather Griller Clark

Dr. Heather Griller Clark has been working with and on behalf of juvenile justice and neglected and delinquent populations since 1993. She has served as special education teacher and a transition coordinator for the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections; a special education teacher for Peoria Accelerated High School; a research associate for the National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice; and is currently the project director for the Arizona Detention Transition Project, 4-year OSEP-funded Model Demonstration Project, and Learner Outcomes for Merging Two Worlds, an Arizona State Department of Education training grant.

 

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Michael Haley

In 2000, Michael Haley was one of 12 people awarded the North Carolina Governor’s Public Management Fellowship Award. That same year, Michael joined the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention as a Researcher/Grant Writer. In October 2001, Michael was made the Grants Administrator for the Department. Since November 2005, he has been the Youth and Family Services Administrator for the Department. In order to better reflect the needs of the youth, families, and communities the Department serves, the Youth and Family Services Administrator acts as a facilitator and resource for community and family services for the Department. As such, Michael is responsible for developing, implementing, enhancing, and monitoring community, institutional and special program services for youth and families. Michael works to coordinate processes, protocols, and procedures between the Department’s divisions for connecting youth and families to the most appropriate services.

 

Maceo Hallmon

Maceo Hallmon is the Executive Director of East Baltimore Youth & Family Services. He is an active participant in juvenile detention in Baltimore, bringing the voice of the community on a variety of issues, particularly racial disparities in the juvenile justice system. He also served as the Acting Director of the Community and Family Resource Center, a new program at the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center.

 

Kia Harris

Kia Harris currently serves as the director of training at the National Juvenile Detention Association's Center for Research and Professional Development (CRPD). Prior to this position, she worked as an intensive probation officer at Ingham County Family Court Juvenile Division. There she co-facilitated girls' social skills groups and initiated the Intensive Probation Community Service for Girls program. She also served on the Child Benefit Fund executive board where she assisted in the distribution of funds and coordination of fundraising programs for neglected, abused, and delinquent children in need. In addition, Ms. Harris has experience as a youth development worker at the Eaton County Juvenile Detention Facility.

 

Jessica Heppen

Jessica Heppen holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from Rutgers University. She has over five years of experience in education research and policy and over ten years of experience in conducting research in the areas of education, health care, stereotypes of special populations, and student identity and self-esteem. Her research studies have been published in academic journals and presented at national conferences. Dr. Heppen is currently the Deputy Director for the National High School Center.

 

Joseph Hiznay

Joseph Hiznay is a program consultant for educational and social service systems in Pennsylvania.  He is also the chairman of the board of directors of Circle C Youth & Family Services.  Additionally, he serves on various committees promoting the educational rights of children and is a member of Correctional Educators of America.  Mr. Hiznay is involved in program development, monitoring, and project oversight relating to Title I in neglected and delinquent institutions in Pennsylvania.  Additionally, he has served for the past 8 years on the N and D Advisory Committee for the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

 

Barbara Huff

Barbara Huff is the parent of a daughter who grew up with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse challenges. Her struggle to get appropriate services, supports and treatment for her daughter led her to advocating on a larger scale. It eventually drove her away from her career in interior design to developing a statewide family-run advocacy organization in Kansas. As founder of Keys for Networking, she became involved in a national movement to involve families in their children’s care, in systems change, and in the evaluation of services and supports. She became one of the founders and the first president of the national Federation of  Families for Children’s Mental Health. She served thirteen years as the Federation’s Executive Director. Barbara’s appointment to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Advisory Council raises the family voice to a new level of influence on policy and systems change. Barbara takes great pride and delight in the development of over 130 family-run advocacy and support organizations across the country and making families a part of important decisions, as well as the family movement moving forward in the future. Barbara is currently a part time project coordinator for the Federation of  Families for Children’s Mental Health and a part time consultant.

