Location
Arlington, VA
About
Birthday:
July 2
School / Work Affiliation:
National Science Foundation
I am:
STEM specialist
About Me:
Dorothy Jones-Davis is currently an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation, in the Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC), within the Directorate for Engineering (ENG). She is the Co-Founder of MaDTECHEd, the MOOCs and Disruptive Technologies in Education Affinity Group of the AAAS S&T Policy Fellowship. Dorothy is a graduate of Wellesley College, where she majored in Psychobiology, and she received her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Neuroscience. She completed two postdoctoral fellowships at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the first in the Department of Neurological Surgery, and the second as an IRACDA Scholars in Science (ISIS) Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow in the Department of Neurology, conducting epilepsy and autism research while serving as a lecturer in the Department of Biology at San Francisco State University. As an AAAS S&T Policy Fellow, Dorothy is interested in developing strategies to broaden participation in the STEM workforce, particularly in the engineering and technology fields. Her work in the Engineering Directorate specifically focuses on trying to leverage potential disruption (e.g. MOOCs, inverted classrooms, educational technologies, mobile studios, serious games, “maker” culture) in engineering education systems to improve access to engineering education for traditionally underrepresented populations.
