Experience

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  Education MAVEN- Meeting your Academic, Vocatio...

  • Greater Seattle Area with Remote and Virtual op...

  • Independent Education and College Consultant

    • 2005 - Present
    • Greater Seattle Area with Remote and Virtual op...

    Working with students and their families as they navigate the college search and admissions process. Comprehensive and individualized consultation for educational, vocational, academic, career and independence decisions facing children, youth and families with diverse needs.

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  U.S. Dept. of Ed-Office of Special Education Pr...

  • U.S. Dept. of Ed-Office of Special Education Pr...

  • Invited grant proposal panel reviewer

    • Jul 2010 - Jan 2015
    • U.S. Dept. of Ed-Office of Special Education Pr...

    Temporary / Seasonal

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  SRI International

  • Senior Education Researcher

    • Aug 1999 - Jul 2011

    Center for Education and Human Services in the Policy Division of SRI International.My work focuses on education and social services across the life span - birth through adulthood - emphasizing long term outcomes for disenfranchised children and youth, and the process of bringing innovative chang...

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  Casey Family Programs; and Institute for Family...

  • Evaluation and Research Consultant

    • 1997 - 1999

    1) Casey Family Programs: Evaluations of programs that serve youth in foster care.2) Institute for Family Development: Third party evaluation for the The Extended Family Support Project, Outcomes for Parents with Intellectual Disabilities whose Children Are At Risk for Removal to Out-of-Home Care.

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  University of Washington, Dept. of Health Servi...

  • Research Assistant Professor/ Research Associate

    • 1993 - 1997

    1) Principal Investigator: Conducted research focusing on access to health care and social services for people with disabilities living in rural America.2) Co-Principal Investigator: Conducted Alaska Mental Health and Organic Brain Syndromes Study examining services in Alaska for people with trau...

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  University of Washington, Experimental Educatio...

  • Project Director

    • 1983 - 1993

    Directed multiple studies including: 1) First Decade after School: Postschool Outcomes for Graduates with and without Disabilities, and the Implications for Secondary Special Education Program Improvement2) Polymorphic Tracking and Intervention Model for Students Who Drop Out or Are at Risk of Dr...

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  Wilmington High School - New Castle County Scho...

  • Special Education Teacher

    • 1978 - 1980

    Taught math, social studies, reading to students in grades 9-12 with intellectual, developmental, and learning disabilities, or emotional disturbances (and in retrospect students on the Autism Spectrum, a concept that was not understood in the 1970s).

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  University of Washington

  • Adjunct professor/invited instructor

    • 1900 - 1900

    2006 Adjunct professor: Special Topics—Special Education for Elementary Education Teachers, Teacher Certification Program, (Bothell campus). 1998 Co-Instructor: Law, Policy and Public School Education: The Case of Washington State (with Dr. Sharan Brown), Department of Educational Leadership and ...