Our Team

The DKP team, an initiative based at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics (ELSCE) at Harvard University, includes faculty, research associates, staff, post-doctoral fellows, and students with a wide range of skills, experiences and perspectives that make our work possible. Our team has expertise in political theory, American History, K-12 social studies, history and civics curriculum development and pedagogies, social psychology, assessment, student-led civics projects, professional development, and project management. The DKP is part of a consortium of ethics and civic education initiatives at Harvard called the Design Studio for Ethics and Civics Pedagogy at the ELSCE led by Dr. Meira Levinson, faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and ELSCE faculty committee member.

Staff and Students

Katie Giles

Director of Operations & Strategy for the Design Studio on Ethics and Civics Pedagogy

Adrianne Billingham Bock

Director of Curriculum

David Kidd

Chief Assessment Scientist

Tina Blythe

Director of Professional Development

Carrie James

Director of Design Based Implementation Research

Jennifer Guerin

Curriculum Resources and Projects Coordinator

Ariana Zetlin

Design-Based Implementation Research Program Analyst

Natalie Sew

Equity and Engagement Fellow

Alexis Jimenez Maldonado

Communications Coordinator

Jorge Allen

Instructional Coach

Carin Aquiline

Instructional Coach

Jenny Chung

Instructional Coach

Beth Delforge

Instructional Coach

Janet Ware

Instructional Coach

Noel Reyes

Equity Working Group Team

Martino Ongis

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kailah McGee Adefolalu

Research Assistant

Dimitrios Halikias

Content Specialist

Vivian Chao

Research Assistant

Hannah Kunzman

Research Assistant

Ashton MacManus-Nix

Program Assistant

Nicolas Riveros Medelius

Research Assistant

Willie Webb IV

Research Assistant

Jennifer Wu-Pope

Research Assistant

Georgina Rivers

Doctoral Fellow

Octavia Nixon

Design Studio Project Lead Coordinator

Faculty

DKP Scholarly Advisory Committee

The DKP initiative is advised by a Scholarly Advisory Committee. This committee is made up of faculty with expertise in history, political science, African and African American Studies, art, and education.

Danielle Allen

DKP and Design Studio Founding Director

Meira Levinson

Design Studio Faculty Director and DKP Scholarly Advisory Committee Member

Jane Kamensky

Design Studio Faculty Leadership Committee Member and DKP Scholarly Advisory Committee Member

Eric Beerbohm

Scholarly Advisory Committee Member

Sarah Lewis

Scholarly Advisory Committee Member

Dustin Tingley

Scholarly Advisory Committee Member