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| Research Forum: A Regional Perspective in Diverse Communities |
| Panelist Bios |
| Curt M. Adams |
| Curt Adams is the Founder and former Director of San Miguel Tulsa and past Research Director of the Trust Project. He is currently an assistant professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma where he conducts research on social phenomena in school organizations. |
| Tami L. Moore, Ph.D. |
| Tami L. Moore is assistant professor of higher education in the Educational Leadership Program at Oklahoma State University–Tulsa. Her research agenda focuses broadly on the role of higher education institutions in the communities they serve, employing social and critical theory in the reading of community engagement. Her current projects explore issues related to faculty work and community-engaged scholarship, and the relationship between geographic place and community engagement in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. She is founding co-chair of the Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop sponsored by the National Center for the Study of University Engagement and the National Outreach Scholarship Partnership at the National Outreach Scholarship Conference, and recipient of the AERA-J Dissertation of the Year Award in 2009. |
| Gretchen Suess |
| Gretchen Suess (Dr. Suess) received her PhD in social/cultural anthropology from Temple University, with a focus on civic engagement, public education, and urban poverty in Philadelphia. She joined the Netter Center as the founding Director of Evaluation in August of 2008. Prior to joining the center, Gretchen spent five years at Research for Action, a nonprofit organization conducting research and evaluation in public education. She has also done private consulting work and contributed to two large policy research studies at Temple University and the Center for Bioethics, at Penn. Gretchen embraces a mixed-method, collaborative, and participatory approach to evaluation. |
| Allyson L. Watson, Ph.D. |
| Allyson L. Watson, PhD-Associate Professor at Northeastern State University, College of Education. During her 7 year tenure, Dr. Watson has focused her research on urban education, faculty of color in higher education, and urban school and university partnerships. She has presented at more than 30 state, national and international research conferences, written 2 research grants, and has published articles focusing on her research interests. Because her research on school university partnerships, Dr. Watson was instrumental in establishing various partnerships with NSU and KIPP Tulsa College Preparatory as well as other Tulsa area schools. She has served as commencement speaker at local Tulsa school programs. Dr. Watson is a Gates Millennium Scholar alumnus and serves on the board of scholarship reviewers for the United Negro College Fund and the Gates Foundation. Dr. Watson believes that her job as an educator is to spark others to believe in themselves and their capacity to achieve their goals. |
| Moderator: Lisa Bass, Ph.D Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy College of Education University of Oklahoma-Tulsa |