Ayana Kee loves education. She loves thinking about it, talking about it, and the classroom time itself! Since 2005, Ayana has been a doctoral student in the Education Policy, Leadership, and Instructional Practice concentration at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, where she was awarded a Presidential Fellowship. Ayana enjoys writing about education and her substantive research interests include teacher education and certification, education policy, and the psychology and sociology of teaching. Her methodological interests include large-scale survey analysis, program evaluation, and qualitative interviewing. In addition, Ayana was recently selected to join the Editorial Board of the Harvard Educational Review.

 

From 1994 to 2005, Ayana taught general and special education students in grades K, 1, 2, and 3 in Oakland, California, in Cottage Grove, Oregon and in Brooklyn, New York. From 2003 to 2005, she was also a part-time instructor for Mercy College’s New Teacher Residency Program. Ayana has also facilitated several workshops for teachers and worked as a curriculum specialist for Teach for America. Ayana graduated from Duke University in 1994 with a BA in Cognitive Psychology. In addition, she has a MS in Special Education from the University of Oregon and an EdM in Teaching and Learning from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Ayana credits the elementary students, teachers, and school leaders with whom she has worked for inspiring her to seek opportunities to conduct research in education.