Free Webinar: Connecting Policymakers With Educational Researchers

Jason Brodeur was raised and lives in Seminole County. He graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Food & Resource Economics and a Master of Business Administration. He is currently earning his Master of Public Health degree at Dartmouth College. Jason was elected to the Florida Senate in 2020. Prior to that he was in the Florida House of Representatives from 2010-2018 where he served as the chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee. Representative Brodeur also served on Energy & Utilities Subcommittee, Select Committee on Gaming, the Select Committee on Water and the State Affairs Committee. He also served as Chairman of the Health and Human Services Appropriations Committee, Chairman of the Government Operations subcommittee where he focused on pension reform and as Chairman of the Health Innovation subcommittee where he focused on insurance reform. Jason has also served at the pleasure of the Executive Branch as an appointed member of the Governor’s Committee on Government Efficiency. Prior to his service in the House, Jason received gubernatorial appointments and served on the Medicaid Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee, the 18^th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission, and the Citizen’s Safety Task Force.

Terra Bennett Brown is an education programs consultant in the Educator Excellence and Equity Division of the California Department of Education. She works in the Teacher and Leader Policy Office, which focuses on programs like the Promoting Equitable Access to Teachers Program that works to assist local education agencies to identify and address equity gaps. Prior to her current position, she has worked as an auditor for the State of California, the Policy Outreach Director for the UCLA Center for the Study of Inequality, and a Special Education teacher in social studies and English Language Arts. She holds two master’s degrees: one in special education and one in public policy.

Find Dr. Shore’s recorded contribution to this event here. A special PDF supplement may also be found here.

Dr. Lori Shorr’s interests in education stem from the two paths that brought her to Temple. First, she pursued her doctoral degree in critical and cultural studies with an emphasis on how social changes are connected to, and influenced by, narratives –be they political, historical, social or personal. Second, she has culminated a 20-year career in policy development and implementation from special assistant to three Pennsylvania Secretaries of Education to eight years as the chief education officer for the City of Philadelphia, which entailed setting the mayor’s policy agenda in K-12 and higher education. She is currently working on building a collaboration of regional school leaders who are committed to working on communication across sectors of education (district, charter, private) to increase opportunities for success for all students through holistic and project-based instruction. She remains committed to increasing the capacity of the schools and the nonprofit sector in Philadelphia in order to bring about equity in educational opportunity in hopes of a more just city.