People

Therese Arsenault

Therese worked as a Research Assistant on the Understanding of Consequence Project in 2009-2010. While at Harvard, her work focused on understanding how students reason about science concepts and how teachers come to understand and develop students’...

Maya Bialik

Maya Bialik was a Research Assistant on the Causal Learning Projects. She received her Ed.M. in Mind, Brain and Education from Harvard. Prior to this, she completed her Undergraduate Degree in Psychology, Biology, and Linguistics. She has worked with...

Nicole Brooke

Nicole completed her master's degree in the Human Development and Psychology program at HGSE, and was a Research Assistant in the "Causal Learning in the Classroom" study where she helped to develop tasks, interview students, and analyze data. Prior to...

Erin Carr

Erin Carr was a Research Assistant on the Understanding of Consequence Project. She completed her Ed.M. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in the Mind, Brain and Education program in 2010. Prior to this, she earned her B.A. in biology and...

Ruthie Chang

Ruthie Chang was a graduate student in the Mind, Brain, and Education program and joined the Understandings of Consequence Project as a Research Assistant in both the ReCAST and the Causal Learning Projects. Prior to this, she graduated from the...

Evelyn Chen

Evelyn Chen was a Lab Manager and Research Assistant on the Causal Learning Projects. She was involved in studies that investigate how K-6 students perceive causes and its effects that are temporally delayed or spatially distant, and how students...

Kaley Curtis

Kaley was a Research Assistant on the Causal Learning and EcoLEARN Projects before leaving to complete her PhD at UC Berkeley in clinical psychology. She loved her time at HGSE and Project Zero and especially appreciated the chance to work with Dr...

Kasia Derbiszewska

Kasia was the Project Manager for the Causal Learning in the Classroom Project. Kasia received her Ed.M. from Harvard University where she studied translational cognitive neuroscience and program design in the Mind, Brain, and Education program. Her B.S...

Maleka Donaldson

Maleka Donaldson is an Associate Professor of Education and Child Study at Smith College. She earned her doctorate in Human Development and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and worked on the Causal Learning Studies during her time...

Lauren Farrar

Lauren Farrar worked as a Research Assistant on the Understandings of Consequence Project and the EcoMUVE Project. She received her Ed.M in Technology, Innovation, and Education at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. Prior to this, she completed her...

Heidi Fessenden

Heidi Fessenden was a Research Assistant on the Causal Learning Project. Her work involved in understanding children's reasoning about distributed causality, and designing classroom activities to build on their thinking. She graduated from the Learning...

Emily Gonzalez

Emily was a Project Manager at the Next Level Lab, Project Manager of the EcoXPT Project, and a Research Assistant on the Causal Learning and EcoLEARN Projects. She is a graduate of HGSE where she received her Ed.M. in Mind, Brain, and Education...