Meet our team

Research Team

Sean Justice

Research Team
Principal Investigator (PI)
School of Art & Design
Texas State University
FLT Co-founder
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Lori Assaf

Lori Assaf

Research Team
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Prof. of Reading Education
Central Texas Writing Project
Texas State University
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Michelle Forsythe

Research Team
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction
Texas State University
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Natalie Freed

Natalie Freed

Research Team
Postdoctoral Researcher
School of Art & Design
College of Education
Texas State University
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Adetty Pérez de Miles

Adetty Pérez de Miles

Research Team
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
School of Art & Design
Texas State University
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Families Learning Together Facilitators

Diego Cantu

Undergraduate Facilitator
Filmmaking Major
Texas State University
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Carolina (Caro) Chavez

Undergraduate Facilitator
Art Education Major
Texas State University
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Alexandra Gilmore

Undergraduate Facilitator
Mechanical Engineering Major
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Noa Kaipat

Undergraduate Facilitator
Mechanical Engineering Major
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Bonnie Laffoon

Undergraduate Facilitator
Biochemistry Major
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McKenna Luksa

Undergraduate Facilitator Coordinator
Art Education Major
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Valeria Meza

Undergraduate Facilitator
Mechanical Engineering Major
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Victoria Rohner

Undergraduate Facilitator
Elementary Education Major
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Shuvani Shrestha

Undergraduate Facilitator
Biochemistry Major
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Moon Hernandez

Community Facilitator
K-12 Educator
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Bethany Llamas

Community Facilitator
K-12 Educator
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Yvonne Rodriguez

Community Facilitator
K-12 Educator
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Coordinators

Cristina Tejeda

Project Coordinator
School of Art & Design
Texas State University
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Gloria Salazar

Site Coordinator
Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos
FLT Co-Founder
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Ashley Schimelman

Site Coordinator
Division Manager for Programming and Outreach
San Marcos Public Library
FLT Co-founder
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Bess Price

Bess Price

Site Coordinator
Education Manager
Meadows Center for Water & the Environment
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Rebecca Licea

Community Coordinator
Families Learning Together
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Advisory Groups

Diana Garcia

Community Advisory Group
Calaboose African American History Museum
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Bradley Gaskill

Community Advisory Group
San Marcos High School
K-12 Educator
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Shetay Ashford-Hanserd

Research Advisory Group
Organizational, Workforce,
& Leadership Studies
Texas State University
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Emily Kyung Jin Suh

Research Advisory Group
Department of Curriculum & Instruction
Texas State University
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Nicole DesChamps-Benke

Nicole Deschamps-Benke

Tech Advisory Group
School of Art & Design
Texas State University
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Andrew Rechnitz

Tech Advisory Group
Micro-credential Team Leader
Alkek One
Texas State University
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Noah Brock

Noah Brock

Tech Advisory Group
Microcredential Team
Alkek One
Texas State University
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Kira Wright

Tech Advisory Group
Micro-credential Team
Alkek One
Texas State University
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Lisa Garbrecht

Lisa Garbrecht

External Evaluation Team
Texas Advanced Computing Center
University of Texas, Austin
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Madeline Haynes

Madeline Haynes

External Evaluation Team
Texas Advanced Computing Center
University of Texas, Austin
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Zhuoying Wang

External Evaluation Team
Texas Advanced Computing Center
University of Texas, Austin
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Expressive STEM Collective

The Expressive STEM Collective is an NSF-funded research project investigating how families, youth, and community members learn, make, and imagine together.