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Dr. Cipriano’s leadership in the field has been recognized by the US Department of Education, earning her an appointment on the Social and Behavioral Panel of the Institute of Education Sciences in addition to other federal work groups that are informing the future of education research, practice, and policy. Dr. Cipriano is a 2022 recipient of the Joseph A. Zins Award for Outstanding Contributions to SEL Action Research and was named a 2023 National Voice of Change in Public Education Award by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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Dr. Cipriano received her Ph.D. from Boston College, her Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and undergraduate degree from Hofstra University, and currently serves on the Advisory Board of the National Center for Learning Disabilities, Teachstone, the Possible Zone, Understood, and the Special Olympics Global Research Collaborative.
Chris is a first-generation high school graduate, Yale Public Voices Fellow, Jack Kent Cooke Scholar, and the mother of four beautiful children who inspire her every day to take the moon and make it shine for everyone.
Christina Cipriano, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Yale Child Study Center and Director of the Education Collaboratory at Yale University.
Dr. Cipriano’s research systematically advances equitable and inclusive social and emotional evidence, assessment, and interventions, with marginalized students and educators.
An award-winning scholar and internationally regarded expert in the science of learning and development and open science practices, Dr. Cipriano is the PI and Director of numerous major federal and foundation grants supporting the centering of student intersectional identities in research and practice, the development and validation of novel school-based assessments and methodologies, and foundational evidence syntheses. Dr. Cipriano has published 100+ papers, commentaries, and reports, spanning top tier journals such as Child Development and the Review of Educational Research, and media outlets including The Washington Post, New York Times, PBS, Education Week, and EdSurge.
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