People

Stephanie M. Jones

Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development

Director of EASEL Lab

Stephanie M. Jones is the Gerald S. Lesser Professor of Child Development and Education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Her research, anchored in prevention science, focuses on the effects of poverty and exposure to...

Sonia Alves

Past Doctoral Student

Sonia is a former doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a concentration in Human Development and Education. As a part of her studies at Harvard, she is also pursuing a Master of Education in Passing in Prevention Science and...

Catherine Armstrong

Past Doctoral Student

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Rebecca Bailey

Associate Director

Rebecca Bailey is Associate Director of the EASEL Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she works closely with Dr. Jones to design and lead the EASEL team’s portfolio of research, programmatic, and policy work. Rebecca’s research focuses...

Sophie Barnes

Past Doctoral Student

Sophie Barnes is a former Ph.D. student and Research Coordinator in the EASEL lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, primarily working on the evaluation of a recently developed intervention, Brain Games. Sophie’s research interests include the...

Gretchen Brion-Meisels

Senior Lecturer on Education

Faculty Co-Chair, Identity, Power, and Justice in Education Concentration

Gretchen Brion-Meisels is a former doctoral student in the EASEL Lab. She is currently a Senior Lecturer on Education and Faculty Co-Chair, Identity, Power, and Justice in Education Concentration. Her research seeks to explore holistic student support...

Hannah Broderick

Research Assistant

Hannah is a Research Assistant at the EASEL Lab, where she supports several research-practice partnerships both in the US and abroad. Her research interests include trauma-informed SEL, culturally responsive pedagogy, and understanding how social...

Katharine Brush

Senior Research Manager

Katie Gilmore is a Senior Research Manager at the EASEL Lab where her work supports several projects designed to strengthen the links between research and practice in the field of social and emotional learning, including leading the lab’s work on the...

Nikhit D'Sa

Past Doctoral Student

Trained as a developmental psychologist, Nikhit views himself as a youth advocate and prevention scientist. His broad research interest is in the psychosocial development of adolescents who grow up in situations of community violence, neighborhood poverty...

Caitlin Dermody

Doctoral Student

Caitlin M. Dermody is a rising scholar committed to investigating the pedagogical practices and policy conditions that best support the social and emotional development of young children. Prior to embarking on her doctoral studies at the Harvard Graduate...

Erin Dunn

Past Doctoral Student

Erin is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist with expertise in genetics. She is an Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She also holds an appointment in the Stanley Center...

Janina Eberhart

Visiting Scholar

Janina Eberhart is a NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, researching children’s cognitive development in educational contexts. Her work focuses on the development of children’s self-regulation, executive functions, and metacognition, as well as...