Thursday, April 25, 2019 | 9:00 – 9:30 am
K. Brooke Stafford-Brizard, Ph.D., Director at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Dr. Brooke Stafford-Brizard is a Director at the Chan
Zuckerberg Initiative. She was formerly a Senior
Advisor with Turnaround for Children, focusing on
design to address key cognitive and social-
emotional skills, which research demonstrates to
be requisite for learning and negatively impacted by
poverty-induced stress. She is also an independent
consultant, supporting the integration of cognitive
and social-emotional skills into school and district
design through a connection between research, policy, and practice. Dr. Stafford-Brizard also focuses on the development of knowledge management systems to support effective design, implementation, and improvement.
K. Brooke Stafford-Brizard, Ph.D. supports the integration of non-academic cognitive skills into school and district design through a connection among research, policy, and practice. She also focuses on the development of knowledge management systems to support effective design implementation and improvement.
Dr. Stafford-Brizard co-founded Young Women’s College Prep Charter School of Rochester (YWCP). An affiliate of the Young Women’s Leadership Network, YWCP is a single-gender secondary school serving high-need students. She is also a founding board member of the Chicago-based non-profit Pilot Light, an organization dedicated to ensuring that students develop a healthy relationship with food through curriculum created in chef-educator partnerships.
Dr. Stafford-Brizard began her career as a teacher with Teach for America at an intermediate school in the Bronx, New York. Following her graduate work, she worked at the New York City Department of Education in the central Division of Teaching and Learning, as well as at the Alternative High Schools District. In addition to a focus on professional development planning and evaluation, she worked on a knowledge management strategy focused on a standardized and systematic approach to sharing information across New York City’s 1500+ schools.
Dr. Stafford-Brizard has served on a number of non-profit boards for both arts and education organizations as an advocate for children and an expert on education and development. She earned a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, with distinction, from Columbia University.
Friday, April 26, 2019 | 11:35 am – 12:15 pm
Jeff Vincent, Ph.D., Director, Public Infrastructure Initiatives Center for Cities+Schools, University of California Berkeley
Jeffrey M. Vincent, PhD is a director and co-founder of the
Center for Cities & Schools (CC&S) at the University of
California, Berkeley. Jeff has a PhD in City and Regional
Planning from Berkeley. His policy and research interests
lie at the intersection of land use planning, community
development, and educational improvement, with a
particular focus on how school facilities serve as
educational and neighborhood assets. Jeff has
researched and written extensively on a variety of issues,
including school infrastructure planning, school siting and design, sustainable communities, community development, educational economics, housing policy, state school construction policies, joint use of schools, youth engagement in redevelopment, refugee resettlement, and transportation policy. His research and policy writing has been published in peer-reviewed and practitioner-oriented journals, books, and other outlets.
Jeff is an applied and policy-focused academic looking for solutions to some of our societies most vexing problems around social inequities. His work embodies two key innovations in thinking and acting. First, finding policy answers requires new modes of scholarship that draw on a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods. Second, it requires collaborative work between the too-often-siloed public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Much of Jeff’s work involves “engaged scholarship,” done for and in partnership with public agencies, nonprofit organizations and others with public interests in mind. His research is used to inform collaborative policy at multiple levels of government that is principle-driven and provides transparency, fairness, and accountability.
Jeff is an instructor and graduate student mentor in our PLUS Fellows program.
In 2016, Jeff won the Berkeley Chancellor’s Award for Public Service, Research in the Public Interest
Education
Ph.D. – City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, 2006
M.C.R.P. – Community and Regional Planning, University of Nebraska, 2001
B.A. – Anthropology and Environmental Studies, University of Nebraska, 1996