Janel Anderson is a dissertator in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Janel is a mixed-methods researcher whose work investigates how teachers’ working conditions, education policy, and evolving community expectations impact teacher effectiveness. Her dissertation focuses on the caregiving labor in teachers’ work and the contexts in which they …
Wyatt Broscious is a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying Mathematics and Economics. He believes that by asking the right questions, quantitative research can be a massive force for good. Outside of work, he likes to spend his free time in the outdoors and reading nonfiction.
Ramata Diallo (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum and Instruction with a doctoral minor in Educational Policy Studies and a certificate in Gender & Women’s Studies. In the summer of 2025, she received the IRIS International Division Pre-Dissertation Scholarship, and in 2020, the Fulbright scholarship for a Master’s in TESOL at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. …
Gerald (Jerry) Dryer has been a professional educator for 25 years and is a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, researching how technology can be used to redesign instructional practices to disrupt historically inequitable systems. At UW–Madison, he has been involved in many projects: he led the development of the CALL-PL framework for evaluating the key practices …
Karina Flores is a proud daughter of Mexican immigrants from Wapato, WA, inside the Yakama Indian Reservation. Karina graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. in Sociology and American Ethnic Studies. She is currently a first-year Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the Department of Education Leadership Policy Analysis, focusing on …
Eric Hsienchen Chu is a sophomore pursuing Economics, Statistics, and Mathematics at UW–Madison. He serves as Editor-in-Chief at Equilibrium: The Undergraduate Journal of Economics and a student representative of the Economics Inclusion Board, promoting inclusion and engagement within the department. Eric’s primary research interests are Microeconomic Theory, focusing on search/monitoring mechanisms, and Labor Economics, with an emphasis on education. He …
Deonte Iverson is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is a rising fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, on the K-12 track. Before enrolling at UW–Madison, he completed his B.A. in Special Education at the University of Wisconsin—Whitewater. He was also a special education intern for the …
Mina Kao graduated from Brown University in May 2023 with a B.A. in Sociology and Psychology. On the CALL/ECL team, Mina works with a team at Brown, led by Professor John Diamond, to conduct qualitative analysis of DPTs’ theories of action. During her undergrad, Mina also served on a research team investigating the diverse cultural learning …