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Bio

I am a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, where I teach in the Kellogg School of Management’s Social Enterprise program.  I am also a postdoctoral research fellow at Kellogg’s Ford Center for Global Citizenship, and affiliated with the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems.  I recently received my PhD in Learning Sciences at Northwestern, where I was part of the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling. 

I research how organizations and markets change, with a particular interest in modeling how interdependent actions aggregate to organization- and market-level outcomes.  Much of my current work investigates this topic in the context of trying to understand why troubled schools and school districts are so difficult to improve.

Prior to coming to Northwestern I was the cofounder of PracticeFields, a corporate education and consulting company that creates computer simulations and interactive board games of business problems.  I have also worked for Red Hat Software and Anderson Consulting (now Accenture).

I received a Masters degree in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School, and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree from Duke.