Alice is a Senior Research & Evaluation Specialist at the Forum’s Weikart Center, where she supports partners to make system-level improvements to maintain or grow instructional quality. She enjoys collaborating with practitioners through playful, empathetic and data-centered dialogue. She leads with an improvement science approach when working with partners to identify where to focus to make the greatest impact. 

Alice has a particular interest in the educative potential of media-rich environments such as museums, makerspaces and movies. Beginning her career as a museum educator, she later pivoted to collaborating with practitioners and program designers to develop, test and measure learning process and outcomes. Prior research projects have investigated the role of empathy in learning, the process of failure in making and tinkering, family learning conversations, and culturally relational evaluation practices.  

Publications can be found at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0120-8706 

Alice holds an Ed.D. in Out-of-School Learning from the University of Pittsburgh, an Ed.M. in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. in Art History from Grinnell College. She lives with her family on the ancestral and present homelands of the Dakota people in Minneapolis, Minnesota.