Dr. Katie Crosley

While part of the BROAD Lab, Katie's work focused on understanding how different learning experiences shape worldviews about the human-nature relationship and how these experiences can be leveraged to advance solutions to social and environmental problems. Her dissertation, funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, utilized urban ecology, anthropology, and education theory to investigate the process and outcomes of informal environmental education programs in Miami. Upon graduating in 2014, she went into academia as an educator - teaching environmental science and physics at Marquette University, then community-based research and policy at Cornell University in D.C. She went rogue in 2019 as an independent consultant, working on curriculum, research and evaluation projects across a variety of sectors. In addition to being a consultant, Katie is also currently an evaluation researcher at the Colorado State University STEM Center, keeping PIs in line by helping them develop educational activities and evaluation plans for their research projects. Katie remains forever interested in understanding social-ecological systems, advocating for environmental justice, making environmental education accessible to all, and utilizing robust program evaluation practices to make science and education the best it can be. But, mostly, she is the mom of a rambunctious child and plays in the woods all day.