Faculty

June Ahn
Associate Professor
junea@uci.edu

Hosun Kang
Associate Professor
hosunk@uci.edu

Judith Haymore Sandholtz
Professor, Center Founding Director
judith.sandholtz@uci.edu

Rossella Santagata
Professor, Center Director
r.santagata@uci.edu

Elizabeth van Es
Associate Professor, Founding Faculty
evanes@uci.edu

Researchers

Raul Orduna Picon
Assistant Specialist
rordunap@uci.edu

Graduate Students

UCI Collaborators

Virginia Panish
Director: Teacher Education
vpanish@uci.edu

Kelly Le
Director, UCI Science Project
kelley.le@uci.edu

External Collaborators

Victoria Hand
Associate Professor, University of Colorado

Cathy Ringstaff
Senior Research Associate, West Ed

Mariam Gamoran Sherin
Northwestern University

Alumni

Christopher Stillwell
Professor, English for Speakers of Other Languages, College of the Sequoias

Rachel Stumpf
Program Manager, Faculty Development, SCU

Doron Zinger
Director of CalTeach Program, UCI

Jessica Tunney
Principal and Executive Director, TLC Public Charter School

Jennifer Sun

Cathery Yeh
Assistant Professor, Chapman University

Priyanka Argawal
Assistant Professor
Mathematics Education
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Jenell Krishnan
Director, Writing Project, UCI

David Liu
Researcher, AT&T

Tara Barnhart
Assistant Professor, Chapman University

Sarah Gilliland
Associate Professor, Physical Therapy, West Coast University

Huy Chung
Director of Research, Writing Project, UC Irvine

Jennifer Long
Education and Outreach Coordinator, Center for Environmental Biology, UC Irvine

Janet Mercado
Research Project Manager, UCI

Karen Taylor
Postdoc, Stanford University

Visiting Scholars

Rae Young Kim
2017 Visiting Scholar
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Silvia Micheletta
2014 Visiting Scholar
University of Florence, Italy

Frédéric Saussez
2014 Visiting Associate Researcher
Associate Professor at Sherbrooke University, Canada

Kathrin Krammer
2015 Visiting Scholar
University of Teacher Education Lucerne, Switzerland

Decheng Zhao
2019 Visiting Scholar
Beijing Normal University, China

Andrea Ciani
2019-20 Visiting Scholar
University of Bologna, Italy

Adriana Zaragoza
2020 Visiting Scholar
Technical University of Munich, Germany

Meet Our Center Members

Researchers

June Ahn

June Ahn

Associate Professor

Rossella Santagata

Rossella Santagata

Professor, Center Director

Hosun Kang

Hosun Kang

Associate Professor

Elizabeth van Es

Elizabeth van Es

Associate Professor, Founding Faculty

Judith Haymore Sandholtz

Judith Haymore Sandholtz

Professor, Center Founding Director

Adriana Villavicencio

Adriana Villavicencio

Assistant Professor

Researchers

Raul Orduna Picon

Raul Orduna Picon

Assistant Specialist

Hamideh Talafian

Hamideh Talafian

Postdoctoral Scholar

Erica Van Steenis

Erica Van Steenis

Postdoctoral Scholar

Elizabeth Mendoza

Elizabeth Mendoza

Postdoctoral Scholar

Graduate Students

Joseph Wong

Joseph Wong

Center Manager, Doctoral Student

Carlo Sandoval

Carlo Sandoval

Doctoral Student

Dana Marie Conlin

Dana Marie Conlin

Doctoral Student

Jonathan Montoya

Jonathan Montoya

Doctoral Student

Ha Nguyen

Ha Nguyen

Doctoral Student

Jiwon Lee

Jiwon Lee

Doctoral Student

Khamia Powell

Khamia Powell

Doctoral Student

Leiny Garcia

Leiny Garcia

Doctoral Student

Socorro Cambero

Socorro Cambero

Doctoral Student

Ethan Benjamin Rubin

Ethan Benjamin Rubin

Doctoral Student

Juan Gaytan

Juan Gaytan

Doctoral Student

Lauren Snow

Lauren Snow

Doctoral Student

Jacob Steiss

Jacob Steiss

Doctoral Student

UCI Collaborators

Jody Guarino

Jody Guarino

Lecturer

Virginia Panish

Virginia Panish

Director: Teacher Education

Kelly Le

Kelly Le

Director, UCI Science Project

External Collaborators

Cathy Ringstaff

Cathy Ringstaff

Senior Research Associate, West Ed

Victoria Hand

Victoria Hand

Associate Professor, University of Colorado

Mariam Gamoran Sherin

Mariam Gamoran Sherin

Northwestern University

Alumni

Christopher Stillwell

Christopher Stillwell

Professor, English for Speakers of Other Languages, College of the Sequoias

Cathery Yeh

Cathery Yeh

Assistant Professor, Chapman University

David Liu

David Liu

Researcher, AT&T

Tara Barnhart

Tara Barnhart

Assistant Professor, Chapman University

Karen Taylor

Karen Taylor

Postdoc, Stanford University

Rachel Stumpf

Rachel Stumpf

Program Manager, Faculty Development, SCU

Jessica Tunney

Jessica Tunney

Principal and Executive Director, TLC Public Charter School

Jenell Krishnan

Jenell Krishnan

Director, Writing Project, UCI

Sarah Gilliland

Sarah Gilliland

Associate Professor, Physical Therapy, West Coast University

Jennifer Long

Jennifer Long

Education and Outreach Coordinator, Center for Environmental Biology, UCI

Doron Zinger

Doron Zinger

Director of CalTeach Program, UCI

Jennifer Sun

Jennifer Sun

Program Manager, Faculty Development, SCU

Priyanka Argawal

Priyanka Argawal

Assistant Professor Mathematics Education University of Wisconsin, Madison

Huy Chung

Huy Chung

Director of Research, Writing Project, UC Irvine

Janet Mercado

Janet Mercado

Associate Professor, Research Project Manager, UCI

Visting Scholars

Rae Young Kim

Rae Young Kim

2017 Visiting Scholar Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Kathrin Krammer

Kathrin Krammer

2015 Visiting Scholar University of Teacher Education Lucerne, Switzerland

Adriana Zaragoza

Adriana Zaragoza

2020 Visiting Scholar Technical University of Munich, Germany

Silvia Micheletta

Silvia Micheletta

2014 Visiting ScholarUniversity of Florence, Italy

Decheng Zhao

Decheng Zhao

2019 Visiting ScholarBeijing Normal University, China

Frédéric Saussez

Frédéric Saussez

2014 Visiting Associate ResearcherAssociate Professor at Sherbrooke University, Canada

Andrea Ciani

Andrea Ciani

2019-20 Visiting Scholar University of Bologna, Italy