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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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