Meet the Team

Dr. June Ahn

Faculty Director

Dr. Ahn joined the UCI faculty in 2018 through a newly created position, as Associate Professor of Research-Practice Partnerships. His research focuses on designing new technologies and learning spaces, in collaboration with educator partners, to explore how to improve education for all learners. He brings particular expertise in design methods, learning technologies, data use and visualization, and research-practice partnerships. (http://ahnjune.com/)

Dr. Ahn assists the Dean's office to shape and direct the OCEAN initiative, to support the network of local partnerships, oversee doctoral student mentorship, and develop network-wide strategic projects.
** In the 2018-2019 year, we will be actively recruiting a Director for Community Education Partnerships to assist with partnership development and operations. Be on the lookout for that announcement.

Our Faculty Team

Dr. Richard Arum

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Expertise: Legal & Institutional Environments of Schools, Social Stratification, Digital Education

Dean, Professor

Dr. Elizabeth Pena

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Expertise: Bilingualism, Language Impairment, Test Development & Treatment

Professor

Dr. Andres Bustamante

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Expertise: Early Childhood Science Education, Head Start, Approaches to Learning, Community Based Intervention​

Assistant Professor

Dr. Stephanie Reich

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Expertise: Socio-Emotional Development, Parent-Child Interactions, Peer Networks, Social Affordances of Technology

Associate Professor

Dr. Brandy Gatlin Nash

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Expertise: Language, Reading, Writing, Cultural & Linguistic Diversity, Measurement & Assessment, Instruction

Assistant Professor

Dr. Rosella Santagata

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Expertise: Mathematics Education, Video & Multimedia in Teacher Learning, Culture & Learning, Equity & Education

Professor

Community Research Fellows

Selected doctoral students in OCEAN are supported through a Community Research Fellowship, which covers their stipend and doctoral studies, as they develop partnership research with their local partner. We are currently recruiting doctoral students who are interested in receiving this fellowship. Please contact Dr. June Ahn if interested at june.ahn@uci.edu

Ashlee Belgrave

Ha Eun (Grace) Kim

Michelle Ramos

Christopher Wegemer

Leiny Garcia

Lora Cawelti

Jiwon Lee

Jennifer Renick

Socorro Cambero
Vanessa Bermudez

Phebe Chew

Verenisse Ponce-Soria

Yenda Prado

Daniel Hodge
John Lopez
Past Members:
Ha Nguyen (PhD Student Fellow, 2019-2020)
Penelope Collins (Faculty Mentor, 2019-2020)
​Maricela Banuelos (PhD Student Fellow, 2018-2019)
Carol Olson (Faculty Mentor, 2018-2019)
Jacob Steiss (PhD Student Fellow, 2018-2019)
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