Conference: Educating Students for Civic Engagement
March 13–14, 2024
Join more than 100 civic educators, researchers, and policymakers from across the country as CERL releases the results of its three-year, independent report on the impact of the Project Citizen Research Program (PCRP) on teachers and their students. The report will serve as a foundation for presentations by prominent educators and scholars, panels, and roundtables.
Speakers and Bios
- Tara Bartlett
Senior Research Analyst, Arizona State University; Co-Director of the Arizona Civic Coalition - Elizabeth Bennion
Chancellor's Professor of Political Science and Director of Community Engagement, Indiana University South Bend - Michael Blauw
Director of Civic Learning and Strategic Partnerships, Center for Civic Education - Vinita Chhabra
Program Officer, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education - John DeGioia
President, Georgetown University - Bobbi Gentry
Associate Professor of Political Science, Bridgewater College - Katie Giles
Strategic Initiatives Project Officer, Democratic Knowledge Project, Harvard University - Nadia Greene
Chief of Staff, Black Graduate Student Alliance, Georgetown University - Brian Grindrod
Wilbur Cross High School, Connecticut - Robert Groves
Georgetown University - Jonathan A. Hanna
Civic Education Research Lab, Georgetown University - Kathryn Hartzell
Senior Research Specialist, Civic Education Research Lab, Georgetown University - Joy Hatcher
Social Studies Program Manager, Georgia Department of Education - Reuben Henriques
History and Social Science Content Support Lead, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education - Alissa Irion-Groth
Director of Program Grants and Innovation, Center for Civic Education - John Ishiyama
Professor, University of North Texas - Joseph Kahne
Professor and Co-Director of the Civic Engagement Research Group, University of California, Riverside - Brett Levy
Associate Professor, University of Albany - Kevin Lorentz
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Saginaw Valley State University - Yuwei Ma
Georgetown University - Glenn Manns
Kentucky We the People - Genie Massey
Maryland Civic Education Coalition - Elizabeth Matto
Director, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University - Molly May
Civic Education Research Lab, Georgetown University - Alison McCartney
Professor of Political Science, Towson University - Sarah McGrew
Associate Professor, University of Maryland - Maureen McGuirl
Lawn School, Jamestown, Rhode Island
- Mary McHugh
Executive Director of Civic and Community Engagement, Stevens Service Learning Center, Merrimack College - Patrick McSweeney
PhD Candidate, Georgetown University - Elizabeth Miller
Georgetown University - Kazuyoshi Nakadaira
Joetsu University of Education - Yuta Nozaki
Hokkaido University of Education - Ed O'Connell
Revolutionary Spaces - Diana Owen
Professor and Director of the Civic Education Research Lab, Georgetown University - Lawrence Paska
Executive Director, National Council for the Social Studies - Donna Phillips
Vice President and Chief Program Officer, Center for Civic Education - Liza Prendergast
Vice President of Strategy and Technical Leadership, Democracy International - Kelly Reichardt
Manager of Civic Learning and Curriculum, Center for Civic Education - Ariana Patricia Salazar
Georgetown University - Sebastian Sawhney
Civic Education Research Lab, Georgetown University - Joshua Scacco
Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Sustainable Democracy, The University of South Florida - Steven Smith
Executive Director, American Political Science Association - Robert Stafford
Kentucky Rural Educators Association - Lindsay Stepanek
West Virginia Center for Civic Education - J. Cherie Strahan
Director, Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, The University of Akron - M. Bradlee Sutherland
Research Associate, Civic Education Research Lab, Georgetown University - Jessica Sutter
Institute for Citizens and Scholars - Marcie Taylor-Thoma
Maryland Council for Civic and History Education - Deborah Tyminski
Fayetteville Academy, North Carolina - Jackie Viana
Miami Dade Public Schools, Florida - Emily Voss
Senior Manager of National Programs and Professional Development, Center for Civic Education - Kim Wahaus
Olathe South High School, Kansas - Mengna Zhao
Georgetown University
The PCRP and the conference are funded by a generous grant from the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.
