Our team

Ripple Effect is guided by an interdisciplinary team with experience leading large-scale, first-in-kind projects. They bring expertise in teacher mentorship, research, communications, and management, with backgrounds in K-12 education, academia, curriculum design, and cultural interpretation.

  • Teachers and designers in the 2014 -2015 cohort.
  • Teachers and designers sketching along a canal in New Orleans in our pilot year, 2014.
  • Dana Moyer, lower elementary curriculum writer, trains PreK-2nd grade teachers at a water literacy curriculum workshop.
  • Teachers and Ripple Effect staff in the 2018 cohort.
  • Laura leads a session at a strategic planning workshop in New York City, summer of 2019.
  • Brooke on a levee stroll after a site visit with A Studio in the Woods, 2020.
  • Co-founders and a few of our board members at a board retreat, 2017.

Our teachers

2017-2018 Cohort

Dr. Marcus Woods, KIPP Central City Primary; Avery Bond, KIPP Central City Primary; Erika Kimball, 1st Grade, KIPP Central City Primary; Gina Bell, 1st Grade, KIPP Central City Primary; Becky Smith, 4th Grade, Success Preparatory Charter School; Brooke Falgout, 1st Grade, Homer A. Plessy Community School; Elise Butler-Pinkham, Kindergarten, Homer A. Plessy Community School; McKenzie Carmody, 2nd Grade, Westwood Elementary

2017–2018 Curriculum Development

Claire Anderson, Curriculum Development; Lead Matthew Tuttle, Upper Elementary Curriculum Development; Dana Moyer, Lower Elementary Curriculum Development

2016–2017 Cohort

Ronique Darby, 4th Grade, Einstein Charter School; Therese Fitzpatrick, 1st Grade, Lusher Elementary School; Sharika Hagan, 5th Grade, McDonogh 32 Literacy Charter School; Paris Lovette, 4th Grade, KIPP Central City Primary School; Dana Moyer, Kindergarten, KIPP Believe Primary School; Matt Tuttle, 5th Grade, Morris Jeff Community School

2014–2015 Cohort, KIPP Central City Primary

Zac Brooks, 3rd Grade; Jane Clark, Kindergarten; Rachel Cox, Special Education; Allison Malcolm, 2nd Grade; Danielle Beneville, 1st Grade; Courtney Morris, 3rd Grade

Advisors

Terry Bowman, Executive Director, ReadWorks

Hana Elwell, Vice President of Education and Exhibits, Brooklyn Children’s Museum

Melanie Ide, President/CEO, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum

Jan Mickler, Ph.D., Board of Directors, National Literacy Project 

Phillip Tiongson, Founder & CEO, Potion Design

Stephen Varga, Senior UX Engineer, Google Nest, Google

Past Board members

Cyndhia Ramatchandirane, Board President (2019-2021)

Courtney Morris (2016-2019)

Special thanks

Caroline Clune, Research Intern, Louisiana State University

Dr. Natalie Davis, Georgia State University

Dr. Kristin Gunckel, University of Arizona

Dr. Ajay Sharma, University of Georgia

Dr. Kate Parker-Horigan, Western Kentucky University

Katie Gruzd

Kristen Hill

Mackenzie Stagg