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 is excited to invite graduate PhD students to become advisory board members in 2024! Please express interest or nominate a grad student by emailing: semckellar@ua.edu, and we will announce new additional grad student board members during our AERA 2024 meeting.
SIG Chair/Chair-Elect (2022-2023)
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)
Past SIG Chair (2022-2023)
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)
Program Chair/Chair-Elect (2022-2024)
*Elections currently being held
Secretary/Treasurer (2022-2024)
Dr. Marie-Anne P Suizzo
The University of Texas at Austin, College of Education
Department of Educational Psychology
Prior AYD SIG Leadership Roles:
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@pitt.edu
Prior AYD SIG Leadership Roles: New to AYD SIG Leadership
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
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