Our Team.
Our team has a long history of successful collaboration with each other and with state, district and school partners. Professor Daphna Oyserman (University of Southern California, USC), Pathways developer, has received numerous academic honors for her advancement of knowledge about how identity and culture shape our interpretations. She conceptualized the theoretical framework and its translation to the Pathways intervention, publishing about 200 academic papers including papers coauthored with members of our team. She and Dr. Nicholas Sorensen (American Institutes for Research, AIR) collaborated to refine a teacher-led, teacher-trained, scalable and sustainable version of Pathways. Over the past 12 years they have received prestigious grants from the U.S. Department of Education to do just that. Dr. Sorensen’s work focuses on leveraging psychological science to develop and test preventive interventions in partnership with schools across the country. Samantha Neiman (AIR) has more than 15 years of experience at AIR leading large-scale data collection and research projects that address AIR’s mission to generate and use evidence that contributes to a better, more equitable world.
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Professor Daphna Oyserman
Principal Investigator and Project Director
Dean’s Professor of Psychology and of Education
Founding co-Director Dornsife Center for Mind and Society
University of Southern California
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Dr. Nicholas Sorensen
Co-Principal Investigator and Evaluation Director
Principal Researcher
American Institutes for Research
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Samantha Neiman
Co-Principal Investigator and Deputy Evaluation Director
Managing Director
American Institutes for Research