About

Andrés Henríquez, EDC director of STEM education strategy, is a national expert in science, educational technology, and policy. He brings extensive experience in philanthropy, having served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Currently, Henríquez is leading a national EDC initiative, Preparing a Green and Blue Workforce, and heading up an EDC initiative related to the CHIPS and Science Act. He is a member of NSF’s Directorate for STEM Education Advisory Committee.

Henríquez is deeply committed to making a difference in the lives of underserved children and youth. For decades, he advanced this goal as an educator, researcher, advocate, and funder. He has led work in college and career readiness standards and assessments, including the writing and adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards. Earlier in his career, he led a partnership between Bell Atlantic and Union City Schools that fueled a community transformation and received national recognition from President Clinton.

Henríquez holds an MA from Teachers College and a BA from Hamilton College.

Josephine Louie, EDC principal research scientist, is an education R&D leader. As principal investigator (PI) of initiatives funded by the National Science Foundation and foundations, she works to improve the quality and equity of K–12 learning. Her focuses include critical data literacy, civic statistics, environmental literacy, education policy, STEM education, and technology integration.

Louie co-leads the EDC initiative Preparing a Green and Blue Workforce and leads EDC’s Data Paths initiative. As PI of WeatherX and Strengthening Data Literacy Across the Curriculum, she led the design of curricula on extreme weather and social justice issues. She was an expert panelist for the NASEM workshop, Foundations of Data Science for Students in Grades K-12.

Louie is a widely published author. Previously, she served as a research associate for the Metro Boston Equity Initiative at the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and a senior data analyst for the Harvard Immigration Project.

Louie holds an EdM and EdD from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jackie DeLisi, senior research scientist, leads research and evaluation that advances knowledge about STEM educator practices and learning outcomes for Grade 6–12  youth. She specializes in measuring implementation of interventions, and has extensive experience in qualitative research methods and survey design. Her work examines STEM programs—including initiatives focused on science and engineering practices, climate and data, and computational thinking—in contexts such as work-based learning, STEM career pathways, and out-of-school time.

DeLisi co-leads the national initiative, Preparing a Green and Blue Workforce. She also leads evaluations of a NASA-funded initiative focused on climate change, Work-Based Learning for Computer Science, and Seeding the Future. Recently, she collaborated with the Boston Plan for Excellence to examine STEM career pathways.

DeLisi was a key contributor to a National Academies report on teaching engineering in K-12 education. Her work appears in Urban Education, Science Educator, and Journal of Research in Science Teaching.

DeLisi holds an EdD in Administration, Training, and Policy Studies from Boston University and an MA in Curriculum and Instruction from University of Colorado at Denver.