 

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Kathleen Karol

Kathleen Karol, Ph.D., is the superintendent of education for Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections.  Prior to this position, Dr. Karol administered secure care programs in Coconino County in juvenile detention and jail settings. She has 14 years experience as a public school administrator in the principalship and superintendency roles. She is respected throughout the State for her work with at-risk populations and her ability to lead educational change.

 

Lonnie Kaufman

Lonnie Kaufman, M.S. is a Research Manager at the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute specializing in local, state, and federal educational initiatives and programs. Mr. Kaufman has over twenty years of experience working within and on behalf of public schools at the secondary and higher education levels throughout the U.S. His work has focused on conducting research and evaluation, managing projects, and providing professional development. He employs both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and has extensive experience writing reports reflecting key findings of data analysis. Mr. Kaufman received his M.S. in school counseling from San Diego State University. He earned his B.A. in anthropology and secondary teaching from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

 

James Keeley

Dr. James Keeley is currently the State field director for correctional education for the Maryland Department of Education, having recently retired from being the director of juvenile correctional education for the Pennsylvania Department of Education. He started his 32-plus-year career as a teacher in a juvenile and adult co-correctional institution. From there, he became an institutional education administrator and has been in his current position for the past 16 years. During this time he has been a member of many professional organizations, most notably as the president of the Correctional Education Association for 2 years. Mr. Keeley is currently serving as a commissioner on the Standards Commission for the Correctional Education Association and just received his Ph.D. in education leadership from Widener University.

 

Sheppard Kellam

Sheppard G. Kellam, M.D. is a public health psychiatrist who has played a major role in establishing concepts and methods for prevention science, and has contributed to knowledge about early risk factors and their malleability. From 1982-1993 He was Chair of the Department of Mental Health in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is now Professor Emeritus. In March of 2000 Dr. Kellam accepted an invitation of the American Institutes for Research to come full time to AIR and develop a new Center for Integrating Education and Prevention Research in Schools (Ed/Prev Center). His theoretical, methodological, and substantive contributions began with the early intervention studies in Woodlawn, an African American community on the South Side of Chicago, from 1963 through 1982. He and colleagues coined the name developmental epidemiology, i.e., mapping the variation in developmental paths leading to health or disorders within defined populations. In 2004 Dr. Kellam was elected to be a Fellow in the Academy of Experimental Criminology. As the first president of the Society for Prevention Research elected by the full membership(1998-2001), he worked to build and strengthen SPR as a broad, inclusive international scientific forum and organization for the advancement of prevention science worldwide.

Patrick Kelly

Patrick Kelly, a Research Assistant at AIR, serves as a State technical assistance liaison, works on the data team, and contributes research support for the Center Web site and related products. Patrick has an interest and experience in mental health in juvenile justice, as well as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) implementation and empirical research. In addition to his work on the NDTAC Center, he also helps coordinate policy forums related to promoting and disseminating education research. Patrick received his B.A. in History and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Christine Kenney

For the past 6 years Christine Kenney has been the Director of Educational Services at the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. In this position Ms. Kenney oversees the delivery of educational services in all residential programs as well as transition and vocational services. Prior to holding this position Ms. Kenney worked as the Executive Assistant to the Commissioner, victim advocate, caseworker and teacher at the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. Ms. Kenney holds a Master's in Public Administration from Suffolk University and a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education from Salem State College.

Tal Kerem

Tal Kerem joined NDTAC in December 2006 as a data specialist and has recently assumed the role of task leader for the Center's data collection and evaluation activities. His work for the Center has included, among other projects, presentation of CSPR data for the ND State Fast Facts, development of a CSPR data collection tool, and several ND Briefs. Tal holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Yeshiva University and a master's degree in Risk and Prevention from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

 

Marcia Kingman

Marcia Kingman oversees the Striving Readers grants from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education.  Before moving to the Department of Education, Ms. Kingman taught English at Colorado State University and in the Montgomery County, Maryland Public School system where she also helped design and deliver language arts professional development.

