Doctoral Students
Josefina Senese
Josefina Senese is a doctoral student in Educational Policy Studies. Her research interests center on the intersection of school choice and special education in the United States. Josefina is interested in analyzing the effect of these policies on students with disabilities’ academic outcomes. Before joining BU, Josefina served as a research consultant for the Institute […]
Tashnuva Shaheen
Tashnuva Shaheen is a doctoral student in educational studies with a concentration in special education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research is centered on strategies to prepare and retain effective special and general education teachers for students with disabilities. She previously held positions as a fifth- and sixth-grade ELA […]
Efe Shavers
Efe Shavers is a doctoral student in applied human development at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She focuses on teacher preparation and student experiences specifically related to culturally sustaining practices. Before beginning her doctoral studies, Efe worked for over six years as an elementary school counselor, where she designed and implemented […]
Tanya Songtachalert
Tanya Songtachalert is a doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology & Applied Human Development program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on mental healthcare accessibility for Asian and Asian American individuals, and how food and shared mealtimes can be used to increase access and efficacy of group therapy […]
Annabel Stoler
Annabel Stoler is a doctoral student in the Math & Science Education program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on designing learning environments that are critically caring and foster rich engagement with science practice. She is currently exploring scientific modeling as a site to disrupt inequities in elementary […]
Katelyn Suchyta
Katelyn Suchyta is a doctoral student in educational leadership & policy studies at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. Her research focus is on elementary mathematics practices, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Katelyn works as the hospital teacher/school liaison at the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center […]
Mitali Temurnikar
Mitali Temurnikar is a doctoral student in counseling psychology at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on developing scalable interventions for career and personal development, as well as increasing access and awareness of mental healthcare in marginalized populations. She is interested in exploring the usefulness of artificial intelligence and […]
Noah Veloz
Noah Veloz is a doctoral student in the Language & Literacy Education program at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Their focus is on adult immigrant and refugee education, focusing on the nonprofit sector and language acquisition for adults with limited or interrupted formal education. This was also the subject of their master’s […]
Jingyi Xu
Jingyi Xu is a doctoral student in applied human development at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. She works in the Social Learning Lab. Her research interests center on culture and social cognitive development. She is interested in studying how cultural and religious ideas are transmitted and how children acquire such information. […]
Yan Yan
Yan Yan is a doctoral student in Language & Literacy Education at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her areas of research include pedagogy-focused applied linguistics on writing research, deficiencies in TESOL teacher training, and applications to college academic writing instruction. Before joining BU, she taught practical English at Penn Graduate School of […]