Meet the Team
Leadership
Kathryn Parker Boudett
Executive Director
Kathryn Parker Boudett is a senior lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the director of the Data Wise Project. Her passion lies in supporting educators in working together effectively to improve learning and teaching. She...
Candice Bocala
Research Director
Candice Bocala is the research director of the Data Wise Project and a lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Since 2009, she has been working with educators to use the Data Wise Improvement Process. A former elementary school...
Megan Campion
Program Director
Megan Campion is the Data Wise Portfolio Director on the Professional Education (PPE) team. Prior to joining PPE, Megan was a partner at an international education consulting firm, managing strategic partnerships with schools, districts, and state...
Team
Penny Jayne
Co-Chair of Australian programs
Penny Jayne is the managing director of the Global Education Equity Alliance (GEEA), an organization that supports teachers, school and system leaders in creating collaborative structures, building data literacy capabilities, and identifying and...
Deirdra Joyner
Member of Data Wise Advisory Board
Deirdra Joyner is the deputy superintendent and chief academic officer of the Christina School District in Wilmington, Delaware. She first learned of the Data Wise Improvement Process during the summer of 2010, when she brought her leadership team from...
Jaein Lee
Co-chair, Data Wise Coach Certification Program
Jaein Lee is a lecturer on education at HGSE and the faculty lead for the Chen Yidan Visiting Global Fellows Program. Her research interests focus on institutional practices and support for first-generation low-income immigrants and students of color...
Eva Mejia
Member of Data Wise Advisory Board
Eva Mejia is the executive director of IDEO, where she heads the education portfolio as well as systems and strategy design. Always seeking to learn and improve life outcomes for disenfranchised communities, Mejia has served in many capacities across pre...
Adam Parrott-Sheffer
Strategy Advisor and Advisory Board Secretary
Adam Parrott-Sheffer is an adjunct faculty member in professional education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a lecturer at the University of Chicago. Since 2009, he has used the Data Wise Improvement process as a school leader and a...
Jorge Peña
Member of Data Wise Advisory Board
Jorge Peña is a senior consultant and improvement specialist at Koru Strategy Group. He previously served as the Andrew Greeley Endowed Research Fellow at the School of Education and the Director of Faculty Development and Engagement in the Office of the...
David Rease
Member of Data Wise Advisory Board
David Rease, Jr. is the Director of Equity, Diversity, and Belonging in Prince George's County Public Schools, MD. Formerly, he was the director of Continuous Systemic Improvement in the same system. He began his career as a high school social studies and...
Robert Wessman
Member of Data Wise Advisory Board
Robert Wessman is the founder and CEO of Koru Strategy Group, a mission-driven company that helps education systems around the world implement research-driven practices with three outcomes in mind: better schools for students, higher professional...
Carmen Williams
Faculty Chair, System Wise Leadership Institute
Carmen Williams is the Assistant Superintendent of Instruction and Innovation for Needham Public Schools. She is also an adjunct faculty member in professional education at HGSE. Leading with her core values of empathy, equity, and community, Williams has...