 

Barry Krisberg

Dr. Barry A. Krisberg has been the president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) since 1983. He is known nationally for his research and expertise on juvenile justice issues and is called upon as a resource for professionals and the media. Dr. Krisberg received his master's degree in criminology and a doctorate in sociology, both from the University of Pennsylvania. He has held several educational posts. He was a faculty member in the School of Criminology at the University of California at Berkeley, and was also an adjunct professor with the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Krisberg is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Hawaii and a lecturer in the legal studies department of the University of California at Berkeley.

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Stephanie Lampron

Stephanie Lampron, a research analyst at AIR, currently serves as Deputy Director of the Neglected and Delinquent Technical Assistance Center. Over the past several years she has worked closely with the U.S. Department of Education on the development and implementation of the National evaluation framework for Title I, Part D programs. In addition, she has overseen the collection and presentation of publicly available data for the "Fast Facts" pages, where States can compare their program data to National averages. Ms. Lampron has participated in research and evaluation projects that span both the education and health fields, including issues such as school reform, neglected and delinquent student education, student financial aid, nursing education, the stress-cancer relationship, and children's health insurance. Ms. Lampron received a Master's degree in Social Psychology from the Ohio State University, where she concentrated in attitude measurement, survey design and quantitative analysis.

 

Peter Leone

Dr. Leone is a Professor of Special Education at University of Maryland, College Park. His experience includes direct service to troubled youth as well as field-based research which examines the multidimensional problems associated with behavior disorders. Dr Leone's research interests focus on program environments for troubled youth, educational entitlements of incarcerated youth, and policy studies. He currently directs The National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ), a research, training and technical assistance project funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Leone’s research on literacy programs for incarcerated youth has been published in a number of professional journals, and he has made many presentations at national, state, and local conferences on topics related to the effective treatment and instruction of behaviorally disordered youth.

 

Joy Lewis

Joy Lewis is a research associate with WestEd's Assessment and Standards Development Services (ASDS) group. She has been with WestEd for 4 years, working previously with the policy center at WestEd and the math and science Program. Joy has been the ASAM Project Coordinator since 2002. Her other work at WestEd includes the development of large-scale assessments for various States around the country. Joy earned her M.A. in international education and policy analysis at Stanford University and her B.A. in sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

 

John Linton

John Linton was appointed to an education specialist position in the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, United States Department of Education, on January 16, 2001. There he headed the Office of Correctional Education. Since September 2002, Mr. Linton has served in the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, which subsumed the duties of the former Office of Correctional Education. Prior to his Federal appointment, Mr. Linton was director of correctional education for the Maryland State Department of Education. His responsibilities included direct management of the education and library programs in the 23,000-bed adult correctional system. Mr. Linton provided direct support to the legislatively mandated Educational Coordinating Council for Correctional Institutions, which included membership by both the State superintendent of schools and the State secretary of public safety and correctional services.

 

Edward Loughran

Edward (Ned) Loughran is the executive director of the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators, an organization representing the CEOs of State juvenile correctional agencies. He was the director of juvenile justice programs for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial from 1993 to 1996 where he administered a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to give technical assistance to several juvenile correctional agencies throughout the country.

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Dennis Maloney

Dennis Maloney was the president of Community Justice Associates. He was a senior program manager with the Balance and Restorative Justice Project at Florida Atlantic University. Dennis had more than 30 years of experience in corrections and community corrections. For 16 years he served as the Director of the Deschutes County Department of Community Justice of Oregon. There he initiated a variety of juvenile and adult corrections programs that gained national attention. Dennis wrote two books and more than 30 published articles. His book on probation is the most widely distributed journal in the history of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. In the past decade, Dennis provided technical assistance to all 50 States. Nearly 30 States revamped their entire juvenile justice system based on Dennis' writings on the balanced approach to juvenile justice. The U.S. Department of State distributed his writings to more than 250 countries, and his work is utilized worldwide as a foundation for justice system reform.

