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Who We Are
 
SIG Officers
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Officer Positions
SIG Chair (1 Year)
Past SIG Chair (1 Year)
Program Chair/Chair-Elect (1 Year)
Secretary/Treasurer (3 Years)
Webmaster/Website Content Manager (3 Years)
Advisory Board Members*

*Note: Our SIG now invites doctoral candidates to become advisory board members in addition to PhD and EdD! Please express interest or nominate a grad student by emailing semckellar@ua.edu. We will announce new additional grad student board members during our AERA 2025 meeting. 

 

SIG Chair/Chair-Elect (2024-2025)
Dr. Marie-Anne P Suizzo 
The University of Texas at Austin, College of Education
Department of Educational Psychology 
Associate Professor and Program Chair Email Address: msuizzo@austin.utexas.edu
Prior AERA Roles: Secretary/ Treasuer (2022-2024) 
Email Address: msuizzo@austin.utexas.edu

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past sig chair/chair-elect (2023-2024) dr. amy chapman  ed.d. program in leadership and innovation mary lou fulton teachers college arizona state university email address: amychapmanphd@gmail.com prior ayd sig leadership roles: webmaster/web content manager (2020-2022), program chair/chair-elect (2022-2024), sig chair/chair-elect (2022-2023)

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program chair/chair-elect (2025-2026) 
*elections currently being held

 

 
secretary/treasurer (2024-2026)
dr. wendy biddle
the university of georgia

office for student success and achievement

senior lecturer and academic coach
email address:: sophiae@uga.edu

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webmaster/website content manager (2022-2024) 
dr. sarah e. mckellar 
university of alabama, college of education 
Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methods, and Counseling
Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology 
Email Address: semckellar@ua.edu

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Advisory Board Member
Dr. Brownwyn Nichols Lodato

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Department of Education and Department of African and African-American Studies 

Assistant Professor

Email Address: bronwyn@wustl.edu

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advisory board member dr. andrea dawn frazier  columbus state university, college of education department of teacher education, leadership and counseling department professor of educational foundations  email address: frazier_andrea@columbusstate.edu  prior ayd sig roles: past sig chair (2021-2022), sig chair(2020-2021), program chair/chair-elect (2019-2020), and secretary (2017-2019) 

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advisory board member
dr. karlyn adams-wiggins 
portland state university psychology department  
assistant professor of applied developmental psychology and
black studies affiliate faculty 
email address: karlyn@pdx.edu 
prior ayd sig roles: past chair (2020-2021), interim chair (2019-2020), chair (2018-2019), and program chair (2017-2018)

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advisory board member
dr. anya (hanna) lainas  
columbus state university, college of education 
department of teacher education, leadership and counseling department associate professor of educational foundations 
email address: lainas_hanna@columbusstate.edu 
prior ayd sig roles: secretary, program chair, sig chair, past sig chair

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advisory board member
dr. luke j rapa 
clemson university, college of education 
department of education and human development 
email address: lrapa@clemson.edu 
prior ayd sig leadership roles: sig chair/chair-elect (2021-2022), past sig chair (2022-2023)

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Structure & Governance (SIG By-Laws)