Our Team

Joyce is a Distinguished Scholar at EDC and a national expert on STEM career development and workforce education. She leads a body of work that explores how to enhance STEM learning and support people in using their STEM skills, knowledge, and dispositions to pursue productive and rewarding careers. Her projects develop industry/education connections in computational thinking, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and other advanced technologies. Malyn-Smith’s research focuses on the future of work and its implications for lifelong learning. She investigates the foundational skills K–20 students need to prepare for work at the Human-Technology Frontier. She holds an EdD from Boston University in business/career education and bilingual education leadership.

Deborah is a Senior Project Manager at EDC and serves as a member of the PACE DSC technical team, supporting DSC teams with the computer science content knowledge to spearhead their district CS initiatives. She also is the Executive Director of CSforMA, Inc. which serves as the Massachusetts Regional Partner for Code.org providing the infrastructure for the CS Discoveries yearlong professional development and ongoing PLC and technical assistance for educators in this grant.

Anne DeMaille, project Co-Principal Investigator (co-PI), is the Computer Science and STEM Integration Specialist at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.  In her current role, Anne presents regularly at STEM conferences and workshops, facilitating networking opportunities to ensure that best practices are shared across districts, and actively communicates with stakeholders about the MA Digital Literacy and Computer Science Framework and its implementation. She has held industry positions in aerospace/defense operations and management, financial systems management, and courseware development and also has experience teaching middle school math and science.

With over 25 years of experience, Shereen's background spans various sectors, including industry, government, non-profit leadership, and education. Recognized as a leading figure in STEM workforce development, she is an advisor for the Massachusetts' Innovation Pathway program for the 2022-2023 term, guiding school districts in developing career pathway initiatives. Throughout her career, she has been fortunate to hold significant non-profit management roles including Executive Director of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council's Education Foundation, Corporate Partnership Manager for CityYear, and Marketing Director for the Children's Trust. In these positions, she has led fundraising efforts and forged strategic partnerships with companies such as Amazon, MITRE, Microsoft, Deloitte LLP, and Verizon. Additionally, as a computer and system's engineering consultant, she has assisted both public and private entities in process improvement projects. Shereen's contributions have resulted in cost reductions, improved efficiency, and enhanced collaboration. As a catalyst for change, she enjoys bringing her business acumen and visionary approach to crafting pragmatic solutions for complex problems.

Josephine Louie, a highly experienced researcher, specializes in providing new insights into education policy, STEM education, technology integration, and social science. Drawing on her extensive expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, she is the principal investigator of multiple projects funded by the National Science Foundation. Louie leads the Understanding Weather Extremes with Big Data and Strengthening Data Literacy Across the Curriculum projects. She has published findings on using screencasting to support STEM learning, researcher-practitioner partnerships, gender gaps in assessment outcomes, math practices to support struggling learners, and regression discontinuity design. Louie received an AB in Social Studies from Harvard College, a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an EdM and EdD from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

David Reider is Principal Partner of Education Design, an educational consulting firm in Boston specializing in program evaluation for K12 and post-secondary projects in STEM, arts education, and technology education for over 20 years. Current projects focus on how innovative learning technologies support modeling, visualization, and help demystify scientific phenomenon, and how computational thinking will propel tomorrow’s workforce. He has collaborated with academic, research, school district, and arts organizations that address students and teachers in urban, rural, remote village, and island locations. Education Design works with leading universities (Harvard, MIT, Penn, Columbia), educational research centers (EDC, TERC, Concord) and arts and cultural organizations (BSO, SF Symphony, NY Met Opera Guild).

Paula is the Digital Literacy and Computer Science (DLCS) Content Support Lead at DESE. She is a former software engineer and spent 10 years teaching computer science at the middle school level. She believes that each and every student should be exposed to the breadth of opportunities available through computer science and computational thinking skills. Her focus at the Department is on collaborating with districts, educators, and non-profit organizations to implement high-quality, engaging, real-world, and relevant DLCS curricula that works to broaden participation in DLCS education in the Commonwealth. She holds a BA in Computer Science and an MEd in Curriculum and Instruction.

Dr. Emmanuel Schanzer spent several years as a program manager and developer before becoming a public high school teacher and middle school academic coach in Boston. He is the founder and co-director of Bootstrap, which he first designed as a curriculum for his own students. He has long been involved in connecting educators and technology, connecting parties at the Computer Science Teachers Association, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and at universities across the country. He holds degrees in computer science and curriculum development, and completed his doctoral studies at Harvard with a research focus on using programming to teach algebra.

Michael is a tenured faculty member at Bunker Hill Community College. While at BHCC he developed the first data analytics degree at the community college level in the state of Massachusetts. He has worked on various grants in data science domain, mostly for community colleges and integrating pathways for students into the analytics field. He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UMass Lowell and an MBA from UMass Boston along with several MS courses at Georgia Tech in Analytics.

Kirsten Peterson, project Professional Development Design Lead, is an expert in online instructional design and interpersonal learning. At EDC she has spent the past two decades creating innovative, effective learning experiences for diverse groups of learners. She brings extensive expertise in managing complex initiatives, facilitating professional learning communities, and scaling and sustaining online learning programs. As co-PI of the National Science Foundation-funded Online Professional Development for Exploring Computer Science (ECS) initiative, Peterson and her colleagues are designing, implementing, and researching capacity-building online professional development for ECS teachers. Nationwide, she has led teams of online curriculum developers, instructors, media developers, and technical specialists in providing custom online development and consulting services for K–12, higher education, cultural institutions, nonprofits, and other organizations. She holds a BA in English Literature from Montana State University and an EdM in Technology in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Francis (Jerry) Fatal is a Computer Science teacher at Burlington High School where, as part of the IPDC project, he has co-developed the Python+Data course and implemented it with his students. Prior to teaching at Burlington High School, Jerry taught Tech Ed and Computer Science at the middle school level. Before transitioning to teaching, Jerry spent over 30 years as a software engineer, working on a variety of platforms, operating systems, and computer languages, including embedded systems in assembly language; Electron microscopes in C++; Fonts in a proprietary language; and in VoIP (Voice over IP) using PHP, MySQL and UNIX, among other things.

David Petty is a former Computing and Robotics Teacher at Brookline High School in Brookline, MA. He was a member of the Digital Literacy and Computer Science (DLCS) standards review committee to develop the 2016 DLCS Framework and the DLCS Tests for Educational Licensure® (MTEL 71). For 20 years David taught multiple levels of high-school computing, taught engineering and autonomous robotics curricula, and coached robotics teams. He was a contributor to the 2023 MA K–12 Computer Science Curriculum Guide and, as past Co-President of the Computer Science Teachers Association Greater Boston chapter, he has promoted computing generally and standards-aligned curricula for teachers and students across the state and nationally.