 

Sarup Mathur

Dr. Sarup R. Mathur currently serves as clinical associate professor in the special education program at Arizona State University. She is also an associate director of the National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ) where she is responsible for developing and evaluating the EDJJ professional development activities. She has accumulated extensive experience in program development and quantitative and qualitative evaluation of program processes and outcomes. She is an active member of Arizona Professional Development Leadership Academy, a leadership group involved in implementing and evaluating professional development activities in the State of Arizona. Currently, she is a co-principal investigator of the Arizona Detention Transition Model Demonstration Project funded by the Office of Special Education Projects (OSEP). She has published a number of research articles on behavioral disorders and juvenile delinquency and has presented at State and national conferences.

 

Robert Michels

As school program manager, Robert (Bob) Michels works with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics character education initiatives, including working with teachers, administrators, and other school personnel in county offices of education and school districts throughout the State to develop and implement the Character-Based Education Program (CBL), ethics camp, and programs for parents. Michels is an adjunct lecturer in the counseling, psychology, and education division at Santa Clara University. Bob has been a teacher and administrator in both elementary and high schools. He has served on various statewide committees on alternative education and been a pioneer and leader in the development of court and community schools. Bob received his bachelor's degree in elementary and secondary education from San Francisco State University and his master's in public school administration from San Jose State University.

 

JoAnn Murphy

JoAnn Murphy is a Principal at Foothill High School, a high school for incarcerated youth in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  She has been at the school for just over a year and prior to this position she had experience in the field of education as a classroom teacher, school psychologist, assistant principal and special education coordinator. 

 

Thomas Murphy

Thomas Murphy is a 5-year veteran at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Mr. Murphy worked the first 2 1/2 years at OJJDP in the special emphasis division where he managed and monitored more than 40 discretionary grants targeting youth who are at risk, gang involved, and delinquent. Mr. Murphy monitored a variety of federally initiated grant programs that included juvenile mentoring programs, the youth environmental services program, and an array of delinquency prevention and intervention programs throughout the country.

 

Eve Munson

Eve N. Munson is the director of detention reform at the Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ).  She is responsible for the organization’s first foundation-supported project with the charge of reforming the juvenile detention system through intensive training and technical assistance to CJJ’s Governor-appointed member State advisory groups.  Ms. Munson has also worked as a counselor in the field with both court-appointed girls and incarcerated adults and in the field of prevention research and evaluation.  She received her degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

 

Howard Muscott

Dr. Howard S. Muscott is professor of education and director of undergraduate special education programs and graduate programs in emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) in the department of education at Rivier College. Dr. Muscott currently co-directs the New Hampshire Center for Effective Behavioral Interventions and Supports, a statewide technical assistance and training network aimed at enhancing the mental health of all children in schools including those with EBD. Muscott received his doctorate in educating students with EBD from Teachers College, Columbia University and joined the Rivier faculty in 1992. He has more than 25 years of experience in education ranging from preschool through high school and higher education.

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Diego James Navarro

Diego Navarro is the Founder and PI for a National Science Foundation ATE funded project, the Digital Bridge Academy (DBA), which serves under-prepared Latino students and is in the process of being replicated in community colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area serving urban African-American, Latino and Asian students. Mr. Navarro has over twenty years experience in research and management positions in the computer industry with Hewlett Packard Labs, Apple Computer, NCR Corporation, and CEO of two start-up high-tech companies. Diego started his career in 1976 as a computer support specialist at Bank of America (while attending Pasadena City College). Diego received his master’s degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business, and holds an undergraduate degree in Information Systems from Antioch University.

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Edna O'Connor

Dr. Edna R. O'Connor is the executive director of Oak Hill Academy in Laurel, Maryland, a District of Columbia public school for middle and high school-detained and committed adjudicated youth. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Goucher College. Dr. O'Connor has worked in the field of education for more than 25 years. She is dedicated to bringing about excellence and equity in education for all children. Her fields of special interest and expertise are multicultural education, curriculum development, behavior management, and restructuring schools at risk.

 

Mindee O'Cummings

Mindee O'Cummings, a Research Analyst at the American Institutes for Research, has worked in the field of education for over ten