Senior Inclusive Innovation Researcher
Digital Promise, North Carolina, United States
Dr. Alexandra Merritt Johnson is a Senior Inclusive Innovation Researcher at Digital Promise with over ten years of experience leading research and evaluation projects that center equity. Her educational background is in developmental psychology with a focus on positive development of youth from historically and systematically excluded communities. Her recent work has spanned topics such as equity in education R&D processes, critical consciousness development, racial identity development across various contexts, and culturally responsive teaching. Her methodological training and expertise centers on transformational research practices that are mutually beneficial, participatory, culturally responsive and contextualized to meet the needs of stakeholders. Currently, Dr. Merritt Johnson co-leads the research of an Inclusive Innovation project aimed at increasing teachers’ capacity to lead racial discourse in the classroom in partnership with a district-community team of district leaders, teachers, students, parents and other community members using a culturally responsive community-based participatory research approach.
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Friday, October 13, 2023
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET