2024-25 Public Engagement Fellows
Now in its third year, this cohort-based program enhances the ongoing community-engagement efforts of the College of Education. Fellows receive up to $6,500 to help fund their community-engaged research or teaching project.
Giselle Martinez Negrette
Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction
Martinez Negrette is working in dual language classrooms to explore how teachers mediate culture and how this mediation impacts teaching practices and social interactions between teachers and students.
Gabriel Rodrigeuz
Assistant Professor, Education Policy, Organization & Leadership
Rodriguez is partnering with Latinx educators from Highland Park High School to build upon existing efforts to improve Latinx students’ sense of belonging.
Stephanie Toliver
Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction
Toliver co-designed a project to engage Urbana youth in exploring their identities and envisioning equitable Black futures through creative writing, speculative design and open discussions.
Mari Altshuler
Teaching Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction
Altshuler is aiming to support a local school community and bring math teaching and learning to life for the College’s elementary education students.
Chris Napolitano
Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
Napolitano proposed a new course, Research in Action that integrates adolescent development, research design, and psychological measurement through a service learning partnership with a local youth-serving organization.
Emily Tarconish
Teaching Assistant Professor, Special Education
Tarconish is partnering with Community Choices, a local non-profit that works to support individuals with disabilities to maintain independence, to develop a business accessibility evaluation based on the feedback of disabled community members.