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
Prior AERA Roles: Secretary/ Treasuer (2022-2024)
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)
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
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
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
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)

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