As incoming director in fall 2025, Jamie will build on CTL’s excellent reputation as a hub for evidence-based comprehensive faculty development and community-building among faculty. Prior to her appointment as director, she served CTL as a member of the 2025 AI Student Competencies CoLab group, delivered workshops and presentations on active learning, open educational resources, and labor-based grading, and she provided leadership for the Shared Scholarship series from 2019 to 2022, along with co-organizer Alison Okuda. Jamie is eager to draw faculty together in generative interdisciplinary conversations and incubate innovative pedagogy and research.
In her spare time, Jamie likes to cook and bake, run, hike, and ride bikes.
Julie curates resources and creates programming to support faculty growth and inclusive, innovative pedagogy. One of Julie’s favorite things to do is facilitate learning communities and book discussions to connect faculty from different disciplines. Recent topics have included alternative grading, R data equity, and teaching with GenAI. Have an idea? Send suggestions her way!
In her free time, Julie enjoys exploring nature through photography and running – celebrating completing her first marathon recently!
In her role as Faculty Fellow for Equity, Mary provides support to individual faculty, academic departments and programs, in the multiple aspects of diversity, equity, inclusion, intersectionality, as well as social justice efforts.
In her free time, Mary enjoys yoga and cooking.
Paige is a first-semester graduate student pursuing a Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology. She is particularly interested in accessibility work and research, and she enjoys learning about child cognition. Paige assists the CTL team with outreach initiatives, shared scholarship, and faculty development workshops. Paige graduated from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst May 2025 with degrees in speech, language, and hearing sciences and psychology. Outside of academics, Paige enjoys running, reading, and traveling; she just wrapped up a year abroad in Barcelona, Spain, as a preschool teacher.
Annalisa is currently pursuing her master’s in Speech-Language Pathology at Worcester State University. She supports CTL activities related to research, which includes contributing to the organization and planning of the Celebration of Scholarship and Creativity, as well as assisting with the Research Advisory Board and the Institutional Review Board. Annalisa graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a minor in Italian, and she worked as a behavioral therapist supporting individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In her spare time, Annalisa enjoys reading, running, and yoga.
As the new Faculty Fellow for Equity, Laura will provide support to individual faculty members, departments, and programs seeking to explore and examine equity-related efforts and issues in academic contexts. She is especially eager to offer a space for faculty to discuss how artificial intelligence impacts equity efforts in pedagogy, scholarship, creative activity, and career development across various fields and disciplines. Current initiatives this semester include holding AI and Equity Discovery Chats with different departments aimed at identifying programming, strategies, and tools that would be most effective for supporting faculty across campus.
In addition to her roles at WSU, Laura also serves as the Academic Director and Philosophy Instructor for the Clemente Course in the Humanities in Worcester. In her spare time, she enjoys playing music, baking, and throwing pottery.
Department: Academic Affairs
Department: Mathematics
Department: Biology
Department: Education
Department: Philosophy
Department: Earth, Environment, & Physics
Department: English/World Languages
Department: Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Assistant Professor || MSCA Appointee
Department: Communication
Associate Professor || Currents Editor (Interim Fall 2026) || Ex-Officio
Department: Psychology
