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CONTRIBUTORS<br />
LAINIE REISMAN is a senior youth technical advisor at Education Development<br />
Center, Inc. She has worked for more than 20 years with youth programs that<br />
focus on preventing violence and increasing youth skills and resilience in adverse<br />
conditions. Reisman has supported youth programs funded by USAID and<br />
implemented by EDC in Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Somalia. She also has<br />
served as a technical advisor to the Open Society Crime and Violence Prevention<br />
Initiative, which supports work in Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, and Tanzania.<br />
EDWARD SEIDMAN (edward.seidman@nyu.edu) is a professor of Applied<br />
Psychology, New York University. His current interests focus on understanding<br />
and improving social settings for youth, both domestically and internationally.<br />
Previous work examined school transitions and developmental trajectories of<br />
economically at-risk urban adolescents, and their implications for educational<br />
reform and prevention. Earlier work focused on secondary prevention trials in<br />
education, juvenile justice, mental health, and gerontology. Previously, he served<br />
as senior vice president of the William T. Grant Foundation, vice president and<br />
dean, Research, Demonstration, and Policy of Bank Street College of Education,<br />
and on the faculty of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University<br />
of Manitoba. He has been president of the Society for Community Research and<br />
Action, resident scholar at Rockefeller’s Bellagio Center, a Senior Fulbright-Hays<br />
Scholar, and recipient of several national awards for distinguished contributions<br />
to education, ethnic minority mentoring, and science, including the Seymour B.<br />
Sarason Award for Community Research & Action.<br />
ANJULI SHIVSHANKER (Anjuli.Shivshanker@rescue.org) is a research officer at<br />
the International Rescue Committee. For the past four years she has been working<br />
on large-scale, cluster-randomized controlled trials of education interventions in<br />
the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition to education experiments,<br />
Anjuli works on process evaluations of emergency response programs, as well<br />
as organizational processes and systems that put research evidence into strategic<br />
decision-making and program design. Prior to joining the IRC she worked for<br />
the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Kinshasa, DRC. She earned her masters of<br />
public health from the University of Iowa in 2009.<br />
LEIGNANN STARKEY (lstarkey@gc.cuny.edu) is an advanced doctoral student<br />
in Developmental Psychology at the City University of New York, Graduate<br />
Center. She received a BS in psychology from The University of Pittsburgh, where<br />
she worked on several studies at the Pitt Mother and Child Laboratory related<br />
to longitudinal outcomes of children at high-risk for antisocial behavior. Prior<br />
to her work with NYU, she worked at the Institute of Children, Poverty and<br />
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