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  • Chad Bridgeman

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    I am an experienced Web Producer/Accessibility professional with a strong background in accessibility, content management, and digital operations. My specialities include building and managing responsive web pages, ensuring 508-compliant web experiences, and coordinating cross-functional teams. With over a decade of hands-on production and QA experience, I bring a detail-oriented approach to building, maintaining, and optimizing…

  • Laura Bellows, Ph.D.

    Laura Bellows, Ph.D.

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    Laura is a social policy scholar with wide-ranging interests in U.S. domestic policy and particular interests in sometimes hard-to-identify populations (immigrant communities, LGBTQ+ individuals). She has training in causal inference and demography, as well as extensive expertise working with large-scale administrative data. She also has a long-time interest in collaborating with state agencies and non-profits.…

  • Meredith Bachman, Ph.D.

    Meredith Bachman, Ph.D.

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    Meredith is an accomplished education research scientist, policy analyst, and behavioral psychologist. She has over 15 years of experience designing policy relevant studies using a range of methods, including large-scale nationally representative surveys, randomized controlled trials, and other techniques to evaluate implementation and impact. She excels at translating complex data into clear action oriented findings…

  • Melanie Ali, Ph.D.

    Melanie Ali, Ph.D.

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    Dr. Ali is a seasoned education evaluation and research leader. As a research analyst and branch chief for the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, she designed and led large-scale mixed-methods implementation and impact studies. These included studies of educator preparation and development programs, educator performance evaluation systems, postsecondary access strategies, and career…

  • Kavemuii Murangi, Ed.D.

    Kavemuii Murangi, Ed.D.

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    Dr. Kavemuii Murangi is a seasoned education leader with more than 20 years of experience managing large-scale assessment, data collection, professional development, and organizational effectiveness. At Westat, he directed the NAEP High School Transcript Study, co-led the NAEP Support and Service Center, and served as Training and Quality Assurance Director—overseeing stakeholder engagement and national data…

  • Richelle Davis

    Richelle Davis

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    As a proficient wrangler of both middle school students and administrative data, Richelle brings a wealth of education knowledge to bear on her work. As the former Branch Chief for the Elementary and Secondary Branch at the National Center of Education Statistics, Richelle’s team oversaw the collection of federal K-12 education data within the EDFacts…

  • Anindita Sen, Ph.D.

    Anindita Sen, Ph.D.

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    I’m a Researcher with over two decades of experience designing, implementing, and analyzing large-scale education assessments. My work focuses on uncovering meaningful patterns in student learning—across countries, cultures, and contexts—through rigorous data collection and thoughtful analysis. At the American Institutes for Research (AIR), I collaborated with federal agencies and partner organizations on the U.S. implementation…

  • Carolyn Grim, Ph.D.

    Carolyn Grim, Ph.D.

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    Dr. Grim is an education statistics and psychometrics expert with extensive experience in test development, survey methodology, and quantitative analysis. Her strategic insights and advanced statistical modeling using SPSS, R, and specialized psychometric software result in valid and reliable instruments for scales that yield precise, data-driven decisions. She specializes in enhancing data collection processes and…

  • Elise Christopher, Ph.D.

    Elise Christopher, Ph.D.

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    Experienced in team leadership, project management, oral and written presentation, recruitment and outreach, Elise brings passion and focus to her projects. Most recently, at NCES, Elise managed six simultaneous large, nationally representative longitudinal studies of high schoolers into adulthood, resulting in the release of over 10 national-level datasets of survey and administrative data with supporting…

  • Kathleen Flanagan, Ph.D.

    Kathleen Flanagan, Ph.D.

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    Kathleen Flanagan has led numerous evaluation and large-scale assessment projects. Innovative course modules that show educators how to take charge of classroom and school outcomes are available at chartingyourowncourse.com.