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Samuel Aguirre
Director of WIDA Español/Assistant Director of Consortium Relations
Tim Boals
WIDA Founder and Director
Mark Chapman
Senior assessment innovation manager, WIDA
Laurene Christensen
Assessment researcher, WIDA
Rita MacDonald
Academic English language researcher, WIDA
Ngoc-Diep Nguyen
Director of WIDA Professional Learning
Jon Nordmeyer
WIDA International Programs Director
Moses Altsech
Teaching professor of marketing
Expertise in marketing and business topics; experience as a professor, consultant, trainer and public speaker over 30 years with clients in dozens of industries.
Lindsay McCary
Scientist, Wisconsin Center for Education Research
Expert on autism spectrum disorder and neurodevelopmental disabilities. Passionate about education and training of pre-service professionals.
Laura Houser
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
Primary Care Physician, Director of Advocacy for Department of Pediatrics
Taylor Odle
Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies
Expert on college access and success, state and federal higher education policy, and program evaluation
Shilagh Mirgain
Distinguished Psychologist, Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
Clinical Psychologist specializing in Health and Sport Psychology who has expertise in mind-body skills to foster well-being, optimal health and peak performance.
Robert Benjamin
Visiting Professor, UW-Madison Astronomy; Professor, UW-Whitewater Physics
Astronomer. Expertise on interstellar matter and the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy
Ben Fisher
Associate Professor, Civil Society and Community Studies
Expert on school safety, police in schools, school security and surveillance, and school discipline, including racial inequality in these areas
Priya Mukherjee
Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Expert in the economics of health, education, and governance in low income countries, with a focus on India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Nepal.
Melinda Soares-Furtado
Professor, astronomy and physics
Expert in stellar clusters, stars, exoplanets, and exomoons. Draws insights from ground-based and space-based observational data, as well as stellar/substellar evolutionary models.
Gina Mode
Researcher, Center for Dairy Research
Passionate about butter and cheese making, grading, judging, and history – particularly in Wisconsin.
Basil Tikoff
Professor, Geology
Expert on Structural Geology and Tectonics; Geology of Western United States
Mayra Oyola
Assistant Professor, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Expert on Atmospheric Physics/Satellite Meteorology/Weather
Jessica Calarco
Associate Professor, sociology
Expert on inequalities in family life, education, and health decision-making, with a focus on how institutions and policies amplify inequalities in these domains.
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Jessica Stovall
Assistant professor of African American Studies
Expert on Black teachers, Black educational studies, race and schooling, and the impact of antiblackness in K-12 schools.
Pearl Han Li
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Expertise in children's moral development and how children learn from what they are told
Brian Burt
Professor; Director, Wisconsin's Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB)
Expert on research teams, broadening participation in STEM, and the experiences that attract students to or turn them away from STEM pathways.
Sam Pazicni
Chemistry
I have expertise in the teaching & learning of chemistry, as well as equity and inclusion issues related to chemistry professional training.
Ericka Wills
School for Workers | Department of Labor Education
Expert specializing in labor unions, union organizing, collective bargaining, labor disputes, including strikes and lockouts, and labor history.
Paul Merkatoris
Assistant Teaching Professor, Large Animal Surgery
Large animal surgery specialist with expertise in livestock and equine surgery and clinical training of veterinary students
Rebecca Cors
Scientist and Evaluator
Expertise: research and team facilitation to support program managers with strategic planning, designing education programs, evaluating outcomes and impact.
Xia Zhu-Barker
Assistant Professor, Soil and Environmental Sciences
Soil health, compost, greenhouse gas emissions, nitrate leaching, agricultural sustainability, nutrient and manure management, NOx and NH3 emissions, and use of isotopic tracers
Shamya Karumbaiah
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Expert on AI in education, emphasizing responsible, safe, and ethical use of AI in classrooms and AI literacy for educators