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The EASE Project is engaged in several studies based on our research team's interests and collaborative efforts with other research projects. Project types range from and are intrusive of intervention models, reform models, and research models.

These projects include the following studies:

Dr. Robert Cooper

  • Place of Origin: Los Angeles, CA
  • Undergraduate: B.A. in Government from Pomona College
  • Graduate: M.A. in Management from Brandeis University Sloan Public Policy Fellow at Brandeis University CORO Public Affairs Fellow .
  • Ph.D. from UCLA
  • Research interests: Norms that guide school policy and practice, Implementation and replication of equity-minded reform, Politics of education.

Siduri Haslerig

  • Place of Origin: Bolinas, CA
  • Undergraduate: Swarthmore College (double major in Sociology of Education and English Literature, BA received in 2007).
  • Graduate: M.A. in Education, received in 2008, from the Higher Education and Organizational Change (HEOC) Division at UCLA .
  • Research interests: College preparation, access, and degree attainment for underrepresented minorities; post-secondary planning and destinations; organizational .culture; the effect of interactions and relationships on developmental outcomes and college-going; the affect of school reform(s) on college preparation; and campus diversity and climate in the post-affirmative action context.

Ryan Santos

  • Place of Origin: Norwalk, CA
  • Undergraduate: BA (2006) in Chicano and Latino Studies from California State University, Long Beach.
  • Graduate: MA (2008) in Education with a specialization in Race and Ethnic Studies in Education from UCLA .
  • Research interests: Student-teacher interpersonal relationships, critical race Theory, racial microaggressions, educational experiences of Chicana and Chicano Students.
  • Career Goal: My ultimate occupational goal is to become a university professor.
  • Doctoral emphasis: Currently, I am a 1st year Ph.D. student in the UCLA Graduate School of Education, Social Sciences and Comparative Education division, specializing in Race and Ethnic Studies in Education.

 

 

 

 

 

Chikwe Moses

  • Place of Origin: Nigeria, West Africa
  • Previous Post-secondary education: Philosophy (BA), Nigeria; Education Administration (MA), LMU
  • Present: Urban Education K-12 (PhD), UCLA (in progress) Research Interest: Academic Self-concept of African American High School Students .
  • Career Goal: Teaching and research at the university

Christine Brigid Malsbary

  • Place of Origin: New York, New York
  • Undergraduate: BA from Temple University in Art History.
  • Graduate: MA from the University of London in Anthropology of Art and Visual Culture, and a Master's from City College, City University of New York in Teaching English as a Second/ Other Language.
  • Research interests:critical globalization and migration, the educational experiences of recently arrived immigrant youth in a comparative perspective, K-12 urban school reform, and mixed-methods research.
  • Previous to beginning her PhD, Christine worked with 6th through 10th grade recently arrived immigrant youth in the South Bronx and Brooklyn, and trained/mentored ESL teachers for the New York City Teaching Fellows and UCLA's Teacher Education Program.

Samuel Jordan IV

  • Place of Origin: Marks, MS
  • Undergraduate: BS from Rust College
  • Graduate: Completing MA in Secondary Education from LMU.
  • Research interests: Progressive and applicable of educational policy in educational reform.
  • Career Goal: University professor